Word: medalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the grinding 10,000-meter race. Spurred on by the maddening memory of a foot operation that had kept him off the 1972 U.S. Olympic team, he won an emotional barefoot sprint down the straightaway to finish third and make the squad. Madeline Manning Jackson, a 1968 gold medalist, became at 28 the first American woman to do 800 meters in less than two minutes. Running "on the Lord's behalf," Salvation Army Worker Manning hopes to shave her time of 1:59.81 down to 1:52, four seconds faster than the world record...
Alex Vik suffered from the duck hooks all day and tied Spence Fitzgibbons at 81. Vik, who has been medalist in most of the matches, quick hooked five times and consequently only hit 11 greens on his way to four double-bogeys. "I have never hooked the ball. I stayed up last night writing a paper and I'm right-handed. I think that had something to do with my round," Vik said. Vik also suffered from playing sloppily around the greens as well as from not hitting a straight drive until the 18th...
...team medalist, in addition to the top two individual medalists, will advance to the NCAA tourney in June...
Senior Bobby Thompson carded a 79 while playing number two to make him Harvard's medalist. Thompson's clutch holes were the seventh and the par three 160-yard seventeenth. On the seventh, a par four, he split the narrow fairway with a 4-wood off the tee and gouged a wedge that skipped up against the flagstick. He bladed an eight iron for his second ringer of the day but missed the birdie putt...
...team also proved that they are indeed in a slump. Everyone had problems, including number one man Alex Vik who lost to Doug deBettencourt. On Monday, Vik bested deBettencourt in a dramatic finish, but yesterday the former Massachusetts Junior champ turned his game around to win medalist honors with...