Charles Moore (hurdler)

American athlete (1929–2020)

For other people named Charles Moore, see Charles Moore (disambiguation).

Charles H. Moore Jr.

Moore at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Born|

Charles Hewes Moore Jr.

August 12, 1929

Coatesville, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Died| October 8, 2020(2020-10-08) (aged 91)

Laporte, Pennsylvania, U.S.[1]

Nationality| American
Alma mater| Mercersburg Academy '47
Cornell University '52
Occupations|

* Athlete
* business executive
* investment fund manager
* athletics director
* philanthropist
* corporate-social activist
* author

Spouse| Judith M. Moore (m. 1971–present)
Children| 8
Parent(s)| Charles Hewes Moore Sr. (father)
Jane Scott Moore (mother)
Sports career
Country| United States
Sport|

* Track and field

Event(s)| 400 metre hurdles
4 × 400 metres relay
College team| Cornell Big Red
Coached by|

* John Francis Moakley
* Lou Montgomery

Medal record

Olympic Games
Men's athletics
Representing the  United States
|  1952 Helsinki | 400 m hurdles
| 1952 Helsinki | 4x400 m relay

Website| runningonpurposebook.com charlieandjudith.com

Charles Hewes Moore Jr. (August 12, 1929 - October 8, 2020) was an American track and field athlete, as well as a philanthropist, businessman, and champion of societal reform. Moore won a gold medal in the 400 metre hurdles in the 1952 Summer Olympics with a time of 50.8 seconds, narrowly missing the world record of 50.6 seconds. He had set the American record (50.7 seconds) during Olympic qualifying. He also ran the third leg of the second-place 4×400 metres relay at the Olympics. Moore finished second for the James E. Sullivan Award for top U.S. athlete in 1952, and was selected as one of "100 Golden Olympians" in 1996. In 1999, he was inducted into the United States National Track and Field Hall of Fame. Charles Moore, an Olympics athlete of track and field died on October 8, 2020, in Laporte, Pennsylvania. He was 91 years old.

## Athletic achievements[edit]

Moore did not start his track and field career until attending Mercersburg Academy as a junior, where he was coached by Jimmy Curran,[2] who recommended he try hurdling based on his father's success with the event. His father, Charles "Crip" Moore, Sr. was a hurdler[3] who made the U.S. team as an alternate in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.[4] Charles Jr. continued with track and field as a student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he enrolled in 1947, but was limited to four years eligibility. In his fifth and final year, preceding his performance at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he continued to compete through the New York Athletic Club.

As a student at Cornell University, Moore won NCAA titles in the 440-yard race in 1949 and the 220-yard hurdles in 1951.[5][6] He won the indoor IC4A 600-yard run in 1950 and the indoor Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) 600-yard run in 1952, setting meet records in both races. He also won four straight AAU titles in the 400 metre hurdles from 1949 to 1952. At Cornell, Moore pioneered taking 13 steps between hurdles in the grueling 400-metre hurdle event, where 15 steps had been the practice prior to the 1950s.[4][5] While its official use in a race is also attributed to Russian Yuriy Lituyev, many were experimenting with this as part of training.[7]

On July 21, 1952, at the XV Olympiad in Helsinki, Finland, Moore won a gold medal and set the Olympic record in the 400 metre hurdles. He also ran the third leg for the American team's 4x400 metre relay, which earned him a silver medal. The team's performance broke the standing world record by 4 seconds (3:04.0), but was not sufficient to secure the gold against Jamaica, who ran the race in 3:03.9.[8]

Moore was inducted into Cornell University's inaugural Athletics Hall of Fame in 1978.[6] The Charles H. Moore Outstanding Senior Varsity Athlete Award at Cornell is named for him.[6] In March 2015, Cornell Magazine ranked him as the third greatest athlete in the university's history.[9] From 1994 to 1999, he was Director of Athletics at Cornell University.[6]

## Corporate career[edit]

After the Olympics in 1952 Moore fully retired from athletics to pursue a career in business that would last 42 years. This started with his family's business Lenape Forge in 1952, which he would eventually broker the sale of to Gulf+Western in 1965. He was president and CEO of several multinational manufacturing companies, including Ransburg Corporation, Clevepak Corporation, Allied Thermal (a subsidiary of Interpace Corporation), Lapp Insulator (a division of Interpace Corporation), and Lenape Forge (a division of Gulf+Western). He also served as managing director of Peers & Co. (investment banking), CEO of Peers Management Resources, Inc. (management consulting), and vice chairman of Advisory Capital Partners, Inc. (investment advising).

