Renaldo Nehemiah

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Renaldo Nehemiah
Position (s):
Wide Receiver 		Jersey number (s):
83
born on March 24, 1959 in Newark , New Jersey
Career information
Active : 1982 - 1984
Undrafted in 1982
College : Maryland
Teams
Career statistics
Captured passports     43
Captive yards     754
Touchdowns     4th
Stats at NFL.com
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Career highlights and awards

Renaldo Nehemiah (born March 24, 1959 in Newark , New Jersey ) is a retired American athlete . Nehemiah was the world's best 110-meter hurdle sprinter in the early 1980s . In just two years, he improved the world record three times by a total of 28 hundredths of a second and was the first to break the 13-second mark. Since then, the world record has only been broken five more times in over thirty years by a total of 13 hundredths of a second.

However, it was denied to him to prove his exceptional position at the Olympic Games or the World Athletics Championships .

career

His career began when he won the United States' indoor and outdoor university championships for the University of Maryland in 1978 and 1979 . In 1979 he improved the world record twice , first to 13.16 s, then to 13.00 s. In 1981 he was the first person to run the 110 meter hurdles in under 13 seconds. With 12.93 s he set a world record in Zurich on August 19, 1981 , which Roger Kingdom only broke in 1989 .

With his second world record, he was the big favorite for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . The US Olympic boycott then ensured that he was not allowed to fight for the Olympic victory. In the same year he lost his amateur status through an advertising contract with a sports shoe company. At that time, this still prevented participation in the Olympic Games, and so he was later unable to participate in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles .

With no prospect of a return to the US Olympic team, he signed a professional football contract with the San Francisco 49ers in 1982 . He played in the NFL for three years . In 1984 he was able to win the Super Bowl with the team from San Francisco . In Super Bowl XIX , the Miami Dolphins could be beaten 38:16. After Jerry Rice was selected by the 49ers in the 1985 draft in the first round, he left them.

In 1986 he returned to athletics. He managed to qualify for the 1991 World Athletics Championships . Due to an injury, he could not compete. He then ended his sports career.

After the career

Today Nehemiah works as a sports manager for track and field athletes and has, among others, the vice world champion of 2005 over 400 meter hurdles, James Carter , under contract.

Honors

Nehemiah was inducted into the American Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Nehemiah, Renaldo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American athlete
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark (New Jersey)