Henry Slack

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameHenry Berry•Slack
Used nameHenry•Slack
Born31 March 1877 in Chicago, Illinois (USA)
Died18 July 1928 (aged 51 years 3 months 18 days) in San Francisco, California (USA)
AffiliationsChicago Maroons, Chicago (USA)
NOC United States

Biography

Henry Slack competed for the University of Chicago. He was a Chicago native but worked as a superintendent of a soap factory in 1907 in Somerville, Massachusetts when he married Georgiana Graham. Slack worked in New Orleans at the time of World War I as a superintendent of byproducts for the Southern Cotton Oil Company. The peripatetic Slack died in San Francisco.

Personal Bests: 100 – unknown; 200 – 22.0 (1900); 400 – unknown.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1900 Summer Olympics Athletics USA Henry Slack
100 metres, Men (Olympic) 3 h6 r1/3
400 metres, Men (Olympic) 3 h3 r1/2