Bud Houser

Lemuel Clarence "Bud" Houser, born on 25 September 1901 in Winigan, Missouri, was an American field athlete who won Olympic gold medals in the discus throw in 1924 and 1928 and in the shot put in 1924. After both his parents died in 1911 he moved to Oxnard, California, and was raised by his sister Martha and her husband. At Oxnard High School he won six events at the California State Track Meets and developed a discus style of one and a half rapid turns that many later throwers copied. At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris he won both the shot put and the discus, the last time a male athlete has done so, and at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam he carried the United States flag and retained his discus title. He studied dentistry at the University of Southern California and set a world record of 48.20 metres in the discus in 1926. He practised as a dentist to film stars in Hollywood, belongs to the National Track and Field Hall of Fame and died on 1 October 1994.