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This Day in Monitor & Subject-February 13
1925–Finland’s Paavo Nurmi misplaced the race however nonetheless set a World File! Competing at dwelling, Syracuse College’s Al Gottlieb took full benefit of a 65-yard handicap to win the Mile by ten yards over Nurmi, who began from scratch. Nurmi’s time of 4:27-2/5 broke Joie Ray’s earlier mark of 4:28.0.
1964 –Jim Beatty fired the gun to begin the Mile on the NYAC Video games in Madison Sq. Backyard, then watched Tom O’Hara run 3:56.6 to smash his (Beatty’s) World File by a full two seconds. Beatty had set the earlier mark of three:58.6 a 12 months in the past on the similar meet.
After working a warmth and semi-final, Bob Hayes gained the 60-yard sprint in 6.0, tying the world report for the 4th time that season.
Credit score: Thomas J. Dyba, photographer
20-year outdated Bruce Kidd (8:42.6) got here from behind off the ultimate flip to edge Bob Schul (8:42.8) within the 2-mile, with Ron Clarke (8:43.8) ending a detailed 3rd. It was an exhilarating race, with all three main at numerous levels of the race,
Different winners included Yale’s Wendell Mottley (440y-48.3-Meet File) and Invoice Crothers(880y-1:50.8)
Sports activities Illustrated Vault: https://vault.si.com/vault/1964/02/24/from-humdrum-to-welldone-in-one-easy-mile
1976—Poland’s Władysław
cleared 18-3 ¼ (5.57) within the Pole Vault in Toronto to interrupt the 5-day outdated World File of 18-3 (5.56) that was set by countryman Tadeusz Ślusarski in Warsaw. Ślusarski would go on to win Olympic gold in Montreal later within the 12 months.
1982–With a earlier better of 6-4 (1.93), it got here as fairly a shock when Coleen Rienstra Sommer, leaping alone after midnight (after the remainder of the occasions have been accomplished), cleared 6-6 ¾ (2.00) on the Ottawa Citizen Video games to set a World File within the Girls’s Excessive Soar. The earlier mark of 6-6 ¼ (1.99) was set the earlier month by Canada’s Debbie Brill, who completed second right here with a clearance of 6-2 ¾ (1.89).
Earlier than her breakthrough soar, Sommer had already had a profession night time after clearing 6-5 (1.96) to interrupt Joni Huntley’s American File of 6-4 ¾ (1.95), set in 1981 (Huntley was third right here/6-3/4 [1.85m]). Sommer grew to become the primary American girl to carry the World File within the occasion since Jean Shiley cleared 5-3 1/8 (1.603) in 1929 and 5-3 ½ (1.613) in 1930. She’s additionally the final American girl to carry the World File (It was damaged in 1983, and she or he held the American File till Tisha Waller jumped 6-7 (2.01) in 1998).
1988–Three main data fell on the Vitalis/Olympic Inv., held on the Meadowlands Area in New Jersey. Two of the record-setters have been acquainted names to most followers. Romania’s Doina Melinte, the 1984 Olympic Champion at 800-meters, gained the Girls’s Mile in 4:18.86 to interrupt Mary Slaney’s 6-year outdated World File of 4:20.5, and Corridor-of-Famer-to-be Jackie Joyner-Kersee added 2 inches to her American File within the Lengthy Soar (23-1/2 [7.02]).
However solely hardcore followers would acknowledge the identify of Brian Abshire, who gained the Males’s 3000-Meters in 7:41.57 to interrupt Doug Padilla’s earlier American File of seven:44.9. Abshire’s feat merited intensive protection in that week’s problem of Sports activities Illustrated (see hyperlink beneath). And his AR kicked off a frenzied 30-minutes of motion that included Melinte’s WR and Marcus O’Sullivan’s fast 3:50.94 win within the Males’s Mile. Relieved that his World File of three:49.78 was nonetheless intact was the injured Eamonn Coghlan, who fired the beginning gun for the race.
The front-running Abshire was an All-American steeplechaser at Auburn and had competed in that occasion on the 1987 World Championships in Rome, however his was hardly a family identify. His coach, Auburn’s Kelly Sullivan, who skilled Abshire throughout his collegiate profession, needed to “beg” to get his star runner added to a loaded discipline that already included Padilla, Frank O’Mara, the 1987 World Indoor Champion at 3000-meters, sub-3:50 miler Jim Spivey, Joe Falcon, the 1987 NCAA Indoor 3k champion, Kenya’s Yobes Ondieki, and one Sebastian Coe, who was making his U.S. indoor debut. (An out-of-shape Coe dropped out with one lap to go and, embarrassed by his poor exhibiting, later returned half his look price!). Ending behind Abshire have been Ondieki (7:45.87), Terry Brahm (7:47.55), O’Mara (7:47.65-Irish File), Padilla (7:51.82), Falcon (7:51.90), and Spivey (7:53.10).
