Art Walker (triple jumper)
Arthur Franklin Walker is a retired American triple jumper, who participated at the Olympic Games in Mexico 1968 and Munich 1972.
He was the best American triple jumper in the end of the 1960s, won four consecutive Mt. San Antonio College titles, three national titles, and one indoor national title in 1967.
He took part at the 1965 Summer Universiade in Budapest, ending at 5th place.
Art Walker improved for three times the US record of triple jump, increasing it by more than one foot compared to the previous record. After winning three national championships, he lost by a whisker the bronze medal in the exciting triple jump event at 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, where despite a jump of - up to two days before the world record stood to - he ended only at the fourth place, behind the Italian jumper Giuseppe Gentile.
He took part also at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, ending at 29th place.
