Ralph Rose

This article is about the American athlete. For the German sports official, see Ralph Rose (sports official) .

Ralph Rose
Full name	Ralph Waldo Rose
nation	United States
birthday	March 17, 1884
place of birth	Healdsburg
size	195 cm
Weight	115 kg
date of death	October 16, 1913
Place of death	San Francisco
Career
discipline	Shot put , discus throw , hammer throw
Medal table
Olympic games 3 × 2 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold St. Louis 1904 Shot put silver St. Louis 1904 Discus throw bronze St. Louis 1904 Hammer throw gold London 1908 Shot put gold Stockholm 1912 Two-handed shot put silver Stockholm 1912 Shot put

Ralph Waldo Rose (born March 17, 1884 in Healdsburg , † October 16, 1913 in San Francisco ) was an American athlete .

Rose won the gold medal at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis as the youngest shot putter to date , with a new world record of 14.81 m. In addition, he won the silver medal in the discus throw and the bronze medal in the hammer throw . In the same year he lost his shot put world record to the Irishman Denis Horgan , but got it back in 1907. At the Olympic Games in London in 1908 , he repeated his Olympic victory in the shot put. He carried the US flag during the opening of the London Games and caused a diplomatic uproar because he was the only flag bearer of the ceremony to refuse to bow his country's flag to the British King. He had noticed that among the flags hoisted around the stadium, those of the United States were missing. In 1909 he was the first athlete to surpass the 50-foot mark with 51 feet (= 15.54 meters). This world record lasted 16 years. He won another two medals at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm , gold in the two-handed shot put and silver in the shot put.

In 1913, Rose fell ill with typhus and died at the age of 28. In 1976 he was posthumously inducted into the "Hall of Fame" of the US Athletics Federation.

Web links

• Ralph Rose in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )