{{Short description|British hurdler and sprinter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Use British English|date=August 2012}} {{Infobox sportsperson |name= Alfred Healey |image= |caption= |birth_date= 13 July 1879 |birth_place= Horncastle, England | death_date = 9 September 1960 (aged 81) | death_place = Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands |sport=Athletics |event=hurdles |club=Blackheath Harriers | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{GBR2}}}} {{MedalCompetition | Intercalated Games }} {{MedalSilver | 1906 Athens | 110 metre hurdles }} }}
'''Alfred Hearn Healey''' (13 July 1879 – 9 September 1960) was a British athlete in the 1906 Intercalated Games and the 1908 Summer Olympics.<ref name=oly>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69126 |title=Alfred Healey |work=Olympedia |access-date=9 March 2021}}</ref>
== Biography == Healey was the son of a Lincolnshire brewer and maltster and at the 1906 Intercalated Games, he competed for Great Britain in Athens, Greece, in the 110 metre hurdles, where he won the silver medal. He was eliminated in the semi-finals in the 100 metre event.<ref name=oly/>
Healey finished second behind Alexander Duncan in the 120 yards hurdles event at the 1907 AAA Championships<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000728/19070708/006/0006 |title=Champion athletes |work=Daily Record |date=8 July 1907 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/19070708/020/0002 |title=AAA Championships |work=Sporting Life |date=8 July 1907 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2024}}</ref>
Healey represented Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001055/19080612/073/0003 |title=The Olympic Games, British Representatives |work=The Sportsman |date=12 June 1908 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 April 2025}}</ref> where he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 110 metre hurdles competition.<ref name=oly/>
In 1909, he became the National 120 yards hurdles champion after winning the AAA Championships title at the 1909 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=19 August 2024}}</ref>
Healey became a schoolteacher in Northumbria and later served as president of Alnwick Harriers AC and vice-president of the Alnwick Swimming Association. In 1912, he emigrated to Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka) but died in Trinity, Jersey in the Channel Islands.<ref name=oly/>
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== External links == * {{databaseOlympics|HEALEALF01|archive=20121013042718}} * {{SR/Olympics|he/alfred-healey-1}} *{{sports links}}
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