George Saling

George Saling ( George J. Saling Jr., born July 24, 1909 in Memphis, Missouri, † April 15, 1933 in St. Charles, Missouri) was an American hurdler who specializes route was the 110-meter distance.

Ahead of the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was the dominant athlete in this discipline spreader compatriot Percy Beard. He not only had the world record on the distance metric of 14.4 equalized, but also scaled back on the track of 120 yards hurdles in 14.2.

The U.S. Trials for the games were held at Stanford. Here Jack Keller presented a metric world record and won the Trials before saling and Beard. In the semifinals of the games then put a spreader also the world record. In the final, now standing against these three American world record holder, two British and the German Willi Vlašský. Beard took the lead, but had at the sixth hurdle problems, and so Saling won in 14.6 before Beard at 14.7. Behind three runners and 14.8 in the rating: The Briton Don Finlay at No. 3, basement at # 4 and the Langhürdler Lord Burghley 5th place Vlašský was disqualified.

While Beard was still running some world records, spreader ends career abruptly when he had a fatal accident in the following spring at the age of 23 years in Missouri by car.