Flashcards: American track and field athletes

Everett Lewis Bradley (May 19, 1897 – July 25, 1969) was an American athlete.

Benjamin "Ben" Willard Adams (March 31, 1890 – March 14, 1961) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the standing jumps.

Ira Nelson Davenport (October 13, 1887 – July 17, 1941) was a track athlete, American football and baseball player, and coach in the United States.

Alice Marie Coachman (November 9, 1923 – July 14, 2014) was an American athlete.

Ronald "Ronnie" Ray Smith (March 28, 1949 – March 31, 2013) was an American athlete, winner of the gold medal in the 4×100 m relay at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Augustus Russell "Gus" Pope (November 29, 1898 – 1953) was an American athlete.

Alvah T. Meyer (July 18, 1888 – December 19, 1939) was an American sprint runner.

Jackson Volney Scholz (March 15, 1897 – October 26, 1986) was an American sprint runner.

Edwin Earle Myers (December 18, 1896 – August 31, 1978) was an American athlete who competed in the men's pole vault.

Carl Johnson (Carl Edward Johnson; May 21, 1898 – September 13, 1932) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the long jump.

George Leslie Horine (February 3, 1890 – November 28, 1948) was an American athlete who mainly competed in the high jump.

Frank Murphy (Frank Dwyer Murphy; September 21, 1889 – June 11, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Cassandra Tate (born September 11, 1990) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the 400 meters hurdles.

Jasmine Todd (born December 23, 1993) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the long jump and short sprinting events.

Danielle Carruthers (born December 22, 1979) is an American hurdler who was a silver medalist in the 100-meter hurdles at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics.

Richard Leslie "Dick" Byrd (May 16, 1892 – June 20, 1958) was an American athlete and baseball player who won the silver medal in the discus throw at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Henry Louis Scott (born November 16, 1889, date of death unknown) was an American long-distance runner who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Dean Karnazes (b. Constantine Karnazes August 23, 1962) (pronounced car-NAH-sis), is an American ultramarathon runner, and author of Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All Night Runner, which details ultra endurance running for the general public.

James Henry "Jim" Duncan (September 25, 1887 – January 21, 1955) was an American discus thrower who won a bronze medal at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Platt Adams (March 23, 1885 – February 27, 1961) was an American athlete.

Clarence Chester Childs (July 24, 1883 – September 16, 1960) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the hammer throw.

Tell Schirnding Berna (July 24, 1891 – April 5, 1975) was an American middle-distance and long-distance runner.

DeAndre Tejan Kpana-Quamoh (March 17, 1998 – May 22, 2016) was a high school track & field star at East Nashville Magnet School.

Arthur Franklin "Art" Walker (born 9 September 1941) is a retired American triple jumper, who participated at the Olympics Games in Mexico 1968 and Munich 1972.