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Sep 20, 1883 Dorchester, Massachusetts, United States Died on 02 Feb 1954 (aged 70)
American hurdler
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About Robert Leavitt
- Robert Grandison "Bob" Leavitt (September 20, 1883 – February 2, 1954) was an American track and field athlete, winner of 110 m hurdles at the 1906 Intercalated Games. Robert Leavitt was a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania and Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, and graduated from Williams College in 1907.
- He never won any major tournament except the Olympic Games. At Athens, American Hugo Friend was favored to win the gold medal in high hurdles.
- But Friend stumbled against the first hurdle and was out.
- Leavitt and Alfred Healey from Great Britain leaped over the hurdles in one rhythm and finished in the same time.
- After protracted discussion, Olympic officials decided that Leavitt had won by one foot.
