Larry Myricks
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Born | Clinton, Mississippi, U.S. | March 10, 1956|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Larry Myricks (born 10 March 1956) is an
Career
Myricks was born in
In 1979, he again won the NCAA Championship, this time both indoors and outdoors.[1] He was also the US National Champion (27–2), and World Cup Champion (8.52 m). He repeated as U.S. national champion in 1980 and in 1989.
Myricks competed for the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea, where he won the bronze medal in the men's long jump competition. In addition to the 1976 Olympics, he won the 1980 Olympic Trials (over a young Carl Lewis), but the team did not get to go to the Olympics due to the multinational boycott. As consolation, he received one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created specifically for the athletes.[2] Myricks finished second to Lewis in the 1984 Olympic Trials.[3] He finished fourth in the Olympics that year.
He set his personal best of 8.74 m (28' 8") in the long jump at the 1988 Olympic Trials. That jump still ranks Myricks as the number 5 long jumper ever.[4] It was the trials record, for a few minutes, until surpassed by Carl Lewis. After qualifying for four straight Olympic teams, Myricks returned in 1992 as a 36-year-old to a fifth Olympic Trials, finishing in seventh place.[3]
Myricks was the third-place jumper at the
Based on a statistical comparison of 8.16 meters, Myricks had more competitions (170) over that mark than any other competitor. Moving that comparison to 8.50 m, he ranks second (17) to Carl Lewis (39) (as of 1996; since 1996, only 9 jumpers have jumped 8.50[4]).[3] Myricks' last 8.50 in 1991, at the age of 35, is tied with Lewis' mark from the 1996 Olympics as the M35 Masters World Record.[5]
He was also a masterful
Myricks is also a graduate of Mississippi College. He was coached there by Joe Walker (now at Ole Miss).
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Representing United States | |||||
1976 | Olympic Games | Montreal, Canada | 3rd (q) | Long jump | 7.92 m (q)1 |
1979 | World Cup | Rome, Italy | 1st | Long jump | 8.52 m
|
1980 | Liberty Bell Classic | Philadelphia, United States | 1st | Long jump | 8.20 m |
1983 | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 34th (h) | 200 m | 21.74 |
1984 | Olympic Games | Los Angeles, United States | 4th | Long jump | 8.16 m |
1985 | Grand Prix Final | Rome, Italy | 2nd | Long jump | 8.22 m |
1986 | Goodwill Games | Moscow, Soviet Union | 2nd | Long jump | 8.41 m |
1987 | World Indoor Championships | Indianapolis, United States | 1st | Long jump | 8.23 m |
Pan American Games | Indianapolis, United States | 2nd | Long jump | 8.58 m (w) | |
World Championships | Rome, Italy | 3rd | Long jump | 8.33 m | |
Grand Prix Final | Brussels, Belgium | 3rd | Long jump | 8.06 m | |
1988 | Olympic Games | Seoul, South Korea | 3rd | Long jump | 8.27 m |
1989 | World Indoor Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 1st | Long jump | 8.37 m |
World Cup | Barcelona, Spain | 1st | Long jump | 8.29 m
| |
Grand Prix Final | Monte Carlo, Monaco | 1st | Long jump | 8.54 m | |
1991 | World Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 3rd | Long jump | 8.42 m |
Grand Prix Final | Barcelona, Spain | 2nd | Long jump | 8.06 m |
- 1 Did not start in the final
- Also won the overall Grand Prix long jump title in 1987 (57 points) and 1989 (53 points)
References
- ^ a b Ralph Hickok (2011-06-29). "History - NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track 3". HickokSports.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
- ISBN 978-0942257403.
- ^ a b c http://www.legacy.usatf.org/usatf/files/69/695a8112-b7a0-4b9d-9dbb-8b4bca22677c.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ a b "0 Toplists lj m - o". iaaf.org. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
- ^ "Records Outdoor Men". World-masters-athletics.org. 2011-06-28. Archived from the original on 2011-09-03. Retrieved 2011-09-11.