This Day in Observe & Area–September 28
1878—Rene La Montague ran 10.0 for 100-yards on the West Brighton Grounds on NY’s Staten Island to equal his personal American File. He truly ran 101 yards, since, beneath the foundations in impact on the time, he had been assessed the additional yard for committing a false begin!
1968—The spotlight of this pre-Olympic meet in Victoria, BC, was the boys’s 4×100 relay, the place a U.S. “B” staff (39.1) of Charlie Mays, Larry Questad, John Carlos, and Tommie Smith beat the “A” staff that consisted of Charlie Greene, Mel Pender, Ronnie Ray Smith, and Jim Hines. The “A” staff went on to win the gold medals on the Mexico Metropolis Olympics.
(scroll down-#8): https://discussion board.trackandfieldnews.com/discussion board/historic/1730140-john-carlos
1975–Tom Fleming received the Sixth NY Metropolis Marathon in 2:19:27 (he additionally received in 1973). This was the final yr the race, which additionally served because the U.S. Ladies’s Championship, was held fully in Central Park earlier than stretching out to all 5 boroughs in 1976. The ladies’s winner was Kim Merritt in 2:46:14. Sheldon Karlin, the 1972 winner, completed 10th (2:33:27). Fleming handed away in 2017 on the age of 65.
Starters/Finishers: 532/339 Males: 488/303, Ladies: 44/36
A Look Again(2011): http://www.garycohenrunning.com
Previous Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_of_the_New_York_City_Marathon
1975—The Netherlands’ Jos Hermens, now one of many world’s main athlete managers, set a World File of 57:31.6 for 20,000-Meters and continued on to set a 2nd WR of 20,907-meters for the 1-hour run in Papendal. The earlier File of 57:44.4 and 20,784m was set by Belgium’s Gaston Roelants in 1972.
1985–Eire’s Frank O’Mara (3:52.28), a late addition to the race, received the fifth Avenue Mile over Ross Donoghue (3:52.81). Others on this loaded area included Steve Ovett (Third-3:53.36), Eamonn Coghlan (4th-3:54.39), Mike Boit (Sixth-3:54.65), Abdi Bile (Seventh-3:54.78), Ray Flynn (Eighth-3:56.97), and John Walker (Tenth-3:58.80).
Canada’s Lynn Williams received the Ladies’s race in 4:25.03, with Francie Larrieu-Smith ending fifth in 4:33.16.
Winner of the highschool boys race for the 2nd yr in a row was John Trautmann (4:04.65), whereas Shola Lynch received the ladies race in 4:48.20.
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/29/sports activities/o-mara-wins-mile-in-upset.html
Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Avenue_Mile
1988–19-year outdated Steve Lewis led a U.S. sweep within the Males’s 400-Meters on the Seoul Olympics, with World File holder Butch Reynolds (43.93) and Danny Everett (44.09) following him throughout the end line. Lewis ran 43.87 to set the still-standing World Junior/Beneath 20 File.
Joe DeLoach beat coaching accomplice Carl Lewis (19.79) to win the Males’s 200 Meters and set Olympic and American Information along with his profitable time of 19.75. Brazil’s Robson da Silva completed 3rd in 20.04.
Sergey Bubka (19-4 ¼ [5.90m]) led a Soviet sweep within the Pole Vault, with Rodion Gataulin (19-2 ¼ [5.85]) and Grigoriy Yegerov (19-1/4 [5.80]) profitable the silver and bronze, respectively. Bubka would ultimately win 6 World Out of doors Championship titles, however this is able to be his solely Olympic victory. American Earl Bell was tied for first after clearing 18-8 ¼ (5.70) on his 1st try, however missed his 3 makes an attempt at 18-10 ¼ (5.75).
The end of the Ladies’s 400-Meter Hurdles was so shut, officers at first introduced the flawed winner! The Soviet Union’s Tatyana Ledovskaya (53.18) had a giant lead coming off the ultimate hurdle, however was handed proper on the end by the hard-charging Aussie, Debbie Flintoff-King (53.17). Profitable the bronze medal was East Germany’s Ellen Fiedler (53.63).
Florence Griffith-Joyner received her ¼-final race within the Ladies’s 200-Meters in 21.76 to shave a tenth off her American File.
