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This Day in Monitor & Discipline–September 7
1934—The inaugural European Championships started in Turin, Italy, and continued by September 9th.
Finland’s Matti Järvinen, the gold medalist on the 1932 Olympics, supplied the principle spotlight on the opening day, setting his ninth World Report within the Javelin together with his successful throw of 251-6 (76.66). He would set his 10th (and remaining) WR the next 12 months (253-4 [77.23]).
Italy’s Luigi Beccali, one other reigning Olympic Champion, gained the 1500-Meters in 3:54.6.
Lacking from the listing of the 15 nations that competed have been the Soviet Union, which had not but grow to be a member of the IAAF, and Nice Britain, which refused to take part since historically it thought of the aggressive season as ending on the primary Sunday in August!
Medalists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_European_Athletics_Championships
Outcomes: https://www.european-athletics.com/historical-data/calendar-results/6980719
Historical past: https://www.european-athletics.com/competitions/european-athletics-championships/past-editions
1960–Al Oerter’s eventual standing as one of many “gods” of the game was in deep trouble because the Discus entered the fifth spherical on the Rome Olympics. Teammate Rink Babka was main together with his 1st-round toss of 190-4 (58.02), with defending champion Oerter standing in 2nd with a better of 189-1 (57.64m). However Oerter, because of some recommendation given to him by his good good friend Babka, got here by in nice model, throwing an Olympic document of 194-2 (59.18) to lock up the 2nd of his 4 straight gold medals. It was a U.S. sweep, with Babka successful the silver medal over teammate Dick Cochran(187-10 [57.26]).
Don “Tarzan” Bragg set an Olympic Report of 15-5 (4.70m) within the Pole Vault, whereas U.S. teammate Ron Morris gained the silver medal with a leap of 15-1 (4.60), and the bronze went to Finland’s Eeles Landström (14-11 [4.55]). Rolando Cruz, like Bragg a Villanova Wildcat, completed 4th (on misses) for Puerto Rico. It’s been reported that Bragg let free his signature Tarzan yell from the victory stand!
Bragg grew up in New Jersey emulating the print and film character Tarzan by swinging on ropes in his yard. His childhood fantasy turned actuality when he truly performed the King of the Jungle in a film, that, sadly, was by no means launched! He would regale ensuing generations of vaulters together with his tales and, in fact, would deal with them to the well-known Tarzan yell.
The Ladies’s 800-Meters, again on the Olympics for the 1st time since 1928, was gained by the Soviet Union’s Lyudmila Shevtsova, who equaled her personal World Report of two:04.3. She edged Australia’s Brenda Jones (2:04.4) for the gold and the bronze went to East Germany’s Ursula Donath (2:05.6). 18-year previous Dixie Willis of Australia was main when she stepped on the curb with 70-meters to go within the race and stopped operating. She finally acquired again on the monitor, ending in about 2:27.5.
Nice Britain’s Donald Thompson set an Olympic document within the Males’s 50k-walk (4:25:30.0). It was candy redemption for Thompson, who was one among a number of males who dropped out of the 50k stroll 4 years earlier because of the excessive warmth on the Melbourne Olympics. Indignant at himself for not ending the race in Melbourne, he had turned his London-area condominium right into a steam chamber, and exercised in it (one way or the other) by intense warmth to arrange for the warmth of Rome! (From Elliott Denman, who was 11th within the Melbourne race!)
And Pat Butcher provides, “…as I perceive it, he merely stuffed the bathtub with boiling water, closed the door and home windows, and walked on the spot within the toilet for hours; replenishing the water because it cooled”.
Medalists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1960_Summer_Olympics
Olympedia Stories: http://www.olympedia.org/editions/15/sports activities/ATH
WR Development(W800): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/800_metres_world_record_progression
Movies: W800 MPV MDT(4 golds/commentary by Oerter)
Thompson: https://www.worldathletics.org/heritage/information/don-thompson-1960-olympic-50km-race-walk
Different Bragg Hyperlinks
NY Occasions Obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/obituaries/don-bragg-dead.html
(2003 article): http://www.sfgate.com/sports activities/article/WHERE-ARE-THEY-NOW-Don-Bragg-Bragg-lives-out-2666334.php
Images: http://tinyurl.com/BraggPhotos “I Don’t Make a Good Pet”(1980-SI)
1963–Belgium’s Gaston Roelants ran 8:29.6 in Leuven, France, to set a World Report within the Males’s Steeplechase.
