Ray Lewis (sprinter)

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Ray Lewis
Medal record
Men's
athletics
Representing  Canada
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1932 Los Angeles 4x400 m relay
British Empire Games
Silver medal – second place 1934 London 4×440 yards

Raymond Gray Lewis, CM (October 8, 1910 – November 15, 2003) was a Canadian track and field athlete, and the first Canadian-born black Olympic medalist.

The descendant of

African-American slaves, he was born and died in Hamilton, Ontario.[1][2] Lewis was nicknamed
Rapid Ray for his speed on the track. He excelled in the 100, 200, 400 and 800 metre distances in high school and captured seventeen national high school championships (including a record four in one day) while a student at Hamilton's Central Collegiate.

Lewis briefly attended Milwaukee's

400 metre event
he was eliminated in the quarter-finals.

Two years later he won a silver medal in the mile relay (4×440 yards) at the

Hamilton Mountain school named in his honour, Ray Lewis Elementary, opened in 2005 and was occasionally visited by his widow Vivienne.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Tigertown Triumphs" (Press release). The Hamilton Spectator-Memory Project (Souvenir Edition) page MP56. 2006-06-10.
  2. ISBN 978-1-77049-066-6
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  3. ^ "About". Ray Lewis Elementary School. Retrieved February 17, 2023.

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