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| show-medals = yes }} Robert Garrett (May 24, 1875 – April 25, 1961) was an American athlete. He was the first modern Olympic champion in discus throw and shot put. ==Biography== Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, (which surrounds its central independent city of Baltimore on its western, northern, and eastern sides). Garrett came from one of the most prominent and wealthiest families in Maryland, a railroad and financing family, grandson of famed John Work Garrett, (1820-1884), longtime American Civil War-era president of the "first in the nation" Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the great-grandson of Robert Garrett, founder of the famous influential banking/finance/merchant/shipping firm founded 1819 in Baltimore and flourished in the 1830s and 40's. Younger Garrett studied at Princeton University. He excelled in track and field athletics as an undergraduate, and was captain of the Princeton track team in both his junior and senior years. Garrett was primarily a shot-putter, though he also competed in the jumping events. When he decided to compete in the first modern Olympic games being revived and held in Athens, Greece, in 1896, Professor William Milligan Sloane suggested he should also try the discus. They consulted classical authorities to develop a drawing and Garrett hired a blacksmith to make a discus. It weighed nearly 30 pounds (14 kg) and it was impossible to throw any distance, so he gave up on the idea. Garrett paid for his own and three classmates' (Francis Lane (finished third in 100 m), Herbert Jamison (finished second in 400 m), and Albert Tyler (placed second in pole vault) way to Athens to compete in those since famous first modern Olympics. When he discovered that a real discus weighs less than five pounds, and that was planned to be used in these new revival games, he decided to enter the event for fun. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Garrett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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