General Charles Edward
Sands
Male
United States of America
1865-12-22
New York, United States of America
1945-08-09
Brookville, New York, United States of America


About

Charles Sands is one of only two American men to have competed in three different Olympic sports (The other is Frank Kugler in athletics, weightlifting, and wrestling – Sheila Taormina also accomplished this in swimming, triathlon, and modern pentathlon). In October 1900, Sands shot rounds of 81-84 to win the first Olympic golf championship. He probably didn’t care as golf was not his favorite, or best, sport, even though he had finished second in the first U.S. Amateur ever held – in 1895.

Charles Sands was primarily a court tennis player. He was the only American to win the Racquette d’Or, which he received at the Tuileries Gardens in Paris in 1899 and 1900. In 1905 he won his only American championship in court tennis, although by then he was a three-time winner of the Racquette d’Or. In 1908, court tennis was an Olympic sport, under the original French name of jeu de paume. Sands played, but lost in the first round. It was not his first appearance in Olympic tennis. In 1900, while he had been in Paris for the Racquette d’Or competition, he had played in the Olympic lawn tennis event, but lost in the early rounds. Sands only other lawn tennis result of note was making the quarter-finals of the men’s singles at the 1894 US Championships.

Sands was a US national in 1900 but entered the tennis events while representing Tennis Club de Puteaux of France. In golf he played out of the St. Andrews Golf Club in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.



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Archive statistics 1886 - 1911
7
70
31


Tournament wins 1894 - Hudson River Championships (Amateur)
1894 - Amackassin Club Invitation (Amateur)
1891 - Middle States Championships (Amateur)
1890 - Northwestern Championships (Amateur)
1890 - Maplewood Hotel amateur Tournament (Amateur)
1889 - Hudson River Championships (Amateur)
1889 - New Hamburg (Amateur)


Tournaments US Open - 1911 US Open - 1910 US Open - 1909 US Open - 1908 US Open - 1907 US Open - 1905 US Open - 1904 US Open Consolation - 1904 US Open - 1903 US Open - 1902 French National Championships - 1902 US Open - 1901 Olympics, Olympic Games - 1900 European Championship - 1900 Oostende - 1900 French National Championships - 1900 French National Championships - 1898 US Open - 1895 US Open - 1894 Hudson River Championships - 1894 US Open - 1893 Middle States Championships - 1892 Seabright Invitational - 1892 Westchester - 1892 Middle States Championships - 1891 US Open - 1890 Westchester - 1890 Waterbury Cup - 1890 Hudson River Championships - 1890 US Open Consolation - 1890 Northwestern Championships - 1890 Maplewood Hotel amateur Tournament - 1890 US Open - 1889 Middle States Championships - 1889 Intercollegiate Championships - 1889 Middle States Championships - 1888 Westchester - 1888 Orange Spring Tournament - 1888 Rockaway Hunting Club - 1888 Westchester - 1887 Intercollegiate Championships - 1886

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