LeRoy Samse

LeRoy Samse
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Medal record
Men’s athletics
Representing the United States
Olympic Games

LeRoy Perry Samse (September 13, 1883 – May 1, 1956) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault. Samse represented the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis, United States in the pole vault where he won the silver medal.

Samse attended Indiana University were he was reportedly introduced to the pole vault by coach James H. Horne.^[1] Samse was acknowledged for having set a world record in the pole vault at a Western Intercollegiate Conference meet in Evanston, Illinois on June 2, 1906.^[2] His vault of 12' 4 7/8" beat the mark of 12' 3" set three days earlier in New York by Alfred Carlton Gilbert of Yale University.^[2]

In 2009, Indiana University put on the first ever LeRoy Samse Invitational, an informal meeting where vaulters are required to jump on non-bending poles similar to Samse's. The inaugural meet was won by Vera Neuenswander on the women's side (9 feet), and Jeff Coover on the men's side (12 feet). The meet record is still considered to be Samse's personal record of 12' 4 7/8".

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^ Hammel, Bob; Klingelhoffer, Kit, eds. (1999). Glory of Old IU: 100 Years of Indiana Athletics. Sports Publishing LLC. pp. 14–15. ISBN 9781582610689. Retrieved April 27, 2012. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |coauthors= and |month= (help)
^ ^a ^b "New World's Pole Vault Record". American Gymnasia And Athletic Record. 2 (11). Boston: American Gymnasia Co.: 249 1906. Retrieved April 27, 2012. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

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[Glory_of_Old_IU-1] Hammel, Bob; Klingelhoffer, Kit, eds. (1999). Glory of Old IU: 100 Years of Indiana Athletics. Sports Publishing LLC. pp. 14–15. ISBN 9781582610689. Retrieved April 27, 2012. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |coauthors= and |month= (help)

[AGAR-2] "New World's Pole Vault Record". American Gymnasia And Athletic Record. 2 (11). Boston: American Gymnasia Co.: 249 1906. Retrieved April 27, 2012. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

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