Tom Lieb

Thomas John Lieb ( born October 28, 1899 in Faribault, Minnesota, † April 30, 1962 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American athlete who was successful in the early 1920s as a discus thrower. He was 1.90 m tall, 98 kg in weight and started for the University of Notre Dame and the Illinois Athletic Club in Chicago.

Lieb won four championships:

In 1924, Lieb also won the Olympic excretion with 46,78 m. Had he repeated this performance in Paris, he would have become Olympic champion. There, however, he only came to 44.83 m and had to settle for bronze behind his compatriot Bud Houser ( gold with 46.15 meters ) and the Finns Vilho Niittymaa content ( silver with 44.95 m). For great throw he took only from after the Games, when he threw the discus on September 14 in Chicago on the new American record distance of 47.61 meters and missed the eight -year-old world record of the Finns Armas Taipale only by 49 cm.

After ending his playing career, Tom Lieb worked as a football coach.

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• Discus Thrower
• American Masters ( athletics)
• Olympian (United States)
• Born in 1899
• Died in 1962
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