His remarkable sprint in the final yards on a muddy track in the 1964 Games in Tokyo made him the only American ever to win the gold medal in that event. By Richard Goldstein Growing up on an Ohio ...

The final of the Men’s 5000 Metres at the Tokyo Olympics, 1st October 1964. American athlete Bob Schul (719) wins the gold medal and West Germany’s Harald Norpoth (209) the silver. Also pictured are ...

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bob Schul’s gold medal in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Bob Schul will be hosting a party on Saturday, Oct. 18 for family, friends, running teammates, etc. To RSVP, ...

Bob Schul, the only American distance runner to win gold in the 5,000 meters at the Olympics, has died. He was 86. His death on Sunday was announced by Miami University in Ohio, where Schul shined on ...

Bob Schul, America’s only Olympic 5000-meter gold medalist, died on June 16 in Middletown, Ohio. He was 86 and had been living with dementia. Schul raced into American sports legend in the Tokyo ...

When Robert “Bob” Schul was born in 1937, he was diagnosed with asthma, a condition that worsened in the summer due to the pollen on his family’s farm in West Milton. Little Bob spent most of his time ...

Bob Schul, the only American distance runner to win gold in the 5,000 meters at the Olympics, has died. He was 86. His death on Sunday was announced by Miami University in Ohio, where Schul shined on ...

It was a cold, windy day in Kentucky in the spring of 1964, so Bob Schul had gone indoors to find some shelter before his 2-mile race. Schul was a 26-year-old distance runner for Miami University in ...

Bob Schul, the only American distance runner to win gold in the Olympic 5,000 meters, has died at the age of 86. Miami University in Ohio, where Schul shined on the track and was inducted into the ...

On October 18, 1964, four days after Billy Mills gave the United States its one and only 10,000-meter gold medal in Olympic history, Bob Schul of West Milton, Ohio came through with his own dramatic ...