Dallas Long
| File:Dallas Long 1960.jpg Long in 1960 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Dallas Crutcher Long |
| Born | June 13, 1940 Pine Bluff, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Died | November 10, 2024 (aged 84) Whitefish, Montana, U.S |
| Height | 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 118 kg (260 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | Shot put, discus throw |
| Club | Pasadena Athletic and Country Club |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | SP – 20.68 m (1964) DT – 52.51 m (1961)[1][2] |
Dallas Crutcher Long (June 13, 1940 – November 10, 2024) was an American track and field athlete, who mostly competed in the shot put. Between 1959 and 1964 he set six official and five unofficial world records.
Sports Achievements
[edit | edit source]His first world record was at the 1959 Santa Barbara Easter Relays, the last in 1964 in the USA vs USSR dual meet. Long attended the University of Southern California.[3] He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics, where he won a bronze medal behind fellow Americans Bill Nieder and Parry O'Brien. One of his coaches was Frantisek (Frank) Louda, an American-Czech who had held the European hammer throw record in the 1930s. Long returned four years later to Tokyo for the 1964 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal. Domestically he won the AAU title in 1961 and the NCAA title in 1960–62.[1]
While a senior at North High School in Phoenix, Arizona, he set the National High School Record in the shot put. He was Track and Field News "High School Athlete of the Year" in 1958.[4][5]
Long's best mark in the shot put was a then-world record of 20.68 meters (67 ft 10 in) set at the U.S.-U.S.S.R. dual meet in 1964.[6]
He was a member of the SoCal Olympians.
Later Life and Career
[edit | edit source]After retiring from competitions, Long became a dentist and a physician specializing in emergency medicine. He and his wife Barbara lived in Dover Shores, Newport Beach. He served as a defense witness in the Rodney King trial against the Los Angeles Police Department police officers Laurence Powell and Stacey Koon in early 1993. In 1996, he was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame.[7]
By 2020, Dallas had retired, remarried and moved to Whitefish, Montana, with his wife Suzanne. He died there while under hospice care from complications of Parkinson's disease, on November 10, 2024, at the age of 84.[8][9]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Dallas Long. sports-reference.com
- ^ Dallas Long Archived September 1, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. trackfield.brinkster.net
- ^ USC OLYMPIANS: 1904–2004 Archived September 16, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, USC Trojans Athletic Department, Accessed August 13, 2008.
- ^ Dallas Long Archived August 18, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Track & Field News.
- ^ Dallas Cutcher Long III (1940) Archived November 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved on September 1, 2017.
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External links
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- Image of children watching Dallas Long conduct dental examinations, Los Angeles, California,1965. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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- 1940 births
- 2024 deaths
- American dentists
- American men shot putters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in track and field
- Sportspeople from Pine Bluff, Arkansas
- World record setters in the sport of athletics
- University of Southern California alumni
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Track and field athletes from Arizona
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field)
- North High School (Phoenix, Arizona) alumni
- NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners
- USC Trojans men's track and field athletes
- 20th-century American sportsmen