Английская Википедия:Bob Dixon (athlete)
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Robert Samuel Dixon (30 December 1909 – 11 January 1941) was a Canadian track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw.
In a comparatively weak field, he won the gold medal at the 1934 British Empire Games ahead of the local opposition in London, throwing Шаблон:T&Fcalc to beat South Africa's Harry Hart (who was winner of the shot put and discus that year).[1][2][3][4]
At national level, he won one javelin title at the Canadian Track and Field Championships, topping the podium in 1934.[5]
Dixon spent time in the Vancouver Police Force[6] and played lacrosse with the New Westminster Salmonbellies with whom he competed for the Mann Cup in 1930. He also coached the Canadian lacrosse team at the 1932 Summer Olympics.[7]
At one point, he enrolled in a school for machine gunners near Los Angeles and joined a group of California-based mercenaries and headed to China.[7]
Dixon did two tours as a pilot in China, and allegedly became the right-hand man of influential Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin, according to newspaper reports.[7]
Dixon's time in China also included a stint with the Chinese Airforce during the Sino-Japanese War. He returned to Canada when war was declared in Canada and immediately enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force.[6]
Serving as a test pilot in the RCAF, he died in an airplane crash in Grosse Isle, Manitoba during World War II.[8] He was later inducted into the Richmond Sports Wall of Fame.[9]
References
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- ↑ Commonwealth Games: Men’s javelin. Athletics Weekly (2014-07-23). Retrieved on 2016-03-17.
- ↑ Games Results for Robert Dixon Шаблон:Webarchive. Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved on 2016-03-17.
- ↑ “Adding to the gaiety of things sporting”: Stanley Wilson, the leading British javelin-thrower of the 1930s. Track Stats (March 2008). Retrieved on 2016-03-17.
- ↑ Commonwealth Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-03-17.
- ↑ Canadian Championships Medallists 1900–2012. Athletics Canada. Retrieved on 2016-03-17.
- ↑ 6,0 6,1 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 7,0 7,1 7,2 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Robert Samuel Dixon Шаблон:Webarchive. Canada At War. Retrieved on 2016-03-17.
- ↑ Richmond Sports Wall of Fame launched with 16 inductees. Richmond. Retrieved on 2016-03-17.
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