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Between 1905 and 1907, Coe set world records in the 8-, 12-, and 16-pound shot put events. As a member of the Michigan Wolverines men's track and field team, he won the 1906 national intercollegiate championship in the shot put and placed second in the discus. At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, England, he finished fourth in the shot put ...
Two weeks later at the CIF California State Meet he easily won the 16 Lb. Shot Put event, at the time a separate event from the standard high school 12 Lb., but lost to high school version to a new national record by Homer Robertson. He also finished third in the discus throw. [8] At USC, he won the 1958 NCAA Championship.
Carter is married and has three children; D'Andra, Michelle (an Olympic athlete and gold medalist), and Michael Jr. Michelle was the 2005 and 2006 NCAA indoor shot put champion, and won the 2016 gold medal at the Rio Olympics on the last of her six throws, edging two-time defending champion Valerie Adams of New Zealand. [5]
During the first night of the US Olympic Track and Field Trials, Crouser shattered a shot put world record by launching his first attempt 23.37 meters. He threw a 16-pound shot roughly ...
A self-described math and physics guy, Crouser does not believe a limit exists on how far the 16-pound, metal ball can be thrown. But he knows these are the variables that will decide it: release ...
In 1985, he put an impressive 20.36 metres (66.8 ft) with the prep shot of 5.4 kilograms (12 lb). After graduating from St. Albans High School in 1985, he attended Texas A&M University where he broke school records (set by Randy Matson ) with a put of 21.88 metres (71.8 ft) with the 7.26 kilograms (16.0 lb) full size shot.
Fonville, who handled the 16-pound (7.3 kg) shot like the average citizen does a baseball, might have been the greatest in the history of the event. Tall, powerful and perfectly co-ordinated, he was becoming the idol of weight fans throughout the nation. He destroyed the lingering notion that a good shot put man had to resemble a two-legged hippo.
A Michigan county sheriff's deputy was fatally shot while pursing a suspected stolen vehicle in Detroit, the Oakland County sheriff's office said Sunday. Bradley J. Reckling, who was on duty in an ...