Easy ( ? ) Olympic Trivia

[Per Andersen]

All 3 of you are very smart tafnuts. Good work. HJ it is.

Your guy, Brumel came close though. Wszola as well.

[Powell]

Just shows how tenuous HJ success is. However there have been plenty of Oly/World champions. Avdeyenko, Austin, Soto, Voronin and now Drouin come to mind.

That's true, but Sotomayor is the only one who won more than one WC gold.

[KDFINE]

Did any of the dual OC / WC champs do it over a four year span? (Too lazy to look it up myself). Of course with the World's being every other "odd" year, I guess I'm really asking if anyone did it over a five year period.

[LopenUupunut]

Avdeyenko won in '83 and '88; Austin won in '91 and '96; Sotomayor won in '92 and '97 (and '93).

Sotomayor would have been a leading contender in '88 without the Cuban boycott.

[Per Andersen]

Sotomayor would have been a leading contender in '88 without the Cuban boycott.

+ he could have won in 2000 if the sky hadn't opened up after Kluygin cleared 2.35 and nobody else had a chance to make that height.