Ralph Rose

Ralph Waldo Rose ( born March 17, 1884 in Healdsburg, † October 16, 1913 in San Francisco) was an American track and field athlete.

Rose won at the Olympic Games 1904 in St. Louis than in the past recently shot putter the gold medal with a new world record of 14.81 m. Added to this was winning the silver medal in the discus throw and bronze in the hammer throw. In the same year he lost his shot put world record at the Irish Denis Horgan, but took this back in 1907. At the Olympic Games in London in 1908, he repeated his Olympic victory in the shot put. During the opening of the London games he carried the U.S. flag and caused a diplomatic scandal, because he refused the only flag carrier of the ceremony, to bow his country's flag in front of the British king. He had noticed that under the hoisted flags around the stadium lacked those of the United States. In 1909, he surpassed the first athlete with 51 feet ( = 15.54 m ), the 50-foot mark. This world record held 16 years old. Further he won two medals at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912, gold in the two-handed shot put and silver in the shot put.

1913 Rose fell ill with typhoid fever and died at the age of 28 years. In 1976 he was admitted posthumously inducted into the "Hall of Fame" of the U.S. Association of Athletics Federations.

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