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	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		Chuhei Nambu participated in three events at the 1928 Amsterdam Games.
		By the time of the 1932 Olympics, Nambu was the reigning world record holder in the long jump.
		After retiring from competition, Nambu worked as a sports editor for Mainichi Shimbun, served as head athletics coach for Japan at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and worked as a college professor and president.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/profiles/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=48910 (214 words)

	Chuhei Nambu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chuhei Nambu (南部忠平 Nanbu Chūhei, May 27, 1904 - July 23, 1997) was a Japanese athlete.
		Nambu was disappointed with his third place in the long jump, but took revenge in the triple jump final, held a few days after the long jump.
		Chuhei Nambu died at age 93 of pneumonia in his hometown Osaka.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chuhei_Nambu (337 words)

	Nambu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yoichiro Nambu, a Japanese physicist, the namesake for Nambu-Goto action and Nambu dynamics
		Nambu station, a station on Phase 3 (under construction) on Busan Subway Line 2
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nambu (96 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
		The Nambu memorial meet, the last qualifying meet for the World Championships in Paris, was held on 26 July in Sapporo, the metropolis in the northern island of
		Thus Nambu memorial meet was their final chance to set the record to clinch the berth for the Paris team.
		Because Nambu was the final qualifying meet for Paris, several athletes were making their last ditch effort to qualify for the team.
	www.iaaf.org /news/newsId=22127,printer.html (886 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
		The meet is named after a local hero, Chuhei Nambu, who won the gold medal in triple jump (also won the bronze in long jump) at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
		Because Suetsugu missed the Osaka GP in May and the national championships in June with left knee pain, his name was not included in the list of the World Championships team which was announced following the national championships.
		He was asked by the federation to show that he will be ready for Helsinki in the Nambu memorial meet, which is exactly what he has done in Sapporo.
	www.iaaf.org /news/newsId=30214,printer.html (272 words)

	The Hindu : Asians plan a grand march in Athens
		And Japan's Chuhei Nambu is the only man to hold the long and triple jump world records at the same time.
		He held the long jump world record (7.98, set in 1931) when he won the triple jump gold (15.72 m) at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics with a world mark (he won the long jump bronze too at LA).
		Nambu's long jump world record stood for four years before the legendary American Jesse Owens shattered it with history's first eight-metre leap (8.13 m) in 1935.
	www.hindu.com /mp/2004/08/19/stories/2004081901440400.htm (683 words)

	Chuhei Nambu - The official website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
		Chuhei Nambu - The official website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
		Los Angeles, Olympic Stadium, August 1932: Chuhei NAMBU of Japan, gold medallist, in action in the athletics triple jump event during the Games of the X Olympiad.
		Copyright The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
	en.beijing2008.cn /spirit/pastgames/halloffame/n/n214046059.shtml (308 words)

	The Hindu : Oda, Chi Cheng are Asian athletes of century
		He was the first Asian to win an Olympic gold and in 1931, he went onto improve his world mark with a jump of 15.58 metres.
		Oda earned 61 points in the poll, 15 points more than the second- placed Chuhei Nambu, also a Japanese jumper, who held the World long jump record in 1931 with a distance of 7.98 metres.
		Nambu won the triple jump gold at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1932 and also set a World record of 15.72m.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/05/18/stories/0718011c.htm (549 words)

	Olympic 1932 Highlights
		Yet, one of the French competitors gave officials food for thought when, during the discus event, he was seen slippingf away to the tunnel on several occasions - to drink some French champagne with his compatriots!
		Adaptability : Chuhei Nambu, Japan's world record holder in the long jump, fell victim to a leg injury and could do no better than third in his event.
		No stranger to the rigours of sport, however, the adaptable Nambu went one better than third two days later and took a gold medal after deciding to compete in the triple jump.
	www.utusan.com.my /specialcoverage/sydney2000/olimpik1932/e_highlights.asp (1052 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - NCR stories
		The Japanese troika in triple jump, Mikio Oda, Chuhei Nambu and Naoto Tajima, dominate the men’s rankings.
		Mikio Oda, Asia’s first gold medallist at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, had also created 21 Asian records in triple jump, long jump and decathlon, and also set a world record with a magnificent leap of 15.58 metres in 1931.
		Chuhei Nambu won the triple jump gold in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, and Naoto Tajima lifted the gold in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020722/ncr3.htm (1499 words)

	Asiaweek.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was ousted in a palace coup in March, 1992.
		• Nambu Chuhei, 93, Japanese triple jump gold medal winner at the 1932 Olympics; of pneumonia; in Tokyo; July 23.
		After retiring from competition, Nambu became the head coach for Japan's Amateur Athletic Association.
	www.pathfinder.com /asiaweek/97/0808/feat4.html (256 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE
		Men's triple jump: Japan's Chuhei NAMBU came first.
		Los Angeles, Olympic Stadium, August 1932, Games of the X Olympiad: the medallists of the athletics long jump event: (L-R) Charles REDD of the United States, silver, Edward GORDON of the United States, gold, and Chuhei NAMBU of Japan, bronze.
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	www.olympic.org /uk/utilities/multimedia/gallery/results_uk.asp?entid=3782&MediaType=pic (174 words)

	Track & Field News: The Day Of Days
		After the 100 that day, the meet was stopped as Owens readied for his first long jump.
		A white handkerchief was placed in the pit (illegal by today's rules) at Chuhei Nambu's 2621% world mark, set in 1931.
		Owens sped down his short, 108-foot run-up and drove off the board.
	www.trackandfieldnews.com /tfn/displayArticle.jsp?id=3316 (1716 words)

	Jesse Owens Museum - Articles Rersourced
		RACED 100 yards in 9.4 seconds, tying Frank Wyckoffs world mark.
		BROAD JUMPED 26 feet 8 1/4 inches, smashing the world records held by Chuhei Nambu of Japan by 6 1/8 inches.
		WHIPPED through the 220-yard dash in 20.3 seconds clipping three-tenths of second off the former world record held by Roland Locke of Nebraska.
	www.aces.edu /user/hartley/JOM/articles/art4.html (295 words)

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