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When he was attending Jamaica High School he was discovered by Larry Ellis, a renowned track coach. Beamon later became part of the All-American track and field team. In 1965, he ranked second in the long jump in the United States, and received a track and field scholarship to the University of Texas at El Paso.
Beamon was suspended from the University of Texas at El Paso, for refusing to compete against Brigham Young University, alleging it had racist policies. [size=18pt]This left him without a coach, and fellow Olympian Ralph Boston began to coach him unofficially.[/size]
1968 Summer Olympics
Beamon entered the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City as the favorite, having won 22 of the 23 meets he had competed in that year, including a career best of 8.33 m (27 ft. 4 in.) and a world's best of 8.39 m (27 ft. 6.5 in) that was ineligible for the record books because of excessive wind assistance. He came near to missing the final, overstepping on his first two attempts in qualifying. With only one chance left, Beamon re-measured his approach run from a spot in front of the board and made a fair jump that advanced him to the final. [size=14pt]There he faced the two previous gold-medal winners, American Ralph Boston (1960) and Lynn Davies of Great Britain (1964), and two-time bronze medallist Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of the Soviet Union.[/size]
On October 18 Beamon set a world record for the long jump with a jump of 8.90 m (29 ft. 2½ in.), bettering the existing record by 55 cm (21¾ in.). When the announcer called out the distance for the jump, Beamon – unfamiliar with metric measurements – wasn't affected by it.[size=14pt] When his teammate and coach Ralph Boston told him that he broke the world record by nearly 2 feet, an astonished Beamon collapsed to his knees and placed his hands over his face in shock. In one of the more enduring images of the games, his competitors then helped him to his feet.[/size] One journalist called Beamon "the man who saw lightning".Sports journalist Dick Schaap wrote a book about the leap, The Perfect Jump. Prior to Beamon’s jump, the world record had been broken thirteen times since 1901, [size=14pt]with an average increase of 6 cm[/size] (2½ in) and the largest increase being 15 cm (6 in). Beamon's record stood for 23 years until Mike Powell broke it in 1991.
The defending Olympic champion Lynn Davies told Beamon [size=18pt]"You have destroyed this event",[/size] and in sports jargon, a new adjective – Beamonesque – came into use to describe spectacular feats. Beamon landed his jump near the far end of the sand pit but the optical device which had been installed to measure jump distances was not designed to measure a jump of such length. [size=18pt]This forced the officials to measure the jump manually which added to the jump's aura.[/size] Shortly after Beamon's jump a major rainstorm blew through making it more difficult for his competitors to try to match Beamon's feat. None were able to do so. Klaus Beer finished second with a jump of 8.19 m.
Beamon's world-record jump was named by Sports Illustrated magazine [size=18pt]as one of the five greatest sports moments of the 20th century[/size]. His world record was finally broken in 1991 when Mike Powell jumped 8.95 m (29 ft. 4-3/8 in.) at the World Championships in Tokyo, but Beamon's jump is still the Olympic record and more than 40 years later remains[size=24pt] the second longest wind legal jump of all time.[/size]
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