George Hutson

George Hutson ( born December 22, 1889 in Lewes, East Sussex, † September 14, 1914 in France ) was a British athlete who was successful before the First World War as a long-distance runners over the years. He won two Olympic bronze medals.

He started for the Surrey AC.

He was only 24 years old. In 1914 he participated as a member of the Royal Sussex Regiment at the Battle of the Marne and returned on September 14, does not return from a mission. His name is along with around 3800 other names of British soldiers whose graves are not known, on the memorial stone in La Ferte- sous -Jouarre.

Career

George Hutson won four British championships:

In addition, he participated with medal success at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912.

• Over 5000 meters, he qualified as a third party in its forward travel 15:29,0 min for the final, where he first met his fiercest competitors - the Finns Hannes Kolehmainen and the Frenchman Jean Bouin. Hutson had no chance to intervene in the battle for the gold medal, before Bouin decided to Kolehmainen in the new world record time of 14:36,6 minutes just for themselves, but could with 15:07,6 min significantly improve its forward power and 3rd place secure against the two Americans George Bonhag and Tell Berna.
• Another bronze medal he won in the team race over 3000 meters (one only in 1912, 1920 and 1924 belonging to the Olympic program discipline ) along with William Cotrill and Cyril Porter. Since the British runner had remained in the preliminary round, where the teams had to play a total of five involved in pairs against each other, without an opponent, they reached the finals without a fight and there were third and last ( It won the U.S. from Sweden).

Bests

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• George Hutson at Sports- Reference.com (English)

• Athlete (United Kingdom)
• Olympian (United Kingdom)
• Long-distance runner
• British Champion ( athletics)
• Born in 1889
• Died in 1914
• Man