Sinton Hewitt

Sinton Hewitt

Personal information
Birth name	Thomas Sinton Hewitt
Nationality	Australian
Born	31 July 1887 St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Died	6 October 1976(1976-10-06) (aged 89) Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Sport
Sport	Long-distance running
Event(s)	Marathon, 10,000m

Thomas Sinton Hewitt (31 July 1887 – 6 October 1976) was an Australian long-distance runner.^[1]

Athlete

He was the (pre-war) captain of the Malvern Harriers Athletic Club (and also, from this, a club-mate of Percy Cerutty),^[2] and a well-performed long distance runner.^[3] He represented Australia, running under the name of "Sinton Hewitt", in both the marathon (finishing 30th, in 3h 3m 27s) and the 10,000 metres (finishing tenth in his heat, time unknown) at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium.^[4]

The Australian Training Units Team: 28 October 1916 (H.16688). Hewitt is third umpire (extreme right) in front row.

Boundary umpire

He was a boundary umpire at the "Pioneer Exhibition Game" of Australian Rules football in London (1916). A news film was taken at the match.^[5][6]

See also

• 1916 Pioneer Exhibition Game

Footnotes

1. "Sinton Hewitt". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
2. Richardson (2016), passim.
3. Holmesby & Main (1996), p.49.
4. Australian Olympic Committee Statistics: Sinton Hewitt (Athletics).
5. The original newsreel: Australian Football (Pathé Newsreel, 1916) on YouTube
6. The 2019 remastered and colourised version of the original newsreel: Australian Football (Pathé Newsreel, 1916), remastered and colourised version (2019) on YouTube

References

• Pioneer Exhibition Game Australian Football: in aid of British and French Red Cross Societies: 3rd Australian Division v. Australian Training Units at Queen's Club, West Kensington, on Saturday, October 28th, 1916, at 3pm, Wightman & Co., (London), 1919.
• Second from left, in middle row, in the photograph at AIF athletics team (D00674), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
• First World War Embarkation Roll: Sergeant Thomas Sinton Hewitt (129), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
• First World War Nominal Roll: Sergeant Thomas Sinton Hewitt (129), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
• First World War Service Record: Sergeant Thomas Sinton Hewitt (129), National Archives of Australia.
• Main, J. & Allen, D., Fallen — The Ultimate Heroes: Footballers Who Never Returned From War, Crown Content, (Melbourne), 2002. ISBN 1-74095-010-0
• Richardson, N. (2016), The Game of Their Lives, Pan Macmillan Australia: Sydney. ISBN 978-1-7435-3666-7

External links

• Sinton Hewitt at Olympedia