Walt Murphy’s Information and Outcomes Service (wmurphy25@aol.com)
This Day in T&F/X-Nation—March 30
1985—Dennis Lewis thought he had set an American Report when he cleared 7-8 ¼ within the Excessive Soar at a meet hosted by USC. Nevertheless, that was an imperial measurement and U.S. (and IAAF) guidelines required that each one new information in discipline occasions have to be measured metrically.
When officers checked their conversion tables, they found there was no metric equal for 7-8 ¼, in order that they needed to submit a mark of two.34, which meant that Lewis would solely get credit score for tying Dwight Stones’ AR of 7-8!
“I’m not upset concerning the altering of the marks,” Lewis stated. “It’s early within the season. There isn’t a approach I will be peaking now. How can I be peaking when it’s my first meet?” (Because it turned out, Lewis by no means did soar larger than he did on this date!).
Lewis had set a Nationwide H.S. Indoor Report of 7-2 (2.185?) as a senior at Ypsilanti (MI) H.S. in 1977 and jumped 7-3 (2.21) indoors as a Michigan State freshman in 1978, however rapidly pale from the game for quite a lot of causes.
He returned to competitors in 1984, profitable the U.S. Indoor title over a loaded discipline, and ending 7th on the U.S. Olympic Trials.
He was ranked #5 within the U.S. in 1985 and #4 in 1986, and later grew to become lively in Masters competitors, clearing 6-8 ¼ (2.06) in 2006 on the age of 47.
1984 Article: http://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/26/sports activities/new-stylist-in-the-high-jump.html
1991—Mexico’s Arturo Barrios set World Information for 20,000-Meters (56:55.6) and the 1-hour run (21,101m/13.11-miles) in La Flèche, France.
2003(3-29/30)–Deena (Drossin) Kastor completed 2nd for the 2nd yr in a row and 38-year previous Colleen DeReuck completed Seventh to steer the U.S. group to the bronze medals within the Girls’s Lengthy Race on the primary day(3-29) of competitors on the World X-Nation Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland. The opposite American scorers have been Katie McGregor (fifteenth) and Elva Dryer (seventeenth), with Milena Glusac (25) and Sara Wells (39) offering backup.
Mentioned Drossin, who was in coaching for the upcoming London Marathon (she would set an American Report of two:21:16), “I really like cross nation. It’s my ardour. I wish to maintain coming again to this race till my legs give out on me”.
Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele gained the Males’s Brief and Lengthy races for the 2nd yr in a row, and future greats Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) and Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH) gained the Junior races.
Different notable/U.S. finishers
Senior Males-Lengthy(12.355km/3-30): 2.Patrick Ivuti (KEN), 3.Gebre Gebremariam (ETH), 4.Richard Limo (KEN), 7.Sileshi Sihine (ETH), 9.Zersenay Tafesse (ERI), 11.Meb Keflezighi (USA), 35.Abdi Abdirahman (USA), 51.Ed Torres (USA), 52.Simon Bairu (CAN), 71.Dave Cullum (USA), 79.Nick Rogers (USA): DNF-Domingos Castro (POR); Workforce:1.Kenya 17, 2.Ethiopia 23
Senior Males-Brief(4.03km/3-29):25.Kevin Sullivan (CAN), 31.Sandu Rebenciuc (USA), 35.Salah Hissou (MAR), 37.Dan Browne (USA), 41.Adrian Blincoe (NZL), 56.Luke Watson (USA), 59.Karl Savage (USA), 60.Dan Wilson (USA), 51.Ian Connor (USA), 74.Mo Farah (GBR), 87.Julius Achon (UGA), 91.Nick Willis (NZL); Workforce:1.Kenya 14, 2.Ethiopia 31
Senior Girls-Lengthy(7.92km): 1.Worknesh Kidane (ETH) 25:53, 2.Deena Drossin (USA) 26:02; Workforce:1.Ethiopia 17, 2.Kenya 30, 3.USA 36;
Senior Girls-Brief(4.03km/3-29):1.Edith Masai (KEN) 12:43, 2.Worknesh Kidane (ETH), 7.Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH), 38.Sarah Toland (USA), 40.Jo Pavey (GBR), 53.Heather Sagan (USA), 55.Ann Marie Brooks (USA), 61.Kim Smith (NZL), 69.Collette Liss (USA), 76.Molly Austin (USA); Workforce:1.Kenya 18, 2.Ethiopia 24:
Junior Males(7.92km/3-30):26.Invoice Nelson (USA), 34.Tim Moore (USA), 44.Brett Gotcher (USA), 45.Andy Weilacher (USA), 46.James Hower (USA), 63.Bret Schoolmeister (USA); Workforce:1.Kenya 15, 2.Ethiopia 28;
Junior Girls(6.215km/3-29):3.Gelete Burka (ETH), 5.Emily Chebet (KEN), 20.Amy Hastings (USA), 25.Rebecca Walter (USA), 39.Clara Horowitz (USA), 41.Julia Lucas (USA), 51.Angela Homan (USA), 58.Laura Hodgson (USA); Workforce:1.Ethiopia 14, 2.Kenya 22;
IAAF Protection:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships
Movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3nnG0GBqKo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y42oP2zTb5c
2008–Regardless of stopping to regulate a free shoe early within the race and giving up 15-20 seconds to the leaders when he stopped to place it again on, Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele (34:38) reaffirmed his greatness by coming from behind to win his document sixth World X-Nation 12k title in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was a really satisfying win for Bekele, who had dropped out the yr earlier than within the brutal circumstances in Mombassa, Kenya.
