Dehart hubbard biography of abraham

American long jumper

William DeHart Hubbard (November 25, 1903 – June 23, 1976) was a track and field athlete who was the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event: the running long jump at the 1924 Paris Summer games.^[1][2][3][4] He also competed in the 1924 Olympics as a triple jumper.

The next year, he set a world record in the long jump, with a leap of 25 feet 10+7⁄8 inches (7.90 m)^[3][5] at Chicago in June 1925, and equaled the world record of 9.6 seconds for the 100-yard dash at Cincinnati, Ohio, a year later.

High school and university

Hubbard excelled both athletically and academically at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati.^[1] Businessman Lon Barringer, a University of Michigan alumnus, learned of both achievements from newspaper articles.^[6] Impressed, he checked with University of Michigan Director of Athle