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by Walt Murphy’s Information and Outcomes Service (wmurphy25@aol.com), used with permission
This Day in Observe & Area–January 14
1915—Ted Meredith, the 1912 Olympic Champion at 800-Meters, gained the 600y on the Millrose Video games earlier than a report crowd of 10,00 followers in NY’s Madison Sq. Backyard. His time of 1:13.6 simply missed the World Report of 1:13.4 that was set the yr earlier than by Tom Halpin, who completed 2nd right here, 3 yards behind Meredith.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/01/15/104639708.html?pageNumber=9
1961–New Zealand’s Murray Halberg, who gained the 5000-Meters on the earlier yr’s Olympics in Rome, smashed the Indoor World Report for 2-miles when he ran 8:34.3 in Portland, Oregon. Australian Al Lawrence set the earlier mark of 8:46.0 the yr earlier than in Los Angeles.
Racing Previous Profile: http://www.racingpast.ca/john_contents.php?id=128
1961—Three years earlier than a younger Gerry Lindgren took the monitor world by storm, 17-year previous Canadian Bruce Kidd lit up the Boston Backyard by successful the 2-mile on the Knights of Columbus meet. Screaming followers had been on their toes because the teenager held off a late cost by veteran Pete McArdle (8:49.6). Kidd’s time of 8:49.1 stood because the report for 17-year olds till Lindgren ran 8:46.0 early within the 1964 indoor season.
Kidd excelled within the classroom in addition to on the monitor and was the Vice President and Principal on the College of Toronto-Scarborough earlier than retiring in 2018
Sports activities Illustrated Vault:
https://vault.si.com/vault/1961/01/23/how-young-kidd-made-good
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Kidd
2013 Interview: http://athleticsillustrated.com/interviews/bruce-kidd/
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/66118
1972––Reynaldo Brown set an American Indoor Report of 7-4 (2.23+) to win the Excessive Soar on the CYO Invitational in Faculty Park,Md. Brown, who made the 1968 U.S. Olympic staff earlier than coming into his senior yr at Compton H.S.(Ca), simply missed making his 2nd Olympic staff, ending 4th on the U..S Trials later within the yr.
“Little” Adelphi College gained the Mile Relay in 3:13.7, a “World Report” on an 11-lap monitor. Working for coach Ron Bazil had been Keith Davis (49.2), Larry Ross (49.0), Dennis Walker (48.2), and Clyde McPherson (47.3). The identical foursome would decrease the report to three:12.2 the next week in Philadelphia, and, with Ray Lee changing Ross, would win the NCAA title in March.
(Brown): https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78163
Adelphi: http://www.aupanthers.com/information/2012/1/13/TRACK_0113124114.aspx
https://vault.si.com/vault/1972/02/07/if-youve-got-no-money-try-diploma-power
1974–Frosh Robin Campbell (Japanese,DC), one of many early “super-stars” of women’ highschool monitor, ran 1:19.3 in Toronto to set the present highschool report for 600-yards (hardly ever contested lately). Campbell went on to grow to be the 1983 U.S. Champion at 800-meters and represented the U.S. within the 800 on the 1983 World Championships (5th) and 1984 Olympics (semi-finalist).
She had different scholastic bests of two:02.40-800m, 2:07.5i-880y, 2:30.7i-1000y. Solely Mary Decker was forward of her on the All-Time H.S. lists when she ran these instances! Completed her prep profession at Florida’s Oak Corridor H.S.
Wiki Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Campbell_(athlete)
1977—Lorna Forde (Barbados/Atoms TC) gained the 440y on the CYO meet in Faculty Park, Maryland, within the World Report time of 53.8.
Francie Larrieu-Smith (4:34.7) gained the Mile over two stars-to-be, Liberty A.C. teammates Joan Benoit (4:44.8) and 16-year previous Lynn Jennings (4:47.3). All three are members of the Nationwide Corridor of Fame.
HOF Bios:
Larrieu-Smith(1998): https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/francine-larrieu-smith
Benoit-Samuelson(2004): https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/joan-benoit-samuelson
Jennings(2006): https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/lynn-jennings
1983–Billy Olson jumped 18-10 ¼ (5.75) in Ottawa, Canada, so as to add 1/4” to his personal World Indoor Report within the Pole Vault. It was the 5th report in lower than a yr for Olson, who would set two extra in 1983, the ultimate one being the primary indoor 19-footer (19-1/4[5.80) in Toronto on February 4.
Making a modest return to motion in the identical meet, after an injury-induced year-long layoff, Eamonn Coghlan gained the mile in 4:04.52.
Sports activities Illustrated Vault:
https://vault.si.com/vault/1983/02/07/billy-cracks-the-vault
Indoor Report Development(PV-metric);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Males’s_pole_vault_indoor_world_record_progression
Metric Converter: http://www.usatf.org/statistics/calculators/markConversions/
2007—Working by himself for many of the race, Ryan Corridor ran 59:43 in Houston to interrupt Mark Curp’s 21-year previous American Report of 60:55 for the Half-Marathon. Subsequent throughout the road had been Fasil Bizuneh (62:20) and Meb Keflezighi (62:22).
