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Guy Butler
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's Athletics | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 1920 Antwerp | 4x400m relay | |
| Silver | 1920 Antwerp | 400 metres | |
| Bronze | 1924 Paris | 400 metres | |
| Bronze | 1924 Paris | 4x400m relay | |
Guy Montagu Butler (August 25, 1899 – February 22, 1981) was a British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Born in Harrow, London and went to the local Harrow School, with four Olympic medals Guy Butler shares the British record for athletics with Sebastian Coe.
At the Antwerp Olympics in 1920, Butler won the silver medal in the individual 400 m and anchored the British 4x400 relay team to a gold medal in 3:22.2.
At the 1924 Summer Olympics, Butler won bronze in the 400 m and again anchored the British 4x400 m relay team, this time winning bronze in 3:17.4. In his final Olympics in 1928 he reached the quarterfinal of the 200 m.
Butler also won the British AAA championships in 440 yd in 1919 and in 220 yd in 1926. He also ran the 300 yd world record of 30.6 in 1926.
After his athletics career, Butler was a schoolmaster, then an athletics journalist and was a pioneer of filming athletes in action.
Guy Butler died in St Neots, Cambridgeshire aged 80.
Categories: 1899 births | 1981 deaths | English athletes | British sprinters | People from Harrow | Athletes at the 1920 Summer Olympics | Athletes at the 1924 Summer Olympics | Olympic competitors for Great Britain | Olympic gold medalists for Great Britain | Olympic silver medalists for Great Britain | Olympic bronze medalists for Great Britain