Bud Houser

Bud Houser
Full name	Lemuel Clarence Houser
nation	United States
birthday	September 25, 1901
place of birth	Winigan
size	167 cm
Weight	64 kg
date of death	October 1, 1994
Place of death	Gardena
Career
discipline	Shot put , discus throw
society	Los Angeles Athletic Club
Medal table
Olympic games 3 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Paris 1924 Shot put gold Paris 1924 Discus throw gold Amsterdam 1928 Discus throw

Bud Houser (actually Lemuel Clarence Houser ; born September 25, 1901 in Winigan , Missouri , † October 1, 1994 in Gardena , California ) was an American discus thrower and Olympic champion .

Career

Bud Houser 1928

From 1921 to 1928 he always occupied one of the top places in the world's annual best list. He only achieved first place in 1926 when he set a world record on April 3 in Palo Alto with 48.20 m. This achievement should remain his best. In the shot put Houser was from 1924 to 1926 second in the world annual best list, his best performance was 15.42 m.

At the Olympic Games in 1924 he won two Olympic gold medals with 14,995 in the shot put and with 46,155 in the discus throw . In the history of the Olympic Games, only Robert Garrett in 1896 and Martin Sheridan achieved this double victory at the Olympic Intermediate Games in 1906. At the Olympic Games in 1928 , Houser was again Olympic champion in the discus throw with 47.32 .

After finishing his sporting career, Houser worked as a dentist in Palm Springs .

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics . Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV

Web links

• Bud Houser in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )