Bill Toomey - Wikipedia
William Anthony Toomey (born January 10, 1939) is an American former track and field competitor and the 1968 Olympic decathlon champion. [1] He won 23 of the 38 decathlons he competed in, scoring over 8,000 points a dozen times. He was on the cover of the October 1969 issue of Track and Field News. [2]
THE INELIGIBLE MARRIED MAN - Sports Illustrated Vault | SI.com
1971年4月12日 · On a recent weekday evening Bill Toomey, the 1968 Olympic decathlon champion and world-record holder, was having dinner in his new home in Goleta, Calif., near Santa Barbara. Always...
Bill Toomey - Colorado Sports Hall of Fame
Bill Toomey is a legend. Handsome and articulate, the former schoolteacher was credited with eight of the eleven best scores in the recorded history of the decathlon. He won five straight U.S. Amateur Athletic Union championships before finally breaking the world decathlon record in December of 1969 with 8,417 points.
He Knew It Was Time to Retire at Stroke of 10 - Los Angeles Times
1992年6月21日 · Bill Toomey won the Olympic decathlon championship in 1968 at Mexico City and retired the next year after setting a world record. When Gene Wojciechowski of The Times asked him if he...
Bill TOOMEY - Olympics.com
He won the first of his four AAU pentathlon titles in 1960 and turned to the decathlon in 1963, placing fifth in the AAU. In 1964 he took fourth place at the Final Trials, only missing the Tokyo team by 109 points.
Bill Toomey - 1969 — AAU Sullivan Award
Bill won the 1969 Sullivan Award as the nation's outstanding amateur athlete. He was inducted into the USA Track & Field Hall of Fame in 1975 and into the Olympic Hall of Fame in 1984. Bill received the Distinguished Service Award (DSA) from the United States Sports Academy in 2000.
Bill Toomey (2004) - University of Colorado Athletics
A two-time All-American in the pentathlon (1960, 1961), Bill Toomey is the only CU athlete to win a gold medal as an individual in the Olympics. In winning the decathlon at the 1968 summer games in Mexico City, he set a record at the time by scoring 8,193 points.
Bill Toomey - Team USA
William “Bill” Toomey is an American former track and field athlete and the decathlon gold medalist at the Olympic Games Mexico City 1968. The Pittsburgh native won 23 of the 38 …
Bill Toomey - Phi Delta Theta Museum
Bill Toomey has been one of the most recognizable names in track & field for over five decades. In 1960, he won the first of his four Amateur Athletic Union pentathlon titles at Colorado. In 1963, he set his sights a bit higher, becoming a decathlete, amassing five more AAU titles.
Toomey's law of averages leads to decathlon gold
When he was 12 years old, Bill Toomey was playing with a piece of ceramic pottery when it shattered and severed the nerves in his right wrist. Doctors told him that he would never again be able to use the hand – a prognosis that he later to confound by putting the shot, throwing the discus and the javelin and carry the pole for the vault, all ...