Bruce Harlan

Ira Bruce Harlan ( born January 2, 1926 in Marple Newtown, Pennsylvania, † June 22, 1959 in Norwalk, Connecticut) was an American diver, the 1948 Olympic champion in springboard diving.

After high school, Harlan graduated in 1944 at the U.S. Navy. As a member of the training center in Jacksonville, Florida, he won the first of his eight AAU title. After completing his military service, he studied at Ohio State University and won a total of five NCAA titles. At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 he won the competition in springboard diving. In diving, he won silver behind his compatriot Samuel Lee.

After his athletic career, Harlan became a coach and was from 1954 to the coaching staff of the University of Michigan, who was then leading in the water jumping U.S. university. One of his students was the future two -time Olympic champion Robert Webster. Its first Olympic victory in 1960 did not live to Bruce Harlan. He died in 1959, when he in the degradation of the jump tower collapsed after a show jumping from a scaffold. In 1973 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the international swimming sport.