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| Full name | Dallas Crutcher Long |
| Born | June 13, 1940 (1940-06-13) Pine Bluff, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Died | November 10, 2024(2024-11-10) (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 | |
| Personalbest(s) | SP – 20.68 m (1964) DT – 52.51 m (1961)[1][2] |
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Dallas Crutcher Long (June 13, 1940 – November 10, 2024) was an Americantrack and field athlete, who mostly competed in theshot put. Between 1959 and 1964 he set six official and five unofficial world records.
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 theUniversity of Southern California.[3] He competed at the1960 Summer Olympics, where he won a bronze medal behind fellow AmericansBill Nieder andParry O'Brien. One of his coaches was Frantisek (Frank) Louda, an American-Czech who had held the Europeanhammer throw record in the 1930s. Long returned four years later toTokyo for the1964 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal. Domestically he won theAAU title in 1961 and theNCAA title in 1960–62.[1]
While a senior atNorth High School inPhoenix, Arizona, he set the National High School Record in the shot put. He wasTrack 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.
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 theRodney King trial against theLos Angeles Police Department police officers Laurence Powell andStacey Koon in early 1993. In 1996, he was inducted into theNational Track and Field Hall of Fame.[7]
By 2020, Dallas had retired, remarried and moved toWhitefish, 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]
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