Robert Nieman
Robert Lee Nieman (born October 21, 1947) is an American modern pentathlete who competed at the 1976 and 1988 Summer Olympics.[1] Nieman won the 1979 World Pentathlon Championship, and remains the only American man to capture a world title. Although Nieman had qualified for the 1980 Olympic team he did not compete due to the Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. He was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead.[2] Nieman won a team silver medal in épée fencing event at the 1983 Pan American Games.[3]
 Nieman in 1988 | ||||||||||||
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| Born | October 21, 1947 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | |||||||||||
| Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Modern pentathlon | |||||||||||
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Nieman with wife Susan in 1983
References
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- "Robert Nieman Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on January 11, 2018. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
- Caroccioli, Tom; Caroccioli, Jerry. Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. Highland Park, IL: New Chapter Press. pp. 243–253. ISBN 978-0942257403.
- Steven Olderr (July 11, 2015). The Pan American Games / Los Juegos Panamericanos: A Statistical History, 1951-1999, bilingual edition / Una Historia Estadistica, 1951-1999, edicion bilingue. McFarland. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-4766-0468-8.
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