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Toggle Results subsection. 1.1 Round One. ... 1932: Competitors: 15 from 8 nations ... The Men's 3000 Metres Steeplechase event at the 1932 Summer Olympics was 3460 ...
Stubblefield was the first driver ever killed during a qualification attempt at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway when he and Leo Whitaker (his riding mechanic) struck a wall on a time trial run; both were killed. [3] At the time of the crash, their speed was about 116 miles per hour. [1] He is buried at Angeles Abbey Memorial Park, Compton ...
At the 1932 Olympic Games, he won the silver medal in the 3000 metre steeplechase event. Four years later at the 1936 Olympic Games, he was eliminated in the first round of the 3000 metre steeplechase competition. In 1934 he won the silver medal in the 2-mile steeplechase at the 1934 British Empire Games. [1]
At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, 29 athletics events were contested. It was the first time the 50 kilometres race walk appeared in the athletic program at the Games. This was the second time women's events in athletics were included in the Olympic Games program and the first time that women competed in the javelin throw and 80m ...
Clifton Burton "Coo Coo" Marlin (January 3, 1932 – August 14, 2005) was an American NASCAR Winston Cup driver who spent 14 years in the series. Local track history [ edit ]
At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, McCluskey won the bronze medal in the 3,000-meter steeplechase event.However, his medal could have been a silver. A substitute lap counter failed to hold up the number of the laps remaining the first time the runners went past, and the athletes wound up running an extra lap.
In flat racing he finished 4th in the 1928 running of the Belmont Stakes aboard Whisk Broom, owned by his uncle F. Ambrose Clark. [2] At Belmont Park in 1932 he became the second jockey (after Jockey W. C. ("Bill") Clancy in 1895) ever to ride a flat and steeplechase winner on the same day a feat which he repeated again within two weeks. [3]
Malloy drove in the USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1967–1972 seasons, with 61 career starts, including the 1968–1971 Indianapolis 500 races. In his Champ Car career, he finished in the top ten 23 times, with his best finish in 2nd position in 1969 at the Milwaukee Mile , driving for Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing in a substitute ...