Glastonbury is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, formally founded in 1693 and first settled in 1636. It was named after Glastonbury in Somerset, England. Glastonbury is on the banks of the Connecticut River, 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Hartford. The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region. The town center is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place (CDP). The population was 35,159 at the 2020 census.
Thomas Pelham Curtis was an American athlete and the winner of the 110 metres hurdles at the 1896 Summer Olympics.
William McNear Rand was an American track and field athlete and businessman. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. He was born in Watertown, Massachusetts and died in Lincoln, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University.
Vasilios Xydas was a Greek athlete born in Athens, Greece. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Sumner Paine was an American shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
The men's pole vault was one of four jumping events on the Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. Five athletes competed in the pole vault. The two Americans far outclassed the three Greeks, starting higher than the Greeks could clear and taking first and second places. Damaskos and Theodoropoulos tied for third, while Xydas took fifth.
William Frederick "Bill" Crothers is a Canadian retired athlete.
Wesley William Coe Jr., sometimes listed as William Wesley Coe Jr., was an American track and field athlete who competed principally in the shot put and also in the hammer throw, discus throw, and tug of war.
Horatio May Fitch was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.
Willard Lewis Tibbetts, Jr. was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 3000 metre team. Tibbetts grew up in Stafford Springs, Connecticut. He graduated from Worcester Academy in 1922 and matriculated to Harvard.
Edward Buckler Kirby was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 3000 metre team. He competed for the United States in the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France, in the 3000 metre team where he won the bronze medal with his team mates William Cox and Willard Tibbetts.
Karl Telford Frederick was an American sport shooter who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.
William Becklean is an American competition rower and Olympic champion.
Eric Ridder was an American sailor and Olympic champion. He was born in Hewlett, New York, and died in Locust Valley, New York.
Alfred Lee Loomis Jr. was an American investment banker and an American sailor and Olympic champion. He won the Bermuda race twice. In 1977, he was manager of the Independence-Courageous syndicate, the yachting team that successfully defended the America's Cup that year.
Michael Beaver Schoettle is an American sailor and Olympic Champion. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and earned a gold medal as crew in the 5.5 metre class on the boat Complex II.
Edmund Joseph "Cotton" Minahan was a professional baseball player, and American track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
Donald Cabral is an American cross country and track runner from Connecticut who went on to star at Princeton University. He has been most successful in the steeplechase, but has also been a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) All-American in cross country and the 5000 meters, as well as the Ivy League champion at the 3000 meters. He is a former American collegiate steeplechase record holder and was the 2012 NCAA steeplechase champion. He competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics in the steeplechase. At Princeton, Cabral was an eight-time NCAA All-American and ten-time individual Ivy League champion. He was a long distance running champion in high school for Glastonbury High School, winning two Class LL championships as a sophomore and then open state and New England championships as a junior and senior.
William "Brodie" Buckland is an American-born Australian rower. He participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London where he competed in the men's pair event together with his teammate James Marburg. They qualified for the A finals, where they reached a fifth place. He graduated from Harvard University in 2006. Buckland was born in Longmont, Colorado, and raised in Olympia, Washington.
William Kendall was an Australian swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1936 Summer Olympics, reaching the semi-finals but not the finals. During his semi-final Olympic swim, Kendall became the first Australian to break the one-minute barrier in his event with a time of 59.9 seconds, leaving him in 5th place in the semi-final and with a final placing in the event of 9th out of 45.
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