Albert Tyler (athlete)

Albert Tyler ( Albert Clinton Tyler, born January 4, 1872 in Glendale, Ohio, † July 25, 1945 in East Harpswell, Maine) was an American athlete who was active as a pole vaulter exit of the 19th century. He was, together with Robert Garrett, Herbert Jamison and Francis Lane to the track and field team, which posted the Princeton University to the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.

Except Tyler came to the pole vault competition nor his three years younger compatriot William Hoyt and three Greeks. The two Americans were superior, although both did not count at that elite of their country. Among the Endkampfteilnehmern the U.S. Championships that year Albert Tyler does not appear. However, the 24 -year-old justified his nomination because he skipped with a height of 3.20 m to second place behind Hoyt, who jumped 10 cm higher, and the victories came height of the American master from 1896, Franklin Allis to exceeding 3 cm. The two Greeks Evangelos Damascus and Ioannis Theodoropoulos came to 2.60 m.

Other services of Albert Tyler are not known. A college championship he could not win, and at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900, he no longer participated.