Harry Worthington

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameHarry Thomas•Worthington
Used nameHarry•Worthington
Born28 December 1891 in Baltimore, Maryland (USA)
Died4 March 1990 in Bayside, Queens, New York, New York (USA)
Measurements179 cm / 68 kg
AffiliationsBoston AA, Boston (USA)
NOC United States

Biography

Harry Worthington was AAU and IC4A long jump champion in 1915-16. He was AAU runner-up in the long jump in 1914. Worthington won the 1912 Eastern Olympic Trials to make the team for Stockholm. Worthington competed for Dartmouth, from which he graduated in 1917, and the Boston AA.

In World War I he served as a second lieutenant in the US Army. Worthington later worked in business as an executive with Manning, Maxwell, & Moore in Muskegon, Michigan, and then was with an office furniture company in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Personal Best: LJ – 7.39 (24-3) (1916).

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1912 Summer Olympics Athletics USA Harry Worthington
Long Jump, Men (Olympic) 4

Olympic family relations