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Bob Beamon
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American track and field athlete
OverviewAI-generated
Bob Beamon was a male basketball player from Milwaukee, United States. Born on August 29, 1946, he stood 191 centimeters tall and weighed 70 kilograms. His career is associated with the team _Retired Basketball.
As an author, Beamon is credited with one work, titled *The man who could fly*. Crossref records indicate a total of five works associated with his name. He has been referenced by 307 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- The man who could fly
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Milwaukee
Discography
- STRANGERS2020
- Lights in a Hall2021
- FIGHTING MY DEMONS2022
- THE GRAVELORDS2025
- Abyssal2025
- Nightmare on Prune Street2025
- FLOOD SZN2025
- MEET THE GHOSTS2025
- HOLY HAMMER FIST2026
- CASUALTIES TO A RIGHTEOUS WAR2026
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,236x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,203x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2017 · cited 6,175x
- The Complete Genome Sequence of
<i>Escherichia coli</i>
K-12
· 1997 · cited 5,919x
- <i>Stan</i>
: A Probabilistic Programming Language
· 2017 · cited 5,836x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Nationality
- American
- Born
- Robert Beamon , ( 1946-08-29 ) August 29, 1946 (age 79) , South Jamaica, Queens , New York City, U.S.
- Height
- 6 ft 3 in (191 cm)
- Weight
- 154 lb (70 kg)
- Country
- United States
- Sport
- Track and field
- Event
- Long jump
- College team
- The University of Texas at El Paso
- Personal best
- 8.90 m OR ( Mexico City 1968 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- _Retired Basketball
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bob
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Jamaica
- Occupation
- basketball player
- Educated at
- Adelphi University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 1968 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- basketball
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 70
- Image
- 1992 Bob Beamon.JPG
- Height
- 191
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Bob Beamon
- date of birth
- 1946-08-29
- sports discipline competed in
- long jump
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Beamon (born August 29, 1946) is an American former track and field athlete, best known for his world record in the long jump at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968. By jumping 8.90 m ( 29 ft 2+1⁄4 in), he broke the existing record by a margin of 55 cm (21+3⁄4 in) and his world record stood for almost 23 years until it was broken in 1991 by Mike Powell. The jump is still the Olympic record and the second-longest in history unassisted by wind.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bob Beamon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.