[DOC] [TLE] Rafer Johnson - Wikipedia [PAR] Rafer Lewis Johnson (born August 18, 1935) is an American former decathlete 
and film actor. He was the 1960 Olympic gold medalist, after getting a silver in 
1956 and a gold in the 1955 Pan American Games. He was also the flag bearer 
at the 1960 Olympics and lit the Olympic Flame when the Olympics came to Los 
... Johnson however managed to stay close enough to Yang to win the gold. [DOC] [TLE] Yang Chuan-kwang - Wikipedia [PAR] Yang Chuan-kwang, or C.K. Yang (July 10, 1933  January 27, 2007), was an 
Olympic decathlete from the Republic of China. Yang attended college at UCLA 
where he trained and competed with team ... Silver medal  second place, 1960 
Rome ... At the 1956 Summer Olympics he placed eighth in the decathlon. [DOC] [TLE] The Decathlon in Olympic History - DECA, The Decathlon Association [PAR] events and won gold medals in the first Olympic decathlon and pentathlon. A 
year later he was stripped of his Olympic records and medals when it was ..... 
world-record holder Rafer Johnson at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. ... up 
from silver to gold, winning the decathlon at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, 
Italy. [DOC] [TLE] Athletics at the 1960 Roma Summer Games: Men's Decathlon ... [PAR] Medal Winners: Gold: Rafer Johnson, Silver: Yang C. K., Bronze: Vasily 
Kuznetsov, Summary By 1960, [Rafer Johnson], who had won silver in 1956, had 
... But Yang moved ahead in the 110 hurdles, only to see Johnson take back the 
lead for good ... events  he won the shot, discus, and javelin  brought him the 
gold medal. [DOC] [TLE] Rafer Johnson - ESPN.com [PAR] 6, 1960. If Johnson came within 10 seconds of Yang's time in the 1,500, the ... the 
hometown of Bob Mathias, who would win the decathlon in the 1948 and 1952 
Olympics. ... In 1956, he won his first national decathlon championship. ... 
Johnson had the gold medal, setting a then-Olympic record of 8,392 points in the 
process... [DOC] [TLE] Milt Campbell, Olympic Decathlon Champion, Dies at 78 - The New ... [PAR] Nov 4, 2012 ... Mr. Campbell was a gold medalist at the 1956 Summer Olympics in ... Milt 
Campbell was the first African-American to win the Olympic decathlon, in 1956. ... 
His second decathlon came weeks later: while still in high school, he ... Johnson 
won the silver medal that year; without Campbell as competition, he... [DOC] [TLE] Famous Olympians  Free Lessons | Teacher Created Resources [PAR] His four gold medals won at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games discredited Hitler's 
... She swept the diving events for the United States in both the 1956 and 1960 ... 
After winning two bronze medals in 1968, Mark Spitz came back to earn ... He 
won seven gold and three silver medals for Finland over three Olympic Games. [DOC] [TLE] All-time Decathlon rankings - News - News - Decathlon 2000 [PAR] Jul 27, 2011 ... The idea for this came from Dale Harder's book Sports Comparisons and from ... 
One of two decathletes (Mathias is the other) to win 2 gold medals in the 
decathlon. ... Sebrle won Gotzis 5 consecutive times, an Olympic gold and silver, 
..... He won bronze medals in 1956 and 1960 and finished 7th in 1964. [DOC] [TLE] 23 highlights of UCLA's Olympic glory | UCLA [PAR] Aug 2, 2016 ... As 36 Bruins get ready to compete in Rio, we also look back at some other ... 
Griffith Joyner won a silver medal in the 200 meters during the 1984 ... He was 
selected for the 1940 Olympics as a long jumper, but they were ... Olympian 
decathlete, winning silver in 1956 and gold in 1960 at the Rome Olympics. [DOC] [TLE] 2010 Joe Shapiro Award Recipient | California State University, Los ... [PAR] A two-time Olympian and the 1960 gold medalist in the decathlon, Rafer Johnson 
... He competed in his first decathlon in 1954 as a freshman at UCLA and

Question: Winning the silver medal in the decathlon in 1956, he came back to win the gold in 1960
Answer: Rafer Johnson