Joseph Forshaw (runner)

Portrait of Joseph Forshaw Jr.
Olympic medal record
Men's athletics
Representing the  United States
Bronze medal – third place1908 LondonMarathon

Joseph Forshaw Jr. (May 13, 1881 – November 26, 1964) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the marathon.[1]

Career

Forshaw after winning the 1905 All-Western Marathon

Forshaw entered in the Missouri Athletic Club's All-Western Marathon six times between 1905 and 1912. On May 6, 1905, Forshaw beat Sidney Hatch and Felix Carvajal to win for the M. A. C. in a time of 3:15:58.[2] In addition to winning the inaugural event, he came in fourth two times and second thrice. On May 2, 1908, Forshaw finished next to Hatch in 2:30:01, his best time in the event, also competing for the Missouri Athletic Club.[2] The second place after Joseph Erxleben on May 4, 1912 earned him a spot on the United States Olympic Team.[3][4]

Forshaw ran the marathon in three Olympic Games. At the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, he finished in twelfth place. He competed for the United States in the 1908 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain, where he won the bronze medal in the marathon. And at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, he was 10th in the event.

In March, 1912, Forshaw was one of "twenty of the best distance runners in the middle west" scheduled to participate in a 20-mile indoor marathon at Riverview Rink in Chicago, Illinois.[5] He reportedly finished every race in which he ever ran.[6]

After retiring from distance running he twice served as President of the Western Amateur Athletic Union.

Seventeen years after his death, his grandson married the daughter of Phyllis Schlafly.

References

  1. ↑ "Joseph Forshaw". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 Sullivan, J.E., ed. (January 1910). "Marathon Road Races". Spalding's Official Athletic Almanac for 1910. Vol. XII. New York: American Sports Publishing Co. p. 91. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
  3. ↑ Martin, David E.; Gynn, Roger W.H. (2000). "1912: A South African Success Spree in Stockholm". The Olympic Marathon. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics Publishers. p. 82. ISBN 9780880119696. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
  4. ↑ USA Track & Field (January 20, 2004). "2004 USA Olympic Team Trials: Men's Marathon Media Guide Supplement" (PDF). Santa Barbara, California: USA Track & Field. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-09-30. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
  5. ↑ "They've Revived It: We Thought the Marathon Game Was Dead and Buried but Not Yet". The Milwaukee Journal. Milwaukee. March 8, 1912. p. 13. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
  6. ↑ O'Shaughnessy, Christine Forshaw (May 2004). "Joseph Forshaw, Marathon Runner" (PDF). Journal of Olympic History. 12 (2): 10–19. Retrieved May 2, 2016.

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