Charles Edward Sands (December 22, 1865 – August 9, 1945) was an American golfer, tennis and real tennis player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1908 Summer Olympics.[1][2]
| Full name | Charles Edward Sands | ||||||||||||||
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| Country (sports) | United States | ||||||||||||||
| Born | December 22, 1865 New York | ||||||||||||||
| Died | August 9, 1945 (aged 79) Brookville, New York | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 181 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 1887 (amateur tour) | ||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1911 | ||||||||||||||
| Singles | |||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam singles results | |||||||||||||||
| US Open | QF (1894) | ||||||||||||||
| Other tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | 1R (1900) | ||||||||||||||
| Doubles | |||||||||||||||
| Other doubles tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | QF (1900) | ||||||||||||||
| Mixed doubles | |||||||||||||||
| Other mixed doubles tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | 1R (1900) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Education
editSands was educated at Columbia College, where he played tennis and golf, and graduated in 1887.[3] He was posthumously inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018.[4]
Sports career
editIn 1900, he won the gold medal in the men's individual golf competition.
Sands also participated as tennis player in July 1890 when he won the Northwestern Championships played at the Hotel St. Louis, Minnetonka, Minnesota. In 1891 he won the Middle States Championships held in Hoboken against Howard Taylor.
At the 1900 Olympics, in the singles tournament he was eliminated in the first round. Sands and his British partner Archibald Warden were also eliminated in the first round of the doubles event. Also the mixed doubles competition ended for him and his partner Georgina Jones after the first round.
Eight years later Sands was again eliminated in the first round, this time from the real tennis tournament.
References
edit- ^ "Charles Sands Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
- ^ "Charles Sands". Olympedia. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
- ^ Officers and Graduates of Columbia College: Originally the College of the Province of New York Known as King's College. General Catalogue, 1754-1894. New York: Columbia College. 1894.
- ^ "Charles Sands (2018) - Hall of Fame". Columbia University Athletics. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
External links
edit- Charles Sands at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- Charles Sands at the International Tennis Federation
- Charles Sands at Olympics.com
- Charles Sands at Olympedia
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