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Charles Dumas

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Charles Everett "Charlie" Dumas (February 12, 1937 – January 5, 2004) was an American high jumper, the 1956 Olympic champion, and the first person to clear 7 ft. [1]

27 relations: Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics, Athletics at the 1959 Pan American Games, Athletics at the Summer Olympics, Centennial High School (Compton, California), CIF California State Meet, Compton College, Compton, California, High jump, Inglewood, California, Jefferson High School (Los Angeles), Jordan High School (Los Angeles), Los Angeles, Melbourne, Men's high jump world record progression, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Olympic Games, Pan American Games, Sport of athletics, Track & Field News, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States Olympic Trials (track and field), University of Southern California, Walt Davis, Yuri Stepanov (athlete), 1956 Summer Olympics, 1959 Pan American Games, 1960 Summer Olympics.

Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics

At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, 33 athletics events were contested, 24 for men and 9 for women.

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Athletics at the 1959 Pan American Games

The Athletics competition in the 1959 Pan American Games were held in Chicago, United States.

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Athletics at the Summer Olympics

Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics.

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Centennial High School (Compton, California)

Centennial High School is a public high school in Compton, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

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CIF California State Meet

The CIF California State Meet is the annual championship track and field meet for the California Interscholastic Federation.

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Compton College

Compton College is a public community college in Compton, California.

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Compton, California

Compton is a city in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, situated south of downtown Los Angeles.

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High jump

The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it.

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Inglewood, California

Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California.

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Jefferson High School (Los Angeles)

Thomas Jefferson High School, usually referred to as Jefferson High School, is a public high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

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Jordan High School (Los Angeles)

David Starr Jordan High School is a public comprehensive four-year high school in Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Men's high jump world record progression

The first world record in the men's high jump was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions and conferences.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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Pan American Games

The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a major sporting event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions.

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Sport of athletics

Athletics is a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking.

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Track & Field News

Track & Field News is an American monthly sports magazine founded in 1948 by brothers Bert Nelson and Cordner Nelson, focused on the world of track and field.

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Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States.

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United States Olympic Trials (track and field)

The United States Olympic Trials for the sport of track and field is the quadrennial meet to select the United States representatives at the Olympic Games.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California.

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Walt Davis

Walter Francis "Walt" Davis (born January 5, 1931) is a retired American athlete.

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Yuri Stepanov (athlete)

Yuri Nikolaevich Stepanov (Юрий Николаевич Степанов; 30 August 1932 – 13 September 1963) was a Soviet track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump and long jump.

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1956 Summer Olympics

The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in November–December 1956, apart from the equestrian events, which were held five months earlier in Stockholm, Sweden.

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1959 Pan American Games

The 3rd Pan American Games were held in Chicago, Illinois, United States between August 28 and September 7, 1959.

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1960 Summer Olympics

The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad (Italian: Giochi della XVII Olimpiade), was an international multi-sport event that was held from August 25 to September 11, 1960, in Rome, Italy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dumas

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