Hollis Conway

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Hollis Conway (born January 8, 1967 in Chicago ) is a former American high jumper . Besides Dwight Stones, he is the only American who has won two Olympic medals in the high jump.

Life

He grew up in Shreveport , Louisiana and graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana during his career .

In 1986 he was second behind the Cuban Javier Sotomayor at the Junior World Championships in Athens . At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, he won silver with 2.36 m behind Hennadij Avdjejenko from the Soviet Union with 2.38 m. In 1989 he improved the US high jump record to 2.39 m.

At the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Seville in 1991 , he jumped 2.40 m and won over Artur Partyka from Poland with 2.37 m. At the Pan American Games in Havana in 1991, he won bronze with 2.32 m behind Javier Sotomayor and behind Troy Kemp of the Bahamas. At the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo , the American Charles Austin won with 2.38 m, followed by three jumpers with 2.36 m each. Sotomayor won silver, Conway bronze and Dalton Grant from Britain came fourth.

In the run-up to the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​some jumpers had shown good form. In Barcelona, ​​a total of five jumpers mastered the height of 2.34 m in the final, all attempts at 2.37 m failed. Sotomayor was Olympic champion after the multiple attempts rule before the Swede Patrik Sjöberg . Partyka, Conway and the Australian Tim Forsyth each won bronze with the same number of failed attempts.

At the World Indoor Championships in Toronto in 1993 Conway finished eighth with 2.24 m. In the summer at the World Championships in Stuttgart he was sixth with 2.34 m. In 1994 he won his fifth US title in the high jump.

In the years that followed, he was mostly plagued by injuries. In 2000 he ended his career.

Hollis Conway is 1.83 m tall and weighed 68 kg during his playing days.

Personal best

  • High jump: 2.39 m, July 30, 1989, Norman
    • Hall: 2.40 m, March 10, 1991, Seville

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