Lee Barnes
American athletics competitor
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1906-07-16)July 16, 1906 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | December 28, 1970(1970-12-28) (aged 64) | ||||||||||||||
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Lee Stratford Barnes (July 16, 1906 – December 28, 1970) was an American athlete from Utah who competed in the men's pole vault. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and died in Oxnard, California.[1]
Barnes attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.[2] He competed in Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and won gold, beating fellow American pole vaulter Glenn Graham, who received silver.
Barnes has the honor of being the only known stunt double for silent film star Buster Keaton during Keaton's independent years of film making. In Keaton's 1927 feature College, Barnes performed a pole vault through an open upper-story window.[3]
References
- ^ "Lee Barnes". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- ^ USC OLYMPIANS: 1904-2008, USC Trojans Athletic Department, Accessed August 13, 2008.
- ^ A Trojan Olympic Miscellany Archived 2012-08-26 at the Wayback Machine, USC web site, accessed October 17, 2013 (The source erroneously credits Barnes with doubling during a running sequence.)
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lee Barnes". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lee Barnes.
- Official video of Lee Barnes at the 1924 Olympics on YouTube
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Preceded by Sabin Carr | Men's Pole Vault World Record Holder April 28, 1928 – July 16, 1932 | Succeeded by |
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Olympic champions in men's pole vault
- 1896:
William Hoyt (USA) - 1900:
Irving Baxter (USA) - 1904: Charles Dvorak (USA)
- 1908: Edward Cook (USA)
1908: Alfred Gilbert (USA) - 1912:
Harry Babcock (USA) - 1920: Frank Foss (USA)
- 1924: Lee Barnes (USA)
- 1928: Sabin Carr (USA)
- 1932: Bill Miller (USA)
- 1936: Earle Meadows (USA)
- 1948: Guinn Smith (USA)
- 1952: Bob Richards (USA)
- 1956: Bob Richards (USA)
- 1960:
Don Bragg (USA) - 1964: Fred Hansen (USA)
- 1968: Bob Seagren (USA)
- 1972:
Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) - 1976:
Tadeusz Ślusarski (POL) - 1980:
Władysław Kozakiewicz (POL) - 1984:
Pierre Quinon (FRA) - 1988:
Sergey Bubka (URS) - 1992:
Maksim Tarasov (EUN) - 1996: Jean Galfione (FRA)
- 2000: Nick Hysong (USA)
- 2004: Timothy Mack (USA)
- 2008:
Steve Hooker (AUS) - 2012: Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)
- 2016:
Thiago Braz da Silva (BRA) - 2020:
Armand Duplantis (SWE)
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