Clark Leiblee
{{Short description|American track athlete (1876–1917)}}
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Clark Moses Leiblee (November 2, 1877 – August 20, 1917) was an American track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. He also competed in intercollegiate track for the University of Michigan. He was also on the roster of the 1899 Michigan Wolverines football team as a halfback.{{cite web|title=1899 Michigan Wolverines football roster|publisher=Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan|url=http://141.211.39.65/allroster/FMPro?-DB=allrost.fp5&-Format=fbresult.htm&-SortField=name&-SortOrder=Ascend&year=1899&-max=170&-Find|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100901031911/http://141.211.39.65/allroster/FMPro?-DB=allrost.fp5&-Format=fbresult.htm&-SortField=name&-SortOrder=Ascend&year=1899&-max=170&-Find|archivedate=2010-09-01}}{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78689 |title=Clark Leiblee |work=Olympedia |accessdate=22 December 2020}}
Biography
He was born on November 2, 1877, in Troy, Pennsylvania.
Leiblee competed in the 100 metres event, placing eighth overall. He won his first-round heat with a time of 11.4 seconds before finishing his semifinal heat in second place to Walter Tewksbury (who matched the world record of 10.8 seconds in the race). This put Leiblee in the repechage; a third-place finish in the six-man field put him in eighth place overall.
He died in Tipton, Indiana on August 20, 1917.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZR9YAAAAMAAJ&q=%22clark+moses+Leiblee%22|title=The Michigan Alumnus|date=21 June 2018|publisher=UM Libraries|via=Google Books}}
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External links
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- De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Athletics 1900". Accessed 18 March 2006. Available electronically at [http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/ath1900.html ].
- {{cite book | author = Mallon, Bill | year = 1998 | title = The 1900 Olympic Games, Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary | publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers | location = Jefferson, North Carolina | isbn = 0-7864-0378-0 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/1900olympicgames00mall }}
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Category:Sportspeople from Bradford County, Pennsylvania
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic track and field athletes for the United States
Category:Michigan Wolverines football players
Category:Players of American football from Pennsylvania
Category:American male sprinters
Category:Road incident deaths in Indiana
Category:19th-century American sportsmen
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