
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 12, 1991                   TAG: 9103120201
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: METRO 
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IN SPORTS-ETC.

John Smith, the first American to win four consecutive world wrestling titles, received the Amateur Athletic Union's James E. Sullivan Award as the nation's outstanding amateur athlete for 1990.

Smith, 25, of Stillwater, Okla., was a finalist for the fourth time and became the first wrestler to receive the Sullivan Award.

Among other finalists this year were Notre Dame football player Raghib "Rocket" Ismail, Michigan's Mike Barrowman (world's fastest breaststroke swimmer), Bonnie Blair (five-time national speedskating sprint champion), and Teresa Edwards (three-time finalist, member of the U.S. Olympic women's basketball gold medal team in 1984 and 1988).

by CNB