Bob Richards: American athletics competitor, pole vaulter
Robert Eugene Bob Richards (February 20, 1926 – February 26, 2023), nicknamed the Vaulting Vicar or the Pole Vaulting Parson in his competitive days, was an American athlete who was known for pole vaulting in the Olympics.
He competed in the 1948 (where he won a bronze medal), 1952 (gold medal), and 1956 Summer Olympics (gold medal) as a pole vaulter, and as a decathlete in 1956.
In the 1984 United States presidential election, Richards ran for President of the United States on the far-right, white nationalist Populist Party ticket.
Richards was born in Champaign, Illinois. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Richards died on February 26, 2023, a few days after his 97th birthday.
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