Bill Green

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bill Green
Occupation	Hammer Thrower
Date Of Birth	Apr 28, 1960(1960-04-28)
Age	64
Birthplace	Laurel
Country	United States
Birth City	Laurel
Horoscope	Taurus

Bill Green Biography

Bill Green is one of the most popular and richest Hammer Thrower who was born on April 28, 1960 in Laurel, Laurel, United States. William “Bill” Green (born April 28, 1960) is an American former track and field athlete. He is a former United States record holder and finished fifth in the hammer throw in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California.

Green was asked by the Fremont High School (Sunnyvale, CA) coaching staff to try out for the sport of track and field, based upon observations made in a physical education weightlifting class. A discus thrower for two years in high school who failed to qualify for the California state meet, he was recruited by renowned throwing coach Art Venegas near the beginning of his career. Venegas would later develop 33 national champions in 28 years as assistant and head coach at UCLA, a record never approached by any other university. Encouragement to try the hammer throw as a college freshman resulted in an NCAA All American designation and an AAU National Junior Champion title in 1979 in just five months with the event, and a ranking of third in the United States at the senior level three years later in 1982.

He placed tenth at the 1980 United States Olympic Trials. Competing collegiately, he was in the top five hammer throwers at the NCAA Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Championship from 1981 to 1983. He had his first podium finish at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 1982, but fell back to fourth in 1983. He won his first national title at the 1986 USA Outdoor Championships, and was runner-up in 1987.

In August 1987, he became embroiled in a controversy generating international headlines when he was disqualified for doping at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he had won the silver medal. He had tested positive for testosterone with a T/E ratio of 11,2-1. In April 1988 IAAF handed him an eighteen-month ban from sports for the anti-doping rule violation.

Bill Green grew up in the Silicon Valley region of the San Francisco Bay Area, graduating from Fremont High School in Sunnyvale, California in 1978, and California State University, Long Beach in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. He is married to Julie Green and has two children, William John Jr. (“Jack”) and Victoria (“Tori”). The family currently resides permanently in Huntington Beach, California and part-time in the Lake Tahoe community of Fallen Leaf Lake.

Bill Green Net Worth

Bill Green is one of the richest Hammer Thrower from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bill Green 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Green competed at the height of hammer throw performance historically, a time when the event was dominated by the Eastern Bloc communist sports system. Technical advancements in the hammer throw pioneered by the Soviet Union in the late 1970s were increasing distances at a furious pace by the early 1980s and the complex biomechanics of these changes, which evolved the hammer throw from a strength event to a focus on speed, were not well understood in other parts of the world. Based on experience competing against Russian prodigy Igor Nikulin at the USA vs USSR Junior National Team competitions in 1979, an athlete who go on to become one of history’s all-time performers and an Olympic medalist in 1992, Green and Venegas believed they could adopt the new technical changes and reestablish the United States as a viable competitor internationally after more than 25 years with no Americans on the Olympic podium. In 1983 and 1984 he set three American Collegiate Records, three United States National Records, and, after winning the American Olympic trials, he placed fifth at the 1984 Olympic Games. He is one of only three Americans since 1952 to place in the top six in Olympic competition, and his performance in Los Angeles established a prelude to the country’s first Olympic medal in 40 years with Lance Deal’s second-place finish in the 1996 Atlanta Games.

Green is the son of William Hipkiss, an attorney and actor in community theater who in the 1970s and 1980s performed in over 20 productions at the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts in Muskegon, Michigan and other parts of Western Michigan. His mother is Barbara Green, former mayor and city councilwoman in the historical Lake Tahoe town of Truckee, California, who also served one term as County Supervisor for Nevada County, California. Bill was adopted at age five by Barbara Green’s second husband Kenneth Green, and raised in California since the age of three.

Green became disillusioned with the lack of support and training resources necessary for an American athlete to challenge in an area of sports dominated by the Eastern Bloc athletic system at the height of its success in the 1980s. This factor, combined with the belief that drug use was required to medal at a second Olympic Games and a limited interest in the event in the United States, eroded his enthusiasm for Track and Field.

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Who is Bill Green Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Bill Ranked on the list of most popular Hammer Thrower. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Bill Green celebrates birthday on April 28 of every year.

What age is Bill Green?

Bill Green died on March 15, 1994, at age 53.

Does cricket green have ADHD?

Inability to pay attention: As with most kids his age, Cricket has trouble paying attention to anyone. In “Quiet Please”, he has a tendency to get extremely bored and distracted, and has to keep his brain stimulated otherwise he’ll go off; Chris Houghton hinted Cricket has Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD).

What is Bill Green's catchphrase?

Think big, act big, but never forget your roots.

What happened to Bill Green's dad Big City Greens?

Eventually, the two gave birth to a son named Bill, thanks to Alice reproducing outside her favorite burger joint. But sadly, Ernest died around the time Bill was an infant , leaving the farm to suffer and Bill to take his place.

Why was cricket greens mom in jail?

In “Uncaged”, it is revealed that she was sent away to prison for trying to liberate cows from a dairy factory. She has since tried to apologize for her sins and simply wants to live with her family in relative peace.