Dwight Stones

Dwight Stones

Stones (right) interviews Xavier Carter and Kelly Willie of LSU.
Personal information
Nationality	United States
Born	(1953-12-06) December 6, 1953 (age 63) Los Angeles, California
Height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Weight	172 lb (78 kg)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	High jump
College team	Long Beach State 49ers UCLA Bruins
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	2.34 m (1984)
Medal record Representing the  United States 1972 Munich High jump 1976 Montreal High jump IAAF World Cup 1977 Düsseldorf High jump
Updated on 9 June 2013.

Dwight Edwin Stones (born December 6, 1953) is an American television commentator and a two-time Olympic bronze medalist and former three-time world record holder in the men's high jump. During his 16-year career, he won 19 national championships. In 1984, Stones became the first athlete to both compete and serve as an announcer at the same Olympics. Since then, he has been a color analyst for all three major networks in the United States and continues to cover track and field on television. He served as an analyst for NBC Sports coverage of Track and Field at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Stones set a national high school record in 1971 at 2.17 m (7 ft 1 ¹⁄₂ in), then won the bronze medal at age 18 at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. He set his first world record the following summer when he cleared 2.30 m (7 ft 6 ¹⁄₂ in), also at Munich. That jump also made him the first "flop" jumper to set a world record, five years after Dick Fosbury made that style famous while winning the gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Stones raised the world record to 2.31 m (7 ft 7 in) in 1976 at the NCAA Championships at Franklin Field in Philadelphia in June, and added another centimeter to the record two months later.