James Cohen

{{Short description|British athlete (1906–1958)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = James Cohen | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Athletics | event = long jump | club = University of Cambridge AC<br>Achilles Club | birth_date = 6 May 1906 | birth_place = Southwark, England | death_date = 14 March 1958 (aged 51) | death_place =Westminster, London England | height = | weight = | pb = | medaltemplates= {{MedalSport | Men's Athletics}} {{MedalCountry|{{ENG}}}} {{MedalCompetition|British Empire Games}} {{MedalSilver| 1930 Hamilton | 4×110 yards}} }}

'''Horace James Cohen''' (6 May 1906 – 14 March 1958) was an English athlete who competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/james-cohen-1.html |title=Profile |website=sports-reference.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103230015/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/james-cohen-1.html |archive-date=3 November 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/64826 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=5 January 2025}}</ref>

== Biography == Cohen was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000989/19261203/199/0010 |title=Oxford and Cambridge relay races |work=Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette |date=3 December 1926 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=18 April 2025}}</ref>

At the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. he finished 39th in the Olympic long jump event.

Cohen became the national long jump champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1929 AAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001034/19290707/331/0023 |title=Foreigners held at Bay |work=Reynolds's Newspaper |date=7 July 1929 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=5 January 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003213/19290708/303/0014 |title=AAA Championships |work=Daily News (London) |date=8 July 1929 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=5 January 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=5 January 2025 }}</ref>

At the 1930 British Empire Games he won the silver medal with the English relay team in the 4×110 yards competition. In the long jump contest he finished sixth.

He died in Westminster.

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