caption event death_date death_place club birth_place weight height pb sport birth_date image article_title
albert hill at the 1920 olympics 800 m , 1500 m 8 january 1969 -lrb- aged 79 -rrb- london , ontario , canada polytechnic harriers , london tooting , london , uk 72 kg lb on 1.78 m ftin on 800 -- 2:15.0 -lrb- 1920 -rrb- 1500 m -- 4:01.8 -lrb- m 1920 -rrb- mile -- 4:13.8 -lrb- 1921 -rrb- -- 1:53.4 -lrb- 1920 -rrb- 1000 yd athletics 24 march 1889 albert hill 1920b.jpg albert hill -lrb- athlete -rrb-

albert hill -lrb- athlete -rrb-

albert george hill -lrb- 24 march 1889 -- 8 january 1969 -rrb- was a british track and field athlete .
he competed at the 1920 olympics and won gold medals in the 800 m and 1500 m and a silver medal in the 3000 m team race .
hill started out as a long-distance runner , winning the british aaa championships over 4 miles in 1910 .
during world war i he served with the royal flying corps in france , and after the war changed to middle-distance running .
coached by sam mussabini -lrb- coach of 100 m olympic champions reggie walker and harold abrahams -rrb- , he won the 880 yd and 1 mile at the 1919 aaa championships and then equalled the british record of 4:16.8 for 1 mile .
he nearly was not selected for the olympics the following year , the selectors considering the 31-year-old hill too old .
finally , he was allowed to take part at the olympics , which were held in antwerp , belgium .
he made the final in the 800m , which was a closely contested race .
in the end , the 31-year-old hill beat american earl eby for the gold , setting a british record of 1:53.4 on a slow track .
two days later , hill completed the middle distance double by winning the 1500 m as well , thus completing a `` double '' not replicated by a british athlete until kelly holmes at the 2004 olympics .
helped by his compatriot , philip baker -lrb- who would receive the nobel peace prize in 1959 -rrb- , he won comfortably , with baker in second in a time of 4:01.8 .
hill also competed in the 3000 m team race event , in which the british team finished second , earning hill 's third olympic medal .
hill won the 1921 aaa mile championship in a british record of 4:13.8 , this was 1.2 seconds outside the world record and the second fastest amateur time ever .
hill ended his running career in 1921 and became a coach himself , his most famous protégé being sydney wooderson .
he emigrated to canada shortly after world war ii , and died there in 1969 .
in 2010 , he was inducted into the england athletics hall of fame .
