As reported on October 13, 2020, the 400-m hurdles champion at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Charlie Moore of Pennsylvania died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 91.
Moore has accomplished success in many fields including a successful business executive, investment fund manager, athletics administrator, and an author, and an philanthropist.
He won the 400 hurdles in the rain in 1952 in 50.8 seconds in the Olympics in the quarterfinals besides earning a silver medal in 1,600-m relay team in Helsinki in the US. Thereafter, he set a world record of 51.6 in the 440 hurdles at the British Empire Games in London.
Charles Moore Jr. grew up in Pennsylvania and was a standout at Mercersburg Academy before going on to Cornell, where he was inducted into Cornell’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1978 and the USA Track and Field Hall in 1999. He donated his two Olympic medals to the Academy.
He helped pioneering a 13-step approach to the hurdles, which is used today. Kevin Young set the long standing 400-m hurdles record in 46.78 seconds in 1992.
His father, Charles ‘Crip’ Moore Sr., was an alternate as a hurdler for the US in the 1924 Paris Olympics.
Courtesy: Indian Express