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William Kerslake
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William Roy Kerslake (December 27, 1929 – September 29, 2015)〔(William Kerslake's obituary )〕 was an American Olympic heavy weight wrestler and retired NASA engineer.
Kerslake won 15 consecutive national championships in Freestyle and Greco-Roman. He won a gold medal in the 1955 Pan American Games and represented the United States three times in the Olympic Games, placing fifth, eighth and seventh from 1952 through 1960.〔(William Kerslake's profile at Sports Reference.com )〕 At the 1956 National Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Greco-Roman Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Kerslake achieved a record setting fastest pin, taking only 4 seconds to pin his heavy weight opponent Ralph Bartleman. This feat was captured in the 1986 Guinness Book of World Records in the sports section under “Fastest Pin in National Tournament Competition”.〔1986 Guinness Book of World Records, p.466〕
Throughout his wrestling career, and afterward, he was an aerospace research engineer for NASA.〔(Case's Three-Time Olympian and Rocket Scientist )〕 He was the co-inventor of the first ion thruster for space propulsion and served as chairman of the technical committee of the AIAA.〔
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