Lee Barnes
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
| Born | July 16, 1906 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | December 28, 1970 (aged 64) | ||||||||||||||
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Lee Stratford Barnes (July 16, 1906 – December 28, 1970) was an American athlete from Utah who competed in the men's pole vault. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and died in Oxnard, California.[1]
Barnes attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.[2] He competed in Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and won gold, beating fellow American pole vaulter Glenn Graham, who received silver.
Barnes has the honor of being the only known stunt double for silent film star Buster Keaton during Keaton's independent years of film making. In Keaton's 1927 feature College, Barnes performed a pole vault through an open upper-story window.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "Lee Barnes". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
- ^ USC OLYMPIANS: 1904-2008, USC Trojans Athletic Department, Accessed August 13, 2008.
- ^ A Trojan Olympic Miscellany Archived 2012-08-26 at the Wayback Machine, USC web site, accessed October 17, 2013 (The source erroneously credits Barnes with doubling during a running sequence.)
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lee Barnes". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
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- 1906 births
- 1970 deaths
- Track and field athletes from Salt Lake City
- American male pole vaulters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field
- World record setters in athletics (track and field)
- University of Southern California alumni
- USC Trojans men's track and field athletes
- Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics