Charles Bennett
Charles Bennett (* 28. December 1870 in Shapwick, Dorset; † 9. March 1949 in Bournemouth) was a British athlete and olympia winner.
By occupation Bennett was engine driver. Sportily it was one of the Top athletes on the medium ranges of its time. Thus it won ready 1897 the AAA - championships over 4 miles and the title in the CROSS Country in the years 1899 and 1900. In the year 1900 it won also the British championships over a mile and qualified themselves thereby for the coming Olympiad.
II. Olympic summer games 1900 in Paris it won the gold medal in the 1500-Meter-Lauf, before the Frenchman Henri Deloge (silver) and the American John Bray (bronze). It terminated this run with a time of 4:06,0 minutes, which meant a new world record. In the further process of the plays it won in the common British-Australian team further gold medal in the 5000-Meter-Mannschaftslauf, together with his team colleagues John Rimmer, Sydney Robinson, Alfred Tysoe and Stanley a Rowley, before the common team from France and the USA (silver). To the conclusion it won still the silver medal in the 4000-Meter-Hindernislauf, between the two other British John Rimmer (gold) and Sidney Robinson (bronze).
1896: Edwin Flack | 1900: Charles Bennett | 1904: James Lightbody | 1908: Melvin Sheppard | 1912: Arnold Jackson | 1920: Albert Hill | 1924: Paavo Nurmi | 1928: Harry Larva | 1932: Luigi Beccali | 1936: John Lovelock | 1948: Henry Eriksson | 1952: Josy Barthel | 1956: Ronald Delany | 1960: Harsh Elliott | 1964: Peter Snell | 1968: Kipchoge Keino | 1972: Pekka Vasala | 1976: John Walker | 1980: Sebastian Coe | 1984: Sebastian Coe | 1988: Peter Rono | 1992: Fermin Cacho | 1996: Noureddine Morceli | 2000: Noah Ngeny | 2004: Hicham El Guerrouj
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| NAME | Bennett, Charles |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | British athlete and olympia winner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 28. December 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shapwick, Dorset |
| DYING DATE | 9. March 1949 |
| DYING PLACE | Bournemouth |
