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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Glastonbury
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Participant in
- 1896 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- United States
- Image
- 1896 US olympic athletes (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1875-05-07
- date of death
- 1954-12-01
- sports discipline competed in
- pole vault
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Encyclopedic overview
William Welles Hoyt (May 7, 1875 – December 1, 1954) was an American track and field athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut.
Hoyt competed in the pole vault, winning the event with a height of 3.30 metres. He also ran the 110 metres hurdles. He placed second in his heat, after Thomas Curtis, but did not run in the final.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “William Hoyt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.