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}} Barry King (born 3 April 1945) is a British former Olympic decathlete who is now an author, corporate director, corporate board member and specialist in Olympic marketing and sports development.〔(Outdoor Fitness profile )〕 He is founder and chief executive officer of Outdoor-Fitness, LLC.,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Adult playgrounds fight obesity - Video on NBCNews.com )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Outdoor Fitness Equipment NBC MSNBC Nightly News 7 July 8 2012 Aduly playgrounds outdoor gym obesity )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our Company at Outdoor Fitness )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Team Bios )〕 co-founder of Sports Directions Corporation, and served as a director at the United States Olympic Committee for 14 years during the height of the United States Olympic Committee's organizational and fundraising successes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Atlanta Mounting Olympian Effort at Getting 1996 Games )〕 He grew up in England and obtained a track and field scholarship from the University of Colorado at Boulder in the United States. His first major international competition came when he represented England at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, where he won the bronze medal in the decathlon. He then took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich two years later, competing for Great Britain. He ranked fifteenth overall in the Olympic decathlon competition. He returned to the podium at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, this time coming away with the silver medal.〔(Sports 123: Athletics: Commonwealth Games: Men: Decathlon )〕〔(WOA Olympians ).〕 He has held national records and won national championships in the decathlon, discus throw and pentathlon. He is the current British national pentathlon record holder, set on 20 May 1970 in Santa Barbara, California. King is co-author of a two-book series, published in association with the United States Olympic Committee, entitled ''The Olympic Challenge'' as well as ''Journey of the Olympic Flame''.〔()〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Olympic Challenge, 1988: Barry King, Bill Toomey: 9780937359358: Amazon.com: Books )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Barry King )〕〔http://www.library.uiuc.edu/archives/uasfa/2620137.pdf〕 King assisted in creating an Olympic themed Iowa state school educational curriculum for K-12 students,〔http://dox.aea1.k12.ia.us/guides/V17419.pdf〕 again, in conjunction with the United States Olympic Committee. In film, he was the technical director of the motion picture, the ''World's Greatest Athlete'', Walt Disney.〔()〕 Barry is married to Deanna Pinckney-King and has one daughter. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barry King」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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