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Nationality | American |
Born | Los Angeles, United States | April 2, 1953
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Sport | Athletics |
Event | Triple jump |
Rayfield Dupree (born April 2, 1953) is an American former track and field athlete, who competed in the men's triple jump at the 1976 Summer Olympics. [1]
Competition | Year | Rank | Mark | Ref |
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NCAA Outdoor | 1973 | 4 | 15.93 | [2] |
U.S. Outdoor | 1975 | 4 | 16.43 | [3] |
U.S. Outdoor | 1976 | 4 | 16.60 | [3] |
U.S. Olympic trials | 1976 | 3 | 17.01 w | [4] |
Olympic Games | 1976 | 12 | 16.23 (16.50 Q) | [1] [5] |
Ohio Valley Conference Indoor | 1977 | 1 | 15.79 i | [6] |
U.S. Outdoor | 1977 | 6 | 16.55 | [3] |
U.S. Outdoor | 1977 | 6 | 16.55 | [3] |
U.S. Outdoor | 1978 | 2 | 16.46 w | [3] |
Dupree was a junior at California State University, Long Beach when he came fourth in the 1973 NCAA Championships. [2] He represented the U.S. Army in the 1976 Olympic trials. [4] [5] The following season he was at Middle Tennessee State University and became Ohio Valley Conference indoor champion. [7] He qualified for the 1980 Olympic trials but withdrew. [8]
In June 1981 Dupree was working as a mail carrier in Los Angeles when an irate customer attacked him with lye. [9] He was hospitalised for three weeks and off work for three months. [9] He recovered to compete in the 1982 U.S. Outdoor Championships, driving from Los Angeles to Knoxville, Tennessee. [9]
In 1993 Dupree founded the Team World Track club near his home in Moreno Valley, California. [7] In 2005 he pleaded guilty to lewd and lascivious conduct in connection with two 13-year-old girls he was coaching there. [7]
In 1982 Dupree was married with three children. [9] His daughter Gaylian is the mother of football player De'Anthony Thomas, for whom Rayfield was a childhood sprint coach. [10]
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