Sullivan satisfied meet director Ray Lumpp’s assistant (that might be me-WM!) that Abshire was able to run quick. Lumpp agreed to simply accept Abshire’s entry, with the understanding that he must make it to New Jersey on his personal. A bonus construction was organized that might pay Abshire a certain quantity if he gained, and an extra bonus ought to he set the American File. After all, Lumpp by no means thought he’d must pay up! (however gladly did)
After the entire bargaining to get him into the race, Abshire virtually didn’t make it to the beginning line–a sore arch virtually made him determine to remain dwelling. Sullivan, who went on to teach at Oregon State and Seattle U. earlier than retiring in 2024, recollects another particulars from that weekend. “…when Brian bought to the resort, his identify was not on any rooming listing and he couldn’t attain me. However Padilla (being the good man he’s) noticed him within the foyer and supplied to let him sleep in his room on a pull-out sofa mattress! Padilla, after all, was the present indoor 3k AR holder. “
“Doug informed me later he may ‘sense’ that night time/subsequent day that Brian was able to do ‘one thing large’ by his temper/confidence. Then within the race the ‘rabbit’ by no means bought out entrance after the primary 2+ laps, so Brian bought antsy, realizing the tempo felt sluggish and instinctly popped out, went to the entrance and turned up the tempo. Having no thought on a banked, 10-laps to the mile monitor how briskly he was working, he simply ‘raced’ and broke the AR and narrowly missed Emiel Puttemans long-standing WR (7:39.2)”.
“I used to be at an indoor school meet at U of Florida with our Auburn crew. and I referred to as Brian/Doug’s room a few occasions however bought no reply. (Method earlier than cell telephones/web!). A couple of hours later Doug answered. He mentioned ‘Hello Kelly, I’ll let Brian inform you the way it went’. I requested Doug how he did and he informed me his time/place and that he was very happy’. Brian bought on the telephone and calmly mentioned ‘It went rather well!, I gained’, and humbly, however excited to inform me, ‘You’ve now coached an AR holder!!’. Doug was SINCERELY comfortable for us each. He really helped rub out Brian’s plantar that was actually sore and sarcastically would take months to heal. Which is one other story main into that summer season’s Olympic trials and our problem for him to make the crew within the steeplechase.” (Abshire gained the Steeple on the Trials and made it to the semi-final spherical on the Seoul Olympics)
Sports activities Illustrated Vault
Coe Pre- and post-meet articles
1988— East Germany’s Heike Drechsler and Christine Wachtel set World Indoor Information in Vienna. Drechsler added 2 inches to her mark within the Lengthy Soar (24-2 ¼ [7.37]), whereas Wachtel smashed her 800 greatest along with her profitable time of 1:56.40. Wachtel had run 1:57.64 simply 3 days earlier in Turin, Italy.
1993–Sergey Bubka raised his World Indoor File within the Pole Vault to 20-1 ¾ (6.14m) in Liévin, France. A 2nd World File was set by Jamaica’s Merlene Ottey, who gained the Girls’s 200-Meters in 21.87.
Ottey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfQsbv6HAuM
1998—Kenya’s Laban Rotich, working on a board monitor for the primary time, gained the Wanamaker Mile on the Millrose Video games in 3:55.69 in entrance of a Madison Sq. Backyard crowd of 17,000 followers.
2nd was Paul McMullen (3:57.46) and threerd was 36-year outdated Marcus O’Sullivan, whose time of three:58.10 earned him entry into an unique membership, becoming a member of John Walker and Steve Scott as the one males to run 100 sub-4 minute miles! O’Sullivan, a 5-time winner of the enduring occasion, took a well-deserved victory lap after the race.
From the NY Instances: O’Sullivan’s contribution to trace historical past goes again 5 years. ”I used to be cleansing out my basement,” he mentioned, ”after I got here throughout this trophy. I noticed it was from my first sub-four-minute mile. I began counting up the variety of occasions I had damaged 4 minutes, and it was 76. That’s after I made my purpose to run 100,” O’Sullivan mentioned. ”It actually helped maintain me motivated.”
The Males’s Pole Vault, gained this 12 months by Jeff Hartwig with a Meet File clearance of 19-2 ¾ (5.86), had been a fixture at Millrose because the Twenties, however Millrose Director Howard Schmertz was reluctant so as to add the comparatively new Girls’s occasion. He reportedly mentioned to somebody pushing for the occasion’s inclusion, “If you will get (AR holder) Stacy Dragila, I’ll add it to this system”. Dragila was out there, gained the occasion with a clearance of 13-9 ¾ (4.21) and would win once more at Millrose six of the following seven years!