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steeplechase_(athletics)
Sports activities Illustrated Vault(1967): https://vault.si.com/vault/1967/07/17/fleming-with-a-flair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Roelants
1972–The Olympic T&F schedule in Munich was pushed again a day to accommodate a memorial service inside the principle stadium for the slain Israelis.
Vince Matthews (44.66) and Wayne Collett (44.80) completed 1-2 within the Males’s 400, however teammate John Smith couldn’t overcome an injured hamstring and pulled up within the first 100-meters. When the race was over, Collett and Matthews helped Smith make his approach off the monitor. The bronze medal was gained by Kenya’s Patrick Sang (44.92).
With the reminiscence of the Tommie Smith-John Carlos protest from 4 years earlier nonetheless contemporary in everybody’s thoughts, Matthews and Collett have been barred from additional Olympic competitors due to their “relaxed” angle through the medal ceremony.
Collett succumbed to most cancers in 2010 on the age of 60. From his NY Occasions obituary (see hyperlink under): “Collett defended his actions many occasions. ‘I couldn’t stand there and sing the phrases as a result of I don’t consider they’re true’, he as soon as mentioned, including, ‘I consider we now have the potential to have an attractive nation, however I don’t assume we do.’
In 2002, he informed The Los Angeles Occasions: “I like America. I simply don’t assume it’s lived as much as its promise. I’m not anti-American in any respect. To recommend in any other case is to not perceive the struggles of blacks in America on the time.”
American Rod Milburn edged France’s Man Drut (13.34) for the gold medal within the 110-meter hurdles and set a World Report of 13.24. Thomas Hill gained the bronze medal (13.48). Beneath the foundations in impact on the time, Milburn’s time was rounded to 13.2, which equaled the World Report held collectively by Germany’s Martin Lauer and Individuals Lee Calhoun, Earl McCullouch, and Willie Davenport. Milburn’s 13.24 was acknowledged as the only World Report when the IAAF began recognizing auto-times in 1977.
The Soviet Union’s Nadezhda Chizhova, the bronze medalist in 1968, set the 7th (of her 9) World Report of her profession whereas successful the Ladies’s Shot Put with a toss of 69-0 [21.03]). 2nd and threerd have been East Germany’s Margitta Gummel (66-4 ¼ [20.22]), the 1968 gold medalist, and Bulgaria’s Ivanka Khristova (63-6 [19.35]).
East Germany’s Renate Stecher gained the Ladies’s 200-Meters within the official time of twenty-two.4 (22.40), equaling the World Report set by Taipei’s Chi Cheng in 1970. Urgent Stecher down the homestretch was Australia’s Raelene Boyle (22.45), who gained the silver medal for the twond Video games in a row. Poland’s Irena Kirszenstein-Szewińska (22.74) gained the bronze to finish her set of Olympic medals within the occasion, having gained silver in 1964 and gold in 1968!
East Germany’s Monika Zehrt gained the Ladies’s 400-Meters with an Olympic Report time of 51.08, and a pair ofnd went to West Germany’s Rita Whilden (51.21). Kathy Hammond gained the bronze medal and set an American Report of 51.64. It was the 4th time in Munich that the AR had been lowered. Mable Ferguson, who completed 5th (51.96) within the remaining, ran 52.05 within the first spherical (9-2), after which Hammond ran 51.92 within the first semi-final (9-4), solely to have Ferguson regain the document, no less than for just a few days, by operating 51.91 within the 2nd semi.
Medalists within the Males’s Hammer have been the Soviet Union’s (and Ukraine’s) Anatoliy Bondarchuk (247-8 [75.50], East
Germany’s Jochen Sachse (245-11 [74.96]), Soviet Union’s (and Belarus’s) Vasiliy Khmelevskiy (242-11 [74.04])
Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1972_Summer_Olympics
W200: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQkbsu_wUYg
Collett Obituaries:
NY Occasions: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/sports activities/18collett.html
LA Occasions: http://tinyurl.com/2vc5p2y
WR Progressions:
M110h: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menpercent27s_110_metres_hurdles_world_record_progression
W200: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladiespercent27s_200_metres_world_record_progression
My Race Be Received(Matthews e book with Neil Amdur):
http://www.amazon.com/My-race-won-Vincent-Matthews/dp/0883270234
Ceremony Images: http://tinyurl.com/MatthewsCollettCeremony
1985—Mary Decker Slaney ran 8:25.83 on the first Mobil Grand Prix Remaining in entrance of 58,000 followers in Rome to set an American Out of doors Report for 3000-meters. Ending 2nd in 8:27.83 was Romania’s Maricia Puică, the 1984 Olympic gold medalist within the occasion, and threerd in 8:28.83 (a World Junior Report on the time) was 19-year previous Zola Budd-Pieterse, who was the important thing determine in Slaney’s spectacular fall within the earlier 12 months’s Olympic remaining. Slaney’s document stood for 39 years till Elise Cranny ran 8:25.20 in 2024. (Alicia Monson set an American Indoor Report of 8:25.05 in 2023).
