Brian Sternberg

Brian Douglas Sternberg ( born June 21, 1943 in Seattle, † 23 May 2013) was an American track and field athlete, who in the early 1960s as a pole vaulter came into existence. In 1963 he jumped three times world record. He has become known as the first 5- m- Springer in the story.

In 1963 he won both the NCAA and the AAU Championship ( 4.97 m or 4.98 m).

Brian Sternberg was to participate in an international match USA - nominated USSR. On July 2, 1963 two weeks before the departure of the Soviet Union, he had an accident but while training on the trampoline and pulled a break between the fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae, which had an almost total paralysis and an extensive loss of voting power result. From the Soviet Union it a victory medal was sent after the news of the accident.

In 1998, he underwent an operation by Dr. Harry Goldsmith in Germany. Wherein engaging the omentum was stretched and bonded to the breaking point. Since Sternberg was almost painless and may take longer time to sit up and speak in a normal tone more words in context. For this success he remarked on 21 September 1998 in an interview for the magazine Sports Illustrated to finance its treatment, a still existing trust fund has been established.

Brian Sternberg last lived in Seattle. He was involved as a correspondent for the Christian Association of The Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

World Records

  • 4.64 m on August 11, 1962 in Vancouver ( Junior WR)
  • 4.77 m on August 25, 1962 in Vancouver ( Junior WR)
  • 5.00 m April 27, 1963 in Philadelphia (improving the previous record of John Pennel to 2 cm)
  • 5.05 m on 25 May 1963 in Modesto (setting the previous record of John Pennel )
  • 5.08 m on 7 June 1963 ( to 5.10 m improves on July 14, 1963 by John Pennel ) in Compton
May 23 National Collegiate Athletic Association Amateur Athletic Union Modesto, California Compton, California Washington (state)
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