Dallas Crutcher Long (born June 13, 1940) is a retired
American
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track and field athlete, who mostly competed in the shot put. Between 1959 and 1964 he set six official and five unofficial world records. His first was at the 1959
Santa Barbara Easter Relays, the last in 1964 in the USA vs USSR dual meet. Long attended the
University of Southern California.
[USC OLYMPIANS: 1904–2004]
, USC Trojans Athletic Department, Accessed August 13, 2008. He competed at the
1960 Summer Olympics
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, where he won a bronze medal behind fellow Americans
Bill Nieder and
Parry O'Brien. One of his coaches was Frantisek (Frank) Louda, an American-Czech who had held the European hammer throw record in the 1930s. Long returned four years later to
Tokyo for the
1964 Summer Olympics
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and won a gold medal. Domestically he won the AAU title in 1961 and the NCAA title in 1960–62.
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While a senior at ]North High School North High School may refer to:
* North High School (Phoenix, Arizona)
* North Pulaski High School, Jacksonville, Arkansas
* North High School (Bakersfield, California)
* John W. North High School, Riverside, California
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in Phoenix, Arizona, he set the National High School Record in the shot put. He was '' Track and Field News'' "High School Athlete of the Year" in 1958.Dallas Cutcher Long III (1940)
. Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved on September 1, 2017.
Long's best mark in the shot put was a then-world record of 20.68 meters (67'10½") set at the U.S.-U.S.S.R. dual meet in 1964.
After retiring from competitions Long became a
dentist
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and a physician specializing in emergency medicine. He served as a defense witness in the
Rodney King trial against the
Los Angeles Police Department police officers Laurence Powell and
Stacey Koon
Stacey Cornell Koon (born November 23, 1950) is an American convicted criminal and former sergeant with the Los Angeles Police Department. He is one of the four police officers who were responsible for beating Rodney King in 1991. He was sentence ...
in early 1993. In 1996 he was inducted into the
National Track and Field Hall of Fame.
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As of 2020, Dallas lives in Whitefish, Montana with his wife Suzanne.
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References
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Image of children watching Dallas Long conduct dental examinations, Los Angeles, California,1965.
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
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, University of California, Los Angeles.
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1940 births
Living people
American dentists
American male shot putters
Athletes (track and field) at the 1959 Pan American Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in track and field
Sportspeople from Pine Bluff, Arkansas
World record setters in athletics (track and field)
University of Southern California alumni
Track and field athletes from Arizona
Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States
Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
North High School (Phoenix, Arizona) alumni
Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games