Rodolfo Hammersley (born June 10, 1889, date of death unknown) was a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

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athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was born in

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and was the father of Andrés Hammersley and Arturo Hammersley.Rodolfo Hammersley
Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-02-01. He was a generalist in track and field, practising a wide variety of events. In 1910 he was timed at 10.4 seconds for the

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, which would have equalled the

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at that time. In the 1912 Summer Olympics he finished 13th in the standing high jump event and 28th in the high jump competition. This made Hammersley part of Chile's first official delegation to the Olympics. At the 1918 South American Championships in Athletics – the first such gathering in the region – he won the

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an ancient sport, as demonstrated by th ...

event and was runner-up in the

hammer throw The hammer throw is one of the four throwing events in regular track and field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and javelin. The "hammer" used in this sport is not like any of the tools also called by that name. It consist ...

as well. South American Championships in Athletics (unofficial)
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-01.

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1889 births Year of death missing Sportspeople from Valparaíso Chilean male sprinters Chilean male discus throwers Chilean male hammer throwers Olympic athletes for Chile Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics {{Chile-athletics-bio-stub