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Doug Lowe
British athlete
Quick Facts
- Byname of:
- Douglas Gordon Arthur Lowe
- Born:
- Aug. 7, 1902, Manchester, Eng.
- Died:
- March 30, 1981 (aged 78)
- Awards And Honors:
- Olympic Games
Doug Lowe (born Aug. 7, 1902, Manchester, Eng.—died March 30, 1981) was an English middle-distance runner who won gold medals in the 800-metre races at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris and at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam. Lowe was a champion runner at Highgate School and also at the University of Cambridge, where he studied law. He came in fourth in the 1,500-metre race at the 1924 Olympics. After his final Olympics performance, he went to Berlin to race Otto Peltzer, who had beaten him at London in 1926 while setting a world record of 51.6 sec; in Berlin ...(100 of 158 words)