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Bob Gutowski 1958

Bob Gutowski 1958
Bob Gutowski 1958

Bob Gutowski 1958 was seen primarily as a basketball player at Oxy until coach Payton Jordan spotted his potential as a pole vaulter. Gutowski went on to win a silver medal at the 1956 Olympics and set a new world record of 15' 8¼" at an Oxy-Stanford track meet the following year. He died tragically in a car accident at age 25.