Tom Courtney, sprinter who lunged to grab Olympic gold, dies at 90
Tom Courtney, a Fordham University graduate who with a homestretch surge and a lunge at the tape won a furious 800-meter run by inches in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, capturing the gold medal for the United States, died Tuesday at an assisted living facility in Naples, Florida. He was 90.
Source: texarkanagazette.com