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(from left to right) Leonard Meredith, Ernest Payne, Charles Kingsbury, and Benjamin Jones, gold medal winners in the 1,810.5 Metre Team Pursuit in the London Olympics of 1908.

London 1908

Charlotte Cooper, winner of five Wimbledon titles and the first female Olympic tennis champion when she won gold at the Paris Games in 1900.
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London 1908

Reggie and Laurie Doherty, tennis playing brothers who won gold in the Men’s Doubles at the Paris Olympics of 1900. At the same Games, Laurie won gold in the Men’s Singles, Reginald won bronze, after they had refused to play against each in the semi-final.
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Harry Blackstaffe, winner of the gold medal in the Single Sculls event at Henley in the 1908 London Olympics.
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London 1908

(from left to right) Captain MacDonnell, W. Bean, and Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon attend the 1908 London Olympics armed with dueling pistols. Not a shot was fired in sport or anger, though the event was including in the Stockholm Games of 1912.
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Frederick Grace, winner of a gold medal in the Lightweight Boxing class at the London Olympics of 1908.
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London 1908

(from left to right) Leonard Meredith, Ernest Payne, Charles Kingsbury, and Benjamin Jones, gold medal winners in the 1,810.5 Metre Team Pursuit in the London Olympics of 1908.
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London 1908

Cornelius ‘Con’ Leahy, representing Britain and Ireland, poses for the camera at Shepherds Bush after sharing silver in the High Jump with a jump of 1.88 metres, London 1908.
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London 1908

Britain’s Wyndham Halswelle goes it alone to win gold in the 400 Metres, London, 25 July, 1908. This re-run of the earlier final was boycotted by the United States after one of their team was disqualified.
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