Happy birthday, Colorado — and Colorado sports.

Leading into the state’s 150th birthday Aug. 1, The Denver Gazette has partnered with the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame to publicize the definitive list of Colorado’s top 150 sports moments.

Colorado Sports Hall of Fame historian Dave Plati and a committee of 10 compiled and will release the list every week until the No. 1 moment on July 31. Plati and Broncos icon Jim Saccomano will unveil the list weekly on a Colorado Sports Hall of Fame podcast at coloradosports.org/podcast/.

No. 91 — Oct. 19, 1968

University of Colorado track All-American and graduate Bill Toomey won the gold medal in the decathlon at the Mexico City Summer Olympic Games. He won three of the 10 events: the 100-meter run, the long jump and the 400-meter run, for which he set a world decathlon record. He racked up an Olympic-record 8,193 total points, winning by 82 over West Germany’s Hans-Joachim Walde in the 33-man field. Toomey won 23 of the 38 decathlons he competed in, including the 1967 Pan American Games leading up to the Olympics, and held the world record for the most points in a decathlon for nearly three years. He was inducted into the CSHOF in 1971.

— Dave Plati, Colorado Sports Hall of Fame historian