Leopold Partridge

Leopold Partridge
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born(1901-07-14)14 July 1901
Potters Bar, England
Died18 June 1976(1976-06-18) (aged 74)
Dublin, Ireland
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
110 metres hurdles
ClubAchilles Club

Leopold Frank Partridge (14 July 1901 – 18 June 1976) was a British athlete who competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Career

Partridge attended St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he won a football Blue (1920–21) and was capped for England in the amateur international against France in 1921. He finished in second place at the Oxford versus Cambridge varsity athletics match in 1921. The following year he won the event and finished second behind Frederick Gaby in the 120 yards hurdles event at the 1922 AAA Championships.

He won the Southern Counties title in 1923 before finishing second again behind Fred Gaby at the 1923 AAA Championships and third in the 1924 AAA Championships (again behind Gaby).

Partridge left Cambridge without taking a degree and went into business with his father, who was an antiques dealer with premises in Bond Street and New York. He died in the Republic of Ireland in 1976.

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Leopold Partridge Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Leopold Partridge". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  3. ↑ "A century of Olympians". St Catharine's College, Cambridge. 24 June 2024. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
  4. ↑ "AAA Championships". Daily Mirror. 1 July 1922. Retrieved 1 December 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Athletic Championships". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 3 July 1922. Retrieved 1 December 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 1 December 2024.