Off The Beaten Path: Ethel Catherwood | Video

Cliff Naylor | 7/30/2012

North Dakota has produced just one native-born Olympic gold medalist. You would think since our state has only a single champion, that person would hold a place of honor in the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Hall of Fame, or their likeness cast in a statue and displayed on the capitol grounds.

Instead, very few residents even know this person`s name.

Fourteen years ago, Cliff Naylor researched the history of this obscure athlete and we revisit that classic Off the Beaten Path report from 1998.

Click on the video link for the full story.

Ethel Catherwood`s Gold Medal winning jump at the 1928 Olympic games was 5` 2 9/16".

Over the next two weeks, 10,500 athletes will compete in the London games. While there are no native born North Dakotans in this year`s games, three out-of-state athletes that attended Dickinson State University and one from NDSU will compete in the 30th Olympiad.

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