Charles Edward Sands (December 22, 1865 – August 9, 1945) was an American golfer, tennis and real tennis player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1908 Summer Olympics.^[1][2]

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Charles Sands

Full name	Charles Edward Sands
Country (sports)	United States
Born	(1865-12-22)December 22, 1865 New York
Died	August 9, 1945(1945-08-09) (aged 79) Brookville, New York
Height	181 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro	1887 (amateur tour)
Retired	1911
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
US Open	QF (1894)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (1900)
Doubles
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	QF (1900)
Mixed doubles
Other mixed doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (1900)
Medal record Men's Golf Representing  United States Olympic Games 1900 Paris Individual

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Sands was educated at Columbia College, where he played tennis and golf, and graduated in 1887.^[3] He was posthumously inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018.^[4]

In 1900 he won the gold medal in the men's individual golf competition.

Sands also participated as tennis player in July 1890 he won the Northwestern Championships played at the Hotel St. Louis, Minnetonka, Minnesota. At the 1900 Olympics. In the singles tournament he was eliminated in the first round. He and his British partner Archibald Warden were also eliminated in the first round of the doubles event. Also the mixed doubles competition ended for him and his partner Georgina Jones after the first round.

Eight years later he was again eliminated in the first round this time from the real tennis tournament.