Henry Leeke

Henry Alan Leeke (15 November 1879 – 29 May 1915) was a British track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Biography Leeke was the only son of Henry Leeke, also an athlete, and grandson of William Leeke, a Waterloo veteran. He was born in Weston, Staffordshire.

As his father did before him, Leeke represented Cambridge University in the hammer and shot put and was English Amateur Champion for both events. He was associated with the London Athletic Club. and finished runner-up behind Tom Nicolson in the hammer throw at the 1903 AAA Championships. He won the hammer throw at the 1906 AAA Championships.

One of the first British athletes to throw the discus, he set a British record in 1908. and placed in charge of machine guns for D Company, 9th Battalion. He died of fever at the Thornhill Isolation Hospital, Aldershot on 29 May 1915 aged 35.