Dallas Long

Dallas Long

Personal information
Full name	Dallas Crutcher Long
Born	June 13, 1940 (1940-06-13) (age 84) Pine Bluff, Arkansas, U.S.
Medal record Men's athletics (track and field) Representing the United States Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo Shot put 1960 Rome Shot put

Dallas Crutcher Long (born June 13, 1940) is an American track and field athlete, who was four time world record holder in the shot put. He was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Long attended the University of Southern California. He competed for the United States at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy where he won the bronze medal behind fellow Americans Bill Nieder and Parry O'Brien in the men's shot put event. He returned four years later to Tokyo for the 1964 Summer Olympics where he won the gold medal in the men’s shot put; runner up was Randy Matson.

Dallas Crutcher Long became a dentist and a physician specializing in emergency medicine. He served as a witness in the Rodney King trial against the Los Angeles Police Department police officers Laurence Powell and Stacey Koon in early 1993.

While a senior at North High School in Phoenix, Arizona, he set the National High School Record in the Shot Put. He was Track and Field News "High School Athlete of the Year" in 1958.

References

• USA Track & Field profile
• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). In The Complete Book of the Olympics – 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press, Limited. p. 929.

Records
Preceded by Parry O'Brien	Men's shot put world record holder March 28, 1959 – August 1, 1959	Succeeded by Parry O'Brien
Preceded by Parry O'Brien	Men's shot put world record holder March 5, 1960 – March 19, 1960	Succeeded by Bill Nieder
Preceded by Bill Nieder	Men's shot put world record holder March 26, 1960 – April 2, 1960	Succeeded by Bill Nieder
Preceded by Bill Nieder	Men's shot put world record holder May 18, 1962 – May 8, 1965	Succeeded by Randy Matson