Edward O'Brien (athlete)

Edward O'Brien ( Edward Thomas O'Brien, also briefly " Eddie" O'Brien, born September 12, 1914 in Somers Point, New Jersey, † September 15, 1976 in Essex Falls, New Jersey) was an American track and field athlete, who took mainly in the 400 -meter run.

For the United States, he raced in the athletics competitions of the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin in the relay race 4 x 400 meters. There he won along with Harold Cagle, Robert Young and Alfred Fitch in a time of 3:11,0 min behind the British relay team silver medal.

O'Brien was one of more than three years in a row among the nation 's best sprinters in the 400 - meter track ( All- American). He graduated in 1937 with a degree from Syracuse University, in the local Syracuse Hall of Fame and some of his trophies are on display. In 1937 he married Florence Quintin, in December 1941, he joined the United States Navy and was in the South Pacific on a destroyer in use. Together with his wife he had a son, the psychologist Edward T O'Brien Jr., who lives in Clearwater, Florida. O'Brien lived for some time in Bermuda, in September 1976, he died of colon cancer.