Mike Conley, Sr.

Mike Conley ( born October 5, 1962 in Chicago ) is a former American track and field athlete.

Mike Conley was one of the best and most popular Three jumpers of the 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, he won the silver medal. Rate this place he could repeat at the World Athletics Championships in 1987. At the 1988 Olympics he was missing in Seoul but then an injury. But he could be Olympic champion at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona to a bronze medal at the World Athletics Championships in 1991. He was unlucky that his winning jump of 18.17 m could not be recognized as a world record and the first legal jump over 18m due to minimal exceeding the allowable wind for this support of 2.0 m / s. At the Track World Championships 1993 he became world champion. Today, Conley has worked as a triple jump coach. His son, Mike Conley, Jr. is a professional basketball player.