Jack Lovelock was a New Zealand middle-distance runner who won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in the 1500 meters, setting a world record of 3:47.8 in front of Adolf Hitler. He ran the last 300 meters in what was then considered physically impossible time. He was also a medical student who went on to practice medicine in New York. He died in December 1949 when he fell under a subway train at Church Avenue station in Brooklyn. He was 39. Born January 5, 1910.
January 5, 1910
116 years ago
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