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Bob Tisdall

1907 - 2004

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Robert Morton Newburgh Tisdall (16 May 1907 in Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon – 27 July 2004 in Nambour, Queensland, Australia) was an Irish athlete who won a gold medal in the 400-metre hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.Tisdall was raised in Nenagh, County Tipperary. He had run only six 400 m hurdles when he won the gold medal at the 1932 Olympic Games in a world record time of 51.7 seconds, which was not recognised under the rules of the time because he had a hit a hurdle. Later, because of the notoriety of this incident, the rules were changed and the President of the IOC, Juan Antonio Samaranch, presented Tisdall with a Waterford crystal rose bowl with the image of him knocking over the last hurdle etched into the glass. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bob Tisdall has received more than 58,260 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Bob Tisdall is the 1,618th most popular athlete (down from 1,248th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 31st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Sri Lankan Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Bob Tisdall ranks 1,618 out of 3,059Before him are Rüdiger Helm, Charles Vinci, Jasna Šekarić, Arto Härkönen, Jim Fuchs, and Seppo Räty. After him are Natalya Lebedeva, John Geiger, Calvin Bricker, Uwe Hohn, Alessandro Andrei, and Phil Edwards.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Bob Tisdall ranks 352Before him are Tranquilino Garcete, John Cody, John Anderson, Bob Steele, Seth Neddermeyer, and Arlene Francis. After him are Phil Edwards, Ross Alexander, Allan Jones, Tex Gibbons, Albert Gore Sr., and Lina Basquette. Among people deceased in 2004, Bob Tisdall ranks 279Before him are Mehmood, Lennox Miller, Velimir Valenta, Bernice Rubens, Eric Douglas, and Yang Xinhai. After him are Big Boss Man, James Aloysius Hickey, Albert Paulsen, Suraiya, Willie Watson, and Henry Cockburn.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Bob Tisdall ranks 32 out of 44Before him are Malcolm Ranjith (1947), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), Duncan White (1918), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), and Thomas Cooray (1901). After him are Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810), Heather Armitage (1933), Alexander Khloponin (1965), Beverley Craven (1963), Susanthika Jayasinghe (1975), and Muttiah Muralitharan (1972).

Among ATHLETES In Sri Lanka

Among athletes born in Sri Lanka, Bob Tisdall ranks 2Before him are Duncan White (1918). After him are Heather Armitage (1933) and Susanthika Jayasinghe (1975).