Bruce Harlan

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Bruce Ira Harlan (born January 2, 1926 in Marple Newtown , Pennsylvania , † June 22, 1959 in Norwalk , Connecticut ) was an American diver who was Olympic champion in jumping in 1948.

After high school, Harlan joined the US Navy in 1944. As a member of the training center in Jacksonville, Florida, he won the first of a total of eight AAU championship titles. After completing his military service, he studied at Ohio State University and won a total of five NCAA titles. At the 1948 Olympic Games in London, he won the jumping competition. In diving he won silver behind his compatriot Samuel Lee .

After the end of his sporting career, Harlan became a coach and from 1954 was part of the coaching staff of the University of Michigan , the then leading US university in diving. One of his students was the later two-time Olympic champion Robert Webster . Bruce Harlan did not live to see his first Olympic victory in 1960. He died in 1959 when he fell from a scaffold after a show jumping while dismantling the diving tower. In 1973 he was inducted into the international swimming pool 's hall of fame .

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SURNAME Harlan, Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harlan, Bruce Ira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diver
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Marple Newtown , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1959
Place of death Norwalk (Connecticut)