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Athletics At The 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's Triple Jump
The men's triple jump event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, had an entry list of 25 competitors, with two qualifying groups (25 jumpers) before the final (12) took place on Friday July 30, 1976. The top twelve and ties, and all those reaching 16.30 metres advanced to the final. The qualification round was held in Thursday July 29, 1976. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Viktor Saneyev of the Soviet Union, the first man to win three gold medals in the triple jump. He matched Vilho Tuulos of Finland in 1920 through 1928 as the only men to have three medals of any color in the event (Tuulos had one gold, two bronze). It was the seventh consecutive Games that the Soviet Union had reached the podium, and third consecutive gold medal for the Soviets, in the event. James Butts's silver put the United States on the men's triple jump podium for the first time since 1928. Brazil won a tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Stadium (Montreal)
Olympic Stadium (french: Stade olympique) is a multi-purpose stadium in Montreal, Canada, located at Olympic Park in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district of the city. Built in the mid-1970s as the main venue for the 1976 Summer Olympics, it is nicknamed "The Big O", a reference to both its name and to the doughnut-shape of the permanent component of the stadium's roof. It is also disparagingly referred to as "The Big Owe" in reference to the high cost to the city of its construction and of hosting the 1976 Olympics as a whole. The tower standing next to the stadium, the Montreal Tower, is the tallest inclined tower in the world with an angle elevation of 45 degrees. The stadium is the largest by seating capacity in Canada. After the Olympics, artificial turf was installed and it became the home of Montreal's professional baseball and football teams. The Montreal Alouettes of the CFL returned to their previous home of Molson Stadium in 1998 for regular season games, but continued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelson Prudêncio
Nelson Prudêncio (April 4, 1944 – November 23, 2012) was a Brazilian athlete who competed in the triple jump. He won silver medals at the 1967 and 1971 Pan American Games and 1968 Summer Olympics, and a bronze at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Prudêncio was ranked world's #2 in 1968, #3 in 1972, #5 in 1975, and #8 in 1971.Nelson Prudêncio sports-reference Prudêncio's jump of at the 1968 Olympics was the world record before extended it to a few minutes later. Prudêncio was Professor of Physical Education at the |
Eugeniusz Biskupski
Eugeniusz Biskupski (17 December 1947 – 10 September 2010) was a Polish triple jumper. He was born in Karczmy Karczmy is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zelów, within Bełchatów County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Zelów, north of Bełchatów, and south-west of the regional capital Ł ... and represented the club Legia Warszawa. He finished seventh at the 1966 European Junior Championships, eleventh at the 1972 European Indoor Championships, sixth at the 1975 European Indoor Championships, ninth at the 1976 European Indoor Championships, seventh at the 1976 Olympic Games and tenth at the 1978 European Championships. He became Polish champion in 1977 and 1979, rivalling with Michal Joachimowski, and Polish indoor champion in 1978. His personal best jump was 16.73 metres, achieved in 1975. References 1944 births 2007 deaths People from Bełchatów County Polish male triple jumpers Athle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rayfield Dupree
Rayfield Dupree (born April 2, 1953) is an American former track and field athlete, who competed in the men's triple jump at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Competition Dupree was a junior at California State University, Long Beach when he came fourth in the 1973 NCAA Championships. He represented the U.S. Army in the 1976 Olympic trials. The following season he was at Middle Tennessee State University and became Ohio Valley Conference indoor champion. He qualified for the 1980 Olympic trials but withdrew. In June 1981 Dupree was working as a mail carrier in Los Angeles when an irate customer attacked him with lye. He was hospitalised for three weeks and off work for three months. He recovered to compete in the 1982 U.S. Outdoor Championships, driving from Los Angeles to Knoxville, Tennessee. Post competition In 1993 Dupree founded the Team World Track club near his home in Moreno Valley, California. In 2005 he pleaded guilty to lewd and lascivious conduct in connection with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Vyčichlo
Jiří Vyčichlo (born 17 May 1946) is a retired Czechoslovak triple jumper. He was born in Prague and represented the club Dukla Praha Dukla Prague ( cz, Dukla Praha) was a Czech football club from the city of Prague. Established in 1948 as ATK Praha, the club won a total of 11 Czechoslovak league titles and eight Czechoslovak Cups, and in the 1966–67 season, reached the sem .... He finished seventh at the 1974 European Championships, ninth at the 1975 European Indoor Championships, and ninth at the 1976 Olympic Games. He became Czechoslovak champion in 1968, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977 and 1978; and Czechoslovak indoor champion in 1974, 1975 and 1978. His personal best jump was 16.87 metres, achieved in May 1976 in Prague. (last updated 2001) References ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Haynes
Thomas Zarlef Haynes (born July 14, 1952) is a retired American athlete, who mostly competed in the triple jump. He won a silver medal at the 1975 Pan American Games and placed fifth at the 1976 Olympics. Competing for the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders track and field The Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders are the men's and women's athletic teams at Middle Tennessee State University, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. MT athletic teams participate in NCAA Division I (Bowl Subdivision in football) in Conference USA. MT co ... program, Haynes won the 1974 triple jump at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships with a mark of 16.63 meters. Domestically Haynes won the AAU triple jump championships outdoors in 1976 and indoors in 1975–77. In the long jump he won the AAU indoors title in 1977. Haynes was a career military officer, and after retiring from competitions became head track coach at the United States Military Academy. References 1952 births Living pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Kolmsee
Wolfgang Kolmsee (born 25 September 1954) is a retired (West) German triple jumper. He was born in Oberhausen. He finished eighth at the 1975 European Indoor Championships, fourth at the 1976 European Indoor Championships, sixth at the 1976 Summer Olympics, no-marked at the 1977 European Indoor Championships, finished sixth at the 1977 World Cup and eleventh at the 1980 European Indoor Championships. Kolmsee became West German champion in 1976, also winning national silver medals in 1974, 1977, 1981 and 1982. Indoors he became West German champion in 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1978. He represented the clubs Salamander Kornwestheim, VfB Stuttgart and LAC Quelle Fürth Lac is the resinous secretion of a number of species of lac insects, of which the most commonly cultivated is ''Kerria lacca''. Cultivation begins when a farmer gets a stick that contains eggs ready to hatch and ties it to the tree to be infes .... His personal best jump was 16.68 metres (1976). References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama, Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Peru, and a small portion of westernmost Brazil in South America, along with certain Caribbean and Atlantic islands. Places that use: * Eastern Standard Time (EST), when observing standard time (autumn/winter), are five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−05:00). * Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), when observing daylight saving time (spring/summer), are four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−04:00). On the second Sunday in March, at 2:00 a.m. EST, clocks are advanced to 3:00 a.m. EDT leaving a one-hour "gap". On the first Sunday in November, at 2:00 a.m. EDT, clocks are moved back to 1:00 a.m. EST, thus "duplicating" one hour. Southern parts of the zone (Panama and the Caribbean) do not observe daylight saving time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico ''''. . making it the world's 13th-largest country by are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), and the largest Spanish language, Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world. Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product, GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshiaki Inoue
was a Japanese triple jumper who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phi .... References 1951 births 1993 deaths Japanese male triple jumpers Olympic male triple jumpers Olympic athletes for Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1974 Asian Games Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games Japan Championships in Athletics winners 20th-century Japanese people {{Japan-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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