“So far as the sixth Lengthy Course win is worried, I attempted to perform it final yr however, due to the climate, I used to be not capable of do it,” Bekele stated. “This has a really excessive honor in my life. I’ve gained the double 5 instances however I believe this compares to that”. As for his early mishap, Bekele stated, “My shoe didn’t fall utterly off, however I needed to cease to undo it and put it again on, so it was as if it fell off due to the hassle wanted to place it again on”.
Ethiopia’s sweep of the person titles within the chilly, windy, and generally wet circumstances included two wins for the Dibaba household. With older sister Tirunesh anxiously watching from the sidelines (she interrupted her personal warmup for the Senior Girls’s race), 17-year previous Genzebe Dibaba gained the Junior Girls’s race. “Tiru” then proceeded to win her third Senior “long-course” title, giving her 5 complete profession wins (She additionally gained two “short-course” titles).
The U.S. ladies fought a race-long battle with Australia, however fell simply three factors shy of profitable the bronze medals. Prime U.S. finishers have been Jorge Torres (Sr.Males-Nineteenth), Emily Brown (Sr.Girls-18th), German Fernandez (Jr.Males-Twenty fifth), and Alex Gits (Jr.Girls-Thirteenth).
Different notable/U.S. finishers
Senior Males(12km): 2.Leonard Komon (KEN) 34:41, 3.Zersenay Tadese (ERI), 12.Augustin Choge (KEN), 15.Sileshi Sihine (ETH), 17.Gebre Gebremariam (ETH), 19.Jorge Torres (USA), 31.Craig Mottram (AUS), 43.Josh Rohatinsky (USA), 45.Ed Torres (USA), 51.Scott Bauhs (USA), 54.Max King (USA), 84.James Carney (USA), 96.Jonathan Pierce (USA), 109.Ryan Bak (USA); DNF-Alistair Cragg (IRL), Ed Moran (USA); Workforce:1.Kenya 39, 2.Ethiopia 104
Senior Girls(7.905km):1.Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH) 25:10, 2.Mestawet Tufa (ETH) 25:15, 6.Gelete Burka (ETH), 18.Emily Brown (USA), 22.Katie McGregor (USA), 23.Molly Huddle (USA), 24.Kathy Newberry (USA), 49.Renee Metivier-Baillie (USA), 62.Amy Hastings (USA); Workforce: 1.Ethiopia 18, 2.Kenya 22, 3.Australia 84, 4.USA 87;
Junior Males(7.905km):1.Ibrahim Jeilan (ETH), 14.Feyisa Liesa (ETH), 18.Dejen Gebremeskel (ETH), 25.German Fernandez (USA), 26.Emil Heineking (USA), 35.Kevin Williams (USA), 51.Mohammed Ahmed (CAN), 52.Ryan Sheridan (USA), 72.Ben Johnson (USA), 86.Robert Moldovan (USA); Workforce:1.Kenya 21, 2.Ethiopia 28;
Junior Girls(6.04km):1.Genzebe Dibaba (ETH) 19:59, 2.Irene Cheptai (KEN) 20:04, 13.Alexandra Gits (USA), 28.Emily Schwitzer (USA), 29.Lauryanne Chetelat (USA), 30.Emily Reese (USA), 38.Lauren Saylor (USA), 44.Marissa Treece (USA); Workforce:1.Ethiopia 16, 2.Kenya 20
Movies:
Bekele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6qP4DHXP3Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3ZAjoWRxr8
2017—Texas A&M’s (& Grenada’s) Lindon Victor gained the Decathlon on the Texas Relays with a rating of 8472 factors to interrupt the Collegiate Report of 8465, which was set by Texas’ Trey Hardee on the 2006 Relays.
