Bill Toomey
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William Anthony Toomey (born January 10, 1939) is a former American track and field competitor and was the 1968 Olympic decathlon champion.<ref name=sr/>
Athletic and broadcast career
Toomey was an All-American for the Colorado Buffaloes track and field team, finishing 7th in the 400 meters hurdles at the 1961 NCAA track and field championships.<ref name="400 meters hurdles at the NCAA Division I Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships">Template:Cite web</ref>
He won 23 of the 38 decathlons he competed in, scoring over 8,000 points a dozen times. He was on the cover of the October 1969 issue of Track and Field News.<ref>Past Covers 1969 Template:Webarchive. Trackandfieldnews.com. Retrieved on July 17, 2015.</ref>
Toomey was head coach in track and field at the University of California at Irvine in the early 1970s. Before that he worked as a television broadcaster and marketing consultant.<ref name=sr>Template:Cite web</ref>
Toomey also competed in Masters Track and Field.<ref>National Masters News. [1] Retrieved Nov 29, 2020</ref>
References
External links
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- Bill Toomey. mtsac.edu
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- 1939 births
- Living people
- American men decathletes
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Colorado Buffaloes men's track and field athletes
- Medalists at the 1965 Summer Universiade
- James E. Sullivan Award recipients
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1967 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1967 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field)
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field
- Sports coaches from California
- Track & Field News Athlete of the Year winners
- Track and field athletes from Philadelphia
- UC Irvine Anteaters track and field coaches
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for the United States
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Worcester Academy alumni
- World record setters in the sport of athletics
- American masters athletes
- Phi Delta Theta members
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American men hurdlers