Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Awori had entered the meet with hopes of becoming the first triple winner in IC4A history. He was forced, however, to compete in four trial heats in the afternoon as well as the preliminary round in the broad jump. In his second jump, a leap of only 22 ft. 2 in., the sprint star slightly injured his leg and was unable to qualify for the finals...
Awori was in effect a one-man team, scoring 15 of the Crimson's points. After winning the broad jump in the afternoon with a leap of 23 ft. 5 1/4 in., Awori returned that evening to sweep the dash and the hurdles...
...look first. This winter it is "Look quick-there goes another world's record." Three weeks ago, at the Millrose Games in New York, the Soviet Union's rubber-legged broad jumper, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, casually smashed Ralph Boston's old record with a prodigious leap of 26 ft. 10 in. The pole-vault record has been boosted five times by four different vaulters, the last a muscular Finn named Pentti Nikula, who soared an incredible 16 ft. 8¾ in. How much faster, farther and higher can the athletes go? Lots, it seems...
...Purple's Bill O'Brien put his team on the scoreboard with a winning leap in the high jump of 6 ft. 4 in. But the Crimson grabbed second and third in that event, swept the broad jump, and snatched first and second in the pole vault and first and third in the shot put to build up a commanding lead before the mile...
...high jump, Jack Spitzberg leaped 6 ft. 3 1/2 in., his lifetime best. Spitzberg had also won the G.B.I. jump the night before. Chris Ohiri duplicated this feat in the broad jump, and set a new Dartmouth field house record on Saturday with a leap...