LC control no. | no2010098071 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Ashenfelter, Horace, III, 1923-2018 |
Variant(s) | Ashenfelter, Nip, 1923-2018 |
Located | Collegeville (Pa.) Glen Ridge (N.J.) |
Birth date | 1923-01-23 |
Death date | 2018-01-06 |
Place of birth | Phoenixville (Pa.) |
Place of death | West Orange (N.J.) |
Field of activity | Running |
Affiliation | Olympic Games (15th : 1952 : Helsinki, Finland) |
Profession or occupation | Runners (Sports) Olympic athletes |
Found in | Penn State Univ. files, June 15, 2010 (Horace Ashenfelter III; b. Jan. 23, 1923; U.S. track & field athlete) New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 10, 2018 (in obituary published Jan. 7: Horace Ashenfelter; nicknamed Nip; b. Horace Ashenfelter III, Jan. 23, 1923, Phoenixville, Pa.; grew up on a farm in nearby Collegeville; d. Saturday morning [Jan. 6, 2018], West Orange, N.J., aged 94; lived in Glen Ridge, N.J.; runner who set a world record in the steeplechase at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, beating an overwhelmingly favored Soviet champion in what was billed as a test of Cold War supremacy) |