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High Jumping History

Revisited

By Thom Racine competed in the same event. As legend
has it, Van Osdel gave McNaughton some
hen Derek Drouin jumped his way advice to improve his jumping technique
Wto Olympic Gold last month, it and with the bar set at 6’ 4” McNaughton
didn’t take long for social media to remind cleared the bar and won the gold medal with
everyone that the 1932 Olympic Champion Van Osdel claiming the silver medal.
gold medalist in the High Jump was Duncan McNaughton’s gold medal was one of
Anderson McNaughton, from Cornwall. two won by Canadians at that Olympics in

Well, at least he was born here. 1932, the other being Horace Gwynne in
I even received a call to make sure that he Bantamweight Boxing.
be considered for our Hall of Fame. Duncan In 1933, the gold medal was stolen Cornwall’s Duncan Anderson en route to his 1932 Olympic High Jump
McNaughton was inducted in 1968. In fact from Duncan’s car, and in the true spirit Gold medal. The medal is not Duncan’s replica but a replica of the Gold
before our Hall, Duncan was inducted to the of friendship Van Osdel created a mould Medals in 1932. Archives Canada Web picture
Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1949, of his silver medal, added gold and gave
Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1955, and the replica to Duncan. The two remained SUB Place SPORTS
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Duncan was born in 1910, the only child At the United States National Collegiate
of a civil engineer and a teacher. The family Track and Field Championships, Find the NHL Hockey team names words listed at the bottom in the NHL
moved to Vancouver where he was raised McNaughton became the high jump Hockey Teams Word Search grid. The words can be forwards or backwards,
and became and became an outstanding champion of 1933 tied with Vincent Murphy vertical, horizontal, or diagonal. Circle each letter separately, but keep in

track and field athlete. He competed in of Notre Dame as both cleared 6’ 4” setting mind that letters in each NHL Hockey Team name may be used in more
the first-ever (1930) Empire Games (now a California-record for the high jump. At than one team name. When the NHL Hockey Teams Word Search puzzle is

Commonwealth Games) and placed fourth age 87, Duncan McNaughton died at his complete, read the remaining letters left to right, top to bottom, to find the

in the high jump. home in Austin, Texas in 1998. missing NHL Hockey Team names.
While a student at the University of Eighty-four years later, along came
Southern California, at age 21, Duncan Derek Drouin. In case you were wondering, T H S R O T A N E S E S P B R
competed for Canada, in the men’s high jump James Broderick for Lacrosse in 1908 and S R E D N A L S I T R U E C I
at the tenth Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Lori Dupuis for Women’s hockey in 2002 N E S H A R K S R E H T N A P

His good friend and fellow student Bob Van are the area’s other Olympic Gold medal
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