NAVY ATHLETICS: The United States Sports Academy has presented its 2016 Distinguished Service Award to Al Cantello, a world-record javelin thrower who has served more than half a century in coaching at the Naval Academy.
A former world-class competitor in the javelin, Cantello once held every national and international record in the event. In 1959, he set a world record in the javelin of 282 feet 3 inches (86.04 meters) and competed for the U.S. Olympic Team the following year in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. In 1964, Sport magazine named Cantello to its all-time track and field team and voted him the world's greatest competitor in the javelin.