Norman Frederic Hallows (29 December 1886 – 16 October 1968) was an English middle-distance runner. Educated at

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, he won the

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and set an

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in the

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race at the

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. His time in the first round was 4:03.4, beating the Olympic record set by American

Mel Sheppard Melvin Whinfield "Peerless Mel" Sheppard (September 5, 1883 – January 4, 1942) was an American athlete, member of the Irish American Athletic Club, and winner of four gold medals and one silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympic ...

only minutes earlier by 1.6 seconds. In the final, Sheppard matched Hallows' first round time while Hallows finished in third place at 4:04.0. Hallows studied at

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in Oxford,

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, and

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in London. He took part in the

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of 1912–13 as a

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staff and later in

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, as a Captain of the

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in France. In 1919 he was appointed as the resident Medical Officer at

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. Using the pen name "Duplex" he co-wrote several books on engineering.

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