마이어 프린스타인

소개

마이어 프린스타인(Myer Prinstein, 1878년 12월 22일 ~ 1925년 3월 10일)은 세단뛰기와 멀리뛰기를 주로 활약한 미국의 육상 선수이다. 멀리뛰기의 세계 기록 보유자였으며, 3개의 올림픽에서 4개의 금메달을 획득하였다.

Myer Prinstein was a Poland-born American track and field athlete who held the world record for the long jump in 1900 and won four gold medals in three Olympic Games for the long jump and triple jump. He was a member of the Irish American Athletic Club in Queens, New York. A 1902 law graduate and track team captain for Syracuse University, after college he became a New York real estate lawyer and businessman while living in Jamaica Plains, Queens. To date, he is the only Olympic track athlete to win both the triple and long jump in the same Olympics, earning the distinction in St. Louis in 1904.