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Both knew Yang would need to defeat Johnson by 10 seconds to win. Johnson did not break, finishing a mere 1.2 seconds behind Yang to claim the gold medal. [ 2 ] Yang beat Johnson in seven of the ten events, but Johnson beat Yang by significant margins in the shot put and discus to win.
Find out who took home gold, silver and bronze in 1960. Official results of the athletics decathlon men event at the Rome Summer Olympics.
Aug 14, 2024 · Rafer Johnson (born August 18, 1934, Hillsboro, Texas, U.S.—died December 2, 2020, Los Angeles, California) was an American athlete and actor, who won a gold medal in the decathlon at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.
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Dec 3, 2020 · Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin in 1968, died Wednesday. He was 86.
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His three world decathlon records were set in 1955, 1958, and at the 1960 US Olympic Trials. Johnson's Olympic gold medal was won dramatically in the final 1,500 over his UCLA college roommate, C. K. Yang of Chinese Taipei, who took the silver medal. Yang was close after nine events and was a better 1,500 metre runner, but Johnson followed ...
Decathlon, Men. Scoring by 1950/1952 point tables. By 1960, Rafer Johnson, who had won silver in 1956, had established himself as the top decathlete in the world, having broken the world record in 1958 in the USA-USSR meet and at the 1960 AAU/Olympic Trials.
Dec 2, 2020 · Rafer Johnson, who carried the American flag into Rome’s Olympic Stadium in August 1960 as the first Black captain of a US Olympic team and went on to win gold in a memorable decathlon duel,...