A 2nd American Report was set by Judi Brown-King, who gained the 400-meter hurdles in 54.38 to interrupt the previous mark of 54.66 that she shared with Latanya Sheffield.
Different occasion winners included Sergey Bubka (PV/19-2 ¼ [5.85]), Florence Griffith (100-11.00), and Jackie Joyner (LJ/22-8 [6.91]).
Total winners of the GP titles have been Doug Padilla and Slaney, each of whom gained a complete of $35,000.
Medalists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_IAAF_Grand_Prix_Final
AR Progressions
W3000: http://trackfield.brinkster.internet/RecProg_AllUSA.asp?RecCode=WR&EventCode=WA6&Gender=W&P=F
W400h: http://trackfield.brinkster.internet/RecProg_AllUSA.asp?RecCode=WR&EventCode=WB2&Gender=W&P=F
1986—Bulgaria’s Yordanka Donkova ran 12.26 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, to decrease her World Report within the 100-meter hurdles. It was her 4th document of the season.
12.36 Sofia August 13 (Tied)
12.34 Cologne August 17 (warmth)
12.29 Cologne August 17 (remaining)
12.26 Ljubjlana September 7
Donkova would lose the document to countrywoman Ginka Zagorcheva, who ran 12.25 in 1987, however would regain it a 12 months later when she ran 12.21. That mark stood because the WR for 28 years till Keni Harrison ran 12.20 in London in 2016. Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan set the present WR of 12.12 in her semi-final race on the 2022 World Championships.
WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladiespercent27s_100_metres_hurdles_world_record_progression
1996—Lance Deal, who had gained the silver medal on the Atlanta Olympics earlier within the 12 months, set an American Report of 270-9 (82.52) within the Hammer Throw in Milan, Italy. (The document lasted till 2021, when Rudy Winkler threw 271-4 (82.71) on the U.S. Olympic Trials).
Deal, a 21-time U.S. champion (9-outdoor, 12-indoor/WT), was a coach after which the Director of Monitor & Discipline venues and Program Help on the College of Oregon earlier than retiring and going into enterprise for himself. He’s now constructing progressive throwing cages (such because the one at present in use at Hayward Discipline) and is a Licensed Therapeutic massage Therapist. He was inducted into the Nationwide Corridor of Fame in 2014.
Corridor of Fame Bio: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/lance-earl-deal
AR Development: http://trackfield.brinkster.internet/RecProg_AllUSA.asp?RecCode=WR&EventCode=MF7&Gender=M&P=F
1999—Getting nice pacing from Kenyans Robert Kibet and William Tanui, the 1992 Olympic Champion at 800-meters, Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj ran 4:44.79 for 2000-meters on the Golden League Remaining in Berlin to take greater than 3 seconds off the earlier World Report of 4:47.88 that was set by Algeria’s Noureddine Morceli in 1995. It was El G’s 3rd WR of the season. Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen set the present WR of 4:43.13 in 2023.
Splitting the $1,000,000 Jackpot for successful their respective occasions in no less than 5 of the 7 GL meets through the season have been Denmark’s Wilson Kipketer (800) and Romania’s Gabriela Szabo (3000/5000). Szabo, already assured her share after successful the 5000, was the primary particular person to congratulate Kipketer when he crossed the end line of the 800.
Meet Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_IAAF_Golden_League
Video(2000): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsr0mZiRbNw
https://www.cbsnews.com/information/2000m-record-broken/
2001—Many athletes who gained Olympic gold in Sydney the 12 months earlier than returned to Australia and adopted up with wins on the 5th(and remaining) Goodwill Video games in Brisbane (Sep.4-7).
