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| Born | June 27, 1939 Fairfax, Oklahoma, United States | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sports shooting | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Trap Shooting | ||||||||||||||
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William Morris (born June 27, 1939) is an American sports shooter and was an officer in the United States Army when he won the bronze medal in the 1964 Summer Olympics. [1] [2] This was the first medal won in this sport for the US in 40 years. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma.
Glenn Edgar Morris was a U.S. track and field athlete. He won a gold medal in the Olympic decathlon in 1936, setting new world and Olympic records. He attended Colorado A&M — now known as Colorado State University — and played football as well as track and field. He was also an occasional actor, he portrayed Tarzan in Tarzan's Revenge.
Morris Marshall Kirksey was an American track and field athlete and rugby union footballer who won two gold medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He is one of the few athletes to win gold medals in two different Olympic sports.
Jesse William Mashburn is an American former athlete, winner of gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He is also a homebuilder.
Devon Morris is a retired Jamaican sprinter who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He won this distance at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships, and his personal best time was 45.49 seconds, achieved during the 1987 World Championships. At the 1988 Summer Olympics he won a silver medal with the Jamaican team in 4 x 400 metres relay. He was an Earl Mellis Former Olympic Sprinter. Devon Morris is currently working as the Facility Director at Jubilee World.
The United States competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The Americans finished second in the medal table behind the hosts. 359 competitors, 313 men and 46 women, took part in 127 events in 21 sports.
Charles William Morris was a British featherweight boxer who competed in the early twentieth century. He won a silver medal in Boxing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Ronald Hugh Morris is a retired American track and field athlete who won the national title in pole vault in 1958, 1961 and 1962. He placed fourth at the 1959 Pan American Games and second at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Morris vaulted 15'-0" June 1971 for a Masters M35 World Record at the 1971 Los Angeles Senior Olympics. After retiring from competitions, he worked as athletics coach.
Hugh Fisher, is a New Zealand-born Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s. He participated in three Summer Olympics: in 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; in 1984 in Los Angeles; and in 1988 in Seoul, Korea. He was also named to the 1980 Olympic team for Canada, but did not compete due to the Canadian boycott of those Games. At the 1984 Games with his racing partner Alwyn Morris, he won two medals, a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events.
William Conrad Jordan was an American rower, born in Cleveland, Ohio, who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.
William Evans Garrett Gilmore, sometimes known as Garrett Gilmore, was an American rower. He won a silver medal in the single sculls at the 1924 Summer Olympics and a gold in double sculls at the 1932 Games.
William Morris Dally was an American rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Morris "Bud" Fisher was an American sport shooter and United States Marine Corps shooting instructor. He competed at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics and won five gold medals in 300–800 m rifle events. He ended his Olympic career in 1924, as shooting was not part of the 1928 Games, and long-distance rifle events re-appeared only at the 1948 Olympics, when he had long retired both from active competitions and military service.
Karl Tore William Thoresson is a retired Swedish gymnast. He competed at the 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics in all artistic gymnastics event and won two medals in the floor exercise: a gold in 1952 and a silver in 1956. He won another medal on the floor, a bronze, at the 1954 World Championships.
Hans Heinrich Sievert was a German Olympic decathlete. He competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics.
William Earl Buchan is an American sailor and Olympic Champion. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and won a gold medal in the Star class with Steven Erickson.
William Carl Buchan is an American sailor and Olympic Champion. He won the ICSA Men's Singlehanded National Championship and was named College Sailor of the Year in 1977. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and won a gold medal in the Flying Dutchman class.
Robert Hugh Parker was a New Zealand rower who represented his country at two British Empire and Commonwealth Games and one Olympic Games.
William Morris was a British sports shooter. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics winning a bronze medal in the team trap event.
William Daly is an American lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the July 2008 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim with the lightweight men's eight. At the August 2008 Summer Olympics, he came eleventh with the lightweight coxless four.
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