James Bausch
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| Gold | 1932 Los Angeles | Decathlon | |
James Aloysius Bernard Bausch, a.k.a. "Jarring Jim" (born March 29, 1906 - July 9, 1974) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the Decathlon.
Bausch went to college at the University of Kansas, where he starred in football and basketball. He competed for a United States in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, California in the Decathlon where he won the Gold medal over the heavily favored Finn Akilles Järvinen.
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| Olympic champions in the all around, pentathlon and decathlon |
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| As all-around: Tom Kiely |
| As pentathlon: Hjalmer Mellander | Jim Thorpe | Eero Lehtonen (twice) |
| As decathlon: Jim Thorpe | Helge Løvland | Harold Osborn | Paavo Yrjölä | James Bausch | Glenn Morris | Bob Mathias (twice) | Milt Campbell | Rafer Johnson | Willi Holdorf | Bill Toomey | Nikolay Avilov | Bruce Jenner | Daley Thompson (twice) | Christian Schenk | Robert Změlík | Dan O'Brien | Erki Nool | Roman Šebrle |
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