John Edward "Jack" Lovelock (* 5 January 1910 in Crushington, proximity of Reefton, New Zealand, "† 28 December 1949 in Brooklyn, New York) was an athlete and an olympia winner of New Zealand and a physician.

Lovelock was born as a son of English immigrants. In its childhood the family pulled after Greymouth, Temuka and Fairlie, where its father accepted an employment as a manager of the Mount Cook engine company. Unfortunately its father already deceased 1923, when Jack was 13 years old. It was assumed that this early loss gave it the drive for its achievements. Already in the primary school it had won first scholarship with the junior championships to be.

It showed also during its time to the High School its sporty talents. Later it studied medicine at the University OF Otago. In this time it won for the university crew over a mile with the championships of New Zealand. 1930 it won the Rhodes scholarship for the attendance of the Exeter college at the University of Oxford, to which it went to 1931. There it profited to the president of the Oxford University Athletic club from the society from Jerry Cornes, and world class sportsman. At this time Lovelock met also with Arthur Porritt, a former olympic medal winner over a mile and a later Gerneral governor, which worked now in Great Britain as a surgeon. Porritt became its friend and advisor. In the future its training became more conscientious and stood under medical observation.

Its sporty progress surprised everyone. To 26. It set up a new British and Commonwealth record to May 1932 over a mile. Thus it became the fifth-fastest mile runner of history. Two weeks later it broke the world record over one three-quarter to mile with a time of 3:02,2 minutes, which made it the favoritisierten applicant for the coming Olympiad. With the Xth olympic summer games 1932 in Los Angeles it participated, could however due to its inexperience on international level only the 7. Place reach. The first places went to the Britisher Jerry Cornes (silver) and the Canadian Phil Edward (bronze) to the Italian Luigi Beccali (gold). The following year he dedicated exclusively to his studies and training. 1934 it left Oxford and went to the St Mary's hospital Medical School into London. Short time it later won three important runs over a mile in London White town center stage: among other things the AAA championships and the British Empire Games.

1935 he suffered in the middle of from an inflammation of the knee and from a swelling of the Achilles' tendon. It treated itself by injections with a vaccine, manufactured from Alexander Fleming. After the re-establishment of its health gegann it with intensive training for the coming Olympiad. Its strength was that it could go over long distances a high speed and enough Kraft for a strong had nevertheless still finalkept in track. Some it considered time seriously whether it should not begin better over 5000 or 10,000 meters, since the competition was also very large over 1500 meters.

With the XI. Olympic summer games 1936 in Berlin it decided then however nevertheless for participation in the 1500-Meter-Lauf. The final on 6 August was strong running and by Glenn Cunningham was from the outset dominated. Luigi Beccali wanted to set 300 meters before the target line again to its powerful finalkept in track like 1932, however by the Lovelook overhauling it was surprised, which secured itself with it the gold medal. Silver went at Cunningham and bronze at Beccali. Lovelook won this run with a time of 3:47,8 minutes, which represented a new world record and with a projection/lead of over 4 meters on its pursuers. It was simultaneous the first gold medal for New Zealand in the Leichtathletik.

After it it terminated its sporty career briefly. It rejected the offered post as a national director of sport Neuseelands, there it public attention liked and did not return to England. There and practiced he graduated, specialized in Rheumatismus and worked as a free journalist. In 2. It served world war in the British army as a medical officer at the homeland front. 1940 it had a riding accident with a hunt. Whereupon his sight and it decreased by swindle accumulations were temporarily troubled.

Lovelook married to 26. March 1945 Cynthia Wells James, an US-American secretary with the American hospital. They had 2 daughters, Mary and Janet. 1947 pulled it over after Brooklyn, New York, where Lovelook worked as a director of the physical medicine and a director of the rehablitation department deputy as on the New York hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan. On 28 December 1949 he, suffering from a flu, got one of his swindle accumulations in the Church Avenue station in Brooklyn and came under the bringing in underground and was immediately dead.

Divide his life and the most important stations into Leni of scoring steel film "Olympia" were later perpetuated. 1990 published the post office Ministry of New Zealand to its memory a 40-Cent-Sondermarke. The author of New Zealand James McNeish busy during a DAAD scholarship in Berlin 1983 with Lovelock, is interested in the not yet completely clarified circumstances of his death and the personality change of the sportsman, which led after 1936 to the abort of the sporty career. McNeishs diary "notion lot in Berlin" was published 1986 in the LCB edition on German and is the preliminary work to the Lovelock novel "Auckland", which was published only in English language.

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