Ernest Loney Explained

Ernest Vincent Loney (3 July 1882  - 27 August 1951) was a British athlete and member of the Birchfield Harriers athletics club. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.^[1]

In the fourth round of the 1500 metres, Loney finished first with a time of 4:08.4 to qualify for the final. There, he pace set in an attempt to tire eventual winner Mel Sheppard and did not end up finishing the race.^[2]

Sources

• Book: Cook, Theodore Andrea . 1908 . The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report . British Olympic Association . London.
• Web site: De Wael . Herman . 2001 . Athletics 1908 . Herman's Full Olympians . 30 July 2006 . 27 September 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060927093153/http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/ath1908.html . dead .
• Web site: Wudarski . Pawel . 1999 . Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich . 30 July 2006. pl.
• Web site: Index entry . 3 August 2012 . FreeBMD. ONS.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ernest Loney . Olympedia . 7 March 2021.
2. British Olympic Association, The Fourth Olmpiad, p. 60