Outcomes: https://www.flashresults.com/1998_Meets/millrose.htm
Girls’s PV—Right here to Keep!
1999—Romania’s Gabriela Szabo set a World Indoor File of 14:47.35 for 5000-meters in Dortmund, Germany.
Szabo gained 8 “world” titles throughout her profession:
Olympics-2000 (5000)
World Championships-1997 (5000), 1999 (5000), 2001 (1500)
World Indoor Championships-1995 (3000), 1997 (3000), 1999 (1500,3000)
https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/romania/gabriela-szabo-14295963
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Szabo
1999–Casey Combest (Owensboro,KY) ran 10.55 in Lexington,KY, to set a highschool report within the rarely-contested 100-meters. Combest was timed en-route at 9.71 for 100-yards.
2000(2-12/13)—Adam Goucher (4k/12k) and Deena Drossin (4k/8k) have been double winners on the U.S. Cross Nation Championships in Greensboro,NC. Junior Champions have been Shalane Flanagan and Franklyn Sanchez.
Previous Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Cross_Country_Championships
2009–Galen Rupp wished badly to win the 5000-meters on the Tyson Inv. in Fayetteville, however he needed to accept taking down three important data along with his 2nd-place time of 13:18.12. Rupp broke Doug Padilla’s American File of 13:20.55, Suleiman Nyambui’s Collegiate File of 13:20.4, and Alberto Salazar’s Oregon faculty report of 13:22.6. Successful the race was Ethiopia’s Bekana Daba, who ran 13:17.89, whereas Liberty’s Sam Chelanga set an Japanese Collegiate File of 13:19.79.
Outcomes: https://flashresults.com/2009_Meets/indoor/TysonInvite/FridayInvite.htm
Publish-Race Interview
Oregon Bio: http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=187104
2016—The U.S. crew for the Olympic Marathon was chosen on the Trials in Los Angeles:
Males-1.Galen Rupp 2:11:12 (1st marathon), 2.Meb Keflezighi 2:12:20 (4th Olympic crew), 3.Jared Ward 2:13:00
Girls-1.Amy Cragg 2:28:20, 2.Desiree Linden 2:28:54, 3.Shalane Flanagan 2:29:19 (3rd Olympic crew), 4.Kara
Goucher 2:30:24)
Rupp went on to win the bronze medal on the Rio Olympics
NBC Protection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASKZpQnI2q8
LetsRun’s in-depth protection Males Girls
2021—Three American Information have been set on the New Steadiness Indoor Grand Prix, which was held this 12 months on the Ocean Breeze Advanced on NY’s Staten Island whereas the meet’s conventional dwelling, the Reggie Lewis Heart in Roxbury(MA), was getting used as a Covid-vaccination heart.
First up was the Girls’s 2-mile, the place Elle (“Ellie”) Purrier ran 9:10.28 to smash the earlier mark of 9:18.35 that was set by Jenny Simpson at this meet in 2015. Runnerup Emma Coburn was additionally beneath Simpson’s mark along with her time of 9:15.71. Purrier’s time additionally bettered the U.S. out of doors better of 9:11.97, set by Regina Jacobs in 1999.
Bryce Hoppel, pressed a lot of the method by Nice Britain’s Charlie Grice, gained the Males’s 1000-Meters in 2:16.27, breaking David Torrence’s earlier AR of two:16.76 (2014). Grice (2:17.20/NR) was handed by Canada’s Marco Arop (2:17.10) within the final 50-Meters.
When Donavan Brazier crossed the end line of the Males’s 800 in 1st place, he appeared just a little disillusioned that the infield clock confirmed 1:44.22, which might have meant that he “solely” equaled his AR. He anxiously waited for the official outcomes to come back up, and smiled when the time was adjusted to 1:44.21!
Olli Hoare, the 2018 NCAA Champion (1500) whereas at Wisconsin, set an Australian File of three:32.35 whereas profitable the Males’s 1500-Meters. 2nd was Nice Britain’s Jake Wightman (3:34.48), and threerd was New Zealand’s Sam Tanner, a redshirt freshman on the College of Washington, who set a Nationwide File (in addition to a U.S. Collegiate File!) of three:34.72. Hoare and Tanner additionally met the Olympic qualifying customary of three:35.00 (Wightman had beforehand met the usual). Wightman would win the 1500 on the 2022 World Championships in Eugene.
A complete of 11 Nationwide Information have been set on the meet.
