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Doug Nordquist

Personal information
Born	(1958-12-20) December 20, 1958 (age 66) San Gabriel, California, United States
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	79 kg (174 lb)
Sport
Club	Tiger International
Medal record Men's Athletics Representing the  United States Goodwill Games 1986 Moscow High jump 1990 Seattle High jump

Douglas Nordquist (born December 20, 1958, in San Gabriel, California) is a retired male high jumper from the United States, who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics where he ended up in fifth place with a jump of 2.29 metres, one place behind distant cousin Dwight Stones. He was TAC high jump champion in 1986 and 1988, and placed second at the 1984 Olympic Trials behind Stones. He competed for Sonora High School, finishing a three-way tie for third place at the 1977 CIF California State Meet. While at Fullerton Community College he won the 1979 California Community College Championships, Washington State University where he was coached by 1968 Olympian Rick Sloan. After graduation he was coached by Jim Kiefer and competed for and Tiger International. He was a practitioner of Washington State's specialized weight training for high jumpers He set his personal record of 2.36m while finishing second in a jumpoff at the USATF National Championships at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California on June 15, 1990. Alan Hankle and Athleticorp was his coach.

That jump currently ranks Nordquist tied as the 25th best performer in history. For his athletic achievements, Nordquist was inducted into the Washington State University Hall of Fame in 2015 and was an inaugural inductee to the Fullerton College Track and Field Wall of Fame in 2019.

Doug Nordquist was a highly decorated director for the California High School Entertainment Unit, winning first place awards with the band. Nordquist retired from teaching at the end of the 2019–2020 school year and was honored as the Whittier Teacher of the Year, an award previously given to his father in 1986.

His personal bests in the event are 2.36 metres outdoors (Norwalk 1990) and 2.31 metres indoors (Genk 1987).

1993 at age 34, Nordquist competed at the Masters level winning high jump. Nordquist competed at the 1993 Masters National Outdoor Championship, winning the M30 high jump.

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing the  United States
1984	Olympic Games	Los Angeles, United States	5th	2.29 m
1986	Goodwill Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	1st	2.34 m
1990	Goodwill Games	Seattle, United States	2nd	2.30 m

References

1. Sports-Reference profile
2. "Douglas NORDQUIST Biography, Olympic Medals, Records and Age". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 2022-04-21.
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-31. Retrieved 2010-06-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-27. Retrieved 2010-09-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
5. "California State Meet Results - 1915 to present". Hank Lawson. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
6. "51视频学院,国产精品无码视频你懂的首页_Av麻豆男人的天堂在线观看_秋霞在线观看播放免费". Retrieved 2010-09-23.
7. Rick Sloan at Sports Reference
8. Foran, Bill (April 1985). "Track and Field: Washington State University Weight training for the high jump". Strength & Conditioning Journal. 7 (2): 48–49. doi:10.1519/0744-0049(1985)007<0048:WSUWTF>2.3.CO;2 (inactive 1 November 2024).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
9. "100 Metres - women - senior - outdoor - 2021".
10. "Athletics Hall of Fame | Patterson Wall of Honor | Washington State University".
11. "Track & Field: Hornet Olympians Honored". 15 February 2019.
12. "Whittier Union High School District / Whittier Union High School District". Archived from the original on 2008-12-04. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
13. "ALL GOOD NEWS: Longtime Whittier band director named Teacher of the Year". 12 June 2020.
14. All-Athletics profile
15. Masters West Region Meet Record. Retrieved Jun 4, 2022
16. masters history. Retrieved Feb 8, 2023

External links

• Doug Nordquist at World Athletics
• Article from Sports Illustrated
• Biography from The Goal.com

v t e 1984 USA Olympic track and field team
Qualification	1984 United States Olympic trials (track and field)
Men's track and road athletes	Ray Armstead Alonzo Babers Kirk Baptiste Ron Brown Tonie Campbell Don Clary Paul Cummings Brian Diemer Marco Evoniuk Greg Foster Sam Graddy Johnny Gray John Gregorek Danny Harris Tranel Hawkins Jim Heiring Thomas Jefferson Earl Jones Roger Kingdom Steve Lacy Carl Lewis Henry Marsh John Marshall Antonio McKay Walter McCoy Edwin Moses Sunder Nix Daniel O'Connor Vince O'Sullivan Doug Padilla Pete Pfitzinger Pat Porter Alberto Salazar Carl Schueler Steve Scott Calvin Smith Willie Smith Jim Spivey John Tuttle Craig Virgin
Men's field athletes	Duncan Atwood Willie Banks Earl Bell Tim Bright Ed Burke Art Burns Michael Carter Mike Conley Sr. John Crist Milton Goode Bill Green Al Joyner Dave Laut Carl Lewis Jud Logan Doug Lytle Mike McRae Larry Myricks Doug Nordquist Tom Petranoff John Powell Steve Roller Dwight Stones Mike Tully Mac Wilkins Augie Wolf Jim Wooding
Women's track and road athletes	Evelyn Ashford Sharrieffa Barksdale Joan Benoit Jeanette Bolden Cindy Bremser Valerie Brisco-Hooks Alice Brown Judi Brown Julie Brown Robin Campbell Chandra Cheeseborough Mary Decker Diane Dixon Benita Fitzgerald-Brown Kim Gallagher Randy Givens Florence Griffith Joyner Joan Hansen Denean Howard Sherri Howard Julie Isphording Missy Kane Lillie Leatherwood Pam Page Diana Richburg Kim Turner Angela Wright-Scott Ruth Wysocki
Women's field athletes	Jodi Anderson Carol Cady Laura De Snoo Leslie Deniz Cindy Greiner Lorna Griffin Joni Huntley Jackie Joyner Carol Lewis Ramona Pagel Louise Ritter Karin Smith Pam Spencer Lynda Sutfin Cathy Sulinski Angela Thacker
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• 1958 births
• Living people
• American male high jumpers
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Olympic track and field athletes for the United States
• People from San Gabriel, California
• Washington State Cougars men's track and field athletes
• Track and field athletes from California
• Sportspeople from Los Angeles County, California
• Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
• Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games
• Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games
• American masters athletes
• American Masters Athlete that competed in Olympics
• 20th-century American sportsmen