Herb Douglas

Herb Douglas
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Herb Douglas (2018)
Pełne imię i nazwisko

Herbert Paul Douglas, Jr.

Data i miejsce urodzenia

9 marca 1922
Pittsburgh

Dorobek medalowy
Reprezentacja  Stany Zjednoczone
Igrzyska olimpijskie
brązHelsinki 1948lekkoatletyka
(skok w dal)

Herbert Paul „Herb” Douglas, Jr. (ur. 9 marca 1922 w Pittsburghu) – amerykański lekkoatleta. Specjalizował się głównie w skoku w dal.

W tej dyscyplinie na Igrzyskach Olimpijskich w Londynie w 1948 zdobył brązowy medal. W 1945 został mistrzem Stanów Zjednoczonych na otwartym stadionie[1], a w 1947 i 1949 w hali[2]. Swój rekord życiowy (7,69 m) ustanowił 10 lipca 1948 w Evanston.

Startował również w biegach sprinterskich. Jego największym sukcesem było 3. miejsce w biegu na 100 m na mistrzostwach Stanów Zjednoczonych (1946).

Przypisy

  1. United States Championships (Men 1943-), gbrathletics [dostęp 2012-04-01] (ang.).
  2. United States Indoor Championships (Men), gbrathletics [dostęp 2012-04-01] (ang.).

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Herbert Douglas, Jr.

In honor of Black History Month, the LBJ Presidential Library held a screening of "The Renaissance Period of the African American in Sports” on Tuesday evening, Feb. 20, 2018. The documentary was presented in partnership with the LBJ School of Public Affairs’ 2018 Barbara Jordan National Forum, Texas Athletics, the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Sports Leadership & Innovation, and UT’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement. The documentary explores the story of nine pioneering African American Olympians who shattered records and stereotypes at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.


After the screening, Professor Leonard Moore, interim vice president of UT’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, moderated two discussions. First, Moore interviewed Herbert Douglas, Jr., co-executive producer of the documentary and the oldest living African American Olympic medalist. Douglas won the bronze medal in the long jump at the 1948 London Olympic games. Then, Cory Redding, a former NFL and UT Longhorn football player; Louis Harrison, the Charles H. Spence, Sr. Centennial Professor in Education at UT; and Kathleen McElroy, senior lecturer and associate director at the School of Journalism at UT’s Moody College of Communication, joined Moore and Douglas on stage for a discussion about African American experiences in sports.

LBJ Library photo by Jay Godwin 02/20/2018