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In 1952 he set a new US record of 256 feet 4 inches (78.13 meters) in the javelin. [4] Young competed at age 24 in the javelin throw for the US at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland, where he won the gold medal on his birthday. [5] Young continued to throw during his mid-20s, and four years later prepared to defend his Olympic ...
Metrication occurred in 1976, so all subsequent championships were measured in metric distances. In 1986, international javelin design regulations were changed and the center of gravity of the implement moved forward. As a result, throwing distances were in general shorter, flat landings fewer, and legal throws (tip-down) easier to attain post ...
Held continues to compete in masters competitions. In 1970, Held set a United States national masters javelin record of 229 ft 3 in (69.88 m). [2] On October 4, 2008, at the Club West Masters Track meet in Santa Barbara, Held set the age 80+ World Record in the pole vault [7] adding to the M75 World Record he already holds.
Norwalk, California: CIF California State Meet: June 3, 1989 Triple jump: 16.72 m (54 ft 10 in) Kenny Hall Tara High School: Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Eugene, Oregon: USATF National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships [33] July 29, 2004 Triple jump: 16.11 m (52 ft 10 in) Charles Mayfield Muir High School: Pasadena, California: Arcadia ...
The javelin would go out into the air and fall into the water like a whaler’s harpoon.” There were other diversions for the passengers: fine meals, movies in the evenings, sing-alongs and live ...
Kathryn Joan "Kate" Schmidt (born December 29, 1953) is an American former world record holder in the javelin throw.A native of California, graduate of Woodrow Wilson Classical High School, [3] and alumnus of UCLA, she won bronze medals at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics.
In 1988, Bunevacz enrolled at University of California at Los Angeles. During his college years, he competed for the Bruins track and field team, eventually becoming team captain. He set the university record for the javelin throw. [3] [4] By the age of 21, he had a personal record of 7,316 points for the decathlon. [5]
Stephen Andrew Seymour (October 4, 1920, in New York City – June 18, 1973, in Los Angeles) was an American physician and track and field coach and athlete, who in the 1948 London Olympics won America's first silver medal in the javelin throw, a feat that to-date would be repeated only in the 1952 Olympics. Setting the American javelin record ...