Tyke Peacock

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Tyke Peacock

Personal information

Born

February 24, 1961

Medal record

Men's Athletics
Competitor for the United States
World Championships
Silver	1983 Helsinki	High jump

Tyke Peacock (born February 24, 1961) is a retired high jumper from the United States, who is best known for winning the silver medal in the men's high jump event at the inaugural 1983 World Championships. He set his personal best of 2.33 metres in the same event on 1983-08-17 at a meet in Berlin.

He also won the 1981 IAAF World Cup.

References

Tyke Peacock profile at IAAF
Sports Illustrated

v t e IAAF World / Continental Cup Champions in Men's High Jump

1977: Rolf Beilschmidt (GDR) 1979: Franklin Jacobs (USA) 1981: Tyke Peacock (USA) 1985: Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) 1989: Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) 1992: Yuriy Sergiyenko (UKR) 1994: Javier Sotomayor (CUB) 1998: Charles Austin (USA) 2002: Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) 2006: Tomáš Janků (CZE) 2010: Rashid Ahmed Al-Mannai (QAT)

v t e US National Championship winners in Men's high jump

1876-1878 New York Athletic Club	1876-8: Edwards Ficken

1879-1888 NAAAA	1879: William Wunder 1880: Alfred Carroll 1881: C.W. Durand 1882: Alfred Carroll 1883: Malcolm Ford 1884: J.T. Rinehart 1885-87: William Page 1888^{Note 1}: Tim O'Connor

1888-1979 Amateur Athletic Union	1888^{Note 1}: Daniel Webster 1889: R.K. Pritchard 1890-91: Alvah Nickerson 1892-95: Mike Sweeney 1896: Charles Powell 1897-1900: Irving Baxter 1901: Sam Jones 1902: Irving Baxter 1903-4: Sam Jones 1905: Herbert Kerrigan 1906: Neil Patterson 1907: Con Leahy 1908: Harry Porter 1909: Egon Erickson 1910: Walter Thomason 1911: Harry Grumpelt/Harry Porter 1912: John Johnstone 1913: Alma Richards 1914: Jo Loomis 1915: George Horine 1916: Wes Oler 1917: Clint Larsen 1918: Carl Rice 1919-20^OT: John Murphy 1921-22: Dewey Alberts 1923: LeRoy Brown 1924: Robert Juday 1925-26: Harold Osborn 1927: Robert King 1928^OT: Robert King/Charles McGinnis 1929: Henry Lassalette 1930-31: Anton Burg 1932^OT: Cornelius Johnson/George Spitz/Robert van Osdel 1933: Cornelius Johnson 1934: Cornelius Johnson/Walter Marty 1935: Cornelius Johnson 1936: Cornelius Johnson/Dave Albritton 1937: Dave Albritton 1938: Mel Walker/Dave Albritton 1939-40: Les Steers 1941: William Stewart 1942: Adam Berry 1943: Pete Watkins 1944: Fred Sheffield/Willard Smith 1945: Dave Albritton/Lester Howe/Richard Schnacke/Joshua Williamson 1946-47: Dave Albritton 1948: Tom Schofield 1949: Dick Phillips 1950: Dave Albritton/Jack Heitzman/Jack Razzeto/Virgil Severns 1951: Lewis Hall 1952-53: Walt Davis 1954: Ernie Shelton 1955: Charles Dumas/Ernie Shelton 1956-59: Charles Dumas 1960: John Thomas 1961: Bob Avant 1962: John Thomas 1963: Gene Johnson 1964: Ed Caruthers 1965-67: Otis Burrell 1968: Ed Hanks 1969: Otis Burrell 1970-71: Reynaldo Brown 1972: Barry Schur 1973-74: Dwight Stones 1975: Tom Woods 1976-78: Dwight Stones 1979: Franklin Jacobs

1980-1992 The Athletics Congress	1980: Franklin Jacobs 1981: Tyke Peacock 1982: Milt Ottey 1983: Dwight Stones 1984: Jim Howard 1985: Brian Stanton 1986: Doug Nordquist 1987: Jerome Carter 1988: Doug Nordquist 1989: Brian Brown 1990-92^OT: Hollis Conway

1993-onwards USA Track & Field	1993-94: Hollis Conway 1994: Ron Clark 1995-2000^2OT: Charles Austin 2001-02: Nathan Leeper 2003-04^OT: Jamie Nieto 2005: Matt Hemingway 2006: Tora Harris 2007: Jim Dilling 2008^OT: Jesse Williams 2009: Tora Harris 2010-11: Jesse Williams 2012^OT: Jamie Nieto

Notes	Note 1: In 1888 both the NAAAA and the AAU held championships OT: The 1920, 1928, 1932 and since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event.

Persondata
Name	Peacock, Tyke
Alternative names
Short description	American high jumper
Date of birth	February 24, 1961
Place of birth
Date of death
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