Harold Vincent Connolly
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Harold Vincent Connolly (August 1, 1931 in Somerville, Massachusetts) is a retired American athlete and hammer thrower. He won a gold medal in the hammer throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Connolly received his undergraduate degree from Boston College in 1952 and attended graduate school at UCLA. He has published a website for the hammer throw, hammerthrow.org.
During the 1956 Games, Connolly started a famous love affair with the Czech discus thrower Olga Fikotova. They married after the Olympics and divorced in 1973.
[edit] Records held
- World Record: Hammer Throw - 68.54 m
- World Record: Hammer Throw - 71.26 m (June 20, 1975 - )
[edit] Championships
- 1956 Olympics: Hammer Throw (1st)
- 1960 Olympics: Hammer Throw (8th)
- 1964 Olympics: Hammer Throw (6th)
- 1968 Olympics: Hammer Throw
[edit] External links
- Harold Connolly at the USA Track and Field Hall of Fame
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