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Originally Posted by biggerboat
Too lazy to look it up. Fosbury flop guy?
Fosbury is/was an oregon native. born in portland, grew up down south in medford. 'invented' the flop in high school and finished second in the state meet his senior year.
a fun bit of info that's likely only interesting to oregonians with collegiate rooting interests:
instead of going to uoregon, the ncaa track & field national champions that season coached by nike co-founder bill bowerman, Fosbury elected to attend engineering school at oregon state in corvallis.
won nationals a couple of times, did some olympic things, then relocated to ketcham, idaho to start a civil engineering firm and join the growing list of famous people with a sun valley address.