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United States At The 1964 Summer Olympics
The United States competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. 346 competitors, 267 men and 79 women, took part in 159 events in 19 sports. Athletics ;Men's Competition Men's 100 meters *Bob Hayes *Mel Pender *Trent Jackson Men's 200 meters *Henry Carr * Mike Larrabee *Dick Stebbins Men's 400 meters * Mike Larrabee *Ulis Williams *Olan Cassell Men's 800 meters *Tom Farrell *Jerry Siebert *Morgan Groth Men's 1.500 meters * Dyrol Burleson * Tom O'Hara *Jim Ryun Men's 5,000 meters *Bob Schul *Bill Dellinger *Oscar Moore Men's 10,000 meters *Billy Mills * Gerry Lindgren *Ron Larrieu Men's Marathon * Buddy Edelen *Billy Mills *Peter McArdle Men's 110 meter Hurdles * * * Men's 400 meter Hurdles * * * Men's 3,000 meter Steeplechase * George Young *Vic Zwolak *Jeff Fishback Men's 4 × 100 m Relay * Men's 4 × 400 m Relay * Men's 20 km Walk * * * Men's 50 km Walk * * * Men's Long Jump *Ralph Boston * * Men's triple jump * * * Men's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Olympic Committee
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is the National Olympic Committee and the National Paralympic Committee for the United States. It was founded in 1895 as the United States Olympic Committee, and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The USOPC is one of only four NOCs in the world that also serve as the National Paralympic Committee for their country. The USOPC is responsible for supporting, entering and overseeing U.S. teams for the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Youth Olympic Games, Pan American Games, and Parapan American Games and serves as the steward of the Olympic and Paralympic Movements in the United States. The Olympic Movement is overseen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC is supported by 35 international federations that govern each sport on a global level, National Olympic Committees that oversee Olympic sport as a whole in their respective nations, and national federations that administer each sport at the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Lindgren
Gerald "Gerry" Paul Lindgren (born March 9, 1946) is an American track and field runner who set many long-standing high school and national records in the United States. In 1965, Lindgren and Billy Mills both broke the world record for the six-mile run when they finished in an extremely rare tie at the AAU National Championships, both running exactly 27:11.6. Lindgren went on to win a record 11 NCAA collegiate championships with Washington State University. Running career High school In 1964, in his senior year at Rogers High School, Lindgren ran 5000 meters in 13 minutes and 44 seconds flat, on a clay track in Compton, CA setting a U.S. high school record for the distance that would remain unbroken for 40 years, until Galen Rupp ran 13:37.91 on July 30, 2004. Among his other records he established that year was his time of 8:40.0 in an indoor race that shattered the previous U.S. national high school mark by an incredible 43 seconds; it was the fastest high school time ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Allen (cyclist)
Michael Gary Allen (born May 20, 1935) is a former American cyclist Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from two .... He competed in the team time trial at the 1964 Summer Olympics. References 1935 births Living people American male cyclists Olympic cyclists for the United States Cyclists from Los Angeles Cyclists at the 1964 Summer Olympics {{US-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cycling At The 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's Team Time Trial
The men's team road race time trial was a road bicycle racing event held as part of the Cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics The cycling competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics consisted of two road cycling events and five track cycling events, all for men only. The 4000m individual pursuit event was introduced at these Games. Medal summary Road cycling Track cyclin ... programme. It was held on 14 October 1964. 33 teams of 4 cyclists competed. The course was slightly over 36.6 kilometres long, with 3 laps being required to give a total distance of 109.893 kilometres. Results Notes * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's team time trial Cycling at the Summer Olympics – Men's team time trial Road cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Montemage
Thomas Montemage (January 21, 1927 – January 31, 2014) was an American cyclist. He competed at the 1948, 1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ... and 1964 Summer Olympics. References 1927 births 2014 deaths American male cyclists Olympic cyclists for the United States Cyclists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Buffalo, New York American track cyclists {{US-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Castilloux
Raymond Castilloux (born November 23, 1934) is former racing cyclist, who was born in Canada. At age 14, he went to spend the summer in Buffalo, New York, while visiting his relatives. He eventually started school there and worked as steel-worker in the open-hearth. At age 18, he was interested in ice speed skating and in the summer he took up cycling. He participated in different races, and became a professional cyclist. He became a US citizen and became the No. 1 cyclist in the 1964 classification for the Olympics of 1964 in Central Park, New York. He then represented the United States in the individual road race at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Ray also represented the United States in 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 Guatema .... References 1934 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hiltner
