Ernest Loney

Ernest Vincent Loney (3 July 1882 – 27 August 1951) was a British athlete and member of the Birchfield Harriers athletics club. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.[1]

In the fourth round of the 1500 metres, Loney finished first with a time of 4:08.4 to qualify for the final. There, he pace set in an attempt to tire eventual winner Mel Sheppard and did not end up finishing the race.[2]

References
  1. "Ernest Loney". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  2. British Olympic Association, The Fourth Olmpiad, p. 60

Sources
  • Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
  • De Wael, Herman (2001). "Athletics 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved 30 July 2006.
  • Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 30 July 2006.
  • "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 3 August 2012.


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