This Day in Track & Field, August 10, Bruce Jenner sets his first world record (1975) in the decathlon, by Walt Murphy

This Day in Track & Field, August 10, Bruce Jenner sets his first world record (1975) in the decathlon, by Walt Murphy

This Day in Track & Field—August 10    1975–Bruce Jenner got the first world record of his career, scoring 8,524 points (8429-current tables) in Eugene at the USA-Soviet-Poland triangular meet. Fred Dixon was 2nd (8277/8132) and 3rd was Ukraine’s Nikolay Avilov (8211/8121), who held the previous record of 8,456 (8466). WR Progression: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decathlon_world_record_progression http://espn.go.com/classic/s/add_jenner_bruce.html   1983–It was “Wonderful […]