Charles Bacon

The FIRST EVER 400m Hurdles WR Holder: BACON comes in 9th ALL-TIME!!!🙌 🇺🇸👇

BACON made his first appearance at the Olympics in 1904 and was a talented all-round athlete [he was ninth in the 1500m at those Games!]…by 1908 he was the best 400m Hurdler in the WORLD, winning Olympic GOLD and setting a 55.0 secs World Record in the process that would remain unbeaten for over a decade!!!🔥

BACON was a prominent member of the Irish-American AC and the New York City Police Department – he lived a long life, passing aged 83 in 1968.✊