Mac Wilkins
| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Maurice Malcolm Wilkins |
| Nationality | American |
| Born |
November 15, 1950 (age 66) Eugene, Oregon, U.S. |
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 115 kg (254 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country |
 United States
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| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Discus throw |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 70.98 m (1980) |
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Mac Maurice Wilkins (born November 15, 1950) is an American athlete, who competed mainly in the discus throw. He was born in Eugene, Oregon and graduated in 1969 from Beaverton High School in Beaverton, Oregon
Wilkins competed for the United States in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada in the discus throw, where he won the gold medal with a distance of 221' 5" to defeat Wolfgang Schmidt of East Germany by four feet.
Wilkins also won a silver medal in the discus throw at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, after missing the 1980 games due to the American boycott. He placed 5th in the 1988 Games in Seoul, Korea.
Famous distance running coach Bill Bowerman recruited Wilkins to the University of Oregon, where he threw the javelin 257' 8" (78.44m) as a 19-year-old freshman. As a senior, he was NCAA champion in the discus and won the first of eight U.S. national championships in the discus. He was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1994.
When Al Oerter died on 1 October 2007, Wilkins became the earliest surviving Olympic champion in the men's discus. He is not the oldest; Viktor Rashchupkin—the 1980 champion—is almost a month older.
Wilkins broke the world record four times in his career. During his discus throw series on May 1, 1976 in San Jose, California, he set the world record three times with consecutive throws of 69.80m, 70.24m, and 70.86m.
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