Lee Barnes

For the New Orleans chef, see Lee Barnes (cook).

Lee Stratford Barnes (July 16, 1906 – December 28, 1970) was an American athlete from Utah who competed in the men's pole vault. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and died in Oxnard, California.^[1]

Lee Barnes

Barnes circa 1926
Personal information
Nationality	American
Born	(1906-07-16)July 16, 1906
Died	December 28, 1970(1970-12-28) (aged 64)
Medal record Olympic medal record Men's athletics Representing the  United States 1924 Paris Pole vault

At the 1926 AAU Relays

Barnes attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.^[2] He competed in Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and won gold, beating fellow American pole vaulter Glenn Graham, who received silver.

Barnes has the honor of being the only known stunt double for silent film star Buster Keaton during Keaton's independent years of film making. In Keaton's 1927 feature College, Barnes performed a pole vault through an open upper-story window.^[3]