5 in. [ 190 ] He could pole vault 11 feet (3.4 m), put the shot 47 ft 9 in (14.55 m), throw the javelin 163 feet (50 m), and throw the discus 136 feet (41 m). [ 190 ] Thorpe entered the U.S. Olympic trials for both the pentathlon and the decathlon. Billy Mills , a Lakota and