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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1935-10-15 ) October 15, 1935, Harlingen, Texas , U.S.
- Died
- May 30, 2020 (2020-05-30) (aged 84), San Benito, Texas , U.S
- Resting place
- Restlawn Memorial Park, La Feria, Texas
- Height
- 186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
- Weight
- 75 kg (165 lb)
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- 100–400 m
- Club
- ACU Wildcats, Abilene
- Personal best s
- 100 m – 10.2 (1956), 200 m – 20.75 (1956), 400 m – 47.7 (1959)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bobby
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Harlingen
- Place of death
- San Benito
- Occupation
- farmer
- Educated at
- Abilene Christian University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 75
- Image
- Bobby Morrow with wife 1956.jpg
- Height
- 186
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- Commons category
- Bobby Morrow
- date of birth
- 1935-10-15
- sports discipline competed in
- shot put
- date of death
- 2020-05-30
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Bobby Morrow
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
Bobby Joe Morrow (October 15, 1935 – May 30, 2020) was an American sprinter who won three gold medals at the 1956 Olympics. He has been called "the dominant sprinter of the 1950s" and "the most relaxed sprinter of all time, even more so than his hero Jesse Owens".
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bobby Morrow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.