Vane Pennell
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Vane Hungerford Pennell (August 16, 1876 – June 17, 1938) was an English rackets and real tennis player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics for Great Britain.
Life
Vane Pennell was educated at Eton, Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] He won the amateur tennis championship, 1904, and the gold prize at Lords, 1907. 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
- ^ "Pennell, Vane (PNL894VH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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- 1876 births
- 1938 deaths
- Racquets players
- Olympic racquets players of Great Britain
- Olympic real tennis players of Great Britain
- Racquets players at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Jeu de paume players at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- English Olympic medallists
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- British Olympic medallist stubs
- Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics