# Henry Ashington

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{{short description|English athlete}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2024}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
|name= Henry Ashington
|image=
|caption=
|birth_date= 25 September 1891
|birth_place= [Southport](/source/Southport), England
| death_date = 31 January 1917 (aged 25)
| death_place = near Combles, Somme, France
|sport=Athletics
|event= long jump / triple jump
|club= University of Cambridge AC
}}

'''Henry Sherard Osborn Ashington''' (25 September 1891<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=310| title= Henry Sherard Osborn Ashington - Olympic Record| publisher=British Olympic Association}}</ref> &ndash; 31 January 1917) was an English [track and field athlete](/source/Track_and_field)<ref>
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: Henry Sherard O Ashington; Apr-May-Jun quarter 1891; District: Ormskirk; Volume: 8b; Page: 813.</ref> who competed in the [1912 Summer Olympics](/source/1912_Summer_Olympics).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68849 |title=Henry Ashington |work=Olympedia |access-date=28 April 2021}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Ashington was born in 1891 in [Southport](/source/Southport), [Lancashire](/source/Lancashire), the son of Sherard and Lydia Ashington. His father was a solicitor.

Ashington finished second behind Percy Kirwan in the long jump event at the [1912 AAA Championships](/source/1912_AAA_Championships).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19120624/214/0014 |title=Athletic Championship |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer  |date=24 June 1912 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 November 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003329/19120624/106/0004 |title=Amateur Athletic Championship  |work=Leicester Evening Mail |date=24 June 1912  |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 November 2024 }}</ref><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=16 November 2024 }}</ref>

Shortly after the 1912 AAA Championships, he finished tenth in the [long jump competition](/source/Athletics_at_the_1912_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men's_long_jump) and 15th in the [standing long jump event](/source/Athletics_at_the_1912_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men's_standing_long_jump) at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden.<ref name="Henry Ashington">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/as/henry-ashington-1.html |title=Henry Ashington |accessdate=3 August 2015 |work=Sports Reference |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801182630/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/as/henry-ashington-1.html |archivedate=1 August 2015 }}</ref>

Ashington was killed in action, aged 25, during the [First World War](/source/First_World_War),<ref name="WWI">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=3 August 2015 |work=Sports Reference |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107022804/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archivedate=7 November 2014 }}</ref> serving as a captain with the [East Yorkshire Regiment](/source/East_Yorkshire_Regiment) near [Combles](/source/Combles). He was buried in the Combles Communal Cemetery nearby.<ref name="CWGC">[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/591609 Ashington, Henry], ''Commonwealth War Graves Commission'', Retrieved 14 September 2008</ref>

== See also ==
* [List of Olympians killed in World War I](/source/List_of_Olympians_killed_in_World_War_I)

== References ==
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== External links ==
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