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This Day in Monitor & Subject–August 15
1887—Penn’s Billy Web page set the final of his eight American Data within the Excessive Bounce, clearing 6-3 1/4 (1.91) in Stourbridge, England. The mark was additionally a World Report. Web page, who had earlier received his 3rd IC4A and U.S. titles, was the primary American to clear 6-feet (6-1/4 [1885]).
1920–Finland’s love affair with the javelin grew exponentially on the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, the place they swept the primary 4 locations within the males’s occasion. (This was earlier than the 3-per-nation restrict was imposed). World Report holder Jonni Myyrä received the gold medal (215-9 [65.78]) regardless of being struck in his non-throwing shoulder by a javelin through the warmup for the qualifying spherical! Ending 2-3-4 had been Urho Peltonen (208-4 [63.50]), Pekka Johansson (207-0 [63.09]), and Juho Saaristo (204-9 [62.40]).
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/67712
https://www.olympedia.org/outcomes/57225
Finnish Historical past:(glorious!)
http://www.speerschule.ch/docs/doc_finnthrowers-madeorborn.pdf
Images: http://tinyurl.com/JonniMyyra
1928—Two weeks after profitable Olympic gold in Amsterdam, Sweden’s Erik Lundqvist set a World Report of 232-11 (71.01) within the Javelin in Stockholm.
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Males’s_javelin_world_record_progression
1936—U.S. groups set two World Relay information in entrance of 90,000 followers (with 1000’s extra turned away) on the USA vs British Empire dual-meet at White Metropolis Stadium in London.
2-mile relay-7:35.8: Chuck Hornbostel, Roben Younger, Harry Williamson, John Woodruff (1:52.2)
4-mile relay-17:17.2: Chuck Hornbostel, Gene Venzke, Archie San Romani, Glenn Cunningham (4:12)
3 members of the U.S. workforce that received the 4×100-meter relay on the just-completed Berlin Olympics ran on the profitable 4x100y (yes-4x100y!): Frank Wykoff, Marty Glickman (changing Foy Draper), Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe.
A combined British Empire workforce of three Brits (all of whom ran on the profitable 4×400 in Berlin) and 1 Canadian received the mile relay in 3:10.6, nicely beneath USC’s World Report of three:11.8, however the IAAF solely ratified relay marks if all 4 runners had been from the identical nation.
This was essentially the most thrilling race of the meet. Godfrey Brown (47.0), the silver medalist within the Olympic 400, caught Jimmy Lu Valle, the bronze medalist within the 400, proper on the end to present the BE the slender win. The U.S. workforce, which ran an estimated 3:11.0, included Olympic champions Archie William (400) and Glenn “Slats” Hardin (400h).
The U.S. dominated this relay-only meet (together with area occasions), profitable 11 of the 14 occasions.
NY Instances (For Subscribers)
1950–In one of many nice 400s of all time, George Rhoden edged fellow Jamaican Herb McKenley, the World Report holder (45.9), in Stockholm (46.0-46.1). Rhoden would break McKenley’s mark every week later (Aug.22) when he ran 45.8 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. http://tinyurl.com/RhodenMcKenley
1964–Ralph Boston long-jumped 27-3 ¼ (8.31) in Kingston, Jamaica, to equal Igor Ter-Ovanesyan’s World Report.
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_jump_world_record_progression
1979—Working by himself the twond half of the race in Zürich’s Letzigrund Stadium, Nice Britain’s Sebastian Coe ran 3:32.03 (ratified as 3:32.1) for 1500-meters to interrupt Filbert Bayi’s 5-1/2-year-old World Report of three:32.2. It was the threerd World Report of the season for Coe, who earlier set new requirements within the 800 (1:42.33) and the mile (3:49.0).
Some notables ending far behind Coe included Craig Masback (2nd-3:36.97), Ray Flynn (6th-3:38.61), Wilson Waigwa (7th-3:41.15), Mike Boit (8th-3:45.38), and Mark Belger (10th-3:55.39).
Evelyn Ashford received the 100 in 11.00 and the 200 within the American Report time of twenty-two.27.
Renaldo Nehemiah suffered a uncommon loss within the 110-meter hurdles, ending 2nd to Dedy Cooper (13.53-13.54) after hitting some early hurdles.
