John Bennett (athlete)
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John Dale Bennett |
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November 14, 1930 (1930-11-14) (age 86) Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S. |
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John Dale Bennett (born November 14, 1930 in Grand Forks, North Dakota) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the Long Jump.
He competed for the United States in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the Long Jump where he won the silver medal. Bennett attended Marquette University and won two NCAA titles while competing for the school's track and field team.[1]
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- 1951: United States (Campbell, Bragg, Attlesey, Voight)
- 1955: United States (Richard, Williams, Thomas, Bennett)
- 1959: United States (Norton, Poynter, Woodhouse, Jones)
- 1963: United States (Young, Cassell, Johnson, Murchison)
- 1967: United States (Bright, Copeland, Turner, McCullouch)
- 1971: Jamaica (Daley, Quarrie, Lawson, Miller)
- 1975: United States (Collins, Edwards, Brown, Merrick)
- 1979: United States (Glance, Roberson, Wiley, Riddick)
- 1983: United States (Jackson, Robinson, Quow, Graddy)
- 1987: United States (Lewis, McNeill, McRae, Glance)
- 1991: Cuba (Peñalver, Stevens, Aguilera, Lamela)
- 1995: Cuba (Isasi, Aguilera, Lamela, García)
- 1999: Brazil (É. Ribeiro, de Oliveira, A. da Silva, C. da Silva)
- 2003: Brazil (de Lima, É. Ribeiro, A. da Silva, C. da Silva)
- 2007: Brazil (de Lima, R. Ribeiro, de Moraes, Viana)
- 2011: Brazil (Feitosa, Viana, André, de Barros)
- 2015: United States (Lee, Spearmon, Williams, McClain)
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1876–1878 New York Athletic Club |
- 1876: Isaiah Frazier
- 1877: William Livingston
- 1878: William Willmer
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1879–1888 NAAAA |
- 1879: Frank Kilpatrick
- 1880–81: John Voorhees
- 1882: John Jenkins
- 1883–86: Malcolm Ford
- 1887: Alexander Jordan
- 1888Note 1: Victor Schifferstein
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1888–1979 Amateur Athletic Union | |
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1980–1992 The Athletics Congress | |
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1993–onwards USA Track & Field | |
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- Note 1: In 1888 both the NAAAA and the AAU held championships
- OT: The 1920, 1928, 1932, and since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event.
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