Meredith Colket

Meredith Bright Colket ( born November 19, 1878 in Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania), † June 7, 1947, Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) was an American athlete and medal winner at the Olympic Games.

Colket was since 1897 a student at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a degree as a lawyer in 1904. During this time he was a member of the fraternity FIJI ( Phi Gamma Delta ), which also includes his fellow student George Orton was. Sporty Colket is operated primarily as a tennis player. His lack of talent for this he made ​​up for with power struggle.

His greatest sporting success achieved Colket but in a different sport in the pole vault. At the Summer Olympics in Paris in 1900 he finished second behind his compatriot and fellow students Irving Baxter. However, its good ranking he owed to the fact that several of the best pole vaulters that time did not participate in the competition, because actually, the planned for Saturday competition was moved to Sunday. The three devout pole vaulter Charles Dvorak, Bascom Johnson and Daniel Horton, whose religion forbade any sport on a Sunday, waived their participation. Two held in the days following competitions for revenge were recovered from them effortlessly.

The rankings at the Olympic Games for Meredith Bright Colket:

• II Summer Olympic Games in 1900, Paris Pole Vault - SILVER with 3.25 m ( gold at Irving Baxter, USA with 3.30 m; bronze at Carl Albert Andersen, NOR with 3.20 m )

The success in Paris had to Colkets sporty orientation not have much influence. He devoted himself to still prefer the tennis, in 1903 master students in double, and helped his University in 1904 to the championship.

After finishing his sports career, he worked as Manager of General Accident Insurance Company. He died in 1947 of a heart attack.