Article: MANN SET A WORLD RECORD IN TOKYO, THEN FOLLOWED HIS FATHER INTO MEDICINE.(SPORTS)

Byline: PAT DOOLEY, STAFF WRITER

It is tucked away among the books in the den of his Richmond home.

Still in its original black, rectangular case, a long, inch-wide ribbon of yellow, black, blue, red, green and white stripes is folded neatly above it.

Dr. H. Thompson Mann, a Norfolk native raised in Chesapeake, doesn't think about the medal too often.

But everywhere he has lived in the last 32 years - from Chesapeake to San Francisco to Richmond - it's had a special place in his home.

``Whatever house we lived in, it's always been in one place,'' says daughter Alexandra, 31.

She hadn't even been born that October ...

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