Victor Vincente of America also known as VVA, born as Michael Beckwith Hiltner (born March 7, 1941), is an American author, poet, designer, and cyclist credited with being a creator of the :mountain bike. Athlete Road racing Victor began riding and racing with the Santa Monica Cycling Club on a road bike at the age of 16 in Santa Monica, California. He entered his first competition on the Fourth of July, 1957, under his birth name of Michael Beckwith Hiltner. He was first Junior (under 17 years of age) to reach the finish line at the 50-mile southern California road racing championships at the end of that summer, with only one rider, Bob Teztlaff, a Senior, ahead of him. The momentum continued to build as he eventually made it to the 1959 Tour du St-Laurent in Canada where he won four of the ten stages and the general classification (GC). This set the stage for Victor’s international recognition. From this auspicious beginning he went on to an eleven-year cycling career. Highl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Allis
John Cotton Allis (born May 31, 1942) is an American cyclist who entered into international road cycling competition in the 1960s. He was one of the strongest competitive cyclists in the United States in the early 1970s, winning the United States National Road Race Championships in 1974. He is an inductee of the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame. Biography Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Allis began racing while a student at Princeton University, and had not yet graduated when he led three of his Princeton teammates to compete in the world road championships in Ronse, Belgium. The team performed poorly in the road race, but better in the time trial, where they took 20th place. This was the first American presence in international cycling competition since the era of Major Taylor. Allis stayed to race in Europe when his teammates returned to the United States, signing on as a category 1 amateur with the Paris club, AC Boulogne-Billancourt (ACBB). He was the first English s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cycling At The 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's Individual Road Race
The men's individual road race was a road bicycle racing event held as part of the Cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. It was held on 22 October 1964. The course, just short of 25 kilometres, was covered 8 times for a total distance of 194.832 kilometres. 132 cyclists from 35 nations competed. The maximum number of cyclists per nation was four. The event was won by Mario Zanin of Italy, the nation's second victory in the men's individual road race and third consecutive Games in the top two. Kjell Rodian earned Denmark's first medal in the event with his silver. Walter Godefroot's bronze was Belgium's fifth medal in five Games (with 2 in 1952 making up for missing the podium in 1956). Background This was the seventh appearance of the event, previously held in 1896 and then at every Summer Olympics since 1936. It replaced the individual time trial event that had been held from 1912 to 1932 (and which would be reintroduced alongside the road race in 1996). Eddy Merckx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Weill
David Lawson Weill (born October 25, 1941, Berkeley, California) is an American former athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw. Biography While at Stanford Weill won the 1962 and 1963 NCAA. He competed for the United States in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ..., Japan in the discus throw where he won the bronze medal, an achievement magnified by the fact that he had only finished third the 1964 US Olympic Trials. He also finished third on three occasions in the US AAU championships. In 1967 he threw his personal best of 62.99m at the Sacramento Invitational Meet, although this was not enough to win the event and he finished third. References American male discus throwers Olympic bronze me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Oerter
Alfred Oerter Jr. (September 19, 1936 – October 1, 2007) was an American athlete and a four-time Olympic Champion in the discus throw. He was the first athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympic Games. Oerter is an inductee of the IAAF Hall of Fame. Olympic athlete Oerter was born in 1936 in Astoria, Queens, New York City and grew up in New Hyde Park; he attended Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park. He began his track and field career at the age of 15 when a discus landed at his feet and he threw it back past the crowd of throwers. Oerter continued throwing and eventually earned a scholarship to the University of Kansas in 1954 where he became a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. A large man of almost 6' 4" (193 cm) and 280 pounds (127 kg), Oerter was a natural thrower. Competing for Kansas, he became the NCAA discus champion in 1957; he successfully defended his title the following year. Oerter began his Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Caruthers
Edward Julius Caruthers Jr. (born April 13, 1945) is an American former athlete who competed mainly in the men's high jump event during his career. Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, he competed for the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico, where and when he won the silver medal in the men's high jump event. Dick Fosbury, whose new jumping style went on to revolutionize the sport, won the gold medal. Ed. Caruthers also was a member of the 1964 US Olympic Team with an 8th-place finish in the high jump. Caruthers was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the 12th round of the 1968 NFL/AFL draft as a defensive back from the University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T .... References External links Profile* Living peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
