Bill Jankunis

{{Short description|American high jumper (born 1955)}}

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| hometown = Staten Island, New York

| sport = Athletics

| event = High jump

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William John Jankunis (born June 29, 1955) is an American athlete.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78597 |title=Bill Jankunis |work=Olympedia |access-date=4 October 2020}} He competed in the men's high jump at the 1976 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ja/bill-jankunis-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417190926/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ja/bill-jankunis-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 17, 2020 |title=Bill Jankunis Olympic Results |access-date=December 31, 2017}} Jankunis won the 1976 United States Summer Olympic High Jump Trials on June 28, 1976, at University of Oregon's Hayward Stadium with a jump of 2.28 metres (7 ft. 5 3⁄4 in).{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FqxVAAAAIBAJ&pg=2194%2C7478794|work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |title=They survived the Trials to make it to Montreal |date=June 28, 1976 |page=5B}}

As a resident of Midland Beach, Jankunis attended New Dorp High School in New Dorp, Staten Island, New York. He was inducted into the Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.{{cite news |title=Family and friends honor former New Dorp star and U.S. Olympian Bill Jankunis |url=https://www.silive.com/sports/2016/06/family_and_friends_honor_forme.html |access-date=April 15, 2019 |agency=Staten Island Advance |date=June 30, 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Gordon |first1=Cormac |title=Forty years later, a little party for under-the-radar Olympian Bill Jankunis |url=https://www.silive.com/sports/advance/gordon/2016/06/forty_years_later_a_little_par.html |access-date=April 15, 2019 |agency=Staten Island Advance |date=June 27, 2016}}