1992 MEN'S FINAL

Mike Powell, who had qualified only fourth in his preliminary round, dominated the competition to win the 1992 Superstars title. Powell, the world record holder and world champion in the long jump, won four of his five events and set Superstars records in two of those events. Powell beat out another Olympic silver medalist, water polo's Terry Schroeder, by ten points. Kansas City Chief linebacker Derrick Thomas finished a distant third place. Competition began in the swimming pool with a 50 yard event, and to no one's surprise Schroeder won easily. Despite an average start, Schroeder finished in 23.47 seconds to break the record of 23.53 seconds set by diver Greg Louganis is 1986. Seth Joyner of the Philadelphia Eagles looked pretty comfortable lifting 300 pounds to beat out fellow N.F.L.'ers Jeff Lageman and Derrick Thomas, both of whom lifted 300 pounds. The athletes returned to the water, and an upset was in the offing. Powell, who had failed to score a point in the preliminary round in the kayaking, defeated preiliminary winners Schroeder and Lageman handily. Powell then took his skills to the basketball court. There was some controversy, as athletes are generally paired with each athlete given 60 seconds to score points from various areas of the court. Since an odd number of athletes entered the event, Powell by luck of the draw was unopposed. Dallas Cowboy quarterback Steve Beuerlein totalled 33 points, just one short of the record of Barry Sanders and Gary Anderson. Powell then went off by himself and was clearly at an advantage. He poured in basket after basket as Beuerlein and the rest of the field could only look on and count Powell's growing score. He finished with a new record of 36 points and his second win. Had Powell not had such an advantage, and had he scored less than 26 points, Terry Schroeder would have won the overall title. Such is the math of the Superstars. With Powell and Schroeder tied at 21 points, the athletes took to the bikes. Powell had decided to sit this event out, and it was Schroeder's final event as he had opted out of the 100 yard dash and the obstacle course. Schroeder powered past Derrick Thomas for the win and a 10 point lead over Powell. In the 100 yard dash, Powell overcame an average start to pull away from the rest of the field and win in 9.50 seconds. Powell had tied Schroeder in the overall competition at 31 points, but with the obstacle course remaining and with Powell holding a 2-1 head-to-head advantage over Schroeder, Powell was the Superstars champion. Still, Powell did not let up, despite a bobble in the tires, Powell zoomed through the second half of the obstacle course to qualify for the final against Brian Jordan. With the pressure off, Powell put it all on the line in the obstacle course. He grabbed to the of the 12 foot wall without using the rope, was efficient through the blocking sled and the tires, he had no problem over the water hazard and then leapt over the 4'6" high bar and the landing mat to explode to a new record of 21.12 seconds, shaving a quarter of a second off the record of Willie Gault from six years ago. Powell became the fourth track and field athlete to win the Superstars title, but continued the Olympic curse of athletes competing in an Olympic year. None have ever gone on to capture Olympic gold.

Cancun, Mexico

Compeititon Date: February 12, 1992

Announcers: Frank Gifford, Lynn Swann and Julie Moran.

PLC. NAME, SPORT	SWIM	WL	KAYAK	BSKT	BIKE	100	OC	TOTAL	MONEY
1. Mike Powell, Long Jump	1	-	10	10	-	10	10	41	$19,100
2. Terry Schroeder, Water Polo	10	0	7	4	10	-	-	31	$13,100
3. Derrick Thomas, Football	-	5 1/2	0	-	7	3	4	19 1/2	$6,950
4. Seth Joyner, Football	-	10	-	1/2	1	3	2	16 1/2	$1,650
5. Steve Beuerlein, Football	7	-	0	7	0	-	0	14	$1,400
6. Don Beebe, Football	-	-	2	2	0	7	1	12	$1,200
6. Brian Jordan, Baseball	-	1 1/2	-	1/2	2	1	7	12	$1,200
8. Jeff Lageman, Football	0	5 1/2	4	0	0	-	-	9 1/2	$950
9. Sinjin Smith, Volleyball	4	-	0	0	4	-	0	8	$800
10. Greg Olson, Baseball	2	1 1/2	1	0	0	-	-	4 1/2	$450

Mike Powell was pretty happy in winning the 1992 Superstars championship


Water polo's Terry Schroeder set a new Superstars record in the 50 yard swim

Seth Joyner powered up 330 pounds to win the weight lifting event

Powell surprise everyone, including himself, in winning the 100 yard kayak race.

Mike Powell, unopposed, racked up 36 points for a new basketball record

Terry Schroeder moved back into the lead with a win in the bike race

Powell won his third event and tied for the overall lead with 9.50 second 100 yard dash

Powell used his leaping ability to set a new obstacle course record.

INDIVIDUAL EVENT RESULTS

SWIMMING (50 Yards) - final

1. Terry Schroeder	23.47 r
2. Steve Beuerlein	27.5e
3. Sinjin Smith	28.6e
4. Greg Olson	29.3e
5. Mike Powell	dnf

WEIGHT LIFTING

1. Seth Joyner	330
2. Jeff Lageman	300
2. Derrick Thomas	300
4. Brian Jordan	275
4. Greg Olson	275
6. Terry Schroeder	240

KAYAKING

1. Mike Powell	N/A	25.81
2. Terry Schroeder	N/A	27.6e
3. Jeff Lageman	N/A	N/A
4. Don Beebe	N/A
5. Greg Olson	N/A
Steve Beuerlein	N/A
Derrick Thomas	N/A
Sinjin Smith	N/A

BASKETBALL

1. Mike Powell	36 r
2. Steve Beuerlein	33
3. Terry Schroeder	27e
4. Don beebe	26
5. Brian Jordan	25
5. Seth Joyner	25
7. Greg Olson	16
8. Sinjin Smith	14
9. Jeff Lageman	11

BIKE RACE-qualifying

1. Derrick Thomas	N/A
2. Sinjin Smith	N/A
3. Terry Schroeder	N/A
4. Brian Jordan	N/A
5. Seth Joyner	N/A

BIKE RACE-final

1. Terry Schroeder	1:03.97
2. Derrick Thomas	1:04.2e
3. Sinjin Smith	1:04.9e
4. Brian Jordan	N/A
5. Seth Joyner	N/A

100 YARD DASH

1. Mike Powell	9.50
2. Don Beebe	10.00
3. Seth Joyner	10.44
3. Derrick Thomas	10.44
5. Brian Jordan	N/A

OBSTACLE COURSE

1. Mike Powell	24.50		24.50	21.12 r
2. Brian Jordan	24.50		24.50	N/A
3. Derrick Thomas	24.53		24.53
4. Seth Joyner	25.37		25.37
5. Don Beebe	24.41	HB	29.41

e = estimated time

r = Superstars record

N/A = result not available

dnf - did not finish

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