Avery Brundage
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1887-09-28
- Died
- 1975-05-08
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Addresses of President Avery Brundage at solemn openings of I.O.C. sessions between 1952 and 1968
- Indian and South-East Asian stone sculptures from the Avery Brundage Collection
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7
- Total plays
- 8
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
· 2000 · cited 8,823x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,597x
- THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
· 2009 · cited 4,647x
- Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large‐Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
· 2005 · cited 4,160x
- Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2023 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association
· 2023 · cited 3,962x
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- J. Sigfrid Edström
- Succeeded by
- Lord Killanin
- Born
- ( 1887-09-28 ) September 28, 1887, Detroit, Michigan , U.S.
- Died
- May 8, 1975 (1975-05-08) (aged 87), Garmisch-Partenkirchen , West Germany
- Resting place
- Rosehill Cemetery
- Spouses
- Elizabeth Dunlap ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1927 ; died 1971 ) Mariann Charlotte Katharina Stefanie, Princess Reuss ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1973 )
- Alma mater
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Profession
- Civil engineer general contractor
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Key dates
- Born
- 28 September 1887
- Died
- 8 May 1975
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Avery
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Detroit
- Place of death
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Occupation
- collector
- Position held
- president
- Educated at
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
Avery Brundage (/ˈeɪvri ˈbrʌndɪdʒ/; September 28, 1887 – May 8, 1975) was the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee, serving from 1952 to 1972, the only American and first non-European to attain that position. Brundage is remembered as a zealous advocate of amateurism and for his involvement with the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympics, both held in Germany.
Brundage was born in Detroit in 1887 to a working-class family. When he was five years old, his father moved his family to Chicago and subsequently abandoned his wife and children. Raised mostly by relatives, Brundage attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to study engineering and became a track star. He competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics, where he participated in the pentathlon and decathlon, but did not win any medals; both events were won by teammate Jim Thorpe. He won national championships in track three times between 1914 and 1918 and founded his own construction business. He earned his wealth from this company and from investments, and never accepted pay for his involvement in sports.
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1887 births1975 deaths20th-century American art collectors20th-century American sportsmenAmerica First Committee membersAmerican International Olympic Committee membersAmerican men decathletesAmerican men hammer throwersAmerican men's basketball playersAmerican men shot puttersAmerican NazisAmerican pentathletes