Meredith Colket
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 19, 1878 Philadelphia, USA |
| Died | June 7, 1947 (aged 68) Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | pole vault |
| Club | Penn Quakers, Philadelphia |
Medal record | |
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Meredith Bright Colket (November 19, 1878 – June 7, 1947) was an American pole vaulter who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the silver medal in the men's pole vault ahead of Norwegian Carl-Albert Andersen who won bronze. Irving Baxter won gold.[1][2]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Colket was born on November 19, 1878, in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. degree in 1901 and a LL.B degree in 1904. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and the varsity track team for all four of his undergraduate years. Colkert finished second in the pole jump at the British 1900 AAA Championships.[3][4]
He organized the first tennis team at Penn and won second place at the intercollegiate tennis doubles championship in 1902. He worked as an attorney for the General Accident Fire & Life Insurance Corporation and continued to play tennis at the Merion Cricket Club.[5] He married Alberta Kelsey on April 12, 1911, in London.[6]
He died of a heart attack at his home in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on June 7, 1947,[5] and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.[7]
Colket's son, Meredith B. Colket Jr. (1912–1985), was a noted genealogist.[8]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- New York Times obituary, June 9, 1947 (subscription required)
- Phi Gamma Delta in the Olympics
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- 1878 births
- 1947 deaths
- American businesspeople in the insurance industry
- American men pole vaulters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1900 Summer Olympics
- Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)
- Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in track and field
- Pennsylvania lawyers
- Penn Quakers men's tennis players
- Sportspeople from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
- Track and field athletes from Philadelphia
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- 19th-century American sportsmen
- 20th-century American businesspeople
- 20th-century American lawyers
- American track and field athletics Olympic medalist stubs
- American pole vaulter stubs