About Dallas Long
Dallas Crutcher Long was an 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 returned four years later to Tokyo for the 1964 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal. His first world record was at the 1959 Santa Barbara Easter Relays, the last in 1964 in the USA vs USSR dual meet. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics, where he won a bronze medal behind fellow Americans Bill Nieder and Parry O'Brien. One of his coaches was Frantisek (Frank) Louda, an American-Czech who had held the European hammer throw record in the 1930s.
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