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William Applegarth
The Olympic Games, or Olympics, is an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprises of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896.The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent atleast one color of the participating country’s national flag.
The full name is William Reuben Willie Applegarth. He was born on May 11, 1890, in Guisborough, and died on December 12, 1958. He was a British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
At the Stockholm Olympics, Applegarth was eliminated in the semifinals of 100 m and won a Bronze medal in 200 m. As the anchoring leg in the British 4 by 100 m relay team, he won a gold medal, in spite of finishing second after United States in the semifinal. United States was later disqualified for a fault in passing the baton, the same mistake was made in the final by world record holder and main favourite German team.
Applegarth was a British AAA champion in 100 yard in 1913 and 1914 and in 220 yard from 1912 to 1914. Shortly after the Olympics Applegarth repeated the Don Lippincott's world record in 100 m of 10.6 and set a new world record of 21.2 in 200 m in the 1914 AAA meeting. In 1915 Applegarth turned professional and emigrated to America, where track and soccer became coach at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania. He also played for Brooklyn in the American Soccer League.
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