Langley breasts the tape at the Wenlock Olympian Games.
Photos from the personal archive of Howard Langley entrusted to the Wenlock Olympian Society by his daughter, Mrs Christine Greatrex.
This weekend at the 137th Wenlock Olympian Games!
by Philip Barker
The Wenlock Olympian Society (WOS) is to honour Harold Langley who won the pentathlon at the 1923 Wenlock Games and finished fourth in the triple jump at the Paris 1924 Olympics.
The medals presented to competitors at the Games this year are replicas of those awarded in 1923 when Langley was a competitor.
Langley later became an athletics judge and officiated at the 1948 Olympics in London.
The Games were established by Doctor William Penny Brookes in the 1850s and served as an inspiration for Baron Pierre de Coubertin in his efforts to revive the Olympics for the Modern era.
WOS archivist Chris Cannon tells Langley’s full story in the next edition of the Journal of Olympic History.
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