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Key facts
- Full name
- Dallas Crutcher Long
- Born
- June 13, 1940 ( 1940-06-13 ) , Pine Bluff, Arkansas , U.S.
- Died
- November 10, 2024 (2024-11-10) (aged 84), Whitefish, Montana , U.S
- Height
- 193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
- Weight
- 118 kg (260 lb)
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event s
- Shot put , discus throw
- Club
- Pasadena Athletic and Country Club
- Personal best s
- SP – 20.68 m (1964), DT – 52.51 m (1961)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Long
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Pine Bluff
- Place of death
- Whitefish
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 1960 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 118
- Image
- Dallas Long 1960.jpg
- Height
- 193
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- date of birth
- 1940-06-13
- Commons category
- Dallas Long
- name in native language
- Dallas Crutcher Long
- personal best
- 52.51
- sports discipline competed in
- shot put
- date of death
- 2024-11-10
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Encyclopedic overview
Pathe film of his last world record @1:20 Video on YouTube
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dallas Long” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.