Marshall Wayne

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Marshall Wayne Diving
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Personal information
Nationality: United StatesUnited States United States
Discipline (s) : Art, diving
Society: Biltmore Athletic Club
Birthday: May 25, 1912
Place of birth: St. Louis , Missouri
Date of death: June 16, 1999
Place of death: Hendersonville , North Carolina
Medals

Marshall Wayne (born May 25, 1912 in St. Louis , Missouri , † June 16, 1999 in Hendersonville , North Carolina ) was an American diver . His greatest success was winning the gold medal in high diving at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin .

Life

Success at the national level

Marshall Wayne grew up in Miami , where he turned to swimming and diving as a teenager. While he was still a promising diver in high school, he moved to the College of the University of Miami . There, compared to other water divers, the very tall, blonde Wayne developed into a top athlete in this discipline and was able to win numerous competitions in water jumping. He was a member of the Biltmore Athletic Club in Miami and was trained by Don Grubbs .

Wayne first drew attention to himself in early April 1933 at the AAU Championships in New York , where he finished second behind Richard Degener . In mid-July of the same year he won his first AAU title in Chicago from the 3-meter board and from then on competed repeatedly with Degener for wins from the 3-meter board or 10-meter tower. There was a close duel between the two at the AAU championships at the beginning of April 1934 in Columbus (Ohio) , where Degener's victory with a 0.26 point lead was only decided at the last jump. Three months later, Wayne won the competition from the 10-meter tower in Chicago in front of Degener. At the AAU Open Air Championships in Detroit in 1935, Wayne was defeated in the two competitions Degener, with both separating only 0.20 points in high diving.

Olympic victory and change to the professional camp

In the Olympic year 1936 Wayne finished in mid-June at the championships of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) in Des Moines only a fifth place from the 3-meter board, but won the competition in high diving in front of Elbert Root and Frank Kurtz . He was then appointed to the US national team for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin together with Degener, Al Greene , Root and Kurtz. There he competed in art and high diving .

In artificial jumping from the 3-meter board, which was held on August 10 and 11, 1936, the participants had to complete five compulsory and five freely selectable jumps. Wayne won the silver medal four points behind Richard Degener. In the competition from the 10-meter tower that took place from August 14th to 15th, the athletes also had to complete five compulsory and freestyle jumps. In the absence of Degener, Wayne won the gold medal with 113.58 points ahead of his compatriot Elbert Root and the German Hermann Stork . He had already dominated the preliminary fight with 46.65 points ahead of the German Erhard Weiß and Stork. Chancellor Adolf Hitler received the Olympic champion, but is said to have been upset about Wayne's victory and to have expressed this openly. The US athletes dominated the water jumping competitions: they provided all four Olympic champions and won a total of ten out of twelve possible medals.

Back in the United States, Wayne was proposed because of his success for the James E. Sullivan Trophy of the AAU, but which was awarded to the decathlon Olympic champion Glenn Morris . That same year, the Americans signed a professional contract with the Boston Sports Promoter Sam Snyder and took with such well-known colleagues such as Johnny Weissmuller , Eleanor Holm , Buster Crabbe and Esther Williams to that of Billy Rose organized outdoor show aquacade ( Cleveland 1937, New York 1939 San Francisco 1940). As a photo model, he also promoted the Camel cigarette brand in the late 1930s .

Activity as a pilot and private life

In World War II returned Wayne as Colonel of the US Army Air Corps to Europe. His plane was shot down over Italy and he survived the crash with serious injuries to one of his legs. Rescued by Italian civilians, he was taken to a British unit and from there transferred to England. The torn ligaments and tendons were treated there, and his muscle injuries were later treated at the Biltmore Hospital in Miami.

Despite his war injuries, Marshall Wayne later worked as a flight captain for Pan American World Airways . He retired in 1972 and moved to Hendersonville, North Carolina to live closer to his sister. Wayne was married to the actress Lucia Robinson († 1999) until 1952, whom he met in 1939 at Aquacade . The connection resulted in two daughters.

In 1981 Wayne was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame for Diving Diver. In 1996, the 85-year-old worked for the Atlanta Olympic Committee in the Hendersonville area as part of the Atlanta Summer Olympics , which included an appearance at a parade. In 1999, Wayne was in the process of writing a book when he suffered a cerebral haemorrhage and later died in Hendersonville's Pardee Hospital at the age of 87.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c cf. Marshall Wayne in the International Swimming Hall of Fame , accessed April 22, 2011
  2. ↑ a b c cf. Marshall Wayne . In: Biography Resource Center Online. Gale Group, 1999 (accessed August 15, 2010).
  3. ↑ cf. Become, Lincoln A .: Spences Capture Fourth Swim Title . In: The New York Times , April 2, 1933, p. 6.
  4. ↑ cf. AP : Flanagan and Leonard Spence Set Records In Capturing US Swim Titles at Chicago . In: The New York Times, July 15, 1933, p. 7.
  5. ↑ cf. Jack Medica Victorious in 500-yard free style . In: Los Angeles Times , April 8, 1934, p. D1.
  6. ↑ cf. Great Aquatic Ace Triumphs Din Half-Mile: Detroix Annexes Team Title . In: Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1934, p. 11.
  7. ↑ cf. Detroit AC Wins AAU Swim Title . In: The New York Times, July 8, 1935. p. 22.
  8. ↑ cf. Third US Swim Title Taken by Flanagan as Records Fall . In: The New York Times, June 22, 1936, p. 28.
  9. ↑ cf. Complete Roster of American Olympic Reams . In: The New York Times, July 15, 1936. p. 22.
  10. ↑ cf. Summaries in Olympics . In: The New York Times, Aug. 15, 1936, p. 7.
  11. ↑ a b cf. Marshall Wayne, 87, Olympian Who Riled Hitler in '36 Games . In: The New York Times, June 30, 1999, Section B, p. 9.
  12. ↑ cf. Morris had Edge for AAU Trophy . In: The New York Times, October 22, 1936, p. 34.
  13. ↑ cf. Wayne, Olympic Diving Star, Signs for Pro Tour . In: The Washington Post , October 28, 1936, p. 24.
  14. ↑ cf. Advertisement in the Washington Post, June 7, 1937, p. 22 and in the New York Times, July 25, 1938, p. 30.
  15. ↑ cf. AP: Medal-winning diver in Berlin Olympics, Marshall Wayne, dies . June 29, 1999, BC cycle (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  16. ↑ cf. Cowen, Richard: Secret Camera Yields A Priceless Legacy . In: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) January 17, 1999, p. A01.
personal data
SURNAME Wayne, Marshall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diver
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1999
Place of death Hendersonville , North Carolina