Jack Lovelock
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New Zealand athlete (1910-1949)
Key facts
- Full name
- John Edward Lovelock
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Born
- ( 1910-01-05 ) 5 January 1910, Crushington , New Zealand
- Died
- ( 1949-12-28 ) 28 December 1949 (aged 39), Brooklyn , New York , U.S.
- Height
- 169 cm (5 ft 7 in)
- Weight
- 61 kg (134 lb)
- Sport
- Running
- Event s
- 1500 m, mile
- Club
- University of Oxford AC, Achilles Club
- Personal best s
- 1500 m – 3:47.8 (1936), Mile – 4:07.6 (1933)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Place of death
- Church Avenue
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Rhodes Scholarship
- Academic degree
- Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
- Sport
- athletics
- Member of team
- New Zealand at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Country for sport
- New Zealand
- Mass
- 61
- Military branch
- British Army
- Military rank
- major
- Image
- Jack Lovelock 1936.jpg
- Height
- 169
Show 6 more facts
- manner of death
- accidental death
- date of birth
- 1910-01-05
- date of death
- 1949-12-28
- cause of death
- railway accident
- Commons category
- Jack Lovelock
- sports discipline competed in
- 1500 metres
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Encyclopedic overview
John Edward Lovelock (5 January 1910 – 28 December 1949) was a New Zealand athlete who became the world 1500m and mile record holder and 1936 Olympic champion in the 1500 metres.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jack Lovelock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.