Senior Olympics medal for track and field awarded to Rudolf Bredenbeck
date: label: date made
content: 1986
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Senior Olympics medal for track and field awarded to Rudolf Bredenbeck on June 6, 1987 at the Cleveland Regional Senior Olympics for first place in the discus. Rudolf Bredenbeck (1931-2016) competed in long jump and shot put in high school (Brooklyn High School, Brooklyn, Ohio) and college (University of Cincinnati) but began competing in track and field events later in life, when his daughter Julie BredenbeckCorp (nee Bredenbeck)(b.1962) began competing in high school. He continued to compete in the Masters Division and the senior Olympics and was inducted into the Ohio Senior Olympics Hall of Fame's inaugural class in 2007. (https://ohio.nsga.com/extra.asp?ID=7693). This was collected along with sports objects from daughter, Julie and Julie's two daughters, Bailey (b. 1991) Aumiller and Hanna BredenbeckCorp (b. 1988) , representing sports multigenerational appeal.
label: Description (Brief)
content: (https://obits.cleveland.com/us/obituaries/cleveland/name/rudolf-bredenbeck-obituary?id=19463555)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: Track and Field
label: level of sport
content: Olympics
label: level of sport
content: Senior Division
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Sports & Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Julie BredenbeckCorp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2020.0017.07
label: accession number
content: 2020.0017
label: catalog number
content: 2020.0017.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medal, track and field
label: Object Name
content: track and field medal
label: Object Name
content: medal, senior summer olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ribbon (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 43.18 cm x 4.445 cm x 4.445 cm