## Corporate social impact[edit]

From 1992 to 2000, Moore was Public Sector Director of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and chairman of that organization's audit committee. He has also served as chairman of the USOC's 2012 Bid City Evaluation Task Force. Moore served as executive director of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) since the organization's founding in 1999 by John C. Whitehead, Paul Newman and Peter L. Malkin until February 2013.

Moore was the former Governor of the National Art Museum of Sport, a former member of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition (PCFSN), and a National Board alumni member of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1984, while CEO of Clevepak Corporation, he received the Herbert Adams Memorial Award for Advancement of American Sculpture. CR Magazine recognized him as the NonProfit & NGO CEO of the Year in 2008[10] and gave him its Lifetime Achievement in Philanthropy award in 2013.[11]

## Education[edit]

Moore was a 1947 cum laude graduate of Mercersburg Academy and a 1952 BME graduate of Cornell University. He was a member of the honorary societies Aleph Samach and Quill and Dagger society at Cornell. At Mercersburg, he served on the Board of Regents from 1996 to 2005 and was named the Class of 1932's Distinguished Alumnus in 2002.

## Memoir[edit]

In March 2017 Moore published a book[12] recounting his various careers as athlete, business person and philanthropist. Running on Purpose: Winning Olympic Gold, Advancing Corporate Leadership and Creating Sustainable Value was co-authored with James Cockerille and published by Edgemoor Ink.

The book is part memoir, providing detail on his upbringing, education and eventual Olympic competition. It is also part business-treatise, detailing numerous turnarounds he led for corporations as well as the athletic department of Cornell. In the last chapter, Moore drew on his athletic orientation and societal impact efforts with Fortune 500 companies. In it he proposed a new form of commercial competitiveness. The challenge he offered is for executives, their boards and investors to embrace a new framework of measurement. Such a framework is not defined, however. Instead Moore proposed a greater integration between the work of pioneering groups in integrated reporting, especially IIRC, and sustainability accounting, like the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). Underpinning this "call to action" is a belief that long-term factors must be upheld in the management of a business alongside short-term pressures, and that the balance has dangerously skewed toward short-term thinking. By competing through this universal framework and orienting toward "sustainable value creation", Moore suggested, corporations could reverse the erosion of trust that leading companies (if not capitalism in general) are experiencing.

In December 2017, Moore published a second book, One Hurdle at a Time: An Olympian's Guide to Clearing Life's Obstacles,[13] intended for a younger audience, approximately ages 8–14. He collaborated with award-winning children's author Brad Herzog in an attempt to offer a glimpse into his "race of a lifetime".

## References[edit]

1. ^ Charles Moore at Olympedia
2. ^ "Jimmy Curran Bio". anentscottishrunning.com. June 6, 2016. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
3. ^ Don Aines (August 3, 2008). "Academy in Pa. has Olympic tradition". Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
4. ^ a b Barr, Josh (September 23, 2020). "Charlie Moore: An athlete with a purpose". United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
5. ^ a b "USATF mourns loss of Olympic Champion Charles Moore". usatf.org. October 13, 2020. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
6. ^ a b c d "Cornell Mourns Loss Of Charlie Moore '51, Olympic Legend And Former AD". Cornell University Athletics. October 10, 2020. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
7. ^ "Revisiting the 400 m hurdles with a crazy proposal". Rethinking Athletics. January 16, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
8. ^ "1952 Olympic 400m hurdles champion Moore dies". www.worldathletics.org. October 11, 2020. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
9. ^ Herzog, Brad (March 1, 2015). "The Best Sports: In a (somewhat) systematic survey, we rank the finest athletes in University history". cornellalumnimagazine.com. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
10. ^ "CRO Magazine CEO of the Year Awards Nominees 2008". July 10, 2008. Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
11. ^ "CR Magazine Announces Responsible CEO of Year Award and Lifetime Achievement Award Finalists". prnewswire.com. September 11, 2013. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
12. ^ Moore, Charles H. (March 21, 2017). Running on Purpose: Winning Olympic Gold, Advancing Corporate Leadership and Creating Sustainable Value. USA: Edgemoor Ink. ISBN 9780998371009.
13. ^ One Hurdle at a Time: An Olympian's Guide to Clearing Life's Obstacles

## External links[edit]

* Charles Moore at the USATF Hall of Fame
* Charles Moore at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
* Charles Hewes Moore Jr. at the International Olympic Committee

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Cornell Big Red athletic directors

* G. Ervin Kent (?–1919)
* Romeyn Berry (1919–1935)
* James Lynah (1935–1944)
* Robert Kane (1944–1971)
* Dick Schultz (1976–1981)
* Michael Slive (1981–1983)
* Laing Kennedy (1983–1994)
* Charles Moore (1994–1999)
* J. Andrew Noel (1999– )

