Bob Sohl
Sohl at the University of Michigan in 1949. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Robert Raymond Sohl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Bob" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | York, Pennsylvania | March 28, 1928||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | April 8, 2001 Highland Beach, Florida | (aged 73)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Michigan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Robert Raymond Sohl (March 28, 1928 – April 8, 2001) was an American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist.
Sohl represented the United States at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he received a bronze medal for his third-place performance in the men's 200-meter breaststroke, finishing behind fellow Americans Joe Verdeur and Keith Carter, and completing an American sweep of the event. Verdeur, Carter and Sohl had finished in the same order at the 1948 U.S. Olympic Trials.[1] Although his time was recorded by the timekeepers to be 0.2s slower than the fourth-place finisher, John Davies of Australia, the judges believed that Sohl had touched first and awarded him the bronze.[2]
Sohl attended the University of Michigan, where he swam for the Michigan Wolverines swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1947 to 1949.
He died in Highland Beach, Florida in 2001, at the age of 73.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Swimming at the 1948 London Summer Games: Men's 200 metres breaststroke". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-04-03.
- ^ Page 124 1948 US Olympic Book-Report of the US Olympic Committee
External links
[edit]- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bob Sohl". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- 1928 births
- 2001 deaths
- American male breaststroke swimmers
- Michigan Wolverines men's swimmers
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- People from York, Pennsylvania
- People from Highland Beach, Florida
- Sportspeople from Palm Beach County, Florida
- American swimming biography stubs