{"id":1437,"date":"2026-02-18T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/90220.org\/?page_id=1437"},"modified":"2026-09-30T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:00:26","slug":"hub-city-olympians","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/90220.org\/?page_id=1437","title":{"rendered":"HUB CITY OLYMPIANS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gold medal-winning discus thrower Sim<\/strong>Innesss was the first person to break the 190-foot barrier in the event. A member of 3 NCAA championship teams at USC …Read more.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sim Iness:<\/strong> A discus thrower who attended Compton College, he won a Gold Medal<\/strong> at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Simeon “Sim” Garland Iness was an American discus thrower who won a gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics, breaking the Olympic record several times. The next year, he set a new world record of 57.93 m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simeon “Sim” Garland Iness (July 9, 1930 \u2013 May 23, 1996) was an American discus thrower<\/strong> who won a gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics, world record at 57.93 …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sim <\/strong>Inness placed sixth at the 1948 Final Trials, won the Trials and went on to take the Olympic title, the first man in history to throw 190 feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Actor: Lady Godiva of Coventry<\/strong>. Born in Oklahoma in 1930, Simeon Garland Iness attended USC, where he specialized in discus throwing. Won the NCAA in 1952 …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sim I<\/strong>NESS. Discus Throw. United States. Born09 JUL 1930. Sim’s code14555982. 1X. Olympic champion. 1X. World Records in career. Personal bests. Discus Throw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gold medal-winning discus thrower SimInnesss was the first person to break the 190-foot barrier in the event. A member of 3 NCAA championship teams at USC …Read more. Sim Iness: A discus thrower who attended Compton College, he won a Gold Medal at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Sim Iness Simeon “Sim” Garland Iness was an American…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1437","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1437\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}