Sam Hall (diver)

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Personal information
Surname: Samuel Wesley Hall
Nationality: United StatesUnited States United States
Discipline (s) : Art, diving
Society: WBNS Swim Club
Birthday: March 10, 1937
Place of birth: Dayton , Ohio
Date of death: 11th August 2014
Place of death: Florida
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Samuel "Sam" Wesley Hall (born March 10, 1937 in Dayton , Ohio , † August 11, 2014 in Florida ) was an American diver .

family

Sam Hall was born in Dayton , Ohio in 1937 to Ann and Dave Hall. He still had two brothers. His father was Mayor of Dayton from 1965 to 1970, his brother Tony Hall was a member of the House of Representatives from 1979 to 2002 and was then active in the diplomatic service. During his political career he campaigned strongly for East Timor during the occupation by Indonesia .

Career

It was clear early in his school days that Hall was a great talent. During his time at Ohio State University, he practiced four sports at the same time and showed outstanding achievements. However, this left him with a decision to pursue a career in athletics or diving. The greater chance of success moved him to concentrate on diving. In 1959 and 1960, Sam won various titles at the Big Ten Conference championships, NCAA championships and AAU competitions .

At the Pan American Games in 1959, Hall was able to win the silver medal from the 3-meter board. He did the same in 1960: At the Summer Olympics in Rome , he finished second behind Gary Tobian and thus also brought home silver.

After the 1960 games, he enrolled in the US Army and continued to be active in sports before a knee injury forced him to retire.

Next life

In 1968 he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives. But since he found this work “mostly boring”, he turned to other topics. The assassination in the Olympics , but also the desire to repent for his behavior during a long period of drug addiction, led him to enroll with the Multinational Force and Observers , an international peacekeeping force that was supposed to secure the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel . Here he was trained in counter-terrorism by Israeli experts .

He used the knowledge he gained there in various assignments in the years that followed. In one of these, he was captured by Sandinista in Nicaragua in 1986 and interrogated and tortured as a spy. In an interview he described himself as a member of the Phoenix Battalion, a kind of American Foreign Legion, of which he was the last member. After 49 days, Hall was released and expelled to the United States.

Hall wrote a book about his time after his career called Counter-Terrorist , in which he gave his views on that time.

He died in Florida on August 11, 2014 at the age of 77.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olympic medalist and spy suspect Sam Hall dies at 77th Tampa Bay Times, September 5, 2014, accessed May 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ sports referemce - Sam Hall. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Sam Hall, Olympic medalist, former Dayton state lawmaker, dies at 77th Dayton Daily News, August 13, 2014, accessed May 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b IACSP - Sam Hall. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ MISSIONS IMPROBABLE, BUT IN SAM HALL`S MIND, HE`SA REAL-LIFE. Chicago Tribune, December 15, 1985, accessed May 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Sam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hall, Samuel Wesley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diver
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Dayton , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH 11th August 2014
Place of death Florida