Philip Kingsford
{{Short description|British athlete}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2024}}
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|image =Philip Kingsford 1914.jpg
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|caption=Kingsford in 1914
|birth_date=10 August 1891
|birth_place= Lewisham, London
| death_date = 26 July 1919 (aged 27)
| death_place = Hammersmith, London
|sport=Athletics
|event=Long jump, triple jump
|club= L.A.C., London
|pb= LJ – 7.09 m (1914)
TJ – 13.57 m (1912)
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Philip Cave Kingsford (10 August 1891 – 26 July 1919) was a British track and field athlete who competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Career
Kingsford finished second behind Percy Kirwan in the long jump event at the 1912 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19120624/214/0014 |title=Athletic Championship |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=24 June 1912 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 November 2024 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003329/19120624/106/0004 |title=Amateur Athletic Championship |work=Leicester Evening Mail |date=24 June 1912 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 November 2024 }}
Shortly after the 1912 AAA Championships, he competed for Great Britain at the 1912 Olympic Games, in Stockholm, Sweden, where he finished 15th in the long jump and 19th in the standing long jump event.
In 1914, Kingsford became the National long jump champion after winning the 1914 AAA Championships title and finished fourth in the triple jump.{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=16 November 2024 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000711/19140704/056/0002 |title=Amateur Athletics |work=Lancashire Evening Post |date=4 July 1914 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=17 November 2024 }}
He served with the Middlesex Regiment in India.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69224 |title=Philip Kingsford |work=Olympedia |access-date=28 April 2021}}
References
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Category:British male long jumpers
Category:Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Category:Athletes from the London Borough of Lewisham
Category:English male long jumpers
Category:20th-century English sportsmen
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