John C. Carpenter
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John Conduit Carpenter was an American athlete. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, contributing to one of the many controversies of the 1908 Games.
He advanced to the finals in the men's 400 metres race at the 1908 Summer Olympics after winning his preliminary heat with a time of 49.8 seconds and his semifinal in 49.4 seconds. In the first running of the race, Carpenter came in second place out of the four runners. However, umpire Roscoe Badger determined that Carpenter had wilfully interfered with British runner Wyndham Halswelle. Though the obstructing maneuver was then legal under American rules, the Olympic contests were held under British rules, which did not allow it. Carpenter was disqualified and the race was ordered to be repeated without him. His countrymen, John Taylor and William Robbins, protested the ruling by boycotting the second final, leaving Halswelle to take the gold medal uncontested.
[edit] References
- Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
- De Wael, Herman (2001). Athletics 1908. Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved on 25 July 2006.
- Wudarski, Pawel (1999). Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich. Retrieved on 25 July 2006. (Polish)
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| NAME | Carpenter, John Conduit |
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