Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should have little trouble in the sprints and hurdles, with men like Harrison Dillard (no-meter hurdles), Charles Moore (400-meter hurdles), Andy Stanfield (200 meters) and Mai Whitfield (800 meters). But as the races lengthen from 1,500 meters to the 26-mile marathon, the Swedes, Finns, Slavs and Britons take over...
Champion's Confidence. A lineal descendant of the ancient pentathlon,* the decathlon is the most searching test of athletic skill and endurance ever devised: four running events (100, 400 & 1,500 meters and the 110-meter hurdles); six field events (javelin, discus, shotput, pole vault, high jump and broad jump). At 21, already a veteran of eight decathlon meets, four times national champion and the world recordholder, handsome Bob Mathias meets to a remarkable degree the physical specification for this Olympic challenge. He is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), with the reaching stride of a hurdler or high-jumper...
...Michigan State's lanky economics senior Clarke Scholes, 21, who tied the Olympic record (set in 1948) to take first place in the 100-meter free-style final in 57.3 seconds...
...University of Iowa senior Bowen Stass-forth, who clipped more than three seconds off the Olympic 200-meter breaststroke mark to finish...
...Ohio State's Yoshi Oyakawa, 18, who won first place in the 100-meter backstroke in 1 min. 5.7 sec., two-tenths of a second faster than the Olympic mark set in 1936 by the U.S.'s Adolph Kiefer...