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Olympic medal record
Men's Athletics
Gold 1956 Melbourne 1500 metres

Ronald Michael Delany (born March 6, 1935), better known as Ron or Ronnie is a former Irish athlete, who specialised in middle distance running. Athletics, known as Track and Field in the United States has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an International Multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, 33 athletics events were contested 24 for men and 9 for women Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world

Born in Arklow, Delaney moved with his family to Dublin when he was 6. Arklow ( is a historic town located in County Wicklow on the east coast of Ireland. Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. His father had got a job in Jacobs Biscuit Factory and there Delaney went to Catholic University School. Catholic University School (CUS is a Roman Catholic secondary school for boys located on the southside of central Dublin.

Delaney studied in the United States at Villanova University, where he was coached by the well-known track coach Jumbo Elliott. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Villanova University' is a private university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States James (Jumbo Elliott ( August 8, 1915 &ndash March 22, 1981) was an American athletics coach often considered to His first achievement of note was reaching the final of the 800m at the 1954 European Championships in Berne. The city of Berne or Bern (, Berne, Berna, Romansh: Berna, Bernese German: Bärn) is the Bundesstadt ( Federal

In 1956, he became the seventh runner to join the club of Four minute milers, but nonetheless struggled to make the Irish team for the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne. In athletics, the four-minute mile is the Running of a Mile (1609 The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an International Multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3

Delaney qualified for the Olympic 1500 m final, in which home runner John Landy was the big favourite. John Michael Landy AC, CVO, MBE (born April 12 1930 is a former track athlete and was the 26th Governor of Victoria Delaney kept close to Landy until the final lap, when he started a crushing final sprint, winning the race in a new Olympic Record. Delaney thereby became the first Irishman to win an Olympic title in athletics since Bob Tisdall in 1932. Robert ("Bob" Morton Newburgh Tisdall ( May 16, 1907 in Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon now Sri Lanka &ndash July

Delaney continued his running career in North America, winning four successive AAU titles in the mile, adding to his total of four Irish national titles, and three NCAA titles. Official NameAmateur Athletic Union of the United States Incorporated (AAU A mile is a unit of Length, usually used to measure Distance, in a number of different systems including Imperial units United States The National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A" is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions conferences organizations He was next to unbeatable on indoor tracks over that period, which included a 40-race winning streak. He broke the World Indoor Mile Record on three occasions.


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