George Cornet
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1912 Stockholm | Team competition |
George Thomson Cornet (15 July 1877 – 22 April 1952) was the only Scot in the Great Britain and Ireland water polo team that won gold in the 1908 Summer Olympics and the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was born in Inverness and died in Rainhill.[1]
He played as a back for the Inverness Amateurs team that won the Scottish Championship in 1909 and reached four other finals; Cornet represented Scotland a total of 17 times between 1897 and 1912. Cornet also played football and cricket for Inverness teams as well as competing in heavy and track athletics events.
Cornet was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame on the 12 March 2007. He was first married to Barbara Mackintosh who died in childbirth, after which he married her sister Isabella Mackintosh with whom he had a daughter, Ruby.
See also
- Great Britain men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
- List of Olympic champions in men's water polo
- List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
References
- ^ "George Cornet". Olympedia. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
External links
Media related to George Thomson Cornet at Wikimedia Commons
- George Cornet at Olympics.com
- George Cornet at Olympedia
- George Cornet at Team GB
- George Cornet at the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame
- Use dmy dates from November 2012
- 1877 births
- 1952 deaths
- Sportspeople from Inverness
- Scottish male water polo players
- Scottish footballers
- Olympic water polo players of Great Britain
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in water polo
- Water polo players at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Scottish Olympic medallists
- Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Association footballers not categorized by position
- Scottish Olympic medallist stubs
- Scottish athletics biography stubs
- British water polo biography stubs