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Dewey Lee Yoder Jr (July 18, 1930 – May 17, 2023) was an American hurdler, known as Lee Yoder. Yoder attended Mercersburg Academy as a youth, where he trained under Jimmy Curran. He came second in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1952 US Olympic trials, beaten only by eventual gold medalist Charles Moore (also from Mercersburg). He competed in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Running for the University of Arkansas, Yoder finished second at the 1952 NCAA Track and Field Championships behind Bob Diviney from Kansas. Yoder later played field hockey, including as part of the bronze medal winning American team at the 1967 Pan American Games. He was manager for the United States field hockey team at the 1984 Olympics.

References

1. Lee Yoder
2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lee Yoder Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
3. Here’s 1952 U.S. Olympic Track Squad, Arizona Republic, June 29, 1952
4. "2012 Arkansas Men's Track and Field Media Guide". January 10, 2012. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
5. Olderr, Steven (September 14, 2009). The Pan American Games / Los Juegos Panamericanos: A Statistical History, 1951–1999, bilingual edition / Una Historia Estadística, 1951–1999, edición bilingüe. McFarland. ISBN 9781476604688. Retrieved March 25, 2018 – via Google Books.

External links

• Lee Yoder at World Athletics
• Lee Yoder at Olympedia

v t e 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)

• 1930 births
• 2023 deaths
• Arkansas Razorbacks men's track and field athletes
• Mercersburg Academy alumni
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
• American male hurdlers
• Olympic track and field athletes for the United States
• American male field hockey players
• Track and field athletes from Philadelphia
• Olympic coaches for the United States
• Field hockey players at the 1967 Pan American Games
• Medalists at the 1967 Pan American Games
• Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in field hockey
• Penn Quakers men's track and field athletes
• 20th-century American sportsmen