Six years before he became Olympic javelin champion at the Montreal 1976 Games, Hungary's Miklós Németh - like so many athletes before and since – gained invaluable competitive experience by winning gold at the Summer Universiade. 

At the age of 23, Németh entered the 1970 edition in Turin with much to live up to, given that his father, Imre, had won the Olympic hammer title at the 1948 London Games, and taken bronze four years later at Helsinki, finishing his career with three world records to his name. 

Németh junior was a javelin thrower rather than a hammer thrower, but he showed he was a chip off the old block in Turin as he earned gold with a best of 81.94 metres. 

Silver went to compatriot Jozcef Csik on 80.32, with Poland’s Zygmunt Jaloszynski taking bronze with 79.84. 

All that experience came to bear in Montreal, where he struck decisively - and, for his opponents, demoralisingly – by throwing a world record of 94.58m in the first round, thus eclipsing the mark of 94.08 set by West Germany’s Klaus Wolfermann in 1973. 

The record would stand until 1980, when his compatriot Ferenc Paragi threw 96.72.