The repeat winners through the 4 days of competitors have been:
MEN
Mile—Kenya’s Noah Ngeny 3:56.64
Lengthy Bounce—Cuba’s Ivan Pedroso 26-9 ¼ (8.16)
Triple Bounce—Nice Britain’s Jonathan Edwards 56-7 ½ (17.26)
Javelin—Czech Jan Železný 287-2 (87.52)
WOMEN
800–Mozambique’s Maria Mutola 1:58.76
10,000—Ethiopia’s Derartu Tulu 31:48.19
Pole Vault—American Stacy Dragila 14-11 (4.55)
Hammer—Poland’s Kamila Skolimowska 230-8 (70.31)
(Marion Jones was among the many double “winners” [100]), however her outcomes have been later voided after she was later discovered
responsible of doping violations)
Different highlights:
MEN
Mile—2.Kevin Sullivan (CAN-3:56.81)…5.Bernard Lagat (KEN-3:57.10), 6.Craig Mottram(AUS-3:58.24)
110h-1.Allen Johnson (USA-13.16), 2.Anier García (CUB-13.20), 3.Larry Wade (USA-13.46), 4.Terrence
Trammell (USA) 13.49, 5.Colin Jackson (GBR-13.63), 6.Mark Crear (USA-13.63)
400h-1. Félix Sánchez (DOM-48.47)
Pole Vault-1.Tim Mack (USA/19-1/4 [5.80])
Lengthy Bounce-1. Iván Pedroso (CUB/26-9 ¼ [8.16])
Triple Bounce-1.Jonathan Edwards (GBR/56-7 ½ [17.26])
Shot Put-1.Adam Nelson (USA/68-7 ¼ [20.91]), 2.John Godina (USA/68-1 ½ [20.76])
Javelin-2.Breaux Greer (USA/281-8 [85.86])…4.Steve Backley (GBR/273-5 [83.34])
Decathlon-1. Tomáš Dvořák (CZE-8514, 2.Erki Nool (EST-8420/2000 Olympic Champion)
WOMEN
400-1.Ana Guevara (MEX-50.32)…4.Jearl Miles-Clark (USA-51.44)
800-2.Kelly Holmes (GBR-1:59.27)
100h-1.Gail Devers (USA-12.61)
400h-1. Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova (UKR-54.47), 2.Tonja Buford-Bailey (USA-54.75)
Excessive Bounce-1.Hestrie Cloete (RSA/6-6 ¾ [2.00]), 2.Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE/6-5 ½ [1.97])
Outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2001_Goodwill_Games_–_Results
Historical past: https://www.worldathletics.org/information/function/remembering-goodwill-games
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1112628/brisbane-2032-olympics-goodwill-games
2012–Aries Merritt had already had a dream season–he gained the gold medal within the 60-meter hurdles on the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul in March and one other gold medal within the 110-meter hurdles on the London Olympics. Not content material to relaxation on his laurels, he then shocked the world of T&F by operating 12.80 in Brussels to smash the present World Report of 12.87, which was set by Cuba’s Dayron Robles in 2008. Like many others within the occasion, Merritt had made the adjustment from 8 to 7 steps to the primary hurdle initially of the season.
In his post-race interview, Merritt talked about what went by his thoughts when he tried to understand what he had accomplished. “After I noticed 12.81 come up, it was identical to…what, what is that this I’m seeing right here? I used to be in full shock. I simply couldn’t consider 12.81 popped up on the board after which they spherical it right down to 12.80, and I simply began screaming….I couldn’t consider that I ran that quick. My imaginative and prescient, after I did break the World Report, was to run 12.85, (which) is throughout all the pieces—my electronic mail, my password for my cellphone. I believe I would like to vary my password!”.
Merritt gained the bronze medal on the 2015 World Championships in Beijing after which underwent a kidney transplant (from his sister) 4 days later in Phoenix. A complication precipitated him to have a second surgical procedure seven weeks after the primary one. He had been informed earlier than the transplant that his profession is perhaps over, however he resumed coaching in December. His dream of defending his Olympic title ended when he completed an in depth 4th on the 2016 U.S. Trials!
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menpercent27s_110_metres_hurdles_world_record_progression
Kidney Transplant
http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2015/08/21/aries-merritt-reaches-worlds-amid-kidney-disease-battle/