William DeHart Hubbard
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| Olympic medal record | |||
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| Gold | 1924 Paris | Long jump | |
William DeHart Hubbard (born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 25, 1903 - June 23, 1976) was a track and field athlete who was the first African American to win an individual Olympic gold medal, in the long jump at the 1924 Paris Summer games.
He set a long jump world record of 25 ft and 10.75 in (7.89 m) at Chicago in June 1925 and equalled the world record of 9.6 sec for the 100 yards at Cincinnati a year later. He attended Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati and died in Cleveland in 1976.
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- William DeHart Hubbard at the Cincinnati Historical Society Library.
| Olympic champions in men's long jump |
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| 1896: Ellery Clark | 1900: Alvin Kraenzlein | 1904: Myer Prinstein | 1906: Myer Prinstein | 1908: Frank Irons | 1912: Albert Gutterson | 1920: William Pettersson | 1924: William DeHart Hubbard | 1928: Ed Hamm | 1932: Ed Gordon | 1936: Jesse Owens | 1948: Willie Steele | 1952: Jerome Biffle | 1956: Greg Bell | 1960: Ralph Boston | 1964: Lynn Davies | 1968: Bob Beamon | 1972: Randy Williams | 1976: Arnie Robinson | 1980: Lutz Dombrowski | 1984: Carl Lewis | 1988: Carl Lewis | 1992: Carl Lewis | 1996: Carl Lewis | 2000: Iván Pedroso | 2004: Dwight Phillips |
