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Jul 22, 2020 · In Tokyo, he ran 200-metre sprints out of the blocks in the final few days before his race and controlled his blood sugar levels as best he could. His confidence grew as the 10,000m approached. Mills went into the Tokyo Games having run a six-mile time that would have ranked him eighth in the world at the equivalent 10,000m Olympic distance.
10,000 m. William Mervin Mills (born June 30, 1938), also known by his Oglala Lakota name Tamakhóčhe Theȟíla, is an American Oglala Lakota former track and field athlete who won a gold medal in the 10,000 metre run (6.2 mi) at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Billy Mills (born June 30, 1938, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, U.S.) is an athlete who was the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in the 10,000-metre race, achieving a dramatic upset victory at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Mills, who was part Sioux, grew up on an Oglala Sioux Indian reservation and, after he was orphaned at the age of ...
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Jul 21, 2021 · In one of sporting history’s greatest upsets, Marine Billy Mills ran an Olympic record 28:24.4 10,000 meters to take gold in Tokyo on Oct. 14, 1964. Fifty-seven years later, Mills, 83, has vivid ...
Oct 17, 2020 · So when Mills landed in Tokyo 1964, he was ready to conquer the Games. However, he was virtually unknown as all eyes were on Australian Ron Clarke, who had set the world record in 1963, and Mohammed Gammoudi, who had won the 5,000m and the 10,000m events at the 1963 Mediterranean Games. As expected, Clarke took the early lead, while Mills and ...
Oct 14, 2014 · 5. The context: How do we place Mills’s victory historically? He broke the Olympic record, despite the heavy track (28:24.4, bettering Pyotr Bolotnikov’s 28:32.2 from 1960).
Billy Mills remains the USA’s one and only gold medallist in the men’s 10,000m, a feat he achieved at Tokyo 1964. The story of Billy Mills, the only American to this day to have won 10,000m Olympic gold, is so remarkable that it is the subject of a 1983 film entitled Running Brave. A member of the Ogala Sioux tribe, Mills endured a harsh ...