David Monti’s Race-Day Report
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Z8DC_PiKY
2012—Making the U.S. Olympic staff on the Marathon Trials in Houston had been Meb Keflezighi (2:09:08/his 3rd staff), Ryan Corridor (2:09:30/2nd staff), and Abdi Abdirahman (2:09:47/4th staff!) within the Males’s race, and Shalane Flanagan (2:25:38/3rd staff), Desiree Davila-Linden (2:25:55), and Kara Goucher (2:26:06/2nd staff) within the Ladies’s race.
Ending 4th within the respective races had been Dathan Ritzenhein (2:09:55) and Amy Hastings (2:27:17). 6th within the Ladies’s race was Deena Kastor (2:30:300, the bronze medalist on the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
LetsRun Protection: https://www.letsrun.com/occasions/2016/02/2016-us-olympic-marathon-trials
NBC Protection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jHBd-zVYN0
2012—Penn State freshman Robby Creese set a Collegiate and U.S. Junior Report of two:19.53 for 1000-meters on his house monitor (nonetheless #8 All-Time Faculty/nonetheless AJR)
https://gopsusports.com/information/2012/1/14/Creese_Sets_Collegiate_1000_Meter_Record.aspx
All-Time Faculty Indoor Listing (T&F Information)
https://trackandfieldnews.com/collegiate-indoor-all-time-list-men/
2:18.05 Tinoda Matsatsa (Georgetown) 1/19/24
2:18.10 Yusuf Bizimana’ (Texas) 1/12/24
2:18.26 Brannon Kidder (Penn State) 1/16/16
2:18.55 Wealthy Peters’ (Boston College) 3/02/14
2:18.56 Nathan Inexperienced (Washington) 2/04/24
2:19.17 Abel Teffra (Georgetown) 1/19/24
2:19.37 Matthew Payamps (Georgetown) 1/19/24
2:19.53 Robby Creese (Penn State) 1/14/12
2:19.56 Parker Stokes (Georgetown) 1/19/24
2:19.57 Christian Smith (Kansas State) 2/04/06
2012-Working his approach round lapped runners late within the race, Edward Cheserek, a junior at St.Benedict’s Prep(NJ), ran 8:43.16 to win the 2-mile on the Stanner Video games at NY’s Armory.
The 18-year previous native of Kenya fell in need of his objective of breaking Gerry Lindgren’s 48-year previous U.S. prep report of 8:40.0 (and his private better of 8:42.66), however succeeded the next yr when he ran 8:39.15 on the 2013 Millrose Video games on the Armory. (Drew Griffith ran 8:34.91 in 2024)
Race Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVDo_R-NcOI
http://tinyurl.com/CheserekESPN12
All-Time U.S. H.S. Indoor Listing—Boys 2-Mile
*-Junior, **-Sophomore
https://trackandfieldnews.com/high-school-all-time-indoor-top-10s-boys/
8:34.91 Drew Griffith (Butler, Pennsylvania) 2024
8:39.15 Edward Cheserek’ (St. Benedict’s, Newark, New Jersey) 2013
8:40.0 Gerry Lindgren (Rogers, Spokane, Washington) 1964
8:40.70 *Lukas Verzbicas’ (Orland, Sandburg Park, Illinois) 2011
8:42.60 Jackson Heidesch (Dowling, West Des Moines, Iowa) 2023
8:42.66 ————**Cheserek’ 2011
8:42.7 Jeff Nelson (Burbank, California) 1979
8:43.16 ————*Cheserek’ 2012
8:43.24 ————*Verzbicas’ 2011
8:43.24 Connor Burns (Southern Boone, Ashland, Missouri) 2023
**10 performances by 7 performers**
8:45.16 *Brodey Hasty (Brentwood, Tennessee) 2017
8:45.19 Alan Webb (South Lakes, Reston, Virginia) 2001
8:46.08 Noah Affolder (Carlisle, Pennsylvania) 2017
Outsized monitor:
8:38.67 Drew Griffith (Space Senior, Butler, Pennsylvania) 2024
8:43.2 Dave Merrick (Lincoln-Manner, New Lenox, Illinois) 1971
8:45.6 Craig Virgin (Lebanon, Illinois) 1973
2018—Ethiopia’s Ruti Aga (66:39) gained the Ladies’s division of the Aramco-Houston Half-Marathon, with Molly Huddle ending 7th in 67:25, breaking Deena Kastor’s 6-year previous American Report of 67:34. Alongside the best way, she additionally broke Kastor’s AR for 10-miles (50:52/51:34).
