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American shot putter (1908?1997)
Harlow Phelps Rothert
(April 1, 1908 ? August 13, 1997) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the
shot put
.
Rothert attended
Stanford University
, where he competed in
basketball
,
football
, and
track and field
. He was named first-team
All-Pacific Coast Conference
in basketball in 1929. He won the
NCAA
shot put title three times, and set a world record for the event in 1930. Rothert competed in the shot put at the
1928
and
1932 Summer Olympics
. He won a silver medal in the 1932 games, held in Los Angeles, and placed seventh in 1928.
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Rothert earned his bachelor's degree in 1930 and law degree in 1937, both from Stanford. He was a trial lawyer who specialized in
civil law
. He founded a law firm in San Francisco, and taught at Stanford Law School and Hastings College of Law. During
World War II
, he spent two years in the Marine Corps.
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In 1996, he was part of the
Olympic Torch Relay
. Around that time he had an acute inflammation in his legs and had to practice every day to cover the targeted 2 km distance using a specially designed
walker
.
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He died in 1997, aged 89.
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New Zealand national champions in men's discus throw
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