Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world record holder, arrived in Mexico City complaining of two sore knees and tendonitis in one elbow. Toomey had a pulled hip muscle for which he was being treated with cortisone. Even so, in the first test, the 100-meter dash, Toomey hit the tape in 10.4 sec., best time of the day and good enough for 959 points under the complicated decathlon scoring system.* Then, a soaring 25-ft. 9¾-in. long jump, best of Toomey's career, gave him another 994 points and kept him in the lead. After that, a poor 45-ft. Hin. shotput...
...Evans, favorite to win last week's 400-meter dash at Mexico City. So shaken that he had to be helped onto a bus bound for the stadium from the Olympic Village, Evans recovered, won his race and shattered the world record with a clocking of 43.8 sec. Behind him came two other U.S. blacks-Larry James and Ron Freeman-to give the U.S. its first sweep of the games...
...Randy Matson won the shotput and set an Olympic record of 67 ft. 10¾ in.; California's Bob Seagren soared to another new Olympic mark by clearing 17 ft. 8½ in. in the pole vault. In the short dashes, California's Jim Hines clocked 9.9 sec. in the men's 100 meters to tie his own pending world record, and Georgia's Wyomia Tyus won the women's 100 in 11 sec. flat. Then, in the field events, there was Al Oerter's fourth straight discus victory and Bob Beamon...
...shot, swam and ran his way to victory in the modern pentathlon, a quasi-military test of skill and stamina that many experts consider to be even more demanding than the decathlon. After four days of brutal competition, Perm ran 4,000 meters across country in 14 min. 25.7 sec. to edge Hungary's Andras Balczo for the gold medal by the thin margin of 11 points...
...Pierre Trentin, 24, a leatherworker from Créteil, a Paris suburb, was given "not a chance" to win the 1,000-meter cycling race by his own nation's sports newspaper, L'Equipe. From a standing start, he pedaled the distance in 1 min. 3.91 sec.-averaging 35 m.p.h.-to earn himself both the gold medal and a world record...