Background
Butler was born in Harrow, Middlesex, and attended the local Harrow School, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and the Trinity College, Cambridge.
journalist athletics competitor
Butler was born in Harrow, Middlesex, and attended the local Harrow School, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and the Trinity College, Cambridge.
His father also attended the Harrow School and competed in cricket and athletics at the national level
With four Olympic medals Guy Butler shares the British record for athletics with Sebastian Coe. In 1928 he became the first British track and field athlete to compete in three Olympics. He reached a 200 m quarterfinal, and retired shortly thereafter.
He also ran the 300 yd (270 m) world record of 30.6 in 1926.
In retirement, Butler was a schoolmaster, then an athletics journalist, and a pioneer of filming athletes in action. He contributed to the design of the White City Stadium and worked as the athletics correspondent for The Morning Post until it was merged with The Daily Telegraph in 1937.
At the Antwerp Olympics in 1920, Butler won the silver medal in the individual 400 m and anchored the British 4 × 400 m relay team to a gold medal in 3:22.2. At the 1924 Summer Olympics, he won bronze in the 400 m and again anchored the British 4 × 400 m relay team, this time winning bronze in 3:17.4. Butler won the British American Automobile Association Championships in 440 yd (400 m) in 1919 and in 220 yd (200 m) in 1926.
