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| Full name | Louis de Breda Handley | |||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | "Lou" | |||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | February 14, 1874 Rome, Italy | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | December 28, 1956 (aged 82) New York, New York | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, water polo | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | New York Athletic Club | |||||||||||||||||
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Louis de Breda Handley or Luigi de Breda (February 14, 1874 – December 28, 1956) was an Italian-born American freestyle swimmer and water polo player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.[1]
He was the son of the American sculptor Francis Montague Handley and his Italian wife. He was registered in Rome as an Italian citizen with the baptismal name of Luigi and the surname of his mother, "de Breda".
In 1896 he fled to New York and added to his name the surname of his father. He worked in a small firm imports and devoted himself to his second passion after hunting, swimming. He was also a great water polo player (his style of shooting was called "jumping salmon").
In the 1904 Olympics he won a gold medal in the 4x50 yard freestyle relay, and was a member of New York Athletic Club water polo team, which won a gold medal. He also competed in the one-mile freestyle but did not finish.
As a trainer, he led Ethelda Bleibtrey to three gold medals at the 1920 Olympics, and Gertrude Ederle to the first English Channel-crossing by a woman in 1926.
He wrote the entry dedicated to swimming in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
In 1976, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.[2][3]
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Publications
- Handley, L. De. B., How to play water polo, American Sports Publishing Company, New York, 1910
- Handley, L. De. B., Swimming and Watermanship, The MacMillan Company, New York, 1918
- Handley, L. De. B., Thirty Lessons in Swimming, The Milo Publishing Company, New York
See also
- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
- List of athletes with Olympic medals in different disciplines
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
References
- ^ "Louis Handley". Olympedia. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
- ^ "Louis De Breda Handley (1976)". usawaterpolo.org. USA Water Polo. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
- ^ "Hall of Fame Inductees". usawaterpolo.org. USA Water Polo. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
External links
- Louis Handley at the International Swimming Hall of Fame
- Louis Handley at the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame
- Louis Handley at Olympics.com
- Louis Handley at Olympedia
- Handley, l' italiano d' America (in Italian)
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