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Decathlon. Universiade. 1965 Budapest. Decathlon. 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.
After graduating from the University of Colorado in 1962, Bill Toomey obtained a master's degree in education from Stanford. Although he was a promising all-round athlete while at Colorado, his performances there did not presage his future greatness. He won the first of his four AAU pentathlon titles in 1960 and turned to the decathlon in 1963 ...
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.
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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 decathlons he competed in throughout his career, scoring more than 8,000 points a dozen times. He also won a record five Amateur Athletic Union decathlon titles.
Jun 21, 1992 · By SHAV GLICK. June 21, 1992 12 AM PT. 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 ...
Bill Toomey. Actor: The World's Greatest Athlete. Bill Toomey was born on 10 January 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The World's Greatest Athlete (1973), Trees, Pests & People (2012) and Adam-12 (1968).
The following year, Toomey set an official world record of 8,417 points and one week later he married Mary Rand, Britain’s 1964 Olympic long jump champion (they later divorced). After a successful career as a television broadcaster and marketing consultant, Bill Toomey replaced Bo Roberson as coach at Cal/Irvine.
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