Olympic Games Gold Medalist Athlete. A track and field athlete, while attending Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts he was selected to be a member of the United States Olympic Team for the inaugural Olympic Games, held in Athens, Greece in 1896. During the games he competed in the High Jump, Long Jump and Shot Put. In the Long Jump competition, he won Gold over his two American teammates Robert Garrett and James Connolly, who finished with the Silver and Bronze. He next won Gold in the High Jump, besting teammates Garrett and Connolly again, who tied for the Silver. When he participated in the Shot Put, he came in third, while Garrett took the Gold. To date he is the only Olympic athlete to win the Gold Medal in both the High Jump and Long Jump. Between 1896 and 1903 he would compete in track and field events sponsored by the Amateur Athletic Union, and won several all-around championships. At the 1904 Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis, Missouri he was again part of the United States team, but had to drop out of the All-Around Competition after five events due to illness. After his Olympic career he became a lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts, coached track at Harvard, and authored nineteen books that varied from a Young Adult work about a track and field athlete, a memoir published in 1911, and the novel "Carib Gold" that was made in the 1952 motion picture "Caribbean Gold".
Olympic Games Gold Medalist Athlete. A track and field athlete, while attending Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts he was selected to be a member of the United States Olympic Team for the inaugural Olympic Games, held in Athens, Greece in 1896. During the games he competed in the High Jump, Long Jump and Shot Put. In the Long Jump competition, he won Gold over his two American teammates Robert Garrett and James Connolly, who finished with the Silver and Bronze. He next won Gold in the High Jump, besting teammates Garrett and Connolly again, who tied for the Silver. When he participated in the Shot Put, he came in third, while Garrett took the Gold. To date he is the only Olympic athlete to win the Gold Medal in both the High Jump and Long Jump. Between 1896 and 1903 he would compete in track and field events sponsored by the Amateur Athletic Union, and won several all-around championships. At the 1904 Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis, Missouri he was again part of the United States team, but had to drop out of the All-Around Competition after five events due to illness. After his Olympic career he became a lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts, coached track at Harvard, and authored nineteen books that varied from a Young Adult work about a track and field athlete, a memoir published in 1911, and the novel "Carib Gold" that was made in the 1952 motion picture "Caribbean Gold".
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