Victor would enhance the document to 8539 factors in Could and gained his 2nd straight NCAA title in June.
10.63/1.3, 7.37(24-2 ¼)/1.8, 16.52(54-2 ½), 2.09(6-10 ¼), 48.24, 14.94/0.8, 53.00(173-11), 4.30(14-1 ¼), 66.69(218-9) 4:48.89
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindon_Victor
2019—Joshua Cheptegei (31:40) gained the Senior Males’s race (10.24k) on a hilly and muddy course on the World X-Nation Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, to grow to be Uganda’s first World Cross champion. Teammate Jacob Kiplimo (31:44) completed 2nd as Uganda (20) gained its first group title over Kenya (43) and Ethiopia (46).
“My ambition is to dominate the observe for the following 5 – 6 years,” Cheptegei stated quickly after crossing the end line. His remark proved to be prophetic, since he gained the ten,000-Meters on the World Championships in Doha later within the yr (he was 2nd in 2017) and set World Information within the 5000 (12:35.36) and 10,000 (26:11.00) in 2020. His success continued on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the place he gained gold within the 5000 and silver within the 10,000, and on the 2022 & 2023 World Championships, the place he gained the ten,000. He added a gold medal within the 10,000 on the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
Kenya’s Hellen Obiri (36:14), making her World Cross debut, gained the Senior Girls’s race (10.24k), with Ethiopia (21) edging Kenya (25) for the group title. Uganda (36) gained the bronze medals.
Along with her win right here, Obiri grew to become the primary lady ever to win senior world titles indoors, outdoor and in cross nation. The one man to realize such a feat is Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele.
Winners of the Junior titles (8k) have been Ethiopia’s Milkesha Mengesha (23:52) and Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet (20:50). Ethiopia gained each group titles, and in addition gained the Blended Relay.
Different Notable/U.S. Finishers
Senior Males:3.Geoffrey Kamworor (KEN) 31:55…5.Selemon Barega(ETH) 32:16, 6.Rhonex KIpruto(KEN) 32:17, 34.Shadrack Kipchirchir(USA), 35.Stanley Kebenei(USA)…60.Hillary Bor(USA)…69.Emmanuel Bor(USA)…73.Leonard Korir(USA)…76.Mason Ferlic(USA);
Groups:…11.USA 198
Senior Girls: 2.Dera Dida(ETH) 36:16…7.Beatrice Chepkoech(KEN) 37:12…30.Kate Avery(GBR)…33.Stephanie Bruce(USA)…50.Sarah Pagano(USA), 51.Anne-Marie Blaney(USA)…58.Marielle Corridor(USA)…75.Courtney Frerichs(USA)
Groups: 8.USA 190
Junior Males: 12.Jakob Ingebrigtsen(NOR)…29.Shauib Aljabaly(USA)…31.Carter Cheeseman(USA)…39.Meikael Beaudoin Rousseau(USA)…55.Charlie Perry(USA)…72.Gabriel Mudel(USA)…86.Khalid Hussein(USA)
Groups: 6.USA 154
Junior Girls: 53.Savannah Shaw(USA)…60.Grace Ping(USA)…70.Nicole Clermont(USA)…74.Heidi Nelson(USA), 75.Kayla Smith(USA)…84.Rilee Rigdon(USA)
Groups: 14. USA 257
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships
Movies:
Senior Males: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V5Eugvn5Wo
Senior Girls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM7JLnvvu7w
2019— Matt Boling (Houston Strake Jesuit H.S.) placed on fairly a present on the Texas Relays. On Friday (3-29), he gained the Lengthy Soar with a leap of 26-3 ½ (8.01/#7 All-Time) and gained his warmth of the 100 in a really wind-aided (+4.2) time of 10.21.
On Saturday, the Georgia-bound senior ran an unbelievable come-from-behind anchor to provide his group a slender win within the Div.II 4×100 over Duncanville H.S. (40.86 for each) after which gained the 100 last in 10.20w (+2.2).
He was named Monitor & Subject Information’ Male H.S. Athlete of the Yr in 2019.
Boling gained his 2nd NCAA Indoor title within the 200 in March, 2023 (additionally gained in 2021), and gained gold medals within the 4×400 (1st spherical) and Blended 4×400 on the 2023 World Championships
Movies
10.20: https://www.milesplit.com/movies/357245
Lengthy Soar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU4AM45t2Pk
https://trackandfieldnews.com/sprinter-jumper-boling-is-the-talk-of-high-school-track/
https://tx.milesplit.com/articles/258876-texas-relays-boys-recap-boling-and-carrozza-dominate
https://trackandfieldnews.com/tfn-high-school-boys-athletes-year/
2024—Kenya’s Senior Girls placed on a clinic on the World X-Nation Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, sweeping the highest 5 locations (with solely 4 scoring).
