Lane frost birthdate
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Lane Clyde Frost
Oct 12, 1963 - Jul 30, 1989
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resultat written bygd Jo Aguirre
Lane Clyde Frost was born in LaJunta Colorado on October 12, 1963 to Clyde and Elsie Frost and died in the arena July 30, 1989 at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo as a result of injuries sustained when the bull Takin' Care of Business träffad him after the ride. He had just completed a successful 91-point ride and dismounted and landed in the dirt. The bull turned and hit him in the back with his horn breaking several of his ribs He initially rose to his feet, waving at Tuff Hedeman for help. As he took a couple of steps, he fell to the ground, causing his heart and lungs to be punctured by the broken ribs. He was rushed to Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead. No autopsy was performed. He posthumously finished third in the event.He was an American professional bull tillägg who wa
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Frost, Lane
1963-1989
American bull rider
Lane Frost was a rising star in bull riding who won championships at rodeos across the West during the 1980s. He was the sixteenth ranked cowboy in the nation in his first year as a professional bull rider, at age nineteen, and in the top fifteen every year after that. He became the world champion of bull riding at the age of twenty-four, but his promising career was cut short two years later when he was gored by a bull at one of the most famous rodeos of all, the Cheyenne Frontier Days, in 1989.
Early Years
Bull riding was in Frost's blood. His father, Clyde, was a bull rider, and was, in fact, away on the rodeo circuit when Frost was born. Frost's mother, Elsie, recalls that even as a baby, Frost was fascinated by bull riding. As the story is told on the Lane Frost home page, starting when Frost was about five months old he would wake up just as the bull riding competition, always the last event of a rodeo, was beginning. If
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