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===Track and Field=== * [[United States Olympic trials (track and field)|U.S. Olympic Trials]] [[Pentathlon]] Champion (May 18, 1912) ** 1st place β [[Long jump|Running broad jump]] ** 1st place β [[200 metres]] ** 1st place β [[Discus throw]] ** 2nd place β [[1500 metres]] ** 2nd place β [[Javelin throw]] * 2Γ [https://www.olympic-museum.de/prizes/1912/challenge_prizes_1912.php Olympic Challenge Prize Winner] (1912)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/brightpathstrong/videos/926439641420257/|title=Bright Path Strong Video|website=Facebook|publisher=Bright Path Strong|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250428011613/https://www.facebook.com/brightpathstrong/videos/926439641420257/|archive-date=2025-04-28|url-status=dead}}</ref> ** The Swedish King's Challenge Prize Trophy ** The Emperor of Russia's Challenge Prize Trophy * 2Γ [[Summer Olympic Games|Olympic]] gold medalist ([[1912 Summer Olympics|1912]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-15 |title=Jim Thorpe - Prague Chamber of Commerce |url=https://www.praguechamber.org/jim-thorpe/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |language=en-US}}</ref> ** [[Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics β Men's pentathlon|1912 Olympic Pentathlon gold medal]] *** 1st place β [[Long jump]] *** 1st place β [[200 metres]] *** 1st place β [[Discus throw]] *** 1st place β [[1500 metres]] *** 3rd place β [[Javelin throw]] *** Tied-4th place β [[High jump]] *** 7th place β [[Long jump]] ** [[Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics β Men's decathlon|1912 Olympic Decathlon gold medal]] *** 1st place β [[Shot put]] *** 1st place β [[High jump]] *** 1st place β [[110 metres hurdles]] *** 1st place β [[1500 metres]] *** 3rd place β [[Long jump]] *** 3rd place β [[Discus throw]] *** Tied-3rd place β [[100 metres]] *** Tied-3rd place β [[Pole vault]] *** 4th place β [[Javelin throw]] *** 4th place β [[400 metres]] * 4th place in the [[Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics β Men's high jump|1912 Olympic Men's High Jump]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Memorial and Monument for Jim Thorpe |url=https://theclio.com/entry/12367 |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=Clio |language=en}}</ref> * 7th place in the [[Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics β Men's long jump|1912 Olympic Men's Long Jump]]<ref name=":2" /> * [[Amateur Athletic Union]] All-Around Championships gold medal (September 2, 1912){{efn|First place in seven of the ten events contested, and came in second in the remaining three.}}<ref name="The Carlisle Arrow">[https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/sites/default/files/docs-publications/CarlisleArrow_v09n02.pdf Carlisle Arrow, Page 10]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jim Thorpe Biography - BiographyDocuments.org |url=https://www.biographydocuments.org/sports-athletics/jim-thorpe.html |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=www.biographydocuments.org}}</ref> ** Record-breaking 7,476 points{{efn|The former record was 7,385, made by [[Martin Sheridan]] in 1909.}} * The [[Thorpe Cup]], an annual international decathlon and heptathlon meeting between the [[United States]] and [[Germany]], is named in his honor (1993)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thorpe Cup :: GER vs. USA |url=http://tc.zehnkampfteam.de/index_en.php |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=tc.zehnkampfteam.de}}</ref>
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