Richard Byrd (athlete)

Richard Byrd
Richard Byrd throwing a javelin (1912)
Full name	Richard Leslie Byrd
nation	United States
birthday	May 16, 1892
place of birth	Shiloh (Indiana),  USA
size	181 cm
Weight	88 kg
date of death	June 20, 1958
Career
discipline	Jumps from a standing position; Discus throw ; Javelin throw
Best performance	Discus throw: 43.84 m; Javelin throw: 39.57 m
society	Adrian College
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Stockholm 1912 Discus throw

Richard Byrd ( Richard Leslie "Dick" Byrd ; born May 16, 1892 in Shiloh , Boundary County , Idaho ; † June 20, 1958 ) was an American athlete .

He won silver in the discus throw at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. With a distance of 42.32 m he beat his compatriot James Duncan (42.28 m), who had recently set a world record with 47.58 m, but remained almost three meters behind the victorious Finn Armas Taipale (45.21 m) ). In the standing vault , Byrd was fourth, in the standing long jump eighth, and in the two-handed discus throw he came in 17th.

In 1919 he won silver in the discus throw at the Inter-Allied Games.

Web links

• Dick Byrd in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )