Personal details
Full Name:
- John Edward Lovelock
Lifetime:
- 5 Jan 1910–28 Dec 1949
Jack Lovelock
One of our greatest athletes, Berlin Olympic gold medallist Jack Lovelock led a remarkably full life before his tragic death in 1949, just a few days shy of his 40th birthday.
Read more...Events In History
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6 August 1936Lovelock wins 1500-m gold at BerlinJack Lovelock won New Zealand's first Olympic athletics gold medal before Adolf Hitler and a crowd of 110,000 at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He led the 1500-m field home in a world record time of 3:47.8. Read more...
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15 June 1935Lovelock wins ‘Mile of the century’In June 1935 Lovelock returned to Princeton – the scene of his 1933 world record – to compete against the top American milers in what the media later dubbed the ‘Mile of the Century’ Read more...
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15 July 1933Lovelock smashes world mile recordJack Lovelock's run at Princeton University beat the record for the mile, held by Jules Ladoumegue, by 1.4 seconds. The race was dubbed the 'greatest mile of all time' by Time Magazine. Read more...
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Main image: Jack Lovelock breaks mile record
A cutting from the New York Sun newspaper, showing Jack Lovelock just after he had broken the world mile record in 1933
