Edgar Mountain

British middle-distance runner

Edgar Mountain
Personal information
Edgar Mountain in 1921
Born	2 April 1901 Camberwell, London, Great Britain
Died	30 April 1985 (aged 84) Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	60 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	800 m
Club	Surrey AC, Kingston-upon-Thames; University of Cambridge
Achievements and titles
Personal best	800 m – 1:53.8e (1920)^[1]^[2]

Edgar Donald Mountain (2 April 1901 – 30 April 1985) was a British middle-distance runner.^[3] He competed in the 800 m event at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics and finished fourth in 1920, setting a British junior record.^[1]

After the 1924 Olympics Mountain settled in South Africa and later became a specialist in South African geological formations and professor at Rhodes University. He discovered several minerals, and one them, mountainite, bears his name.^[1]

Mountain was educated at Sutton Valence School.^[4]