event death_place death_date birth_place pb sport birth_date image article_title
500 -- 10000 m downham , cambridgeshire , england february 1987 -lrb- aged 82 -rrb- wisbech , cambridgeshire , england 500 -- 2:40.0 -lrb- 1928 -rrb- 5000 m -- 9:32.0 -lrb- m 1928 -rrb- -- 54.9 -lrb- 1928 -rrb- 1500 m speed skating 7 october 1904 churchman cigarette card of cyril horn.jpg cyril horn

cyril horn

cyril walter horn -lrb- 7 october 1904 -- february 1987 -rrb- was an english speed skater .
he competed in the 500 -- 5000 m events at the 1924 and 1928 winter olympics with the best result of 23rd place in the 5000 m in 1928 .
horn was born to a blacksmith in a family of six siblings .
among them two became national champions : cyril in speed skating and cycling , and his younger brother dennis in cycling .
at the age of 12 cyril started working with his father , making horseshoes for the british army , and later , in the early 1920s took up skating and cycling .
in 1944 -- 45 he bought a small farm in outwell , where his son david later ran a golf and tennis centre .
