About Alf Davies
Lived 1882 – 1922 (aged 39–40). Alf Davies was a swimmer.
Alfred Davies (1882 – 14 July 1922) was an English swimmer and water polo player who specialised in the breaststroke and competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Biography Davies was born in London, England and was a member of the Polytechnic Swimming Club. He played water polo for Polytechnic and Middlesex.
He finished runner-up in the Olympic trials at Kentish Town and White City, as part of the Great Britain team in the 1908 Olympic Games in London, where he competed in the men's 200 metre breaststroke event. In May 1909, he swam of scratch in the Dr. Denis Whittle 110 yards handicap race in the Serpentine.
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Who was Alf Davies?
British swimmer and water polo player
When was Alf Davies born?
Alf Davies was born in 1882.
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Alf Davies died on 14 July 1922.
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Alf Davies was a swimmer.
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