Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics,nike air max 1 pas cher Activ<br><br>The men's shot put event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. The competition was held on 21 July at Helsinki Olympic Stadium. The finals were swept by the United States, with Americans Parry O'Brien taking the gold medal, Darrow Hooper earning silver and Jim Fuchs receiving his second consecutive bronze medal in the event.<br><br>While recuperating from surgery to deal with a knee injury, Fuchs developed a technique he called "the sideways glide" which enabled him to compete without pain and gain greater distance on his tosses. Fuchs,moncler sito ufficiale Annexa, who was the world record holder at the time of the games, was nursing a pulled ligament in his right hand, which interfered with his ability to compete.[1] In the years after his bronze medal performance at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London,outlet moncler online That's , Fuchs was the best shot putter in the world, winning 88 consecutive meets and setting four world records in a stretch of 14 months.[2]<br><br>Using a technique that became known as the "O'Brien glide", Parry O'Brien broke Fuchs's consecutive meet winning streak and started a streak of his own that ran from July 1952 to June 1956 in which he won 116 consecutive meets and set 17 world records, in addition to becoming the first person to break through the distances of 18 meters, 60 feet and 19 meters.[3] Parry would go on to repeat his gold medal performance at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and win a silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, before falling just out of the medals in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[4]<br><br>Hooper beat both O'Brien and Fuchs in the 1952 Final Trials with a throw of 17.41m (57 1), a distance that would have won him a gold medal if he had been able to repeat it in Helsinki.[5] In the first round of the final O'Brien reached a distance of 17.41 (57 1), which gave him the lead, holding on until the final round when Hooper's 17.39 (57 0) put him just two centimeters short of a gold medal.[6]<p>peuterey outlet bologna<br/>hogan outlet milano<br/>parajumpers pas cher femme<br/>outlet peuterey online<br/>scarpe hogan outlet online<br/>moncler outlet<br/>woolrich outlet<br/>nike roshe run noir<br/>abercrombie france site officiel<br/>woolrich outlet online<br/>piumini moncler<br/>canada goose outlet italia<br/>parajumpers soldes<br/>piumini moncler outlet<br/>nike roshe run femme<br/></p>
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