Henry Cumming (athlete)

Henry Cumming

Henry Cumming in 1928
Personal information
Born	(1905-09-05)September 5, 1905 Augusta, Georgia, United States
Died	May 10, 1945(1945-05-10) (aged 39) Florence, Italy
Sport
Sport	Sprinting
Event	200 metres

Henry Cumming (September 5, 1905 – July 10, 1945) was an American sprinter. He competed in the men's 200 metres at the 1928 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Cumming commissioned in 1941 as a major in the military intelligence section of the United States Army during World War II, later rising to colonel, serving abroad in Morocco and Italy, dying of polio in Florence on 10 July 1945.^[2][3]

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Henry Cumming Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
2. "Henry Cumming". Olympedia. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
3. Bryant, Jacob (May 2012). The Invisible Enemy: The Effects of Polio on the American War Effort during World War II, 1941-1945 (MA thesis). East Tennessee State University.

External links

• Henry Cumming at Olympedia