Word: daneker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...physical limitations. Not once has Oerter gone to an Olympics as a favorite. In 1956 at Melbourne, the U.S.'s Fortune Gordien was picked to win; in 1960 at Rome, Rink Babka, another American, expected to take the gold medal; in 1964 at Tokyo, CzechoSlovakia's Ludvik Danek was the reigning world recordholder. Last week the man to beat was the U.S.'s Jay Silvester, who only a month before had broken the world mark with a prodigious heave of 224 ft. 5 in. Oerter defeated them all, despite the fact that ever since...
...field. Randy resignedly trudged over to the throwing ring, wound up and sailed the discus 213 ft. 9½ in. - 3 ft. 3½ in. farther than any American had ever hurled it before and barely 2 in. short of the world record held by Czechoslovakia's Ludvik Danek...
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