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- Hal_Connolly height "183.0".
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- Hal_Connolly abstract "Harold Vincent "Hal" Connolly (August 1, 1931 – August 18, 2010) was an American athlete and hammer thrower from Somerville, Massachusetts. He won a gold medal in the hammer throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Connolly became the first American to throw hammer more than 200 feet. He set his first of six world records just prior to the 1956 Olympics, and held the world record for nearly 10 years.After his gold medal, Connolly competed in three more Olympics, finishing eighth in 1960, sixth in 1964 and not qualifying for the final in 1968. In 1972, he finished fifth in the United States trials and failed to make the team.Connolly sustained severe nerve damage to his left arm during birth, prohibiting the limb from ever developing properly. He fractured it 13 times as a child. His left arm grew to be four and a half inches shorter than his right and his left hand two-thirds the size of his right. The New York Times noted, "When he won his Olympic gold medal, photographers yelled at him to raise his arms in triumph. He lifted only his right arm."Connolly received his undergraduate degree from Boston College in 1952 and attended graduate school at UCLA. Both during and after his athletic career, Connolly worked as a teacher in the Santa Monica school system. In 1988, he then retired and accepted a position as an executive director of Special Olympics, where he would serve for the next 11 years. Until his death, he coached youth athletes and served as the Junior Hammer Development Chairmen for US Track and Field Association. He was one of the leading promoters for the next generation of hammer throwers. He also published a website to help promote the hammer throw, Hammerthrow.org.".
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- Hal_Connolly deathDate "2010-08-18".
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- Hal_Connolly wikiPageWikiLinkText "Hal Connolly".
- Hal_Connolly wikiPageWikiLinkText "Harold Connolly".
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- Hal_Connolly birthDate "1931-08-01".
- Hal_Connolly birthPlace "Somerville, Massachusetts, United States".
- Hal_Connolly caption "Hal Connolly at the 1960 Olympics".
- Hal_Connolly club "Southern California Striders, Anaheim".
- Hal_Connolly dateOfBirth "1931-08-01".
- Hal_Connolly dateOfDeath "2010-08-18".
- Hal_Connolly deathDate "2010-08-18".
- Hal_Connolly deathPlace "Catonsville, Maryland, United States".
- Hal_Connolly event "Hammer throw, shot put".
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- Hal_Connolly name "Connolly, Harold Vincent".