Word: ovanesyan
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Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, 26, and the U.S.'s Ralph Boston, 25, are the two best broad jumpers in the world, and they could hardly be better matched...
...farther he would go-and last week he nearly jumped out of sight. In the final U.S. Olympic trials at Los Angeles, Boston bounded 27 ft. 101 in. on his very first try-a full 7 in. past the world mark held by Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan. But the wind gauge registered 5 m.p.h. (maximum allowable: 4.4 m.p.h.), and the new record did not count. So back went Boston for another try with the wind 1 m.p.h. Legs flailing, one arm flung dramatically above his head, he sailed 27 ft. 41 in. Ralph was satisfied. "Now the pressure...
...space of a few evening hours that the fans hardly know where to 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...
...shine is in the high jump, the distance races (5,000 and 10,000 meters), the javelin, and in such curiosities in the U.S. as the hop-step-and-jump, the walking race and the steeplechase. They also boast strong men in the broad jump and discus: Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, who recently broke Ralph Boston's broad jump record with a prodi gious leap of 27 ft. 3 in., and Vladimir Trusenev, who last month set a new discus record of 202 ft. 2½ in. But the U.S.'s Boston will be tough to beat at home...
...days after announcing that an unheralded Soviet discus thrower had set a new world record of 202 ft. 2| in., Moscow trumpeted still more exultant news: Broad Jumper Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, 24, who placed third in the 1960 Olympics, had sailed 27 ft. 3 in. during a meet in Armenia, thus smashing the 27-ft. 1¼-in. world record set by U.S. Olympic Champion Ralph Boston in last year's U.S.Soviet track meet in Moscow. Preparing for the fourth U.S.-Soviet track meet in Palo Alto, Calif, next month the Russians had two other new records to announce...