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Is he the world longest reigning olympic champion?
112 years until golf returns to the Olympics in Brazil, 2016! |
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| He is one of the oldest gold medal winners (at 46 ) - but
not the oldest. |
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| Olympic gold medal is on display at Rosedale Golf Club, Toronto. |
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| an IOC replica as the original was lost |
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| The
1904 Olympic medal |
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Cricket
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Lyon's first love was cricket.
In 1894, he made 234 runs before going out. It was a world record
that would last 40 years. |
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George Seymour Lyon (1858-1938) was the son of Robinson
E Lyon and Sarah Maxwell. George was a famous amateur
golfer in Canada in the early 1900's. He was the captain of
Lambton Golf Club, Toronto, for 23 years and President of the Royal
Canadian Golf Association in 1923.
He was Canadian Amateur Champion eight times between 1898
and 1914.
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Olympic Champion
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George Seymour Lyon won the Olympic gold medal for golf at
the 1904 Olympics in St Louis, USA, at the age of 46.
He remains the reigning Olympic Golf Champion as the event
has not been held since 1904.
see link Royal
Canadian Golf Association
Golf
Association of Ontario
Canadian
Encyclopedia
Canadian
1904 medals winners (in Portugese)
Olympics
- Golf
Century
of Canadian Heroes
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| Lyon set a Canadian record in the pole vault and also played
baseball, cricket, and tennis before taking up golf when he
was thirty-eight. |
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| At forty-six, Lyon competed in the St. Louis Games in 1904,
the only time individual golf was on the Olympic programme.
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| A colorful figure, he told jokes, sang songs and occasionally
did handstands while going around the course in the match-play
elimination tournament. |
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| After beating Chandler Egan of the U. S. in the final, Lyon
walked on his hands to the ceremony at which he was presented
with a $1,500 silver trophy. |
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A second Olympic gold medal in London 1908 ?
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| The Canadian
Encyclopedia reports that after a dispute between US and UK golfers that "Lyon's was
the only entry deemed acceptable by the Olympic Committee, who
informed him that the gold medal was his by default. Lyon chose
not to accept it, saying that he didn't feel he could accept
a medal that he had not won fairly in competition." |
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| "Olympic Lyon" - a book by Michael Cochrane |
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| Toronto Star |
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| Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC) did a series of half hour
programs called "The Olympians" prior to the Salt Lake City
olympics. One of these programs was on George Seymour Lyon |
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