For the twond yr in a row, Beatrice Chebet’s particular person win led Kenya to the group title (She gained the Junior title in 2019). American Weini Kelati stayed with the lead group within the early phases of the race, however finally pale to fifteenth place.
Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo was additionally a repeat winner within the Senior Males’s race, as was the Kenyan group. Kiplimo’s tammate, Joshua Cheptegei, the 2019 Champion, completed 6th.
The shock winner of the Junior Girls’s race was 15-year previous Marta Alemayo (19:28), who was adopted throughout the road by teammates Asayech Ayichew (19:32) and Gown Dida (19:38) to steer Ethiopia to the group title over Kenya (12-28). It was the one group title Kenya didn’t win at this time.
Samuel Kibathi (22:40) outsprinted Ethiopia’s Mezgebu Sime (22:41) to win the Junior Males’s race and lead Kenya to the group title.
Kenya gained the Blended Relay over Ethiopia (22:15-22:43).
Runners needed to cope with temperatures rising into the 80s!
Different Notable/U.S. Finishers:
Senior Girls (10k): 1.Beatrice Chebet (KEN) 31:05, 2.Lillian Rengeruk (KEN) 31:08, 3.Margaret Kipkemboi (KEN) 31:09, 4.Emmaculate Achol (KEN) 31:24, 5.Agnes Ngetich (Ken) 31:27…15.Weini Kelati (USA)…30.Allie Ostrander (USA)…33.Abby Nichols (USA)…35.Emma Grace Hurley (USA)…58.Callie Logue (USA)…DNF-Katie Camarena (USA);
U.S. team-4th
Senior Males (10k): 21.Anthony Rotich (USA)…24.Emmanuel Bor (USA)…35.Ahmed Muhumed (USA), 36.Christian Allen (USA)… 51.Anthony Camerieri (USA)… 57.Reid Buchanan (USA); U.S. Workforce-Seventh
Junior Males (8k): 24.Kevin Sanchez (USA)…30.Kole Mathison (USA)…45.Noah Breker (USA)… 54.Aidan Jones (USA)…68.Birhanu Harrman (USA)…DNF-Berkley Nance (USA); U.S. Workforce-Seventh
Junior Girls (8k): 15.Ellie Shea (USA), 16.Allie Zealand (USA)…28.Mary Dalton (USA), 20.Zariel Macchia (USA)…41.Jolena Quarzo (USA)…49.Maddie Gardiner (USA); U.S. Workforce-4th
Recaps: Sr. Girls Sr. Males Jr. Males Jr. Girls Blended
LetsRun Protection: https://www.letsrun.com/occasions/2024/03/2024-world-athletics-cross-country-championships
Race Outcomes Weekly: https://www.dyestat.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=44531&do=information&news_id=668421
World Cross-Previous Winners (from 1973 to current)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Athletics_Cross_Country_Championships
Born On This Day
Natoya Goule-Jamaica 34 (1991) 3-time NCAA Champion-800m (2013-Indoors & Outdoor/LSU; 2015-
Indoors (Clemson)
6th on the 2019 World Championships in Doha, 5th-2022, semi-finalist-2023; 8th on the Tokyo Olympics, semi-
finalist on the 2024 Olympics; 4th on the 2022 World Indoor Championships
2019 Pan-American Video games Champion
Silver medalist within the 4×400 on the 2014 World Indoor Championships
PBs: 51.52 (‘11), 1:24.09 (‘22/Nat’l Report), 1:55.96 (‘23/NR), 1:58.46i (‘22/NR), 2:37.55i (‘19/NR),
4:08.66 (’21) 2025 SB: 2:02.26i
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natoya_Goule
https://www.worldathletics.org/information/sequence/natoya-goule-jamaica-800
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/130727
Lacey O’Neal 81 (1944) 2-time U.S. Olympian—1964 (80-meter hurdles/semi-finalist), 1972 (100-meter hurdles/SF)
From Olympedia: O’Neal is finest remembered for coining the phrase, “girlcott” in reference to the proposed 1968
boycott of the Olympic by black American athletes. O’Neal said that the black females wouldn’t girlcott,
as a result of they have been nonetheless making an attempt to make strides for feminine athletes. The time period was later utilized by many different
ladies, notably Billie Jean King.
