Beauchamp Day was an
Irish sprinter who was Ireland's championship runner in the early 1910s.
He regularly competed at the Australian gold fields of
Kalgoorlie
Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area includ ...
; his 1906 defeat there at the hands of
Arthur Postle
Arthur Benjamin Postle (8 March 1881 – 21 April 1965) was an Australian professional athlete, one of the country's most renowned sprinters in the early twentieth century.Phillips (2000) pp. 5–6. Born in Queensland and becoming a professional ...
being an event of some notoriety.
On 1 April 1907 he recorded a then-world
record time for the 400 metre sprint.
References
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Irish male sprinters
Date of birth unknown
Date of death unknown