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Ron Jourdan
Ronald Lee Jourdan (February 28, 1947-January 1, 2014) was an American college and Olympic track and field athlete. Jourdan was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) champion in the high jump from Florida and member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic team. Jourdan, along with Reynaldo Brown of California, were the last great American high jumpers to use the straight-leg straddle, the style which dominated the sport in the 1950s and 1960s. Jourdan's personal best was .
==Early years==
Jourdan was born and raised in Pensacola, Florida.〔http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/jo/ron-jourdan-1.html〕 He attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he was a member of coach Jimmy Carnes' Florida Gators track and field team from 1966 to 1970.〔http://www.gainesville.com/article/20081104/NEWS/811040249/0/NEWS?Title=Former_UF_track_coach_to_go_into_national_hall_of_fame〕 In his junior year, Jourdan won the 1969 NCAA Division 1 Indoor championship at Detroit's Cobo Hall, establishing a new meet record of , breaking the record of 7'0" set in 1966 by Otis Burrell of Nevada: it was the only record broken at those championships.〔http://web1.ncaa.org/web_video/NCAANewsArchive/1969/196904.pdf〕 That same year he also won both the indoor and outdoor Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships, setting new meet records of 7'0" both times. Jourdan finished fourth at the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) outdoor championships in 1969 and finished the season with the fourth-best jump in the world for that year (2.185). He was on the cover of the April 1969 issue of ''Track and Field News.''〔https://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/archivemenu/28-covers/136-past-covers-1967〕 He repeated as SEC champion in the high jump in 1970, both indoors and outdoors, jumping 6-10 both times. He later equaled his personal best (2.185), the tenth best jump in the world in 1970.〔http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Top10Yearly.asp?Year=1969-1972&EventCode=MF1&P=F〕 Jourdan was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great."〔F Club, Hall of Fame, ( Gator Greats ). Retrieved December 18, 2014.〕
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