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Bob Tisdall

1907 - 2004

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Robert Morton Newburgh Tisdall (16 May 1907 in Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon – 27 July 2004 in Nambour, Queensland, Australia) was an Irish athlete who won a gold medal in the 400-metre hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Tisdall was raised in Nenagh, County Tipperary. He had run only six 400 m hurdles when he won the gold medal at the 1932 Olympic Games in a world record time of 51.7 seconds, which was not recognised under the rules of the time because he had hit a hurdle. Later, because of the notoriety of this incident, the rules were changed and the President of the IOC, Juan Antonio Samaranch, presented Tisdall with a Waterford crystal rose bowl with the image of him knocking over the last hurdle etched into the glass. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bob Tisdall is the 1,711th most popular athlete (up from 2,434th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 37th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Sri Lankan Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Bob Tisdall ranks 1,711 out of 6,025. Before him are Archibald MacKinnon, Tom Richards, Kęstutis Šapka, Marc Bouissou, Jack Lovelock, and Eddy Ottoz. After him are Jalmari Eskola, Takao Sakurai, Carl Abrahamsson, Otto Licha, Juan Rodríguez, and Daniel Kelly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Bob Tisdall ranks 344. Before him are Gumercindo Gómez, Grahame Clark, Afrasiyab Badalbeyli, Eduardo Reyes Ortiz, Arturo Rodríguez, and Amir Sjarifuddin. After him are Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, Barbara Kent, Art Babbitt, N. G. L. Hammond, Jacques Barzun, and Célestin Delmer. Among people deceased in 2004, Bob Tisdall ranks 282. Before him are Custódio Pinto, Robert Bacher, Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Helmut Rix, and Yang Xinhai. After him are Carl Raddatz, Lyudmila Shishova, Julius Sang, Friedrich Waller, David Raksin, and Veerappan.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Bob Tisdall ranks 32 out of 51. Before him are Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Thomas Cooray (1901), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), and Dudley Senanayake (1911). After him are Duncan White (1918), Joyce Cooper (1909), Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810), John Kotelawala (1897), Kumar Sangakkara (1977), and Heather Armitage (1933).

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Among ATHLETES In Sri Lanka

Among athletes born in Sri Lanka, Bob Tisdall ranks 2. Before him are Natalia (null). After him are Duncan White (1918), Heather Armitage (1933), Susanthika Jayasinghe (1975), Mathilda Karlsson (null), Yupun Abeykoon (1994), and Nimali Liyanarachchi (null).

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