Robert LeGendre

At the 1924 Olympics in Paris, LeGendre was one of five Georgetown Hoyas representing the United States in track and field. LeGendre won a bronze medal for the pentathlon, setting a new world record in the long jump (25' 5-5/8", or 7. 76 m). An injury had kept LeGendre from qualifying in the individual long jump event, which was won by fellow American William DeHart Hubbard, whose gold-medal distance was a foot short of LeGendre's mark. After his athletic career, Bob LeGendre signed a Hollywood contract, but never pursued movie stardom. He returned to Georgetown and earned a degree in dentistry, later serving in the U. S. Navy Dental Corps. Lt.

Robert "Bob" LeGendre was a star athlete for Georgetown University and a two-time Olympian (1920, 1924), noteworthy for setting a world record in the long jump on his way to a bronze medal in the pentathlon at the 1924 Games in Paris.

At the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium, LeGendre narrowly missed the podium with a fourth-place finish in the pentathlon (after losing a third-place tie-breaker).

LeGendre was the collegiate pentathlon champion in 1920, 1921, and 1922, before graduating from Georgetown with the Class of 1922.

As a member of Georgetown's Student Army Training Corps during World War I, LeGendre was able to compete in the Inter-Allied Games held in France in 1919, winning first place in the pentathlon.

Star track and field athlete for Georgetown University (1918-1922).

Born January 7, 1898, in Lewiston, Maine, to French-Canadian parents, Bob LeGendre was one of ten children. His father died when Bob was only a year old, and Bob's mother was left to raise the kids on her own (she would die when Bob was 19). Bob spent a year at Hebron Academy in Maine before enrolling at Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. Bob LeGendre was a multi-sport athletic star at Georgetown, excelling at track and field while also participating in football and baseball. Acclaimed for his all-around athletic ability, LeGendre competed in the "classic" pentathlon, featuring the 200-meter sprint, javelin throw, discus throw, long jump, and 1500-meter run.