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Encyclopedia > Harold Osborn
Olympic medal record
Men's Athletics
Gold 1924 Paris High jump
Gold 1924 Paris Decathlon


Harold Marion Osborn (April 13, 1899April 5, 1975) was a U.S. track athlete. He won a gold medal in Olympic decathlon and high jump in 1924.
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Olympic champions in men's high jump
1896: Ellery Clark | 1900: Irving Baxter | 1904: Samuel Jones | 1906: Cornelius Leahy | 1908: Harry Porter | 1912: Alma Richards | 1920: Richmond Landon | 1924: Harold Osborn | 1928: Robert King | 1932: Duncan McNaughton | 1936: Cornelius Johnson | 1948: John Winter | 1952: Walter Davis | 1956: Charles Dumas | 1960: Robert Shavlakadze | 1964: Valeriy Brumel | 1968: Dick Fosbury | 1972: Jüri Tarmak | 1976: Jacek Wszoła | 1980: Gerd Wessig | 1984: Dietmar Mögenburg | 1988: Gennadiy Avdeyenko | 1992: Javier Sotomayor | 1996: Charles Austin | 2000: Sergey Klyugin | 2004: Stefan Holm
Olympic champions in the all around, pentathlon and decathlon
As all-around: Tom Kiely
As pentathlon: Hjalmer Mellander | Jim Thorpe | Eero Lehtonen (twice)
As decathlon: Jim Thorpe | Helge Løvland | Harold Osborn | Paavo Yrjölä | James Bausch | Glenn Morris | Bob Mathias (twice) | Milt Campbell | Rafer Johnson | Willi Holdorf | Bill Toomey | Nikolay Avilov | Bruce Jenner | Daley Thompson (twice) | Christian Schenk | Robert Změlík | Dan O'Brien | Erki Nool | Roman Šebrle

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HickokSports.com - Biography - Harold Osborn (186 words)
Competing for the University of Illinois, Osborn tied for the NCAA and AAU outdoor high jump championships in 1922.
He won the AAU outdoor title in 1925 and 1926, the indoor title four years in a row, 1923-36, and he was the AAU decathlon champion in 1923, 1925, and 1926.
Osborn also competed in the standing jumps, which are no longer contested.
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