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...week's Penn Relays, High Jumper John Thomas, 19, loped toward the barrier, kicked high, sailed over the bar to set a world's outdoor record of 7 ft. 1½ in. The previous mark of 7 ft. 1 in. was set by Russian High Jumper Yuri Stepanov in 1957 while wearing built-up shoes of a type now banned. Thomas already holds the indoor record of 7 ft. 2½ in., but only outdoor jumps gain international recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, may 9, 1960 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

Academician V. D. Feck, and Professors G. V. Stepanov, B. P. Tokin, and G. V. Efinov compose the remainder of the delegation. L. P. Stupin will possibly accompany them as an interpreter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report States Russian Team To Make Trip | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...Russian Yuri Stepanov (6 ft. 1 in.) holds the unofficial world high-jump record of 7 ft. 1 in.; American Jesse Owens (5 ft. 111n.) holds the running broad-jump record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Grasshopper's Hop | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...Sept. 9), California's Ernie Shelton got into the act at the University Games in Paris, sported a triangular aluminum cookie cutter on his take-off foot, designed :o give him more "spring action." He inished a low (6 ft. 6 in.) third. Ahead: Russia's Yuri Stepanov (6 ft., 6 in.) and Igor Kashkarov (6 ft. 7 in.), still wearing platform soles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 16, 1957 | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

When Russia's Yuri Stepanov racked up a world's record high jump of 7 ft. 1 in. early this summer, western trackmen admitted to mild surprise. Few had ever heard of Yuri, and he had not even made the Soviet Olympic squad. When Russia's Olympian Igor Kashkarov (who cleared only 6 ft. 10½ in. to finish third at Melbourne) claimed a jump of 7 ft. ¼ in., western trackmen began to wonder what was going on. The seven-foot barrier, which had once tripped everyone but California's Charley Dumas, seemed suddenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sneaky Sneakers? | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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