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Running
Events |
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100 meters |
|
James Hines,1st - Charles Edward Green, 3rd - Capt. Mel Pender,
6th |
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110 meter hurdles |
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Willie Davenport, 1st - Ervin Hall, 2nd - Leon Coleman,
4th |
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400 meter hurdles |
|
Geoff Vanderstock, 4th - Ronald Whitney, 6th - Boyd Gittens,
injured in training and withdrew from preliminaries |
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200 meters |
|
Tommie Smith, 1st - John Carlos, 3rd - Larry Questad,
6th |
|
400 meters |
| Lee
Edward Evans, 1st- Larry James, 2nd - Ronald Freeman,
3rd |
|
800 meters |
| Thomas Farrell,
3rd - Ronald Kutchinski, eliminated in semi-finals,
Wade Bell, eliminated in preliminaries |
|
1,500 meters |
|
James Ryun, 2nd - Thomas Van Ruden, 9th - Martin Liquori,
12th |
|
3,000 meter steeplechase |
|
George Young, 3rd -
Conrad Nightingale, William Reilly both eliminated
in preliminaries |
|
5,000 meters |
| Jack
Bacheler, qualified for the finals, ill and could
not compete - Robert Day, Louis Scott both
eliminated in preliminary heats |
|
10,000 meters |
|
Tracy Smith, 11th -
Thomas Laris, 16th - Van Arthur Nelson, 28th |
|
20 kilometer walk |
|
Rudy Haluza, 4th - Thomas Dooley, 17th -
Ronald Laird, 25th |
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50 kilometer walk |
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Larry Young, 3rd - Goetz Klupfer, 10th -
David Romansky, 26th |
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Marathon |
|
Kenneth Moore, 14th - George Young, 16th - Ronald H. Daws,
22nd |
|
4x100 meter relay |
|
Charles Edward Green, Capt. Mel Pender, Ronnie Ray
Smith, James Hines -the team finished 1st |
|
4x400 meter relay |
|
Vincent Matthews, Ronald Freeman, Larry James, Lee
Edward Evans - the team finished 1st |
|
Decathlon |
|
William Toomey, 1st - Dr. Thomas Waddell, 6th - Richard Don
Sloan, 7th |
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Field
Events |
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Long jump |
|
Robert Beamon, 1st - Ralph Boston, 3rd - Charles Mays,
fouled on all jumps in the final round
|
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Triple jump |
|
Arthur Walker, 4th - David Smith, Norman Tate both
eliminated in the preliminaries |
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High Jump |
|
Richard Fosbury, 1st - Edward J. Caruthers, 2nd -
Reynaldo Brown, 5th
|
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Pole vault |
|
Robert Seagren, 1st - John Pennel, 5th - Casey Carrigan,
failed to make the qualifying height in the
preliminaries |
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Shot Put |
| J.
Randel Matson, 1st - George Woods, 2nd - David Maggard,
5th |
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Javelin throw |
| Mark
Murro, 9th - Frank Covelli, George Stenlund both
eliminated in the earlier rounds |
|
Discus throw |
| Al
Oerter, 1st - Jr., L. Jay Silvester, 5th - Gary Carlsen,
6th |
|
Hammer Throw |
|
Harold Connolly, 1st - Edward A. Burke, 12th -
Albert Hall, did not qualify for the final round |
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