Walter Stuart "Walt" Ashbaugh (March 11, 1929, in East Liverpool, Ohio – April 3, 2003, in Toledo, Ohio) was an American track and field athlete and basketball player.

Athletic career

Running for Cornell University, he competed in the 120 yard high hurdles in which he held the school record. He was also a pivotman on the basketball team, during their most successful 1950–1 season with a 20–5 record. He competed in the triple jump at the

1952 Olympics 1952 Olympics refers to both: *The 1952 Winter Olympics, which were held in Oslo, Norway *The 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the X ...

, finishing fourth. His second round jump of put him into the bronze medal position until Soviet

Leonid Shcherbakov Leonid Mikhailovich Shcherbakov (russian: Леонид Михайлович Щербаков, born 7 April 1927) is a Russian retired triple jumper who won a silver medal at the 1952 Olympics. He broke the world record in 1953 and won the Europ ...

leaped into silver medal position, pushing Ashbaugh off the podiumm. Earlier that year, he was also the National Champion in the event, breaking

Gay Bryan Gaylord Damian "Gay" Bryan (May 1, 1927 – April 25, 2015) was a male long and triple jumper from the United States, who competed in the 1940s and 1950s for his native country. Bryan set his personal best in the men's long jump event (7.74 metres) ...

's 4-year streak.

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* 1929 births 2003 deaths 20th-century American sportsmen American men's basketball players Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Cornell Big Red men's basketball players Cornell Big Red men's track and field athletes Olympic track and field athletes for the United States People from East Liverpool, Ohio Track and field athletes from Ohio {{US-athletics-bio-stub