Bill Lienhard
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| Full name | William Barner Lienhard | ||||||||||||||
| Born | January 14, 1930 (age 94) Slaton, Texas, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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William Barner "Bill" Lienhard (born January 14, 1930) was an American basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Lienhard was born in Slaton, Texas. He went to college at the University of Kansas, where he was a member of the 1952 NCAA Champion basketball team. He was then part of the American Olympic basketball team, which won the gold medal. He played a total of five matches during the Summer Games in Helsinki. After the Olympics, he joined the Air Force, where he continued to play basketball. Upon leaving the Air Force, he retired from the sport and lived as a banker in Kansas.[1]
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bill Lienhard". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on January 31, 2012.
External links
- William Lienhard at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- William Lienhard at Olympics.com
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Categories:
- 1930 births
- Living people
- Basketball players at the 1952 NCAA Men's Division I Final Four
- Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players from Texas
- Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball players
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in basketball
- People from Slaton, Texas
- Sportspeople from Lawrence, Kansas
- United States men's national basketball team players
- American men's basketball players