Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first man to clear 15 ft. in the pole vault, Cornelius Warmerdam. went on to jump 15 ft. 71 in. and set a record that stood for 15 years. The first man to clear 16 ft. was John Uelses. He did it in 1962, but today he is just one of the gang. Outfitted with twangy new fiber glass poles, skivvy-suited acrobats are soaring to unexplored heights almost every week. In Toronto, a West Virginia public relations man named Dave Tork rocketed 16 ft. 2% in. and claimed a new indoor world record. The very next night, in Portland...
...world's best all-round athletes. A decathlon star, he won a silver medal at the 1960 Olympics. He has been clocked at 9.4 sec. for the loo-yd. dash-just .2 sec. off the world record - runs the 120-yd. high hurdles in 13.9 sec., broad-jumps 25 ft. 5 in., high-jumps 6 ft. 4 in., whirls the javelin 238 ft. 7 in. But the pole vault is not Yang's cup of oolong. Until his big jump Yang had never gone higher than 14 ft. 7 in. in competition. "I used to hate practicing...
...broken quickly. And so it was. Before the week was out, Finland's Pentti Nikula. 23, tuning up for a U.S. trip at a small indoor meet at home, vaulted an incredible 16 ft. 8¾ in., thus raising the mark by 5½ in. in one prodigious jump. "It came as no surprise to me," said the wiry Finn, who last June set the outdoor record of 16 ft. 2½ in.: "I am in top shape, and I'll shoot for 17 ft. next time...
...plays and passing. Chamberlain does almost everything, better than anyone else. He is the pros' fiercest rebounder, and his shooting repertory includes such inimitable specialties as the "Dipper Dunk" (in which he simply stretches up and lays the ball in the basket), the "Stuff Shot" (in which he jumps up and rams the ball through the net from above), and the "Fadeaway Jump"-a delicate, marvelously coordinated push shot from 15 ft. away that defensive men literally cannot block without fouling. At the free-throw line, where he is most uncomfortable-and most criticized-Chamberlain does a journeyman...
...next day the Harvard star, who was also studying for a statistics exam, faced Canadian champ Smith Chapman, who had beaten him in Canada previously. Niederhoffer got the jump on the fast and skillful Chapman, keeping him up front in the court. The match went to 2-2 in games and 12-12 in points in the final game when Chapman cracked under pressure, hitting several shots into the tin. Niederhoffer took the game...