11 Facts About Ed Hamm

Edward Barton Hamm was an American athlete, who won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, becoming the first Arkansan to win a gold medal.

Ed Hamm was the oldest of five brothers and one sister.

Ed Hamm won the state 220-yard dash all three years and the state 100-yard dash twice, despite attacks of malaria, which first affected him in his junior year and undoubtedly prevented him from bettering his records.

Ed Hamm won first in the 100-yard dash, the 200-yard dash, the long jump, and the high jump, as well as finishing third place in the 440.

Ed Hamm failed to qualify for the Olympics, but the next year he went to Little Rock, regularly bringing Quigley two to five dollars until he repaid the money.

At Georgia Tech, Ed Hamm won the Southeast Conference championship in 100 yd and 220 yd sprints and the long jump three years straight.

Ed Hamm graduated from Georgia Tech in 1928, served as the school's track coach for a few years, and then spent the rest of his life in private business, much of it as an executive with Coca-Cola on the West Coast and in Alaska.

Ed Hamm was married three times, and died in June 1982 in Oregon.

Ed Hamm's ashes were scattered over his beloved Clear Lake in Oregon's Willamette National Forest, where he had fished many times.

Ed Hamm was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1971, and the Arkansas Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1996.

Ed Hamm donated his trophies to Georgia Tech in 1970 which were displayed in the Student Center on campus.