Excerpt from Spalding's Official Athletic Almanac, 1909: Containing Complete List of American Best-on-Records, British Best-on-Records, Records of All Important Athletic Contests Throughout the World, Complete Record Olympic Games of 1908Jumping from springboard records 31 Jumping records 19 31 Lifting records 31 Long dive record 37 Marathon road races. 77 Medley race record.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.