Blaine Lindgren, a Salt Lake City native who won a silver medal in track and field in the 1964 Olympics, died Saturday. He was 80.
Lindgren is remembered in Olympic history for just missing a gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles in Tokyo, where he leaned too soon toward the tape at the finish line and U.S. teammate Hayes Jones was awarded the victory.
Lindgren is the most recent University of Utah graduate to earn an Olympic medal for the United States in the Summer Games. Women's swimmer Wang Xiaophing medaled for China in 1992.