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Nick Newton thanked crowd for a surprise party in his honor in May 2010. His wife, Sheila, is at right.
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Nick Newton Dies at 84; Invented Aluminum Starting Blocks, Set Track Records

by Ken Stone March 31, 2018April 3, 2018

Updated at 1:30 p.m. April 3, 2018 Nick Newton, a latecomer to track and field who gained fame as a record-setting masters sprinter and high jumper who invented an improved set of starting blocks, died early Saturday in Palm Springs. He was 84 and died of pneumonia at Desert Regional Medical Center after a three-day […]

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