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{{Short description|Irish American athlete}}
[[File:Frank Riley 1910 Hassan card front.jpg|thumb|right|Frank Riley, wearing the 'Winged Fist' of the [[Irish American Athletic Club]], from the 1910 Hassan Cigarettes trading card.]]
'''Frank Nicholas Riley''' (July 3, 1887 &ndash; October 30, 1950) was an American [[Athletics (sport)|athlete]], and member of the [[Irish American Athletic Club]]. He was a member of the U.S. Olympic team in the [[1908 Summer Olympics]] in [[London]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78951 |title=Frank Riley |work=Olympedia |access-date=7 March 2021}}</ref>
"He ran third in the 1,500 meter run at the Olympic try-outs held in Franklin Fielid, Philadelphia, but did not place in the finals in London. At the Metropolitan A.A.U. Junior championships Riley won the mile title and later in the year ran a slashing race in the 880 yard Canadian championship, taking second place and forcing [[Emilio Lunghi]] to break the record. Riley was a prominent member of the Thirteenth Regiment A.A. and competed successfully on their relay team."<ref>[http://www.wingedfist.com/riley.html 1910 Hassan Cigarettes trading card.]</ref>
In the [[1908 Summer Olympics]] - [[1500 meters]], Riley did not finish his initial semifinal heat and did not advance to the final.
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==References==
*{{cite book |author=Cook, Theodore Andrea |title=The Fourth Olympiad London 1908 Official Report |publisher=[[British Olympic Association]] |location= London |date=May 1909 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1908/1908.pdf |accessdate=2008-12-29}}
* {{cite web | last = De Wael | first = Herman | year = 2001 | url = http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/ath1908.html | title = Athletics 1908 | work = Herman's Full Olympians | accessdate = 30 July 2006 | archive-date = 27 September 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060927093153/http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/ath1908.html | url-status = dead }}
* {{cite book | last = Greenberg | first = Stan | year = 1987 | title = Olympic Games: The Records | publisher = Guinness Books | location = London | isbn = 0-85112-896-3 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/olympicgamesreco00gree }}
* {{cite book | last = Kieran | first = John | year = 1977 | title = The Story of the Olympic Games; 776 B.C. to 1976 | publisher = J.B. Lippincott Company | location = Philadelphia and New York | isbn = 0-397-01168-7 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/storyofolympicga0000kier_j1r1 }}
* {{cite web|last=Wudarski |first=Pawel |year=1999 |url=http://olympic.w.interia.pl/ |title=Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich |accessdate=30 July 2006 |language=pl |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216130930/http://olympic.w.interia.pl/ |archivedate=16 February 2009 }}
==External links==
*[http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/aia/primarydocs/iaac/iaac01.htm Archives of Irish America - NYU]
*[http://www.wingedfist.org Winged Fist Organization]
*{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ri/frank-riley-1.html |title=Frank Riley |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130205022252/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ri/frank-riley-1.html |archive-date=2013-02-05 |url-status=dead}}
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[[Category:1887 births]]
[[Category:1950 deaths]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1908 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic track and field athletes for the United States]]
[[Category:American male middle-distance runners]]