Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Helsinki was a stringy (5 ft. 10 in., 145 lb.), 29-year-old FBI agent named Horace Ashenfelter. As he stood with eleven rivals at the starting line in the Olympic Stadium, he was the only American to reach the finals of the Olympic steeplechase, a punishing 3,000-meter run around a 400-meter track studded with 3-ft. barriers and a barricaded water jump...
Until the qualifying rounds began, only Ashenfelter himself would have bet much on his chances. A former Penn State distance man, and an ex-Air Force lieutenant, he had won the National Amateur Athletic Association's 10,000-meter championship in 1950, the 3,000-meter steeplechase title the next year. But he had run the steeplechase only eight times in all before going to Helsinki. And there he was up against the world's toughest competition: Russia's Vladimir Kazantsev, the Soviet Union's best bet for a gold medal in men's track...
...same day that Ingrova set a women's Olympic javelin mark of 165 ft. 7.05 in., husband Emil cracked the Olympic 5,000-meter record in 14 min. 6 sec. With a 10,000-meter record already in the bag, he entered the 26-mile marathon three days later, broke another Olympic record in 2 hrs. 23 min. 3.2 sec. to become the only Olympic athlete ever to sweep the three distance races...
...breaking the 1948 record of Italy's Adolpho Consolini. ¶ Parson Bob Richards, who set an Olympic pole vault record of 14 ft. 11.14 in. ¶ U.S. Air Force Sergeant Mai Whitfield, who tied his own 1948 Olympic record to take the 800-meter run in 1 min. 49.2 sec., later missed his try for a second gold medal in the 400-meter run (won by Jamaica's George Rhoden in a record...
...Australia's Marjorie ("The Lithgow Flash") Jackson, who doubled in the 200-meter and 100-meter sprints, equaling the world 100-meter mark of 11.5 sec. ¶ Andy Stanfield, who tied Jesse Owens' 1936 Olympic record of 20.7 sec. in the 200-meter dash to lead a U.S. sweep of the event...