Robert Eugene "Bob" Richards (born February 20,1926) is a versatile athlete who made three US Olympic Teams in two events: the 1948,1952, and 1956 Summer Olympics as a pole vaulter, and as a decathlete in 1956.
Robert Eugene "Bob" Richards (born February 20,1926), nicknamed the "Vaulting Vicar" or the "Pole Vaulting Parson" in his competitive days, was a versatile athlete who made three US Olympic Teams in two events. He competed in the 1948,1952, and 1956 Summer Olympics as a pole vaulter, and as a decathlete in 1956.