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Owens, Lewis are the best ever

Two hops and a jump were enough to make James Brendan Connolly the first Olympic champion since the boxer Barasdates of Armenia in 369 A.D.Connolly, the U.S. triple jump champion, had arrived in......

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Q. Who is the only athlete to win the same Olympic event four times in a row setting Olympic records each time?
:  A. Al Oerter more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/who-is-the-only-athlete-to-win-the-same-olympic-event-four-t//answers/12456102

Good Citizen
Q. Who is the only athelete to have won four gold medals in successive olympics in the same event.Name him and also olympics
Good Citizen:  A. Al Oerter for Discus throw in 1956. 60, 64 and 68Carl Lewis for Long Jump in 1984, 88, 92 and 96 more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/who-is-the-only-athelete-to-have-won-four-gold-medals-in-suc/12456083/answers/9941998

indrajeet
Q. My question is revised as follows.\Name the first athlete who won the gold medal consecutively in four Olympic Games and his event
Indrajeet:  A. Al Oerter - Olympic Gold Medalist DiscusIn - 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968 more

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George Mathew
Q. Only one athlete had won the gold medal consecutively in four Olympic Games. Name the athlete and the event
George Mathew:  A. Al Oerter - Olympic Gold Medalist Discus in the years 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968.He was the first .. Carl Lewis came much later. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/only-one-athlete-had-won-the-gold-medal-consecutively-in-fou/7897438/answers/7897476

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