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]
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...
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 - 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 …
ON TRACK WITH BILL TOOMEY : ’68 Decathlon Champ Has a …
1989年6月18日 · Toomey was a 29-year-old schoolteacher when he won a gold medal in the 10-event decathlon for the United States at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. The year after,...
Bill Toomey (born January 10, 1939) | World Biographical …
William Anthony Toomey is a former American track and field competitor and the 1968 Olympic decathlon champion. A graduate of Worcester Academy and the University of Colorado, Toomey was named American Broadcasting Company"s Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year in 1968.
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.
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 ...
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.