John Anderson (athlete)

John Anderson (athlete)
nation	United States
birthday	4th July 1907
place of birth	Cincinnati ,  USA
size	1.91 cm
Weight	97 kg
date of death	July 11, 1948
Place of death	Nankek
Career
discipline	Discus throw
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold 1932 Los Angeles discus

John Anderson ( John Franklin Anderson ; born July 4, 1907 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † July 11, 1948 in Nankek , Alaska ) was an American discus thrower .

Career

At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 , he was fifth. With its width of 44.87 m, it was more than two meters behind the medal ranks.

In his second Olympic start in Los Angeles in 1932 , he improved Bud Houser's Olympic record with 47.87 m in his first throw . With 48.86 m in the second attempt, 49.39 m in the third attempt and 49.49 m in the fourth attempt, he increased the Olympic record three times to then conclude his series with 48.72 m and 47.98 m. His four best attempts would have been enough to defeat his compatriot Henri LaBorde (48.47 m). The third American Paul Jessup , who had held the world record with 51.73 m since 1930, landed in eighth place with 45.25 m .

For the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin , Anderson could no longer qualify.

John Anderson was 1.91 m tall and weighed 97 kg during his playing days. During World War II he served in the US Navy in the Pacific, and after the war he became a navigation officer in a salmon fishing fleet. In 1948 he died of a fatal cerebral haemorrhage over 1,000 kilometers north of Anchorage .

literature

• Bill Mallon & Ian Buchanan: Quest for Gold. The Encyclopedia of American olympians. Leisure Press, New York NY 1984, ISBN 0-88011-217-4 .
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996. Full results from AOHNA. Athens to Atlanta track and fields athletics. Series 100 years of athletics in Germany. German Society for Athletics Documentation eV, Neuss 1999

Web links

• John Anderson in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Olympic port of the IOC, 1932 , p. 401, p. 415 the US participants, p. 467/468 all discus results and photos.