Gregory Curtis Bell (born November 7, 1930) is a former track and field athlete who won the gold medal in the Long Jump at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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| Full name | Gregory Curtis Bell | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | November 7, 1930 (age 94) Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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He won three national AAU championships, two NCAA Championships, earned NCAA All-American status three times and was a four-time national AAU All-American. From 1956 to 1958, he was ranked first in the world in the long jump. He set an NCAA record in the long jump, which stood for seven years, and is a charter member of both the Indiana Track and Field and IU Athletic halls of fame.
Bell was inducted into the USATF Hall of Fame in 1988. Following his appearance in the Summer Olympics, he worked as director of dentistry at Logansport State Hospital for over 50 years and retired on 30 May 2020.[1]
Championships
edit- 1955 AAU: Long Jump (1st)
- 1956 Olympics: Long Jump – 7.83 m (1st)
- 1956 NCAA: Long Jump – (1st)
- 1957 NCAA: Long Jump – 8.10 m (1st)
- 1957 Penn Relays: Long Jump
- 1957 Penn Relays: 100-meter dash
- 1959 Pan American Games: Long Jump (2nd)
Honors
edit- 1957 Penn Relays: Most Outstanding Athlete
References
edit- ^ Woods, David (June 13, 2020). "IU's Greg Bell 'came out of nowhere' to win Olympic gold, then spent 50 years in dentistry". indystar.com. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
External links
edit- Greg Bell at the USATF Hall of Fame (archived)
- Greg Bell at Olympedia
- Gregory Curtis Bell at Olympics.com
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