Milt Campbell

Milton Gray "Milt" Campbell (born December 9, 1933 in Plainfield , New Jersey , † November 2, 2012 in Gainesville , Georgia ) was an American athlete , American - and Canadian football player .

biography

Cambell began his sports career at Plainfield High School , where he competed in athletics and swimming. He later enrolled at Indiana University Bloomington . As a member of the university team, he qualified for the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. Although he was only 18 years old, he won the silver medal in the decathlon behind his compatriot Bob Mathias , albeit more than 900 points behind.

At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 , he won the gold medal in front of Rafer Johnson and the Russian Vasily Kuznetsov . This made him the first black-skinned decathlon Olympic champion. With 7937 points, he missed Johnson's world record by only 48 points.

Campbell was a versatile athlete and played in the National Football League for the Cleveland Browns in 1957 . With the team from Cleveland , he moved into the NFL championship game in 1957 , where the Detroit Lions , however, had to be defeated 59:14.

Single results

(100 m - distance - ball - high - 400 m / 110 m hurdles - discus - stick - spear - 1500 m)

• Olympic Games 1952, 6975 points: 10.7 s - 6.74 m - 13.89 m - 1.85 m - 50.9 s / 14.5 s - 40.50 m - 3.30 m - 54.54 m - 5: 07.2 min
• Olympic Games 1956, 7937 points: 10.8 s - 7.33 m - 14.76 m - 1.89 m - 48.8 s / 14.0 s - 44.98 m - 3.40 m - 57.08 m - 4: 50.6 min

Web links

• Milt Campbell in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Football stats from Milt Campbell

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Legendary track star Milt Campbell, named The Star-Ledger Athlete of the Century in 2000, has passed away
2. ↑ Annual statistics of the Browns 1957
3. ↑ Endgame statistics 1957