Horace Ashenfelter

Horace Ashenfelter, 1952

Horace Ashenfelter III (born January 23, 1923 in Phoenixville , Pennsylvania , † January 6, 2018 in West Orange , New Jersey ) was an American athlete and Olympic champion .

biography

After military service during World War II and graduating from Pennsylvania State University , Ashenfelter took part in international track and field competitions from 1947 to 1956. In total, he won 15 AAU championship titles and three college championship titles.

Although he was one of the wider favorites at the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , Ashenfelter's victory in the 3,000-meter obstacle course was rather surprising. In the run-up to the race he ran a new American record, which he improved by almost six seconds in the final. He won ahead of the Russian Vladimir Kazantsev and improved his world record.

With a height of 1.78 m, his competition weight was 66 kg. He practiced pure interval training. and mostly trained with his brother Bill Ashenfelter , who was only a year younger than him, who trained with him in Penn State, also competed in the 1952 Olympic Games and was American cross-country champion in 1951 and American champion over 3000 meters in 1954. Horace worked for the FBI after graduating and started for the New York Athletic Club . After the end of his sporting career as a quasi state amateur in 1956, he switched to the metallurgy industry. Ashenfelter was most recently retired in New Jersey . The indoor athletics facility at Pennsylvania State University is named after him.

Web links

• Horace Ashenfelter in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horace Ashenfelter, Olympic Victor of a Cold War Showdown, Dies at 94
2. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in training systems for medium and long distance runners (1850–1997) . In: N. Gissel (Hrsg.): Sporting performance in change . Czwalina, Hamburg 1998, pp. 41-56.
3. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/as/bill-ashenfelter-1.html