Don Finlay

Don Finlay (actually Donald Osborne Finlay, born May 27, 1909 in Christchurch, Dorset, † April 18, 1970 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire ) was a British hurdler who specializes route was the 110-meter distance.

For a hurdler he had an amazingly long career. His first major championship was the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, where he won in 14.8 seconds behind the Americans George Saling and Percy Beard bronze. In the 4 x 100 - meter relay team he finished with the British team in the finals to sixth place.

At the European Championships in 1934, the British did not participate, but at the British Empire Games in London in 1934 won Finlay in 15.2 s over 120 yards hurdles. At the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, he won silver behind the American and world record holder Forrest Towns in 14.4 s in 1938 at the European Championships in Paris Finlay won the gold medal in a European record time of 14.3 s Second was the Swede Håkan Lidman, the 1946 European Champion should be.

When war broke Finlay was 30 years old, shortly after the war, he was 36 years. But still he came back. At the 1948 Olympic Games in London, he said the Olympic oath. In the hurdles, however, he fell in the flow. His last Endkampfplatzierung he reached in 1950, when he was at the British Empire Games in Auckland over 120 yards hurdles with 14.7 s Fourth, with now over 40 years.

Don Finlay was 1.82 m tall and weighed 77 kg in his playing days.