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Olympic champions in men's 400 metres hurdles

* 1900:  Walter Tewksbury (USA)
* 1904:  Harry Hillman (USA)
* 1908:  Charles Bacon (USA)
* 1920:  Frank Loomis (USA)
* 1924:  Morgan Taylor (USA)
* 1928:  David Burghley (GBR)
* 1932:  Bob Tisdall (IRL)
* 1936:  Glenn Hardin (USA)
* 1948:  Roy Cochran (USA)
* 1952:  Charles Moore (USA)
* 1956:  Glenn Davis (USA)
* 1960:  Glenn Davis (USA)
* 1964:  Rex Cawley (USA)
* 1968:  David Hemery (GBR)
* 1972:  John Akii-Bua (UGA)
* 1976:  Edwin Moses (USA)
* 1980:  Volker Beck (GDR)
* 1984:  Edwin Moses (USA)
* 1988:  Andre Phillips (USA)
* 1992:  Kevin Young (USA)
* 1996:  Derrick Adkins (USA)
* 2000:  Angelo Taylor (USA)
* 2004:  Félix Sánchez (DOM)
* 2008:  Angelo Taylor (USA)
* 2012:  Félix Sánchez (DOM)
* 2016:  Kerron Clement (USA)
* 2020:  Karsten Warholm (NOR)

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US National Championship winners in men's 400 m/440 yd hurdles

1914–1979
Amateur Athletic Union|

* 1914–15: Bill Meanix
* 1916: Walter Hummel
* 1917: Floyd Smart
* 1918: Donald Hause
* 1919: Floyd Smart
* 1920: Frank Loomis
* 1921: August Desch
* 1922: Joseph Hall
* 1923: Ivan Riley
* 1924–26: Morgan Taylor
* 1927: Johnny Gibson
* 1928: Morgan Taylor
* 1929: Gordon Allott
* 1930: Dick Pomeroy
* 1931: Victor Burke
* 1932: Joe Healey
* 1933–34: Glenn Hardin
* 1935: Tom Moore
* 1936: Glenn Hardin
* 1937–38: Jack Patterson
* 1939: Roy Cochran
* 1940: Carl McBain
* 1941: Arky Erwin
* 1942: Walter Smith
* 1943–46: Arky Erwin
* 1947: Walter Smith
* 1948: Roy Cochran
* 1949–52: Charles Moore
* 1953–55: Josh Culbreath
* 1956–58: Glenn Davis
* 1959: Dick Howard
* 1960: Glenn Davis
* 1961: Cliff Cushman
* 1962: Willie Atterberry
* 1963: Rex Cawley
* 1964: Billy Hardin
* 1965: Rex Cawley
* 1966: Jim Miller
* 1967–68: Ron Whitney
* 1969–71: Ralph Mann
* 1972: Dick Bruggeman
* 1973–74: Jim Bolding
* 1975: Ralph Mann
* 1976: Tom Andrews
* 1977: Edwin Moses
* 1978: James Walker
* 1979: Edwin Moses

1980–1992
The Athletics Congress|

* 1980: David Lee
* 1981: Edwin Moses
* 1982: David Patrick
* 1983: Edwin Moses
* 1984: David Patrick
* 1985: Andre Phillips
* 1986: Danny Harris
* 1987: Edwin Moses
* 1988: Kevin Henderson
* 1989–90: David Patrick
* 1991: Danny Harris
* 1992: Kevin Young

1993–present
USA Track & Field|

* 1993: Kevin Young
* 1994–95: Derrick Adkins
* 1996–98: Bryan Bronson
* 1999–2001: Angelo Taylor
* 2002: James Carter
* 2003: Eric Thomas
* 2004: James Carter
* 2005–06: Kerron Clement
* 2007: James Carter
* 2008–10: Bershawn Jackson
* 2011: Jeshua Anderson
* 2012–13: Michael Tinsley
* 2014: Johnny Dutch
* 2015: Bershawn Jackson
* 2016: Kerron Clement
* 2017: Eric Futch
* 2018: Kenny Selmon
* 2019: Rai Benjamin
* 20212020 OT: Rai Benjamin
* 2022: Rai Benjamin

Notes|

* 440 yd hurdles 1914–27, 1929–31, 1953–55, 1957–58, 1961–63, 1965–67, 1969–71 and 1973; 400 m hurdles otherwise.

* The 1920, 1928, 1932, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event.

