Harvey Sutton
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Harvey Vincent Sutton (18 February 1882 – 21 June 1963) was an Australian athlete. He competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London on the Australasia team, a combined squad of competitors from Australia and New Zealand.
Born in Castlemaine, Victoria he represented Oxford against Cambridge in athletics and lacrosse. In the 800 metres, Sutton placed third in his initial semifinal heat and did not advance to the final. His time was 2:00.0. Sutton served as resident medical officer at Charing Cross Hospital and the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine before returning to Melbourne where he was medical officer with the Victorian Department of Public Instruction from September 1909 until World War I.
Survived by his wife, three sons and four daughters, Sutton died at his Rose Bay home, near Sydney, New South Wales, on June 21, 1963 and was buried in Waverley cemetery. His portrait by Joshua Smith is held by the University of Sydney
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- Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
- De Wael, Herman (2001). Athletics 1908. Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved on 29 July 2006.
- Wudarski, Pawel (1999). Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich. Retrieved on 29 July 2006. (Polish)
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