age ~75
from Farmville, VA
John ("Jack") Edward Lovelock (5 January 1910 28 December 1949) was a New Zealand athlete, and the 1936 Olympic champion in the 1500 metres. Born in the
In the 1930s the New Zealander Jack Lovelock was one of the world's best-known athletes. In 1933 he broke the world record for the mile. At the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games he won a gold medal and broke the world record for the 1500 metres. When he retired, a leading sports writer lamented the end of a...
Author
David Colquhoun
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Publisher
Craig Potton Publishing
ISBN #
187733376X
EAN Code
9781877333767
ISBN #
9
Jack Lovelock has been called the first modern athlete. He became famous internationally when he broke the world record to take the gold medal in the 1500 metres event at the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936. In 1949, a few days before his 40th birthday, Jack Lovelock was killed when he fell beneath a t...
Author
James McNeish
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
398
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN #
0340364300
EAN Code
9780340364307
ISBN #
1
This play sets the well-known events of Jack Lovelock's Berlin Olympics in parallel with a conservative boarding school in New Zealand today.
Author
David Geary
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
131
Publisher
Victoria University Press
ISBN #
7