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At Newberg High School, Cyrus lettered in football, basketball, and baseball. He did not pick up a javelin until his senior year of high school. At the PAC-9 District Meet, Cyrus took first in javelin with a throw of 60.7 meters (199'2" feet) and also placed fifth in triple jump. He also took third place at the Oregon State Meet, with a throw ...
Starting in the 1970s, many community colleges began recruiting foreign born athletes. With some of the best athletes in the world competing against American college freshmen and sophomores, an additional set of records for the best American born athletes was also included. T&FN was not 100% accurate when assessing which athletes are not Americans.
Murro was the top American at the Olympics, throwing 80.08 m (262 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) and placing ninth; [1] [4] Track & Field News ranked him as the world's 10th best javelin thrower that year. [5] The magazine put him on the cover of its April 1969 issue.
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He attended Princeton High School, graduating in 1957. [ 5 ] Kovalakides competed at the 1963 Pan American Games , winning the silver medal in the men's javelin throw event.
Thereafter, Pukstys quit the high school baseball team and went out for the track team, throwing the javelin 155 feet in his first track meet. For his first two years as an undergraduate, Pukstys enrolled in the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn and was a member of the DuPage Chaparrals track and field team.
Savannah Gao learned to throw tossing a football to her younger brother. Now she's one of the state's best with a javelin and headed to Division 1.
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 ...