Chris Mackintosh
{{Short description|Scottish sportsman}}
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| nationality = British (Scottish)
| sport = Athletics
| event = Rugby Union / Bobsleigh / long jump
| club = University of Oxford AC
Achilles Club
| birth_date = 31 October 1903
| birth_place = Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
| death_date = 12 January 1974 (aged 70)
| death_place = Haddington, Scotland
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Charles Ernest Whistler Mackintosh also known as Chris Mackintosh (31 October 1903 – 12 January 1974) was a Scottish rugby union internationalist, athlete, skier and bobsledder who competed in the 1920s and 1930s. He won a gold medal in the four-man bobsleigh event at the 1938 FIBT World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Mackintosh also became Chairman of the Henry Lunn Alpine Tours company (part of the Lunn Poly group) and President of both the Downhill Only Ski Club Wengen (1958-1964) and the Amateur Inter-Ski Club, the Kandahar Ski Club.
Career
Mackintosh competed in skiing from 1923 to 1933.
mackintosh finished second behind Harold Abrahams in the long jump event at the 1924 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000320/19240621/189/0006 |title=To-day's Athletics|work=Gloucestershire Echo |date=21 June 1924 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=3 January 2025 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19240623/112/0004 |title=Athletic Championships |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=23 June 1924 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=3 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/AAA400H.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=3 January 2025 }} Shortly afterwards he was selected for the British team at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, where he finished sixth in the men's long jump event.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69271 |title=Chris Mackintosh |work=Olympedia |access-date=1 October 2021}} He also won the Inferno ski race, the third time it was held.
Personal life
He married Lady Jean Douglas-Hamilton, daughter of Duke Alfred Douglas-Hamilton and his wife, the animal welfare activist Nina Poore. Chris and Jean's four children, Sheena Mackintosh, Vora Mackintosh, Douglas Mackintosh, and Charlach Mackintosh all represented Great Britain in skiing events in the Winter Olympics.
his surname was derived from Chris's paternal grandfather, Aeneas John Mackintosh and great-grandfather John McIntosh. Aeneas was a picture-framer from Bethnal Green, London who worked for and married Marie Anna Rochefort. Her framing business traded as "Marian Rochefort".
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071211002351/http://sports123.com/bob/mw-4.html Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930]
- Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Track & Field (Men): Long Jump". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Ltd. p. 218.
- {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/chris-mackintosh-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035449/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/chris-mackintosh-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Chris Mackintosh}}
- http://kandahar.org.uk/inter_club_web_site/images/aiic_2011_dho_journal.pdf{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
{{Footer World Champions Bobsleigh Four-man}}
{{Footer Great Britain athletics team at the 1924 Summer Olympics}}
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Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Category:Scottish male bobsledders
Category:Scotland international rugby union players
Category:Scottish male long jumpers
Category:Scottish Olympic competitors