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1500_metres_world_record_progression
Corridor of Fame Bio(Ashford): https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/evelyn-ashford
1982—Germany’s Jürgen Hingsen set the primary of his three World Data within the Decathlon, scoring 8,723 factors (8,741-current tables) in Ulm, breaking Daley Thompson’s 3-month previous mark of 8,704 (8,730)
Hingsen’s marks:
10.74, 7.85 (25-9 ¼), 16.00 (52-6), 2.15 (7-1/2), 47.65, 14.64, 44.92 (147-4), 4.60 (15-1), 63.10 (207-0), 4:15.13
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decathlon_world_record_progression.
1993—33-year-old Linford Christie backed up his Olympic victory in Barcelona the earlier yr by profitable the 100-meters on the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, over the U.S. trio of Andre Cason (9.92), Dennis Mitchell (9.99), and Carl Lewis (10.02). Christie’s profitable time of 9.87 was a British Report and solely .01s off Lewis’s World Report of 9.86, set In 1991.
For the 32-year-old Lewis, who hadn’t certified for the 1992 U.S. workforce within the 100, it was his first loss within the dash at a world championship, having received gold on the 1984 and 1988 Olympics and the primary three World Championships (1983-1987-1991).
10 years after profitable the Girls’s Lengthy Bounce on the inaugural World Championships in 1983, Germany’s Heike Drechsler received her 2nd title with a bounce of 23-4 (7.11/twice!). She had received the gold medal finally yr’s Olympics in Barcelona. Ending 2nd & 3rd right here had been Ukraine’s Larisa Berezhnaya (22-10 ¾ [6.98]) and Denmark’s Renata Nielsen (22-2 ¼ [6.76]).
Tajikistan’s Andrey Abduvaliyev, the 1992 Olympic Champion, received the Males’s Hammer with a throw of 267-10 (81.64). He would win a 2nd title in 1995. 2nd & 3rd had been Belarus’s Igor Astapkovich (261-1 [79.88]) and Hungary’s Tibor Gécsek (260-11 [79.54]).
Medalist in different occasions
Girls’s Marathon: Japan’s Junko Asari (2:30:03), Portugal’s Maria Machado (2:30:54), Japan’s Tomoe Abe (2:31:01)
Males’s 20k Stroll: Spain’s Valentin Massana (1:22:31), Italy’s Giovanni DeBenedictis (1:23:08), Spain’s Daniel Plaza
(1:23:18)
Girls’s Shot Put: Huang Zhihong (67-6 [20.57]), Russia’s Svetlana Krivelyova (65-6 ¼ [19.97]), Germany’s Kathrin
Neimke (64-8 [19.71])
Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Championships_in_Athletics
Video(100): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cia6q9we_g0
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/16/sports activities/16iht-dash.html
2008–Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba, identified affectionately as “The Child-faced Destroyer,” who would later win the 5000, obtained the primary leg of her distance double on the Beijing Olympics by taking the Girls’s 10,000-meters in 29:54.66, an Olympic Report and the 2nd quickest (on the time) efficiency in historical past. Turkey’s Elvan Abeylegesse was an in depth 2nd in 29:56.34 (see under).
In the meantime, Shalane Flanagan, who had battled meals poisoning on the U.S. coaching camp shortly earlier than arriving in Beijing, saved selecting off runners who succumbed to the quick, early tempo.
Flanagan moved into third place with two laps to go, far behind the 2 leaders, however now in stable medal rivalry. Since runners had been being lapped, Flanagan wasn’t certain the place she positioned when she crossed the end line, holding up three fingers in a questioning pose earlier than realizing that she had certainly received the bronze medal. As a bonus, her time of 30:22.22 broke her personal American Report of 30:34.49, which she had set earlier within the yr. Flanagan’s medal was upgraded to silver after Abeylegesse was retroactively disqualified for a doping violation. Kenya’s Linet Masai (30:26.50) moved as much as 3rd.
Watching from the stands was her excited mother, Cheryl Treworgy, a pioneer in girls’s distance operating and a famous photographer within the T&F/operating group. Preventing her method via native followers congratulating her for her daughter’s achievement, Treworgy went all the way down to the sting of the monitor to embrace Shalane in the midst of her victory lap.
Flanagan’s DNA runs deep. Not solely was her mom a former world report holder within the marathon, however her dad, Steve Flanagan, was a part of the early operating scene in Boulder, Colorado. He was additionally a associate with Frank Shorter when Frank opened his operating shops and was inducted into the Colorado Working Corridor of Fame.
