Jim Fox

athletics
bronze	1948	Shot put
bronze	1952	Shot put

Jim Fuchs (actually James Emanuel Fuchs ) (born December 6, 1927 in Chicago , † October 8, 2010 in Manhattan ) was an American shot putter who was successful between 1948 and 1952. He broke four world records, won two Olympic bronze medals and remained unbeaten in 88 competitions in a row. He started for Yale University .

successes

• International

  1948 Olympic Games in London: Bronze with 16.42 m behind his compatriots Wilbur Thompson with 17.12 m and Jim Delaney with 16.68 m

  1951 Pan American Games in Buenos Aires: Gold

  1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki: Bronze with 17.06 m behind his compatriots Parry O'Brien with 17.41 m and Darrow Hooper with 17.39 m

• National titles

  1949: IC4A and NCAA champion; AAU champion outdoors

  1950: IC4A, NCAA champion; AAU champion outdoors and indoors

  1951: AAU Champion Halle

  1952: AAU Champion Halle

• World records

  58 '4 ½' '(= 17.79 m) in June 1949 in Oslo (improvement of the previous record of his fellow countryman Charles Fonville by 11 cm)

  58 '5 ½' '(= 17.82 m) on April 29, 1950 in Oslo

  58 '8 ¾' '(= 17.90 m) on August 20, 1950 in Visby

  58 '10 ¾' '(= 17.95 m) on August 22, 1950 in Eskilstuna (This record was improved three years later by Parry O'Brien to exactly 18.00 m.)

Web links

• Jim Fuchs in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Entry in the Hall of Fame by USATF
• James E. Fuchs, Shot-Put Innovator, Dies at 82 , Douglas Martin's obituary in the New York Times , October 17, 2010
• Shot Put ace Fuchs dies at 82 ( memento from October 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), obituary on the IAAF website, October 18, 2010