People in the News, 1st prize
Brian Lanker
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
01 January, 1984
Portraits of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic gold medal winners: Kusuo Kitamura (Japan), 1500m freestyle. At 14-years-old, he was the youngest male in any sport ever to earn a gold medal in an individual event.
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