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Steve Smith is a retired American Olympic pole vaulter. He was the first person to clear the 18 foot barrier indoors. He was the number one ranked pole vaulter in the world in 1973. == Athletic career== Smith was United States indoor pole vault champion in 1972-73.〔http://www.usatf.org/statistics/USA-Champions/USAIndoorTF/men/PV.aspx USA Indoor Track & Field Champions, Men's Pole Vault, USA Track & Field. 〕 He was also the first vaulter to break the 18-foot barrier indoors in 1973.〔 Smith qualified for the 1972 Munich Olympics but failed to make the final.〔 In the Olympic trials, Smith finished second in a top-quality competition - Seagren, the winner, broke the world record.〔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.〕 At the Olympics, Smith was one of the athletes affected by a ban by the world governing body the IAAF on the lighter poles they had been using all season. An initial ban in July had been reversed on August 27, but on the eve of the competition, August 30, the IAAF reimposed their ban claiming the poles were new equipment and therefore invalid. Smith finished 18th in qualifying and was so upset he threw his pole away in disgust at the end of the competition.〔http://www.sanclementetimes.com/blog/2012/08/02/not-your-typical-olympic-story/ "Not Your Typical Olympic Story", Steve Breazeale, San Clemente Times, August 2, 2012.〕〔http://trackandfield.about.com/od/polevault/a/controvpolevaul.htm "Americans Pole-Axed: Olympic Pole Vault Controversy", Mike Rosenbaum, trackandfield.about.com. Retrieved 13 March 2013.〕 Following his Olympic disaster, Smith rededicated himself to pole vaulting. His reward came on January 20, 1973 when he broke the world record indoors with (beating a record previously held by Kjell Isaksson at ().〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19730121&id=ZnMtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=v5cFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3050,619938 "Steve Smith Sets Pole Vault Record", Associated Press, Reading Eagle, January 21, 1973.〕 Six days later he raised the record to .〔http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1087029/index.htm "He's Raising The Roof A week after setting the world record, Steve Smith wins coast to coast and it seems the sky is his limit", Ron Reid, Sports Illustrated, February 12, 1973.〕〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2202&dat=19730127&id=dZ5cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S1gNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6645,2018665 "Long Beach's Steve Smith Sets New Mark For Indoor Pole Vaulting At 18 Feet", Associated Press, Gettysburg Times, January 27, 1973.〕 Smith was to raise the record again over the next two seasons on the ITA tour culminating with on 28 May 1975 in New York City.〔http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1095004/3/index.htm "He Gets Up By Being Down On Himself", Joe Marshall, Sports Illustrated, June 4, 1979.〕〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19740225&id=0B5OAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Oe0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4327,3905841 "Record Night in Pokey", The Spokesman-Review, February 25, 1974.〕 He had a long-standing sporting rivalry with his fellow American pole vaulter Bob Seagren that famously developed into a personal and very public animosity.〔http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20065303,00.html "Pole-vaulters Seagren and Smith: Champions and Competitors, Yes—but Chums? No Way", People, Vol. 3 No. 21, June 2, 1975.〕 This rivalry was used as a promotional item for the new professional track and field tour of the International Track Association (ITA) that Smith and Seagren both joined - Seagen from the start of the ITA in 1973, Smith for the 1974 season.〔 15.^ https://books.google.com/books?id=oBAlRrvBsu0C&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=professional+track+and+field+ita&source=bl&ots=9ltv2BYutn&sig=IplNzWu0aiY8KsG_3qBDGNeAYEc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IPc0Ua75K8Hb0QXl9YEQ&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=professional%20track%20and%20field%20ita&f=false "The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field", Joseph M Turrini, University of Illinois Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-252-03515-9, p. 123. 〕 After the ITA folded in 1976, Smith applied to regain his amateur status having it restored eventually in 1979. He pursued legal action to enable him to take part in the Olympic Trials for the 1980 Moscow Olympics from which he was initially banned. Smith finished fourth at the trials making him the alternate if one of top three finishers could not compete. However, this status was made meaningless with the United States boycott of the Moscow Olympics.〔 Smith retired from athletics in 1983 after suffering an ankle injury in a car accident.〔http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1013197/index.htm "Steve Smith, Olympic Pole Vaulter", Jeff Pearlman, Sports Illustrated, June 29, 1998.〕 Smith, a natural showman, was always popular with the crowds, for his muscular physique, love of surfing and his eye-catching dress sense - he famously competed in cranberry-colored, psychedelic ski pants.〔 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「Steve Smith (pole vaulter)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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