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Clyde Lovellette was the first Triple Crown winner, [8] completing the trifecta over a two-year span with a college championship and Olympic gold medal in 1952 followed by an NBA title in 1954. [6] K.C. Jones and Bill Russell were teammates on championship teams in college ( San Francisco Dons ), the NBA ( Boston Celtics ) and the Olympics ...
The men's triple jump world record was broken at the competition in 1924, 1932, 1936, 1956 and 1968. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, three men improved the record a total of five times at the high altitude of Mexico City. [1] The women's world record was broken at the Olympics in Tokyo in 2021.
Michael Alexander Conley Sr. (born October 5, 1962) is an American former track and field athlete who competed primarily in the triple jump and the long jump. [1] [2] In the triple jump, he won an Olympic gold medal in 1992, silver in 1984, and gold in the 1993 World Championship.
Long jump: 8.74 m A (+2.0 m/s) Erick Walder: University of Arkansas: April 2, 1994 UTEP Springtime Invitational El Paso, Texas [2] Triple jump: 17.87 m (+1.3 m/s) Jaydon Hibbert: University of Arkansas: May 13, 2023 SEC Championships Baton Rouge, Louisiana [19] 17.54 m Mike Conley Sr. University of Arkansas: June 1, 1985 Austin, Texas: Austin ...
The triple jump was a part of the inaugural modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, although at the time it consisted of two hops on the same foot and then a jump. [4] The first modern Olympic champion, James Connolly, was a triple jumper. Early Olympics also included the standing triple jump, although this has since been removed from the Olympic ...
Harrison went to Brookfield Central for high school, where he competed in football, basketball and track. He holds schools records in the long, high, and triple jump. His triple jump of 52 feet 4.5 inches at the 1983 Golden West Invitational ranked him #2 triple jump prep in the nation, [2] and currently stands as the Wisconsin high school #1 all-time triple jump by over 2 feet. [5]
This is a list of the NCAA Division I outdoor champions in the triple jump. The event was only held in Olympic years until 1959. Measurement of the jumps was conducted in imperial distances (feet and inches) until 1975. Metrication occurred in 1976, so all subsequent championships were measured in metric distances.
The first world record in the men's triple jump was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912. That inaugural record was the 15.52 m performance by Dan Ahearn in 1911. [1] As of June 21, 2009, 27 world records have been ratified by the IAAF in the event. [1]