Seoul Medalists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1988_Summer_Olympics
Movies: M400 M200 W400h Males’s PV
2000–Greece’s Konstantinos Kenteris received the Males’s 200 (20.09) on the Sydney Olympics as favored John Capel, pondering there could be a recall, hesitated in his blocks and completed Eighth and final (20.49). Profitable silver and bronze have been Nice Britain’s Darren Campbell (2014) and Trinidad & Tobago’s Ato Boldon (20.20). It was the 4th Olympic medal for Boldon, who had received bronze within the 100 & 200 in 1996, and silver within the 100 earlier in Sydney.
Marion Jones completed first within the Ladies’s 200 (21.84), however it was the Bahamas’ Pauline Davis (22.27) who wound up with the gold medal after Jones was later disqualified. Silver and bronze went to Sri Lanka’s Susanthika Jayasinghe (22.28) and Jamaica’s Beverly McDonald (22.35).
Estonia’s Erki Nool (8641) received the Decathlon over the Czech Republic’s Roman Šebrle (8606) and American Chris Huffins (8595). Nool trailed Huffins by 14 factors after 9 occasions, however simply overtook him within the 1500-Meters (4:29.48-4:38.71) to seize the gold medal. Whereas the 1500 was one in every of his weakest occasions, Huffins bettered his private finest by 12 seconds to salvage the bronze medal (Nice Britain’s Dean Macey was an in depth 4th with a rating of 8567 factors). American Tom Pappas completed 5th (8425). One in every of Nool’s coaches was Nice Britain’s Daley Thompson, the gold medalist within the Decathlon on the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.
Nool caught a break within the Discus. After fouling on his first two throws, he fouled once more on his 3rd throw, however efficiently appealed the decision and was granted an additional throw (143-3 [43.66]).
Czech Tomáš Dvořák, the World File holder within the occasion (8994), was hampered by a knee damage and will solely handle a 6th-place end (8385).
Cuba’s Iván Pedroso, a winner at 7 World Championships (4 Indoors, 3 Outside), was a heavy favourite to win the Males’s Lengthy Bounce, however wanted a 6th-round leap of 28-3/4 (8.55) to overhaul Australia’s Jai Turima, who had set a Nationwide File of 27-10 ¼ (8.49) within the 5th spherical. Turima, who electrified the gang of 110,000 by battling Pedroso all through the competiton, fell brief along with his last bounce of 27-2 (8.28) The bronze medal went to Ukraine’s Roman Shchurenko
(26-3 ½ [8.01]). Pedroso would win his last Indoor and Out of doors World titles in 2001.
Dwight Phillips was the highest American finisher in 8th place, marking the primary time the U.S. had not received not less than one medal within the occasion on the Olympics (excluding the 1980 boycott yr). Phillips would go on to win gold 4 years later in Athens.
Medalists in different occasions:
Ladies’s Shot Put: Belarus’s Yanina Korolchik (67-5 ½ [20.56]), Russia’s Larisa Peleshenko (65-4 ¼ [19.92]),
Germany’s Astrid Kumbernuss (64-4 ½ [19.62]/defending champion)
Ladies’s 20k-Stroll: China’s Wang Liping (1:29:05), Norway’s Kjersti Plätzer (1:29:33), Spain’s Maria Vasco
(1:30:23)
Medalists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics.
The Decathlon will get in-depth therapy early on this 2-hour function (18:02 mark):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xHMsL6sSLQ
John Capel, after profitable the 2003 World title: “Sydney, Australia, haunts me each evening,” he stated. “It took the hearth out of me. To truly be again…once more to indicate that I might be one of many high sprinters on this planet, it helps me out so much.”
https://worldathletics.org/information/information/capel-burying-the-ghosts-of-sydney
2003–Paul Tergat set a World File of two:04:55 within the Berlin Marathon, however barely received the race over fellow Kenyan Sammy Korir, whose runnerup time of two:04:56 was additionally beneath the earlier mark of two:05:38, set by American Khalid Khannouchi in 2002. Tergat’s time was the primary mark formally acknowledged by the IAAF as a WR, and was the primary of 8 consecutive alterations of the WR set in Berlin.
WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_world_record_progression
http://www.letsrun.com/2003/tergatberlin.php
A Look Again (2023): https://worldathletics.org/heritage/information/paul-tergat-kenya-berlin-marathon-sub-205
https://folks.uwec.edu/hartnesg/seanweb/BerlinWRMap.pdf
https://www.worldmarathonmajors.com/content-hub/berlin-and-the-mens-marathon-world-record
2008–The nice Haile Gebrselassie received the Berlin Marathon for the Third yr in a row and broke the two:04 barrier, working 2:03:59 to higher his earlier World File of two:04:26, which was set on this similar course a yr earlier. Geb was pressed by Kenya’s James Kwambai (2:05:36) for many of the race earlier than breaking away with lower than 4 miles to go. The file was damaged in Berlin in 2011 by Kenya’s Patrick Makau, who ran 2:03:38, with Gebrselassie dropping out simply earlier than the 22-mile mark.
Video Highlights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Yk1xeSLRk
Makau: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/sports activities/patrick-makau-sets-world-record-in-berlin.html
WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_world_record_progression
2014—Kenya’s Dennis Kimetto ran 2:02:57 on the Berlin Marathon to interrupt the World File of two:03:23, which was set in the identical race in 2013 by fellow Kenyan Wilson Kipsang. His time additionally bettered the “unofficial” file of two:03:02 that Geoffrey Mutai ran on the 2011 Boston Marathon on a course that’s not thought-about acceptable for file functions.
One other Kenyan, Emmanuel Mutai, was additionally beneath the outdated file along with his runnerup time of two:03:13.
Shalane Flanagan hoped to interrupt Deena Kastor’s American File of two:19:36, however needed to accept a private finest of two:21:14 in 3rd place. The winner of the ladies’s race was Ethiopia’s Tirfi Tsegaye (2:20:18).
Video:
http://olympictalk.nbcsports.com/2014/09/28/dennis-kimetto-berlin-marathon-world-record/
Outcomes: http://outcomes.scc-events.com/2014/?pid=record
All-Time Checklist: http://www.alltime-athletics.com/mmaraok.htm
2019—DeAnna Worth received the Ladies’s Hammer Throw on the World Championships in Doha with a toss of 254-5 (77.54). She turned the primary American to win a world title within the Hammer since Hal Connolly received the boys’s occasion on the 1956 Olympics. Profitable silver and bronze have been Poland’s Joanna Fiodorow (250-6 [76.35]) and China’s Wang Zheng (245-3 [74.76]). After taking her last throw, Worth, overcome with emotion, dropped to her knees within the circle. She was coached by her husband, James Lambert.
Lacking from the competitors due to an damage was Poland’s Anita Włodarczyk, the World File holder.
Jamaica’s unheralded Tajay Gayle received the Males’s Lengthy Bounce with a giant leap of 28-6 ¼ (8.69). His opening bounce of 27-9 ¼ (8.46) would even have been ok to beat runnerup Jeff Henderson (27-6 ½ [8.39]), the 2016 Olympic champion. Profitable the bronze medal was Cuba’s Juan Miguel Echevarría (27-4 ½ [8.34]).
The Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan (30:17.62), working a tremendous 3:59.09 for her final 1500-Meters, received the Ladies’s 10,000-Meters over Ethiopia’s Litesenbet Gidey (30:21.23) and Kenya’s Agnes Tirop (30:25.20). Hassan would come again per week later to finish an uncommon double by profitable the 1500-Meters. 5th was Kenya’s Hellen Obiri (30:35.82), who would win her 2nd title within the 5000 later within the week. The U.S. acquired top-10 finishes from Marielle Corridor (8th/31:05.71), Molly Huddle (9th/31:07.24), and Emily Sisson (10th/31:12.56).
The U.S. acquired a 1-2 sweep within the Males’s 100-Meters from Christian Coleman (9.76) and 37-year outdated Justin Gatlin (9.89), the defending champion (additionally received in 2003). Ending 3rd was Canada’s Andre De Grasse (9.90).
(Each walks began collectively near midnight in sauna-like situations)
The medalists within the Males’s 50k-Stroll have been Japan’s Yusuke Suzuki (4:04:20), Portugal’s João Vieira (4:04:59), and Canada’s Evan Dunfee (4:05:02).
And within the Ladies’s 50k-Stroll, it was China’s Liang Rui (4:23:26) and Li Maocuo (4:26:40), and Italy’s Eleonora Anna Giorgi (4:29:13).
Medalists/Outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_World_Athletics_Championships
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