Henry Hawtrey

Henry Courtenay Hawtrey ( born June 29, 1882 in Southampton, † November 16, 1961 in Aldershot ) was a British athlete.

Hawtrey was eliminated at the 1906 Summer Olympics in the 1500 meter race in the flow. He won the 5 - mile run in 26:11,8 minutes.

Hawtrey was from 1900 to 1934 the British Army, served for many years in Africa and India and rose to the Brigadier. When war broke out in 1939, he returned to the Army. In 1942, he finally went into retirement.

5 - mile run

While it was held at the Olympic Games from 1896 to 1904 no route between 1,500 -meter run and marathon race, a run over five miles was aligned with the interludes in 1906 and at the Olympic Games in 1908, which corresponds to a metric distance of 8046.57 feet. From the Olympic Games in 1912 then the 5000 -meter run and the 10,000 - meter race were held.

Swell

• Ian Buchanan: British Olympians, London, 1991, ISBN 0-85112-952-8
• Ekkehard to Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Fields Athletics, Berlin 1999, published via German Society for Athletics documentation eV