Nick Newton
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 Nick Newton facts

• Newton blocks are considered by many to be the best in the world, used at many major track meets like the Mt
• SAC Relays
• Starting blocks are the device sprinters use to hold their feet at the start of a race so they don't slip as they push out at the sound of the gun
• Using his experience as a tool and die maker for Waste King, Newton invented a cast aluminum block design as an improvement for his daughter Pam, who was excelling in girls' track
• Newton's solid, but lightweight versions greatly improved on the flimsy or rusty old devices that had been standard equipment for decades
• First patented in 1978 Newton has subsequently patented two additional innovations to offer sprinters more possible settings to prepare for their start
• He became heavily involved as a mentor for the L
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• Mercurettes Track Club, an elite track club of the 1970s and 80's
• In 1976, he joined Olympian John Carlos in an athletic delegation arranged by Henry Kissinger to the then segregated South Africa which was a step to the desegregation of athletics in that country