Norman Hallows

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|caption= Norman Hallows at the 1908 Olympics

|birth_date= 29 December 1886

|birth_place= Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England

| death_date = 16 October 1968 (aged 81)

| death_place = Marlborough, Wiltshire, England

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|event= 1500–5,000 m

|club=University of Oxford AC
Achilles Club

|pb= 1500 m: 4:03.4 (1908)
5000 m: 15:32.0 (1908)

|alma_mater= University of Oxford

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Norman Frederick Hallows (29 December 1886 – 16 October 1968) was an English middle-distance runner who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics.{{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}}

Biography

Hallows was educated at Felsted School and Keble College, Oxford (University of Oxford).{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69103 |title=Norman Hallows |work=Olympedia |access-date=11 April 2025}}

Hallows represented Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London{{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}} and won the bronze medal and set an Olympic record in the 1500 metres race. His time in the first round was 4:03.4, beating the Olympic record set by American Mel Sheppard only minutes earlier by 1.6 seconds. In the final, Sheppard matched Hallows' first round time while Hallows finished in third place at 4:04.0. Hallows was also a member of the 3 miles team race with Joe Deakin, Arthur Robertson, William Coales and Harold Wilson, which claimed the gold medal at the same games.

Hallows studied at Leeds University, and St Thomas' Hospital in London. He took part in the Balkan Wars of 1912–13 as a Red Cross staff and later in World War I, as a Captain of the Royal Army Medical Corps in France. In 1919 he was appointed as the resident Medical Officer at Marlborough College. Using the pen name "Duplex" he co-wrote several books on engineering.

References

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[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417171245/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/norman-hallows-1.html Norman Hallows]. sports-reference.com

[http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=2468&Gender=M Norman Hallows]. trackfield.brinkster.net

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Norman Hallows

Biography

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