Ralph Boston
Ralph Boston , born the May 9th 1939 with Laurel, is a former American athlete , specialist in the Long jump.
It took part in three editions of the Olympic Games of summer consecutive. In 1960 with Rome, he became Olympic champion with a jump with 8.12 Mr. Four years later, he was beaten by the Britannique Lynn Davies and was satisfied with the money for four centimetres.
With the Olympic Games of summer of 1968 of Mexico City, it was in the role of the favorite with its world records to 8.35 m carried out three years earlier with Modesto. But after the " jump of the siècle" to 8.90 of Bob Beamon, all was clear. With 8.16 m, Boston took the third place behind Beamon and the Est-Allemand Klaus Beer.
Boston established several world records, in particular beating the record of Jesse Owens before seeing Bob Beamon establishing a reference which will last very a long time.
Prize list
Olympic Games of summer
- Olympic Games of 1960 with Rome (Italy)
- Gold medal in long jump
- Olympic Games of 1964 with Tokyo ()
- Medal of money in long jump
- Olympic Games of 1968 with Mexico City ()
- Bronze medal in long jump
Pan-American Plays
- Pan-American Plays of 1963 with São Paulo ()
- Gold medal in long jump
- Pan-American Plays of 1967 with Winnipeg (Canada)
- Gold medal in long jump
Records
- World records of the long jump with 8.21 m the August 12th 1960 with Walnut (improvement of 8 cm of the record of Jesse Owens which dated from the May 25th 1935)
- World records of the long jump with 8.24 m the May 27th 1961 with Modesto (improvement of its preceding record)
- World records of the long jump with 8.28 m the July 16th 1961 with Moscow (improvement of its preceding record, will be beaten by Igor Ter-Ovanessian with Erevan the June 10th 1962)
- World records of the long jump with 8.31 m the August 15th 1964 with Kingston (record held by Igor Ter-Ovanessian equalized)
- World records of the long jump with 8.34 m the September 12th 1964 with Los Angeles (improvement of its preceding record fellow-prisoner with Igor Ter-Ovanessian)
- World records of the long jump with 8.35 m the May 29th 1965 with Modesto (improvement of its preceding record, will be beaten of 55 cm by Bob Beamon with Mexico City the October 18th 1968)
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