Simon Gillis

Simon Gillis (Simon Peter Gillis, born April 6, 1880 in Nova Scotia, Canada, † January 14, 1964 in Phoenix, Arizona) was an American hammer thrower.

1904 met with exercises on a vacant lot on Park Avenue in Harlem to be just let go off the hammer a 14 - year-old boy fatally in the back.

In 1906 he was U.S. vice- champion and 1908 British champion.

At the Olympic Games in London in 1908 he finished seventh in the hammer throw. In the discus throw, he did not finish in the top eleven.

In 1912, he retired without a valid attempt in the hammer throw of the Olympic Games in Stockholm.