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Edgar Mountain

Edgar Mountain
Edgar Mountain in 1921
Personal information
Born2 April 1901
Camberwell, London, Great Britain
Died30 April 1985 (aged 84)
Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight60 kg (130 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event800 m
ClubSurrey AC, Kingston-upon-Thames;
University of Cambridge
Achievements and titles
Personal best800 m – 1:53.8e (1920)[1][2]

Edgar Donald Mountain (2 April 1901 – 30 April 1985) was a British middle-distance runner, who competed at two Olympic Games.[3]

Biography

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Mountain, born Camberwell, London was educated at Sutton Valence School.[4]

Mountain finished third behind Bevil Rudd in the 880 yards event at the 1920 AAA Championships.[5][6] The following month at the 1920 Summer Olympics, held in Antwerp, Belgium, he represented Great Britain in the 800 metres event and finished fourth, setting a British junior record.[1]

Mountain became the National 880 yards champion after winning the AAA Championships title at the 1921 AAA Championships[7][8] and successfully defended his title the following year at the 1922 AAA Championships.[9] He finished runner-up to Cecil Griffiths in the 880 yards in 1923.[10]

He represented Great Britain for a second time at the 1924 Summer Olympics. After the 1924 Olympics, Mountain settled in South Africa and later became a specialist in South African geological formations and professor at Rhodes University. He discovered several minerals, and one them, mountainite, bears his name.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Edgar Mountain. sports-reference.com
  2. ^ Edgar Mountain. trackfield.brinkster.net
  3. ^ "Edgar Mountain". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  4. ^ "O.S. Sportsmen". The Suttonian. 34 (5): 54. 1988.
  5. ^ "The Athletic Championships". Weekly Dispatch (London). 4 July 1920. Retrieved 22 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "Athletics". Newcastle Journal. 5 July 1920. Retrieved 22 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ "Athletics". Northern Whig. 2 July 1921. Retrieved 30 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ^ "Where Britain leads". Birmingham Daily Gazette. 4 July 1921. Retrieved 30 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ "AAA Championships". Daily Mirror. 1 July 1922. Retrieved 1 December 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 22 November 2024.