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...Oerter, 25, two-time Olympic gold medal winner: the discus throw in the U.S.-Poland track meet, with a heave of 204 ft. 10½ in., breaking Russian Vladimir Trusenev's world record by 2 ft. 8 in. The U.S. won the meet...
...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. And so will the top U.S. discus thrower, Al Oerter, who was the first man to hurl the discus 200 ft.; at the A.A.U. championships, Oerter...
Said Guest: "I feel quite sick." >-Two weeks after New York's Al Oerter became the first man to fling a discus over 200 ft. (his mark: 200 ft. 5½ in.), Russia's Vladimir Trusenev smashed Oerter's record with a heave of 202 ft. 2¾ in. during a track meet in Leningrad. Sighed Oerter: "You just can't throw them far enough these days...
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