Alfred Healey
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| Born | 13 July 1875 Horncastle, England | |||||||||||
| Died | 9 September 1960 (aged 75) Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
| Event | hurdles | |||||||||||
| Club | Blackheath Harriers | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Alfred Hearn Healey (13 July 1875 – 9 September 1960) was a British athlete in the 1906 Intercalated Games and the 1908 Summer Olympics.[1]
Biography
[edit]Healey was the son of a Lincolnshire brewer and maltster and at the 1906 Intercalated Games, he competed for Great Britain in Athens, Greece, in the 110 metre hurdles, where he won the silver medal. He was eliminated in the semi-finals in the 100 metre event.[1]
Healey finished second behind Alexander Duncan in the 120 yards hurdles event at the 1907 AAA Championships[2][3]
Healey represented Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London,[4] where he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 110 metre hurdles competition.[1]
In 1909, he became the National 120 yards hurdles champion after winning the AAA Championships title at the 1909 AAA Championships.[5]
Healey became a schoolteacher in Northumbria and later served as president of Alnwick Harriers AC and vice-president of the Alnwick Swimming Association. In 1912, he emigrated to Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka) but died in Trinity, Jersey in the Channel Islands.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Alfred Healey". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ "Champion athletes". Daily Record. 8 July 1907. Retrieved 22 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "AAA Championships". Sporting Life. 8 July 1907. Retrieved 22 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "The Olympic Games, British Representatives". The Sportsman. 12 June 1908. Retrieved 11 April 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
External links
[edit]- Alfred Healey at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Alfred Healey at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Alfred Healey at Olympedia
- 1875 births
- 1960 deaths
- British male hurdlers
- Olympic athletes for Great Britain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1906 Intercalated Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
- Medalists at the 1906 Intercalated Games
- People from Horncastle, Lincolnshire
- Sportspeople from Lincolnshire
- English male hurdlers
- English male sprinters
- British male sprinters