Vane Pennell
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| Full name | Vane Hungerford Pennell | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 August 1876 Kensington, Greater London | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 17 June 1938 (aged 61) Boscombe, Bournemouth | ||||||||||||||
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Vane Hungerford Pennell (16 August 1876 – 17 June 1938) was an English rackets and real tennis (jeu de paume) player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics for Great Britain.[1]
Life
[edit]Vane Pennell was educated at Eton, Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] He won the 1904 amateur tennis championship and the 1907 gold prize at Lords. In the 1908 Olympics he won the gold medal in the men's doubles competition together with John Jacob Astor. In the men's singles event he lost his first match.
He also competed in the Olympic jeu de paume tournament but was eliminated in the quarter-finals.
References
[edit]- ^ "Vane Pennell". Olympedia. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
- ^ "Pennell, Vane (PNL894VH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
External links
[edit]- Vane Pennell at Flickr Commons
- Vane Pennell at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Vane Pennell at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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