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}} Esther Stroy (born August 12, 1953) is a former American track and field athlete, who competed in the sprinting events. She is best known for competing at the 1968 Olympics in the 400-meter dash as a 15-year-old, the youngest competitor at those games. ==Track career== Esther Stroy was only 15 years and 64 days old when she competed at the 1968 Olympics.〔http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1968/ATH/ "Athletics at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games", sports.reference.com. Retrieved 17 August 2012.〕 In 2012, Stroy, now Esther Stroy-Harper, remembered it as a it being "more than the world’s best summer vacation. It was the opportunity of a lifetime".〔http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/23/stroy-remembers-her-time-as-a-15-year-old-at-68-ga/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS "Stroy remembers her time as a 15-year-old at ’68 Games", Carla Peay, Washington Post, July 23, 2012.〕 In the 400 m event itself, she reached the semi-final but injured herself whilst leading the race and finally finished fifth so therefore not qualifying for the final. Her Olympic misfortune was repeated in 1972. As Stroy-Harper recalls “Right before the 1972 Olympics, I injured that same hamstring, so I didn’t make the team. I went to Munich, but as a spectator.”〔〔http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1082604/1/index.htm Some "Dashing Dolls Debut In Dayton:Feminine charm and bright new faces come to the fore in the girls' and women's national AAU championships", Sports Illustrated, July 14, 1969.〕 In the 1968 United States Olympic Trials, Stroy was third in the 400 m event and was entered but did not compete in the 200 m. In 1972, she was third in her heat of the 200 m and was entered but did not compete in the 400 m.〔http://www.usatf.org/statistics/champions/OlympicTrials/HistoryOfTheOlympicTrials.pdf The History of the United States Olympic Trials - Track & Field, R Hymans, USA Track & Field, 2008, p 149 and 160.〕 Between the two Olympics, she continued running for her universities and country. The high point of her career was winning gold at the 1971 Pan American Games in the 4 x 400 meter relay and bronze in the 200 meters. She also won the 220 yards dash at the 1971 and 1972 AAU Indoor Championships.〔〔http://www.usatf.org/statistics/USA-Champions/USAIndoorTF/women/200m.aspx USA Indoor Track & Field Champions: Women's 200 m, USA Track and Field. Retrieved 24 August 2012.〕 In 1971, she was a member of a 4 x 1-mile women's relay team that set a new world record at a USA versus Pan-Africa meet.〔https://books.google.com/books?id=sTcDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=esther+stroy+track+coach&source=bl&ots=AhAhWAzhUi&sig=8bss8RY7ggbgZmSgVkoaqRc5cFA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zo8RUO34LqKq0QWF_IHwDA&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=esther%20stroy%20track%20coach&f=false Jet, 5 August 1971.〕〔http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1085118/2/index.htm "A Roundup Of The Sports Information Of The Week", Sports Illustrated, July 26, 1971.〕 In 1969, she was ranked second in the USA and ninth in the world in the 400 metres/440 yards by the votes of the experts of Track and Field News.〔http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/rankings/women/400usbyathlete.pdf U.S. Rankings Index - Women's 400 Meters, Track and Field News.〕〔http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/rankings/women/400worldbyathlete.pdf World Rankings Index - Women's 400 Meters, Track and Field News〕 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「Esther Stroy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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