* 2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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US National Championship winners in men's indoor 600-yard dash

1906–1979
Amateur Athletic Union|

* 1906–7: E.B. Parsons
* 1908–9: Mel Sheppard
* 1910: Harry Gissing
* 1911: Abel Kiviat
* 1912: not held
* 1913: Abel Kiviat
* 1914–5: Tom Halpin
* 1916: Bill Bingham
* 1917: Earl Eby
* 1918: Marvin Gustavson
* 1919: Jack Sellars
* 1920: Earl Eby
* 1921: F. L. Murray
* 1922: Sid Leslie
* 1923: Earl Eby
* 1924: Walter Mulvihill
* 1925: Vincent Lally
* 1926: Horatio Fitch
* 1927: George Leness
* 1928–31: Phil Edwards (CAN)
* 1932: Alex Wilson (CAN)
* 1933–5: Milton Sandler
* 1936–7: Eddie O'Brien
* 1938: Jimmy Herbert
* 1939–40: Charles Belcher
* 1941: Jimmy Herbert
* 1942: Roy Cochran
* 1943: Lewis Smith
* 1944: Robert Ufer
* 1945–6: Elmore Harris
* 1947: George Guida
* 1948–9: Dave Bolen
* 1950–1: Hugo Maiocco
* 1952: Charles Moore
* 1953: Mal Whitfield
* 1954: Reggie Pearman
* 1955: Charles Jenkins
* 1956: Lou Jones
* 1957–8: Charles Jenkins
* 1959: Josh Culbreath
* 1960: Tom Murphy
* 1961: Eddie Southern
* 1962: Bill Crothers
* 1963: Jack Yerman
* 1964: Charles Buchta
* 1965: Jack Yerman
* 1966: Theron Lewis
* 1967: Jim Kemp
* 1968–70: Martin McGrady
* 1971: Andrzej Badenski
* 1972: Lee Evans
* 1973: Fred Newhouse
* 1974–5: Wes Williams
* 1976–7: Fred Sowerby (ANT)
* 1978: Stan Vinson
* 1979: Mike Solomon (TTO)

1981–1992
The Athletics Congress|

* 1980: Mark Enyeart
* 1981: Mike Solomon (TTO)
* 1982: Fred Sowerby (ANT)
* 1983: Eugene Sanders
* 1984: Mark Rowe
* 1985–6: Elvis Forde (BAR)
* 1987: Ian Morris (TTO)
* 1988: Ken Lowery
* 1989: Mark Rowe
* 1990: David Patrick
* 1991: Andrew Valmon
* 1992: Mark Everett

1993–present
USA Track & Field|

* 1993: Mark Everett
* 1994-2014: not held
* 2015: Casimir Loxsom
* 2017: Erik Sowinski
* 2019: Donavan Brazier

Notes|

*Distances have varied as follows: 600 yards (1906–1986), 500 meters (1987–1993) except 600 meters (odd numbered years since 2015)

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1952 USA Olympic track and field team

Men's track
and road athletes|

* Bill Ashenfelter
* Horace Ashenfelter
* Thane Baker
* Art Barnard
* John Barnes
* Roland Blackmon
* Art Bragg
* Charlie Capozzoli
* Gene Cole
* Ted Corbitt
* Jack Davis
* John Deni
* Harrison Dillard
* Warren Druetzler
* Victor Dyrgall
* James Gathers
* Tom Jones
* Price King
* Henry Laskau
* Ollie Matson
* Bob McMillen
* Javier Montez
* Charles Moore
* Reggie Pearman
* Lindy Remigino
* Browning Ross
* Wes Santee
* Leo Sjogren
* Dean Smith
* Andy Stanfield
* Curt Stone
* Adolf Weinacker
* Mal Whitfield
* Fred Wilt
* Lee Yoder

Men's field athletes|

* Walter Ashbaugh
* Bob Backus
* Arnold Betton
* Jerome Biffle
* George Brown
* Milt Campbell
* Walt Davis
* Jim Dillion
* Marty Engel
* Samuel Felton
* Jim Fuchs
* Jim Gerhardt
* Fortune Gordien
* Meredith Gourdine
* Bud Held
* Darrow Hooper
* Sim Iness
* Don Laz
* Bob Mathias
* George Mattos
* Bill Miller
* Parry O'Brien
* Bob Richards
* George Shaw
* Floyd Simmons
* Ken Wiesner
* Cy Young

Women's track athletes|

* Constance Darnowski
* Dolores Dwyer
* Mae Faggs
* Catherine Hardy
* Barbara Jones (r)
* Janet Moreau

Women's field athletes|

* Janet Dicks
* Mabel Landry
* Marjorie Larney

Coaches|

* Brutus Hamilton (men's head coach)
* Clyde Littlefield (men's assistant coach)
* Larry Snyder (men's assistant coach)
* Charles Werner (men's assistant coach)
* Lucile Wilson (women's manager-coach)

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