词条 | Smith, Tommie |
释义 | Smith, Tommie American athlete born June 6, 1944, Clarksville, Texas, U.S. ![]() Smith competed for San Jose (California) State College. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, he won the gold medal for the 200-metre race, but he and a teammate, John Carlos, were suspended by the U.S. Olympic Committee and ordered to leave Mexico for giving a black-power salute while receiving awards. During Smith's college career he set world records for the 220-yard (straightaway) dash and for the 200-metre races (with turn and straightaway) and was a member of a 4 × 200-metre relay team that set a world record (1967–70) of 1 min 22.1 sec. After graduating, Smith played professional football with the Cincinnati Bengals for three years. He later became a track coach at Oberlin (Ohio) College, where he also taught sociology, and at Santa Monica (California) College. He was inducted into the (U.S.) National Track & Field Hall of Fame in 1978. Smith's autobiography, Silent Gesture (co-written with David Steele), was published in 2007. |
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