Harry Hillman

Harry Hillman (1904 )

Harry Livingston Hillman Jr. ( born September 8, 1881 in Brooklyn, New York; † August 9, 1945 in Hanover, New Hampshire) was an American track and field athlete and Olympic champion.

Hillman was the turn of the century a member of three Olympic teams and at the same coach at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. In his playing days, he won four Amateur Athletic Union titles, two over 200 meters each and 400 meter hurdles. From 1910 until his death he was the coach at Dartmouth College and coach of athletics Olympic Team in 1924, 1928 and 1932. One of his most outstanding athletes was Earl Thomson, gold medalist at the VII Summer Olympics in Antwerp in 1920.

In the III. Summer Olympics 1904 in St. Louis won Hillman gold medal in the 400 - meter race ahead of the other two Americans, Frank Waller and Herman Groman and the gold medal in the 200 - meter hurdles, also before two Americans, Frank Castleman and George Poage, as well as the gold medal in the 400 - meter hurdles before the Americans Frank Waller and George Poage. In the IV Summer Olympics in London in 1908 he won the silver medal behind the Americans Charles Bacon and the British Jimmy Tremeer in the 400 - meter hurdles.