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Ashenfelter, Horace, III, 1923-2018

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Personal name headingAshenfelter, Horace, III, 1923-2018
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Variant(s)Ashenfelter, Nip, 1923-2018
LocatedCollegeville (Pa.) Glen Ridge (N.J.)
Birth date1923-01-23
Death date2018-01-06
Place of birthPhoenixville (Pa.)
Place of deathWest Orange (N.J.)
Field of activityRunning
AffiliationOlympic Games (15th : 1952 : Helsinki, Finland)
Profession or occupationRunners (Sports) Olympic athletes
Found inPenn 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)