Full name Dallas Crutcher Long Name Dallas Long | Role Olympic athlete | |
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Olympic medals Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put, Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put Similar People Parry O'Brien, Bill Nieder, Randy Matson, Vilmos Varju | ||
Dallas long personal bests shot put 67 10 20 68 meters 1964
Dallas Crutcher Long (born June 13, 1940) is a retired American track and field athlete, who mostly competed in the shot put. Between 1959 and 1964 he set six official and five unofficial world records. Long attended the University of Southern California. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics, where he won a bronze medal behind fellow Americans Bill Nieder and Parry O'Brien. He returned four years later to Tokyo for the 1964 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal. Domestically he won the AAU title in 1961 and the NCAA title in 1960–62.
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.
After retiring from competitions 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. In 1996 he was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame.