Horatio Fitch
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title:
Horatio Fitch
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Horatio May Fitch was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. He competed for the United States in the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris in the 400 metres where he won the silver medal, an event memorialized by the 1982 hit movie Chariots of Fire. The race winner was Eric Liddell, who had passed up the 100-metre dash, his specialty, because it was being held on Sunday. After graduating with a degree in engineering, Fitch went to work for a company building Chicago's new Union
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American athlete (1900–1985)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Fitch
date created:
2006-10-15T21:57:33Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T15:40:33Z
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