1964 | HP | |
---|---|---|
Men's Coxed Fours | 7th | 300 |
300 |
Olympic Competitor nr 4539
1972 | HP | |
---|---|---|
Men's Team | 16th | 3.2 |
3.2 |
1960 | HP | |
---|---|---|
Women's Individual | 10th | 150 |
150 |
1900 | HP | |
---|---|---|
Men's 60 metres | silver | 4000 |
Men's 100 metres | silver | 4000 |
Men's 200 metres | gold | 6400 |
Men's 200 m Hurdles | bronze | 2560 |
Men's 400 m Hurdles | gold | 6400 |
23360 |
He brought the ability of a top-class sprinter to the rather underdeveloped
400-metres hurdles, previously tought of as a European speciality.
After graduating from University in 1899 as a dentist, he returned to
Pennsylvania and would never have been heard of again, but for a piece of
coincidence. The US Olympic coach visited Tunckhannock in search of early
american glassware, of which the Tewksburies had a large collection.
He was unable to find a hurdles stretch near his home town so he trained
in the cemetary, hurdling over gravestones.
He would practice dentistry until 1946 and visited the Roma Olympics as a
tourist, aged 84.
Olympic Competitor nr 814
B. 1968-09-11, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, represented the
German DR in 1988
Boxing (1 gold, 1 silver)
1988 | 1992 | HP | |
---|---|---|---|
Flyweight | silver | 15600 | |
Featherweight | gold | ||
15600 |
Written 2000-12-14 - last modified 2021-11-02
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