James Butts
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Full name | James Aaron Butts | |||||||||||||||||
Born | May 9, 1950 (1950-05-09) (age 74) South Los Angeles, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Triple jump | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Tobias Striders | |||||||||||||||||
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Personal best | 17.24 m (1978)[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||
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James Aaron Butts (born May 9, 1950) is a retired American triple jumper. He won a silver medal at the 1976 Olympics and a bronze at the 1979 Pan American Games.[1] He was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.
Butts won the 1976 U.S. Olympic Trials with a wind-aided 17.29 m, just short of the existing world record at the time. He narrowly missed making the team in 1972 and again in 1980, finishing in fourth place each time (the last time by a mere 1 cm).[2][3]
Butts won the 1972 NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships while competing for the University of California at Los Angeles. While training for the Olympics, he worked two jobs including as a janitor, to support his mother and sister. He had to train at 5 am as it was the only time that fit his schedule.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "James Butts". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on June 15, 2011.
- ^ a b James Butts. trackfield.brinkster.net
- ^ Hymans, Richard (2004) The history of the U.S. Olympic trials : track & field Archived March 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. USA Track & Field
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Amateur Athletic Union
- 1893: Edward Bloss
- 1894-1908: Not held
- 1909: Frank Irons
- 1910–11: Dan Ahearn
- 1912: Platt Adams
- 1913–18: Dan Ahearn
- 1919-20: Sherman Landers
- 1921: Kaufman Geist
- 1922-23: DeHart Hubbard
- 1924-25: Homer Martin
- 1926-28: Levi Casey
- 1929: Robert Kelley
- 1930: Levi Casey
- 1931: Robert Kelley
- 1932: Sidney Bowman
- 1933: Nathan Blair
- 1934: Dudley Wilkins
- 1935: Rolland Romero
- 1936–37: Billy Brown
- 1938–39: Herschel Neil
- 1940–43: Billy Brown
- 1944: Don Barksdale
- 1945: Burton Cox
- 1946: Ralph Tate
- 1947: Bob Beckus
- 1948–51: Gay Bryan
- 1952: Walter Ashbaugh
- 1953: George Shaw
- 1954: Claudio Cabreja (CUB) * Pat Lochiatto
- 1955: Victor Hernandez (CUB) *Bill Sharpe
- 1956: Willie Hollie
- 1957: Bill Sharpe
- 1958–60: Ira Davis
- 1961–62: Bill Sharpe
- 1963: Kent Floerke
- 1964: Christos Mousiadis (GRE) * Ira Davis
- 1965–66: Art Walker
- 1967: Charles Craig
- 1968: Art Walker
- 1969: John Craft
- 1970: Milan Tiff
- 1971–74: John Craft
- 1975: Anthony Terry
- 1976: Tommy Haynes
- 1977: Milan Tiff
- 1978: James Butts
- 1979: Ron Livers
The Athletics Congress
- 1980–81: Willie Banks
- 1982: Robert Cannon
- 1983: Willie Banks
- 1984: Al Joyner
- 1985: Willie Banks
- 1986: Charlie Simpkins
- 1987–89: Mike Conley
- 1990–91: Kenny Harrison
- 1992: Charlie Simpkins
USA Track & Field
- 1993–95: Mike Conley
- 1996–97: Kenny Harrison
- 1998–99: LaMark Carter
- 2000: Robert Howard
- 2001: LaMark Carter
- 2002: Walter Davis
- 2003: Kenta Bell
- 2004: Melvin Lister
- 2005–06: Walter Davis
- 2007–08: Aarik Wilson
- 2009: Brandon Roulhac
- 2010: Kenta Bell
- 2011–12: Christian Taylor
- 2013: Omar Craddock
- 2014: Will Claye
- 2015: Omar Craddock
- 2016-7: Will Claye
- 2018–19: Donald Scott
- 20212020 OT: Will Claye
- 2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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