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In 1989 until 1991, De Vega took a break from athletics. During this period she got an academic degree and got married. She entered the 1991 Asian Athletics Championships and made a decent finish of seventh place. [10] De Vega retired after competing at the track and field event of the 1994 Manila-Fujian Games held in October. She won the 100m ...
Pre's Rock, a memorial to Steve Prefontaine who died after finishing 4th in the 1972 Olympic 5000 m Memorial to Bronisław Malinowski, who died one year after winning an Olympic gold medal Plaque commemorating Ryan Shay, who died while running the 2008 United States Olympic trials marathon. A number of athletics competitors have died during ...
Lillian Barbara Board, MBE (13 December 1948 – 26 December 1970) was a British athlete. She won the silver medal in the 400 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and two gold medals at the 1969 European Championships in Athletics in Athens.
She made her Olympic debut four years later, winning a silver medal in the 200 meter distance at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. At the 1988 U.S. Olympic trials, Griffith set a new world record in the 100-meter sprint. She won three gold medals at the 1988 Olympics. In February 1989, Griffith Joyner abruptly retired from athletics.
Milne died in a ski collision with a tree in practice at Innsbruck four days before the opening of the Games. [18] Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypecki (58), Britain – Luge – 1964, Innsbruck. Kay-Skrzypecki died one day after a luge crash during practice at Innsbruck, which occurred eight days before the opening of the Games. [19]
Alfred Oerter Jr. (/ ˈ ɔːr t ər /; September 19, 1936 – October 1, 2007) was an American athlete and a four-time Olympic Champion in the discus throw.He was the first athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympic Games.
Retiring after the Berlin Olympics, Robinson remained involved in athletics as an official. [1] She worked in a hardware store for many years. [5] In 1977, she was inducted into the USA National Track and Field Hall of Fame. In 1996, she carried the Olympic Torch for the Atlanta Olympic Games. [3]
He was the 1960 Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon, having won silver in 1956. He had previously won a gold at the 1955 Pan American Games . Johnson was the U.S. team's flag bearer at the 1960 Olympics and lit the Olympic cauldron at the Los Angeles Games in 1984 .