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Notes
- ↑ "Clarke Beard". Olympedia. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ↑ "1908 Olympic Games Men's Results". www.sporting-heroes.net. Retrieved 2006-07-23.
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- Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
- De Wael, Herman (2001). "Athletics 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved 29 July 2006.
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