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Westbrook, Peter

LC control no.no 97050390
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Personal name headingWestbrook, Peter
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date19520416
Place of birthSaint Louis (Mo.)
AffiliationNew York University National Collegiate Athletic Association Pitney-Bowes, inc.
Peter Westbrook Foundation
Profession or occupationCoaches (Athletics) Fencing coaches Olympic athletes Philanthropists
Found inHarnessing anger, c1997: t.p. (Peter Westbrook) t.p. verso (CIP hdg.: Westbrook, Peter) p. 16 (b. Apr. 16, 1952)
OCLC, 8/27/1997 (hdg.: Westbrook, Peter, 1952- ; usage: Peter Westbrook)
African American National Biography, accessed September 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Westbrook, Peter; Peter Jonathan Westbrook; athletic coach/manager, olympic medalist, organization founder/official, philanthropist; born 16 April 1952 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States; awarded an athletic scholarship to attend New York University, graduated with BS (1975); earned the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship in the saber event (1973); won U.S. Fencing Association national championship (1974); continued training and competing, named to the 1976 Olympic team; became the first American to win a fencing medal in twenty-four years, Olympic Games, Los Angeles (1984); founded the Peter Westbrook Foundation (1991); established a training facility in New York City)
Associated languageeng