Born November 7, 1930, Terre Haute, Ind.

The world's top long jumper in the 1950s, Greg Bell highlighted an outstanding track and field career by winning the long jump gold medal at the 1956 Olympic Games, jumping 25-8 1/4 while a sophomore at Indiana University. However, his longest jump came in 1957 when he won the national collegiate title with a 26-7 effort, a meet record that stood for seven years. That same year, he was voted the Most Outstanding Athlete at the Penn Relays by winning both the 100 yards and the long jump. Bell first came into national prominence in 1955 when he won the first of three National AAU titles. Rated the world's top long jumper three times, Bell wound up with a total of 13 26-foot long jumps, the most by any long jumper in history up to that time. The NCAA long jump champion in both 1956 and 1957, he also placed second in the 1959 Pan American Games and competed in the USA-USSR dual meet the same year. Bell later became a dentist in Logansport, Indiana.