Word: rittenburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes on the IC4As, but in each of my individual events I was just below the qualifying times. Since there was no one event at which I excelled, I thought maybe I could qualify in the Pentathlon," Rittenburg explains...
...Rittenburg won his third straight Track and Field Association-USA National Indoor Pentathlon Championship on January 23. The pentathlon is the indoor counterpart of the decathlon. The indoor version consists of five events, the 55 meter high hurdles, the long jump, the shot put and the grueling 1000 meter race...
...Rittenburg captured the title with his best performance ever, as a fourth place finish in the hurdles, a second place in the long jump, a first place finish in the high jump and a second in the 1000 gave Rittenburg a total of 3638, over 200 points better than his nearest competition...
...nagging injuries to his knee and back have blocked Rittenburg's path to success, and his future is still uncertain...
...High School, the Mather House resident had no idea what a pentathlon was. He played freshman football in the fall. But the track squad of 1979 was laden with talented half milers--that was the year the two-mile relay team won the Millrose Games in New York--and Rittenburg was moved to the 400 meter hardles during the spring season...