Dallas Long
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| Full name | Dallas Crutcher Long | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Script error: No such module "person date". Pine Bluff, Arkansas, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". Whitefish, Montana, U.S | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Shot put, discus throw | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Pasadena Athletic and Country Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bestTemplate:Pluralize from text | SP – 20.68 m (1964) DT – 52.51 m (1961)[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Dallas Crutcher Long (June 13, 1940 – November 10, 2024) was an American track and field athlete, who mostly competed in the shot put. Between 1959 and 1964 he set six official and five unofficial world records.
Sports Achievements
His first world record was at the 1959 Santa Barbara Easter Relays, the last in 1964 in the USA vs USSR dual meet. Long attended the University of Southern California.[3] He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics, where he won a bronze medal behind fellow Americans Bill Nieder and Parry O'Brien. One of his coaches was Frantisek (Frank) Louda, an American-Czech who had held the European hammer throw record in the 1930s. Long returned four years later to Tokyo for the 1964 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal. Domestically he won the AAU title in 1961 and the NCAA title in 1960–62.[1]
While a senior at North High School in Phoenix, Arizona, he set the National High School Record in the shot put. He was Track and Field News "High School Athlete of the Year" in 1958.[4][5]
Long's best mark in the shot put was a then-world record of 20.68 meters (67 ft 10 in) set at the U.S.-U.S.S.R. dual meet in 1964.[6]
He was a member of the SoCal Olympians.
Later Life and Career
After retiring from competitions, Long became a dentist and a physician specializing in emergency medicine. He and his wife Barbara lived in Dover Shores, Newport Beach. He served as a defense witness in the Rodney King trial against the Los Angeles Police Department police officers Laurence Powell and Stacey Koon in early 1993. In 1996, he was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame.[7]
By 2020, Dallas had retired, remarried and moved to Whitefish, Montana, with his wife Suzanne. He died there while under hospice care from complications of Parkinson's disease, on November 10, 2024, at the age of 84.[8][9]
References
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- ^ a b Dallas Long. sports-reference.com
- ^ Dallas Long Script error: No such module "webarchive".. trackfield.brinkster.net
- ^ USC OLYMPIANS: 1904–2004 Script error: No such module "webarchive"., USC Trojans Athletic Department, Accessed August 13, 2008.
- ^ Dallas Long Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Track & Field News.
- ^ Dallas Cutcher Long III (1940) Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved on September 1, 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."1964 U.S.-U.S.S.R dual meet". Once Upon a Time. April 14, 2014. Archived from the original on June 1, 2021. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dallas Long". USA Track & Field. Archived from the original on March 31, 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dallas Long, who won 2 Olympic medals while dominating the shot put in the 1960s, has died at 84". AP News. November 13, 2024. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dallas Long, Record-Setting Shot-Putter, Dies at 84". The New York Times. November 21, 2024. Retrieved November 21, 2024.
External links
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- Image of children watching Dallas Long conduct dental examinations, Los Angeles, California,1965. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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