Ernest Larner
{{short description|British racewalker}}
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{{Use British English|date=April 2025}}
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| nationality = British (English)
| sport = Athletics
| event = Racewalking
| club = Highgate Harriers
| birth_date = {{birth date|1883|6|25|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Hammersmith, London, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1963|6|21|1883|6|25|df=yes}}
| death_place = Amersham, England
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Ernest Edward Larner (25 June 1880 – 21 June 1963), also known as Erik Larner or E. E. Larner, was a British racewalker who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/la/ernest-larner-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042047/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/la/ernest-larner-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Ernest Larner Olympic Results |access-date=26 November 2017}}
Biography
Larner was born in Hammersmith, London, to a plasterer from London. Prior to the 1908 Olympics, Larner won the Inter-Metropolitan Borough Officers' Walk and the 1906 London Municipal Officers 4-mile walk. Larner placed 4th at the 1908 AAA Championships 7-mile walk.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69233 |title=Ernest Larner |work=Olympedia |access-date=11 April 2025}}
Larner represented Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000648/19080612/187/0008 |title=Olympic Games, Britain's team of athletes |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=12 June 1908 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 April 2025}}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001055/19080612/073/0003 |title=The Olympic Games, British Representatives |work=The Sportsman |date=12 June 1908 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 April 2025}} He competed in the men's 3500 metres walk and 10 miles walk events. In the 3500 m walk, he placed 4th in his heat and failed to qualify for the finals by less than two seconds. In the 10 miles however, Larner advanced to the finals and placed 5th overall in a time of 1:24:26.2 hours.{{cite web |title=DISTANCE RACES. American Eyes Set Upon the Marathon|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-dispatch-distance-races-american/168112448/ |publisher=Sunday Dispatch |access-date=16 March 2025 |page=8 |date=15 Mar 1908}}
He later became a librarian at Shepherd's Bush and served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I. He was a member of the Highgate Harriers and Middlesex Walking Clubs.
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Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Category:British male race walkers
Category:Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Category:People from Hammersmith
Category:Royal Army Medical Corps soldiers
Category:Sportspeople from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
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