Walter Ashbaugh
Walter Stuart "Walt" Ashbaugh (March 11, 1929, in East Liverpool, Ohio – April 3, 2003, in Toledo, Ohio) was an American track and field athlete and basketball player.
Athletic career
[edit | edit source]Running for Cornell University, he competed in the 120 yard high hurdles in which he held the school record.[1] He was also a pivotman on the basketball team, during their most successful 1950–1 season with a 20–5 record.[2]
He competed in the triple jump at the 1952 Olympics, finishing fourth. His second round jump of 15.39 m (50 ft 5+3⁄4 in) put him into the bronze medal position until Soviet Leonid Shcherbakov leaped into silver medal position, pushing Ashbaugh off the podiumm.[3] Earlier that year, he was also the National Champion in the event, breaking Gay Bryan's 4-year streak.[4]
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- 1929 births
- 2003 deaths
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American men's basketball players
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Cornell Big Red men's basketball players
- Cornell Big Red men's track and field athletes
- Olympic track and field athletes for the United States
- Sportspeople from East Liverpool, Ohio
- Track and field athletes from Ohio
- American track and field athletics biography stubs