Richmond Landon
American high jumper
 Richmond Landon in 1920 | ||||||||||||
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| Born | November 20, 1898 Salisbury, Connecticut, United States | |||||||||||
| Died | June 13, 1971 (aged 72) Lynbrook, New York, United States | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | Yale University | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
| Event | High jump | |||||||||||
| Club | NYAC, New York | |||||||||||
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| Personal best | 1.98 m (1921) | |||||||||||
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Richmond Wilcox "Dick" Landon (November 20, 1898 – June 13, 1971) was an American high jumper who won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics.[1][2]
Landon attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and Yale University. In 1922 he married Alice Lord, an Olympic diver he met on the boat to the 1920 Olympics.[1]
Richmond Landon was a guest on the television show "I've Got A Secret" as one of five former Olympic champions which aired October 13, 1954.
References
- ^ a b Dick Landon. sports-reference.com
- ^ "Richmond Landon". Olympedia. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Richmond Landon.
- Official Website of the Olympics
- Richmond Landon at databaseOlympics.com
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- 1896:
Ellery Harding Clark (USA) - 1900:
Irving Baxter (USA) - 1904: Samuel Jones (USA)
- 1908: Harry Porter (USA)
- 1912:
Alma Richards (USA) - 1920: Richmond Landon (USA)
- 1924: Harold Osborn (USA)
- 1928: Bob King (USA)
- 1932:
Duncan McNaughton (CAN) - 1936: Cornelius Johnson (USA)
- 1948:
John Winter (AUS) - 1952: Walt Davis (USA)
- 1956: Charles Dumas (USA)
- 1960:
Robert Shavlakadze (URS) - 1964: Valeriy Brumel (URS)
- 1968:
Dick Fosbury (USA) - 1972: Jüri Tarmak (URS)
- 1976:
Jacek Wszoła (POL) - 1980:
Gerd Wessig (GDR) - 1984:
Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) - 1988: Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS)
- 1992:
Javier Sotomayor (CUB) - 1996: Charles Austin (USA)
- 2000:
Sergey Klyugin (RUS) - 2004:
Stefan Holm (SWE) - 2008: Andrey Silnov (RUS)
- 2012: Erik Kynard (USA)
- 2016:
Derek Drouin (CAN) - 2020:
Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) - 2016:
Gianmarco Tamberi (ITA)
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