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Richards, Bob

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Richards, Bob (1926- )

US track and field athlete, and minister. He was an Olympic gold medallist in the pole vault in 1952 and 1956. He accepted the pastorate of a Brethren church in Long Beach, California, in 1957, but continued as an advocate of physical fitness in the USA.

He was born in Champaign, Illinois. A juvenile delinquent as a teenager, he found himself through religion and sports. He was ordained a minister in the Church of the Brethren in 1946.



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