Poland’s Tomasz Majewski, who stood 6’-8 ¼” (2.04) and weighed 309 kilos (140kg), received the primary of his two Olympic titles within the Males’s Shot Put with a toss of (70-7 [21.51]). American Christian Cantwell threw 69-2 ½ (21.09) within the last spherical to grab the silver medal from Canada’s Dylan Armstrong (69-1/2 [21.04]). (Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus was initially awarded the bronze medal, however he was later disqualified for a doping violation)
Medalists/Outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics
Mother Appears Again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c8VnPCnjNw
SI Vault: https://vault.si.com/vault/2008/08/25/national-agony
Medal Improve: https://www.itemlive.com/2017/04/01/abeylegesses-positive-test-gives-flanagan-2008-silver/
Steve Flanagan:
https://corunninghalloffame.com/tag/steve-flanagan/
2009—Taking the lead from Poland’s Tomasz Majewski (71-10 ¾ [21.91]) along with his 5th-round toss of 72-3 ½ (22.03), Christian Cantwell received the Males’s Shot Put on the primary day of competitors on the World Championships in Berlin. Cantwell had already received two World Indoor titles in 2004 and 2008 and would add a 3rd in 2010. On this date in 2008, Majewski had overwhelmed Cantwell for the gold medal on the Beijing Olympics.
There was some speak of a U.S. sweep heading into the Championships, however previous World titlists Reese Hoffa (2007) and Adam Nelson (2005) completed 4th (69-9 ¾ [21.28]} and 5th (69-3 ¾ [21.11]).
Medalists in different occasions:
Girls’s 10,000—Kenya’s Linet Masai (30:51.24), Ethiopia’s Meselech Melkamu (30:51.34) and Wude Ayalew (30:51.95)
Males’s 20k Stroll—China’s Wang Hau (1:19:06), Mexico’s Eder Sánchez (1:19:22), Italy’s Giorgio Rubino (1:19:50)
Medalists/Outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_World_Championships_in_Athletics
2013—Followers had been handled to some large excessive bounce competitions in 2014, and so they obtained an early style of issues to return on the World Championships in Moscow.
Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim took the lead with a first-attempt clearance at 7-9 ¾ (2.38), a peak that Ukraine’s Bohdan Bondarenko had handed. Additionally over at 7-9 ¾ (a private finest) on his 2nd bounce was Canada’s Derek Drouin, the previous Indiana Hoosier who had received his 5th NCAA title in June.
Barshim and Bondarenko every missed their first makes an attempt at 7-10 ¾ (2.41). Bondarenko cleared on his 2nd attempt (solely his 4th bounce of the competitors) to match his PB (and setting a Championship Report), forcing Barshim to aim to clear 8-0 (!2.44), however he missed on his two remaining efforts. (Drouin missed all 3 of his tries at 7-10 3/4).
With the World title in hand, Bondarenko missed 3 instances on the World Report peak of 8-3/4 (2.46).
Jenny Simpson shocked even herself by profitable the Girls’s 1500 meters on the 2011 World Championships in Daegu. Nonetheless, she had a disappointing Olympic expertise in London 2012, ending final in her semi-final race.
She bounced again properly in Moscow, profitable the silver medal behind Ethiopia-born Swede Abeba Aregawi (4:02.67-4:02.99). 3rd was Kenya’s Hellen Obiri (4:03.80)
17-year-old Mary Cain, the youngest 1500 finalist ever in Olympic or World Championship historical past, completed a disappointing (to her) 10th in 4:07.19.
Ezekiel Kemboi (8:06.01) beat teammate Conseslus Kipruto (8:06.37) to win the Males’s Steeplechase, making It the 12th Worlds in a row that an athlete from Kenya received the occasion. (Kenyan-born Saif Saeed Shaheen represented Qatar when he received the 2003 and 2005 titles). 3rd was France’s Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad (8:07.86).
A lot to the delight of the followers, Kemboi, the 2008 and 2012 Olympic champion, carried out his traditional post-victory dance.
Michael Tinsley (47.70), 2nd within the Males’s 400-meter hurdles on the London Olympics, needed to accept one other silver medal as he was outlined on the end by Trinidad & Tobago’s Jehue Gordon (47.69) as each runners tumbled to the monitor. Serbia’s Emir Bekrić (48.05) received the bronze medal. Ending 8th out of lane 1 was Kerron Clement (49.08), the 2008 Olympic gold medalist and 2-time World Champion (2007,2009). He would win a 2nd Olympic gold in 2016.
The Czech Republic’s Zuzana Hejnová (52.83) received the Girls’s 400-meter hurdles over the American duo of Dalilah Muhammad (54.09), a future Olympic (2016) and World (2019) Champion, and Lashinda Demus (54.27), who would later be topped the 2012 Olympic Champion.
Medalists/Outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_World_Championships_in_Athletics
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