• Edwin Harold Flack (5 November 1873 – 10 January 1935) was an Australian athlete and tennis player. Also known as "Teddy", he was Australia's first Olympian...
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    Years 7 to 8) Senior School – South Yarra (All boys; Years 9 to 12) Edwin Flack Park – Port Melbourne (Sporting complex) Camp Dowd – Gippsland Lakes...
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    street. The Edwin Flack Reserve includes several sporting grounds, such as the Edwin Flack Oval, Edwin Flack Athletics Track and Edwin Flack Netball Courts...
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  • Australia has competed in athletics in all Summer Olympics. Edwin Flack won the Men's 800 m and 1500 m at the 1896 Summer Olympics. He won Australia's...
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    Zealand) athlete would be able to compete at the 1896 Summer Olympics, Edwin Flack, an Australian accountant and amateur athlete working in London, was...
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    sponsorship reasons, is an outdoor sports stadium situated on the grounds of Edwin Flack Field within the Sports and Entertainment Precinct in the heart of the...
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    of Australia, competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Edwin Flack was born in the United Kingdom and was resident in London in 1896, but...
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    400 metres, a feat not since repeated, while London-based Australian Edwin Flack won the 800 and 1500 metres races. Robert Garrett, a Princeton student...
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    Tapavica, hammer thrower George S. Robertson and 800-metres runners Edwin Flack and Friedrich Traun. These medals are retroactively assigned by the International...
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    the world were absent, and the winning time of 4:33 1/5 by Australian Edwin Flack was 17 4/5 seconds slower than the amateur mile record, despite the fact...
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  • in a thrilling finish, and Edwin Flack brings him onto the first place podium. In reality, Blake was actually second to Flack in the 1500 meters - which...
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    beginning, and at every Olympic Games since. The first winner, in 1896, was Edwin Flack of Australia, who also won the first gold medal in the 800-metre race...
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  • painter and sculptor Caroline Flack (1979–2020), British television presenter Doug Flack (1920–2005), English footballer Edwin Flack (1873–1935), Australian...
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    Just as in the 1500 metre race, Albin Lermusiaux took the lead early. Edwin Flack and Arthur Blake maintained second and third place, until Blake dropped...
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  • Charles Kilpatrick of the United States, did not compete in Athens. Edwin Flack of Australia was the favourite among those who competed. The competition...
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  • 1870 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1925) 1873 – Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (d. 1935) 1879 – Otto Wahle, Austrian-American...
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    The lead was taken over by Edwin Flack, an Australian who won the 800 and 1500 m races. Louis slowly closed in on Flack. The Australian, not used to...
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    First Olympics: Athens 1896 (1984) he and McKenna played the parents of Edwin Flack. One of his last credits was "Highland Fling" on Lovejoy (1992). The...
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    Arena (2006–2011) Allphones Arena (2011–2016) Address Olympic Bvd and Edwin Flack Avenue Sydney Olympic Park NSW 2127 Australia Location Sydney Olympic...
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  • Blitz (BEL)  Tim Shaw (USA)  Morris Kirksey (USA) (athletics and rugby)  Edwin Flack (AUS) (athletics and tennis)  Karch Kiraly (USA) (indoor volleyball and...
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  • footballer Jon Finlayson – actor and artist John Fitzgerald – tennis player Edwin Flack – tennis player Flea (born Michael Balzary) – musician (Red Hot Chili...
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    but six separately administered British colonies, but the results of Edwin Flack are typically given with him listed as Australian. This is a modern convention...
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    greyhound racing, then demolished for the first Collingwood training ground (Edwin Flack Field) in the precinct and later became the site of the southern section...
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  • since the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, after only sending a runner, Edwin Flack, to the 1896 Summer Olympics. Frederick Lane was Australia's sole swimming...
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    perfect lap. It was constructed on Australia Avenue, Kevin Coombs Avenue, Edwin Flack Avenue and Dawn Fraser Avenue. 140 mature trees needed to be removed...
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  • He also finished second in the high jump and third in the long jump. "Edwin Flack — Our first Olympic champion". City of Casey. Archived from the original...
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  • Reyes Estévez, ESP Mark Everett, USA Joe Falcon, USA Tom Farrell, USA Edwin Flack, AUS Ray Flynn, IRL Hauke Fuhlbrügge, GDR José David Galván, MEX Alberto...
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  • Games Gold Silver Bronze edit 1896 Athens details Edwin Flack  Australia Nándor Dáni  Hungary Dimitrios Golemis  Greece 1900 Paris details Alfred Tysoe...
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    Boland (GBR)  Friedrich Traun (GER)  Greece (GRE) Demetrios Petrokokkinos Dionysios Kasdaglis  Mixed team (ZZX)  Edwin Flack (AUS)  George Robertson (GBR)...
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