After the ’72 Video games, she competed with the Worldwide Monitor Affiliation, then coached on the College of
Florida. Later, she returned to diplomacy, working for the State Division supporting the US embassies in Ivory
Coast and Burkina Faso, then becoming a member of the Peace Corps and residing in Gambia. She has lived in Washington on and off
for the reason that Sixties.
PBs: 11.7 (1972); 13.1 (1972)
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/77929
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/options/2008/memory-games-072708/oneal.html
https://floridagators.com/information/2022/2/1/general-black-history-month-lacey-o-neal-working.aspx
Deceased
Charlie Tidwell 32 (1937-Aug.28, 1969) 4-time NCAA Champion whereas at Kansas—1958 (220y/flip/2nd in ’59),
1959 (100y/3rd in ’58), 1960(100m, 200m)
1959 U.S. Champion-200m Hurdles—set a World Report of twenty-two.6 (not ratified by the IAAF)
Thought of one of many favorites to make the 1960 U.S. Olympic group within the 100 and/or 200, he pulled up
midway by the ultimate of the Trials 100 whereas in rivalry. Harm pressured him to withdraw from the 200.
Had unsuccessful tryouts with two NFL groups.
Died tragically in 1969 on the age of 32 (conflicting reviews)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Tidwell
https://kuathletics.com/042105aad-331/
István Rózsavölgyi—Hungary 82 (1929-Jan.27, 2012) 1960 Olympic bronze medalist—1500m
Former World Report holder—1000m (2:19.0), 1500m (3:40.6), 2000m (5:02.2), 4×1500 (15:29.2, 15:21.2,
15:14.8), 4xmile (16:25.2).
An everyday on the U.S. Indoor circuit…1961 winner of the Wanamaker Mile on the Millrose Video games
Coached by Mihály Iglói
PBs:1:48.4 (1959), 3:38.8 (1960), 3:59.0 (1959)
https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/hungary/istvan-rozsavolgyi-014356177
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/István_Rózsavölgyi
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/71268
Tommy Inexperienced 80 (1894-March 29, 1975) 1932 Olympic gold medalist—50k Stroll
From Olympedia: Olympic historical past comprises many tales of handicaps that champions have overcome however few can
match the adversities Tommy Inexperienced confronted earlier than being topped champion in some of the grueling occasions
of the Olympic program. Due to rickets, he was unable to stroll in any respect till he was 5 years previous; in 1906 he
falsified his age with a purpose to be part of the Military however was invalidated out of the Royal Hussars 4 years later as a
results of accidents obtained when a horse fell on him. Then after being recalled with the Reserve in 1914, he was
wounded 3 times and badly gassed whereas serving with the King’s Personal Hussars in France.
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69091
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Green_(athlete)
Jean-Louis “Ravelo” Ravelomanantsoa-Madagascar 73 (1943-Sep.27, 2016)
1968 Olympic finalist-100m (8th), 200-1st spherical
Additionally competed on the 1964 (1st round-100,200) and 1972 (100-SF) Olympics
1971 U.S. Indoor Champion-60y
3-time NAIA Champion whereas at Westmont School in California: 100m (1972), 60y (1971,1972).
(Equaled the World Indoor Report of 5.9 on the 1971 NAIA meet)
Ranked #2 on the earth by T&F Information within the 100 in 1971, #4 in 1972.
First man to win the skilled Stawell Present 120-yard handicap race in Australia from scratch (1975)!
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/73289
https://www.stawellgift.com/hall-of-fame/legends/jean-louis-ravelomanantsoa/
(Consists of video of the Stawell race):
https://athletics.westmont.edu/information/2016/9/28/ravelomanantsoa_131221430114204202.aspx
Mikio Oda—Japan 93 (1905-Dec.2, 1998) 1928 Olympic gold medalist—Triple Soar (Japan’s 1st Olympic champion)
His profitable distance was commemorated on the Opening Ceremony of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics when the
Olympic flag was hoisted on a pole that was 15.21 meters excessive (49-11).
3-time Olympian
1924—Excessive Soar (=10th), Lengthy Soar (=10th), Triple Soar (6th)
1928—HJ (=7th), LJ (Qual.), TJ (Gold)
1932—TJ(12th)
His profitable soar in 1928 can also be etched in a walkway on the grounds of the Olympic Museum in Tokyo (throughout the
road from Olympic Stadium. (See under)
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/72564
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikio_Oda
https://www.worldathletics.org/information/information/interview-with-mikio-oda-first-japanese-olymp
Oda’s 15.21 soar