Outcomes: https://outcomes.nbindoorgrandprix.com
Protection:
https://trackandfieldnews.com/new-balance-gp-a-trio-of-american-records/
2021—Baylor’s Ok.C. Lightfoot jumped 19-8 ¼ (6.00) on the Texas Tech Shootout in Lubbock, Texas, to set his 3rd Collegiate Indoor File of the season. A 2nd CR was set by Arizona State’s Turner Washington within the Males’s Shot Put (71-8 ¼ [21.85]).
2021— Texas A&M, with Athing Mu working a 50.3 anchor, set a Collegiate File of three:26.27 within the Girls’s 4×400 on the Tyson Inv. in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Previous Mu on the primary 3 legs have been Jania Martin 53.0, Syaira Richardson 51.9, and Charokee Younger’ 51.1.
Outcomes: https://www.flashresults.com/2021_Meets/Indoor/02-12_Tyson/
Important Birthdays
Born On This Day*
Virgiljus Alekna-Lithuania 53 (1972) 2-time Olympic gold medalist—Discus 2000,2004/bronze medalist-2008)
2-time World Champion (2003, 2005/silver medalist-1997,2001); 6’-6 ¾” (2.00), 287 (130kg)
2006 European Champion;
Simply missed Jürgen Schult’s World File of 243-0 when he threw 242-5 (73.88) in 2000. (Nonetheless #2 All-Time)
Son Mykolas, at present a snior at Cal-Berkeley, had a breakthrough 12 months in 2022—completed 2nd on the NCAA Championships,
gained gold on the European Championships, and silver on the 2022 World Championships, bronze in 2023, and silver on the 2024
Olympics. He set the present World File of 243-11 (74.35) in 2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgilijus_Alekna
Video Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GINgxzxbtNw
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/73209
https://trackandfieldnews.com/tfn-lists/world-all-time-list-men/
Kenny Harrison 59 (1965) 1996 Olympic gold medalist—Triple Soar; 1991 World Champion;
Held the American File from 1996-2015; PB: 59-4 ½ (18.09/1996) #4-All-Time
2-time NCAA Champion at Kansas State: 1986-Outdoor (1987-2nd), 1988-Indoors (1986-5th, 1987-2nd)
Corridor of Fame Bio: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/kenny-harrison
All-Time Lists
Prime-10: https://trackandfieldnews.com/tfn-lists/world-all-time-list-men/
Deeper(Metric): http://www.alltime-athletics.com/mtripok.htm
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSyZJPuzyx4
https://www.sportsry.com/sports-news/usa-track-legends-olympic-record/
Suleiman Nyambui—Tanzania 72 (1953) Gained a report 15 NCAA particular person titles at UTEP (29-years outdated as a senior)
4×10,000m (1979-1982)
3x5000m (1980-1982)
4xmile (1979-1982)
3x Indoor 2-miles (1979,1980,1982)
1980 NCAA X-Nation Champion
1980 Olympic silver medalist—5000m
PBs:3:51.94 (’81), 8:17.9i (’78), 13:12.29 (’79), 27:51.73 (’81), 2:09:52 (’89)
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman_Nyambui
Deceased
John Dye 86 (1936-September 30, 2022) Creator of DyeStat.com in 1997 to see how his children, Derek (excessive soar) and Natalie (pole
vault), in comparison with different highschool rivals. The location grew to become THE supply for highschool data and, with the assistance
of his spouse Donna (“On The Facet”), helped create an unimaginable cyber-community among the many nation’s preps.
From John Dye: “The origin of what we have been doing was Derek’s sophomore 12 months (1996) after I offered a weekly
publication with rankings in 5 Western Maryland counties. (DyeStat started) in 1997, which was when Derek and
Natalie every gained their occasions within the Maryland state meet (solely brother-sister combo ever to try this in Maryland in
particular person occasions in the identical state meet). That made me need to know the way they in contrast nationally. I bought all of the
state meet outcomes and ranked ladies pole vault and boys excessive soar. I discovered that Derek (6-8) was within the 80s nationally
and Natalie (9-0) within the 40s (bear in mind, that was when ladies pole vault was simply getting sanctioned). Therefore, I began
doing nationwide rankings 100 deep to ensure they have been listed(-:.”
John and Donna Dye have been having fun with their “2nd retirement” in Las Vegas, whereas Dyestat.com, which had ceased
functioning when ESPN dropped it, was revived by Runnerspace.com.
Dye was acknowledged for his contribution to the game by being named to the inaugural class of inductees into the Nationwide H.S.
T&F Corridor of Fame in 2018. And John and Donna have been just lately named winners of the Stan Saplin Award for his or her contributions
to the game.
http://www.dyestat.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=44531&do=information&news_id=514510
Saplin Award: https://www.armorytrack.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=45586&do=information&news_id=653441