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This Day in Observe & Area–September 24
1932—Czech František Douda, who had earlier gained the bronze medal on the L.A. Olympics, regained the World Report within the Shot Put along with his profitable toss of 53-1 ¾ (16.20) in Prague. Douda set his first WR of 52-7 ½ (16.04) in 1931, solely to see it damaged by Poland’s Zygmont Heljasz in June,1932 (52-8[16.05]). American Leo Sexton then improved the report to 53-1/4 (16.16) a month after profitable the gold medal in L.A.
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Males’s_shot_put_world_record_progression
Douda, picture by olympijskytym.cz
1972—Bulgaria’s Yordanka Blagoeva cleared 6-4 ¼ (1.94) within the Excessive Bounce in Zagreb to interrupt the World Report of 6-3 ½ (1.92) that was set by West Germany’s Ulrike Meyfarth on the Munich Olympics earlier within the month. Blagoeva had gained the silver medal behind Meyfarth and would win the bronze medal 4 years later in Montreal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yordanka_Blagoeva
WR Development(conversions are unofficial): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladiespercent27s_high_jump_world_record_progression
1988–Simply as he did a 12 months earlier than on the World Championships in Rome, Canada’s Ben Johnson beat Carl Lewis and set a World Report within the Males’s 100-meters, operating 9.79 to win Olympic gold in Seoul. That might all change just a few days later, in fact, after Johnson examined optimistic for steroids! Lewis was awarded the gold medal and his 9.92 was acknowledged because the World Report. Transferring as much as silver and bronze had been Nice Britain’s Linford Christie (9.97) and American Calvin Smith (9.99).
Jackie Joyner-Kersee, the silver medalist in 1984, set the 4th and closing World Report of her profession, scoring 7,291 factors to win the Heptathlon by nearly 400 factors over East Germany’s Sabine John (6,897) and Anke Behmer (6858). JJK would win a 2nd gold 5 days later within the Lengthy Bounce.
JJK’s Marks: 12.69, 1.86/6-1 ¼, 15.80/51-10, 22.56, 7.27/23-10 ¼, 45.66/149-10, 2:08.51
The primary two rounds of the Ladies’s 100 had been held on this present day. All eyes had been on World Report holder Florence Griffith-Joyner and he or she didn’t disappoint, setting an Olympic Report of 10.88 in her warmth, a time matched by U.S. teammate Evelyn Ashford in her ¼-final race.
Ashford didn’t have lengthy to take pleasure in her standing as co-Olympic Report holder, since Flo-Jo ran a tremendous 10.62 within the very subsequent race! That’s nonetheless the =Sixth-fastest authorized time in historical past (though some really feel that her 10.49 World Report needs to be thought of wind-aided).
Bulgaria’s Khristo Markov gained the Males’s Triple Bounce with an Olympic Report leap of 57-9 ½ (17.61). Inserting 2-3-4 had been Soviets Igor Lapshin (57-5 ¾ [17.52]), Aleksandr Kovalenko (57-2 [17.42]), and Oleg Protsenko (57-1/4 [17.38]). People Charlie Simpkins (56-8 ¾ [17.29]} and Willie Banks (55-10 ½ [17.03]}, who had set the World Report of 58-11 ½ (17.97) three years earlier, completed 5th and 6th, respectively.
Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1988_Summer_Olympics
Sports activities Illustrated Vault
Busted: https://vault.si.com/vault/1988/10/03/the-loser
A Look Again(Johnson-2008): https://vault.si.com/vault/2008/07/14/ben-johnson
Story Behind the SI Cowl Picture(Johnson):
https://deadspin.com/the-story-behind-the-iconic-photos-of-the-olympics-dirt-1797061106
Movies
M100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTM_mvA4kas
Heptathlon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z-QfDiV2XA
Olympedia Experiences: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/22/sports activities/ATH
2000—Nice Britain’s Denise Lewis, the bronze medalist in Atlanta in 1996, gained the Heptathlon in moist and windy situations on the Sydney Olympics with a rating of 6,584 factors. Russia’s Yelena Prokhorova (6531) outran Belarus’s Natalya Sazanovich (6527) within the closing occasion, the 800-Meters, to win the silver medal.
Two potential medalists had been hampered by accidents. Syria’s Ghada Shouaa, the defending champion, failed to complete the primary occasion, the 100-Meter Hurdles, and France’s Eunice Barber, who dropped out after making one poor effort within the Lengthy Bounce.
Japan’s Naoko Takahashi pulled away from Romania’s Lidia Șimon (2:23:22) late within the race to win the Ladies’s Marathon within the Olympic Report time of two:23:14. Ending 3rd was Kenya’s Joyce Chepchumba (2:24:45).
Simply as a heavy rain began to fall, Males’s Excessive Bounce winner Russia’s Sergey Klyugin cleared 7-8 ½ (2.35) on his 1st try, whereas the opposite 6 jumpers who had cleared 7-7 ¼ (2.32) missed on all 3 of their makes an attempt. Profitable the silver and bronze medals based mostly on fewer misses had been Cuba’s Javier Sotomayor, the 1992 champion, and Algeria’s Abderahmane Hammad. American Charles Austin, the defending champion, did not make it out of the qualifying spherical.
The medalists within the Males’s Hammer Throw had been Poland’s Szymon Ziółkowski (262-6 [80.02]), Italy’s Nicola Vizzone
(261-3 [79.64]), and Belarus’s Igor Astapkovich (259-9 [79.17]), who edged teammate Ivan Tikhon on the premise of a greater 2ndthrow.
Bulgaria’s Tereza Marinova (49-10 ½ [15.20]) gained the Ladies’s Triple Bounce in windy and moist situations over Russia’s Tatyana Lebedeva (49-2 ½ [15.00]) and Ukraine’s Yelena Govorova (49-1 [14.96]).
The U.S. was shut out of the medals on this day’s 5 finals.
Medalists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics
Outcomes: https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/olympic-games/Twenty seventh-olympic-games-6951910
Olympedia Experiences: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/25/sports activities/ATH
Video(Marathon): https://olympics.com/en/video/women-s-marathon-sydney-2000-great-olympic-moments
2023—Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa gained the Berlin Marathon for the twond 12 months in a row, operating 2:11:53 to smash the earlier
World Report of two:14:04, set by Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei in 2019,
Like many different latest record-breakers, she reportedly wore a pair of (adidas) “supershoes” (See Guardian
article)
No report this time for Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge (2:02:42), however he did win for the fifth time, breaking a tie with Ethiopia’s
Haile Gebrselassie for essentially the most wins within the race’s historical past. Kipchoge had set the final two males’s World Data
whereas profitable in 2018 (2:01:39) & 2022 (2:01:09).
American Scott Fauble, who hoped to realize the Olympic qualifying commonplace of two:08:10, was unable to complete the
race.
Prime 10: https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/information/berlin-marathon-results-2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Jn3I2c5eA
Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC9qR9FD6e0
WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_world_record_progression
Previous Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Marathon
Extra on Assefa:
Competed within the 800-meters on the 2016 World Indoor Championships and 2016 Olympics. Her race in Rio was her
final on the observe because of an ongoing achilles damage, Took 2017 off to get well from the damage, then switched to the
roads in 2018. Didn’t compete in 2020-2021 because of the pandemic, then ran her first marathon in 2022. Ran
2:34:01 in March when she was 17 kilos over her regular operating weight (“she wanted a paycheck”), then
broke by way of when she gained in Berlin in September with a time of two:15:37.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigist_Assefa
Her Story: https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a41430669/who-is-tigist-assefa-berlin-marathon-winner/