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| show-medals = yes }} Harold Kingsford Brainsby (5 December 1910 – 3 April 1975) was a New Zealand field athlete who won a bronze medal in the triple jump at the 1934 British Empire Games in London. ==Biography== Born in Handsworth on the outskirts of Birmingham, England, in 1910, Brainsby was the son of Edith Anna (née Kingsford) and Arthur Todd Brainsby, a Baptist minister. The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1911. Brainsby studied at Auckland University College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1934, and a Bachelor of Laws and Diploma of Journalism in 1938. Brainsby competed for New Zealand at the 1934 British Empire Games, where he won the bronze medal in the triple jump, with a distance of . He also competed in the long jump, finishing in seventh place with a leap of . He won the triple jump title at the national athletics championships in 1934 and 1935, and was second in the same event but the leading New Zealander (behind Japanese athlete Kenshi Togami) in 1937. Following a career as a journalist for the ''Auckland Star'', in 1952 he joined the Highland Park law firm of Melville Churton, which, in 1962, became Churton Brainsby & Hart. Brainsby died in 1975 and he was cremated at Purewa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harold Brainsby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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