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John Curtis Thomas (March 3, 1941 – January 15, 2013) was an American track and field athlete who set several world records in the high jump using the straddle technique. As a youth, he earned the Eagle Scout award.
Jan 20, 2013 · The American, John Thomas, who died on Tuesday, would become a spectacular high jumper. He was the first to jump 7 feet indoors. He won four national collegiate championships and seven Amateur...
Jan 22, 2013 · It was January 31, 1959, and Boston University freshman John Thomas had just set a world record with a seven-foot jump in the major track and field event. Two-time Olympic medalist Thomas (SED’63) died on January 15, at the age of 71, while undergoing surgery at a Brockton hospital.
Jan 22, 2013 · Playlist. Robert Siegel speaks with Bill Littlefield, the veteran host of NPR's Only a Game, about the career and legacy of high jumper and Olympic medalist John Thomas. Thomas died Tuesday...
Jan 18, 2013 · A high jumper who rewrote the record books again and again, John C. Thomas knew he faced only one true opponent. “The bar is the thing that you have to beat,” he once told the Globe.
- Bryan Marquard
As a 17-year-old freshman at Boston University, John Thomas set a world indoor high jump record of 7-1¼ in 1959. He missed the rest of the 1959 season due to injury, but came back to show the best form of his life in 1960.
Jan 17, 2013 · January 17, 2013. John. Thomas, two-time Olympic high jump medalist and world record holder, passed. away on Tuesday, January 15 at the age of 71. National. Track & Field Hall of Famer represented Boston. University and the Boston Athletic Association. Statements. on the passing of John Thomas by B.A.A. officials:
