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DeHart Hubbard

1903 - 1976

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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.He subsequently set a long jump world record of 25 feet 10+3⁄4 inches (7.89 m) 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. He attended and graduated from Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, graduated with honors from the University of Michigan in 1927 where he was a three-time National Collegiate Athletic Association champion (1923 & 1925 outdoor long jump, 1925 100-yard dash) and seven-time Big Ten Conference champion in track and field (1923 & 1925 indoor 50-yard dash, 1923, 1924, & 1925 outdoor long jump, 1924 & 1925 outdoor 100-yard dash). His 1925 outdoor long jump of 25 feet 10+1⁄2 inches (7.89 m) stood as the Michigan Wolverines team record until 1980, and it still stands second. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of DeHart Hubbard has received more than 59,703 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). DeHart Hubbard is the 781st most popular athlete (up from 990th in 2019), the 7,867th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,194th in 2019) and the 151st most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, DeHart Hubbard ranks 781 out of 3,059Before him are Willem Slijkhuis, Jacques Cariou, Guy Butler, Nils Täpp, Glenn Morris, and Daniel Kelly. After him are Josef Ternström, Viktor An, Verner Järvinen, René Lorain, Ileana Silai, and Babben Enger-Damon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, DeHart Hubbard ranks 272Before him are Anders Rydberg, Josephine Hutchinson, George Koltanowski, Kenneth Clark, Norman Foster, and Vernon Duke. After him are Hermann Volk, Niní Marshall, Lilly Scholz, Ruth Svedberg, Bernard Leene, and Georges de Rham. Among people deceased in 1976, DeHart Hubbard ranks 202Before him are Segundo Durandal, Samuel Eliot Morison, Matthias Kaburek, Narve Bonna, George Parker, and Norman Foster. After him are María Corda, Jimmy Garrison, Martín Luis Guzmán, Armen Ohanian, Mortimer Wheeler, and John A. Costello.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, DeHart Hubbard ranks 7,867 out of 18,182Before him are Henry Jarvis Raymond (1820), Bill Black (1926), Bob Brookmeyer (1929), A. P. Hill (1825), Mary Miles Minter (1902), and Daniel Morgan (1736). After him are Austin Pendleton (1940), Gay Talese (1932), Jim Siedow (1920), Roma Maffia (1955), Daniel Henney (1979), and Tim Powers (1952).

Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, DeHart Hubbard ranks 151Before him are Paul Pilgrim (1883), John Bray (1875), Dallas Long (1940), Roy Cochran (1919), Glenn Morris (1912), and Daniel Kelly (1883). After him are Ray Barbuti (1905), Mike Larrabee (1933), Pat McCormick (1930), James Juvenal (1874), John McLean (1878), and Harriet Bland (1915).