Harry Hillman

Harry Livingston Hillman Jr., born on 8 September 1881 in Brooklyn, New York, was an American track and field athlete who won three gold medals at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, taking the flat 400 metres, the 200 metres hurdles and the 400 metres hurdles, and a silver in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He belonged to the Star Athletic Club, the Knickerbocker Athletic Club and the New York Athletic Club, and won four Amateur Athletic Union titles, two each in the 200 metres and 400 metres hurdles. In 1906 a knee injury suffered on the voyage to Athens held him to fifth in the 400 metres. He served as a lieutenant in the aviation corps in the First World War and was one of the longest serving Dartmouth track and field coaches, from 1910 until his death on 9 August 1945, as well as an assistant track coach of the American Olympic team at three Games between 1924 and 1932.