Don Bragg
Don Bragg (actually Donald George Bragg, born May 15, 1935 in Penns Grove, New Jersey ) is a retired American pole vaulter who was successful in the second half of the 1950s. Bragg has been received as the last world record Springer with a metal rod in the history of athletics.
Bragg was the third of eight siblings on 15 May 1935 in the small town of Penns Grove in the U.S. state of New Jersey to the world. His parents were circus performers William Hazard Bragg and Nellie Kalor.
Braggs problem was that the metal rods broke regularly under his unusually high for a Springer weighing nearly 100 kg. Except by its dimensions (1.90 m tall ), he also struck by his vocal power: As a passionate Tarzan devotees he had made it a habit to imitate his distinctive screams in competition.
At the age of 19 he jumped 4.60 m. However, at the Olympic Games in Melbourne, he was unable to participate due to injury. His success should the year 1960 be: He won at the Olympics in Rome with a height of 4.70 m after, on July 2, 1960 set a month earlier in Palo Alto, California, with 4.80 m a new world record had. However, this was in May 1961 by George Davies to 4.83 m improved - with the Bragg violently rejected fiberglass rod.
In 1960 he won the International Stadium Festival Berlin.
Donald Bragg, who in 1957 completed his studies at the University in Villanova, worked after finishing his career as a sports director at Stockton State College in New Jersey. Later he started his own business as an operator of a holiday camp.
He wrote a book called A Chance to Dare: The Don Bragg Story.