Douglas Lowe
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Douglas Gordon Arthur Lowe (August 7, 1902 – March 30, 1981) was a British athlete, a double winner of 800 m at the Olympic Games.
Born in Manchester, Douglas Lowe attended Highgate School and excelled immediately as a middle distance runner, winning the Public Schools' 880 yd (805 m) title in 1920. Later, at Pembroke College in Cambridge, where he studied law, he played football and won the 880 yd (805 m) against Oxford in 1922 and 1923, and both the mile (1609 m) and the quarter-mile (402 m) race against them in 1924.
In the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Lowe won the gold medal in a new European record time of 1:52.4, beating the British favourite, Henry Stallard, who had suffered a leg injury.
Lowe was a British champion in 440 yd (402 m) and 880 yd (805 m) in 1927 and 1928. In Amsterdam at the Olympic Games Lowe won 800 m in a personal best performance at 1:51.8, a full second ahead of any of the world class competitors in the race.
Lowe retired from athletics at the end of the 1928 season and took up law at the Inner Temple in London. He became Secretary of the Amateur Athletics Association from 1931 to 1938. He was made a judge in 1964 after a distinguished legal career, and was made Recorder at the Crown Court.
Douglas Lowe died in Cranbrook, Kent.
| Olympic medalists in athletics (men) | Olympic Champions in Men's 800 m |
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Teddy Flack | Alfred Tysoe | Jim Lightbody | Paul Pilgrim | Mel Sheppard | Ted Meredith | Albert Hill | Douglas Lowe (twice) | Thomas Hampson | John Woodruff | Mal Whitfield (twice) | Tom Courtney | Peter Snell (twice) | Ralph Doubell | Dave Wottle | Alberto Juantorena | Steve Ovett | Joaquim Cruz | Paul Ereng | William Tanui | Vebjørn Rodal | Nils Schumann | Yuriy Borzakovskiy |
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