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William DeHart Hubbard |
| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's athletics | |||
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| Gold | 1924 Paris | Long jump | |
William DeHart Hubbard (born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 25, 1903 - June 23, 1976) was a track and field athlete who was the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event; the running long jump at the 1924 Paris Summer games.
He subsequently set a long jump world record of 25 ft and 10.75 in (7.89 m) at Chicago in June 1925 and equaled the world record of 9.6 sec for the 100 yard dash at Cincinnati a year later.
He attended and graduated from Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, graduated with honors from the University of Michigan where he was a five-time Big Ten champion in track and field. He later served as a race relations adviser for the Federal Housing Authority. He died in Cleveland in 1976.
See also
References
- William DeHart Hubbard at the Cincinnati Historical Society Library.
| Olympic champions in men's long jump |
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| 1896: Ellery Clark • 1900: Alvin Kraenzlein • 1904: Myer Prinstein • 1906: Myer Prinstein • 1908: Frank Irons • 1912: Albert Gutterson • 1920: William Pettersson • 1924: William DeHart Hubbard • 1928: Ed Hamm • 1932: Ed Gordon • 1936: Jesse Owens • 1948: Willie Steele • 1952: Jerome Biffle • 1956: Greg Bell • 1960: Ralph Boston • 1964: Lynn Davies • 1968: Bob Beamon • 1972: Randy Williams • 1976: Arnie Robinson • 1980: Lutz Dombrowski • 1984: Carl Lewis • 1988: Carl Lewis • 1992: Carl Lewis • 1996: Carl Lewis • 2000: Iván Pedroso • 2004: Dwight Phillips |
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