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Bob Hayes

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Bob Hayes began running as a boy with his brother Ernest, who was training to be a boxer. At Matthew W. Gilbert High School in Jacksonville, Hayes played running back on the football team and sprinted, as he also did at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. He set a world record for the 100-yard dash in 1963. At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, he won the gold medal for the 100-metre dash and tied the world record. He also won a gold medal as the anchor of the 4×100-metre relay team. The relay victory was a world-record performance highlighted by Hayes, who was trailing by 4 meters when he received the baton and won the race by 3 meters, covering his leg in an estimated 8.6 seconds.

After retiring from sprinting, Hayes played professional football as wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys for 10 seasons, beginning in 1965. He helped the Cowboys win the Super Bowl in 1972. At the time of his retirement from football in 1976, he held team records for career touchdowns (71), average yards per reception (20.0), and average yards per kick return (11.1), among others. In 2009 Hayes was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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Hayes won the gold medal in the 100 meters at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, tying the then-world record of 10.05 seconds, and anchored the United States 400-meter relay team to victory in a world-record 39.06.
The only athlete to win an Olympic gold medal and a Super Bowl ring.
Wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys (1965-1974) and San Francisco 49ers (1975).
Inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 2005.
Enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009.

I won gold medals representing this country, but I've gotten more recognition around the world than I have in my own back yard.

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