DeHart Hubbard

Biography

William DeHart Hubbard (November 25, 1903 – June 23, 1976) was a track and field athlete and the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event. He won the running long jump at the 1924 Paris Summer games. He also competed in the 1924 Olympics as a triple jumper. The next year, he set a world record in the long jump, with a leap of 25 feet 10+7⁄8 inches (7.90 m) at Chicago in June 1925, and equaled the world record of 9.6 seconds for the 100-yard dash at Cincinnati, Ohio, a year later.

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