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Men's 3000 metres steeplechase. at the Games of the X Olympiad ... Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: Dates: August 1 and August 2, 1932: Competitors: 15 from 8 nations ...
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 ...
Initially he rode to victory at Belmont Park aboard Thomas Hitchcock's Silverskin in a steeplechase and Latin Stables' Ha Ha in a flat race on the same day. Then repeated the feat two weeks later in the Metropolitan Driving Club, a 1-1/16-mi. flat race on J. F. Byers' Glaneur then won the Chamblet Memorial steeplechase on Mrs. Ambrose Clark's ...
The 36-year-old professional race car driver hit a wall but died of a heart attack. [121] Hal Shuster (USA) [122] June 6, 1992 30-lap race Cajon Speedway: Feature race Winston Racing Series (Sportsman Stock) Having stopped in the pits, the 49-year-old transmissions seller had a fatal diabetic seizure. [122] Edward Maness (USA) [123] July 10, 1993
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, 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.
Bailey finished second behind Thomas Evenson in the steeplechase event at the 1931 AAA Championships [6] [7] and 1932 AAA Championships. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Shortly afterwards he was selected to represent Great Britain at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , where he finished fifth in the 3000 metre steeplechase event and in the 5000 metres ...
Years won: 1930, 1931, 1932, 1947. Joe McCluskey was an American Olympic bronze medalist in the 1932 steeplechase who is recognized for winning the race four times. His brother John was the winner of the first race held in 1927. Joe's final Manchester Road Race victory came in 1947, 17 years after his first.