David Kirkwood (Modern Pentathlete)
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David Arthur Kirkwood (born September 20, 1935 in Jackson , Mississippi , † January 2012 in Albuquerque , New Mexico ) was an American pentathlete and actor .
Career
In 1958, Kirkwood graduated from college with a teaching degree and joined the US Air Force . There he started the modern pentathlon and was allowed to train with the permission of the US Army at Fort Sam Houston for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome . Although he missed the qualification for the US squad mainly due to his lack of riding experience, but was allowed to stay at Fort Sam Houston and prepare for the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo .
This time he succeeded in qualifying and he confirmed his calling with a ninth place in the individual competition . In the team competition, to which James Moore and Paul Pesthy also contributed in addition to Kirkwood , he won the silver medal behind the Soviet Union. In the same year he was third in the US championships.
After his career as a modern pentathlon, he stayed with the Air Force for 20 years and was stationed in various bases in Europe and also had a mission in Vietnam . Two months after the 1964 Olympics, he married and had four children with his wife. In 1978 he left the Air Force with the rank of major and then worked as a teacher. After his divorce in 1990, Kirkwood moved to Los Angeles and began applying for film roles. He got smaller roles in Walker, Texas Ranger , Emergency Room - The Emergency Room and Behind the Moon Immediately Left, among others . In the early 2000s he moved to New Mexico , where he remarried and began writing a book on modern pentathlon. He died in Albuquerque in January 2012 and his book appeared posthumously two months later.
Web links
- David Kirkwood in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- David Kirkwood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Rob Fernas: The Right COMBINATION: Kirkwood, Who Helped US Capture Silver Medal in 1964, Laments Demise of Modern Pentathlon in Olympics. In: latimes.com. Los Angeles Times , August 21, 1997, accessed July 7, 2017 .
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| SURNAME | Kirkwood, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kirkwood, David Arthur (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pentathlete and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jackson , Mississippi , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 2012 |
| Place of death | Albuquerque , New Mexico , United States |