John Carpenter (athlete), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Carpenter (athlete)

American athlete

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1884

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Date of Death: 04-Jun-1933

Profession: athletics competitor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

John Carpenter (John Condict Carpenter; December 7, 1884 – June 4, 1933) was an American athlete.
He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, contributing to one of the many controversies of the 1908 Games.
He was the son of travel writer Frank G.
Carpenter and his sister was author Frances Carpenter. He advanced to the finals in the men's 400 meters race at the 1908 Summer Olympics after winning his preliminary heat with a time of 49.8 seconds and his semifinal in 49.4 seconds.
In the first running of the final race, Carpenter came in first out of the four runners, clocking 47,8 seconds.
However, umpire Roscoe Badger determined that Carpenter had willfully interfered with British runner Wyndham Halswelle.
Though the obstructing maneuver was then legal under American rules, the Olympic contests were held under British rules, which did not allow it.
Carpenter was disqualified and the race was ordered to be repeated without him.
His countrymen, John Taylor and William Robbins, protested the ruling by boycotting the second final, leaving Halswelle to take the gold medal uncontested in the only walkover in the modern Olympic history. Carpenter graduated from Cornell University in 1907.