2023—Senior Shawnti Jackson (South Granville,NC) ran 36.63 for 300-meters on the Virginia Showcase in Virginia Seaside, breaking the earlier U.S. Excessive College Report of 36.82 that was set by Sydney McLaughlin (Union Catholic,NJ) in 2017. Runnerup to Jackson was Madison Whyte (Heritage,VA), who moved to #4 on the All-Time record along with her time of 37.09 (now #5).
https://www.milesplit.com/articles/326522/shawnti-jackson-breaks-sydney-mclaughlins-300m-nat-record
https://www.dyestat.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=44531&do=information&news_id=653339
All-Time U.S. H.S. Indoor Listing–Women 300
36.63 Shawnti Jackson (South Granville, Creedmoor, North Carolina) 2023
36.73 Jackson 2023
36.82 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (Union Catholic, Scotch Plains, New Jersey) 2017
36.95 *Jackson (Wakefield, Raleigh, North Carolina) 2022
36.96 Francena McCorory (Bethel, Hampton, Virginia) 2006
36.97 Adeajah Hodge’ (Academy, Montverde, Florida) 2024
37.09 McLaughlin-Levrone 2017
37.09 Madison Whyte (Heritage, Newport Information, Virginia) 2023
37.11 McLaughlin-Levrone 2017
37.12 Whyte 2023
**10 performances by 5 performers**
37.32 Elise Cooper (McDonogh, Owings Mills, Maryland) 2024
37.36 Athing Mu (Central, Trenton, New Jersey) 2020
37.38 **Kayla Davis (Windfall Day, Charlotte, North Carolina) 2020
37.39 *Sydney Sutton (Bullis, Potomac, Maryland) 2024
37.53 Britton Wilson (Godwin, Henrico, Virginia) 2019
Vital Birthdays
Born on This Day*
Mariya Kuchina-Lasitskene—Russia 32 (1993) 2021 Olympic gold medalist—Excessive Soar
3-time World Champion (2015, 2017, 2019)
2-time World Indoor Champion(2014, 2018)
2018 European Champion (2-time Indoor Champion/2015, 2019)
Missed the 2016 & 2024 Olympics and the 2022 & 2023 World Championships because of the ban on Russian athletes
2010 Youth Olympics Champion
Ranked #1 within the World six instances by T&F Information (2014,2015,2017,2018,2019,2021)
PB: 6-9 (2.06/2017/=#8 All-Time/ind-out), 6-8 3/4i (2.05/2020/=#7 A-T); 2024 SB:6-4 (1.93)
http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/146098 (Via 2023)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariya_Lasitskene
Tokyo: https://www.nbcolympics.com/movies/lasitskene-leaps-high-jump-gold
Kemoy Campbell 34 (1991) Jamaica’s best distance runner—holds the next Nationwide Data:
3000 (7:40.79i, 7:41.87), 5000 (13:14.45i, 13:20.39), 10,000 (28:06.40)
Different PBs:1:49.95, 3:41.00, 4:00.98i
10th within the 5000 on the 2017 World Championships (1st Jamaican to make the ultimate)
2016 Olympian was eradicated within the first spherical of the 5000-meters in Rio
Was an All-American at 3000 and 5000 meters whereas at Arkansas
NCAA: 3000i (2013-2nd, 2015-4th), 5000 (2013-5th, 2015 (3rd)
Collapsed whereas pacing the Males’s 3000-meters on the 2019 Millrose Video games at NY’s Armory. After the race
concluded, the meet was delayed whereas he was persevering with to be attended to on the infield. He was then
transported throughout the road to NY Presbyterian/Columbia College Hospital, the place he stayed for greater than 2
weeks. He made a full restoration, however introduced his retirement in September, 2019, after docs warned him that
working at an intense degree might result in one other severe incident. “I used to be informed in the present day that I shouldn’t compete once more
or this incident will occur once more, however that won’t cease me from supporting and serving to this sport and my staff
(Reebok Boston TC) any approach I can. So it’s farewell to competing,” he wrote on Instagram.
Learn extra on the hyperlinks under. Presently working as a coach
https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/jamaica/kemoy-campbell-14201885
Faculty Stats: https://www.tfrrs.org/athletes/4066671/Arkansas/Kemoy_Campbell.html
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemoy_Campbell
Collapse
https://www.runnersworld.com/information/a26287737/kemoy-campbell-collapses-millrose-games/
https://www.runnersworld.com/information/a28954873/kemoy-campbell-retires-from-competitive-running/
Reward of Life: Previous to the 2020 Millrose Video games, Lewis Johnson interviewed Campbell on the Armory infield for NBC.
Amongst others interviewed for the function had been Todd Sinclair, who was the primary individual to manage CPR to
Campbell. (Campbell was the starter for the 3000 on the 2020 Millrose Video games)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA_T4R0FqdA
https://www.tracklifeinternational.com/options/kemoy-campbell-returns-to-millrose-as-a-starter/
Hyleas Fountain 44 (1981) 2-time U.S. Olympian (Heptathlon)-2008 (silver medalist), 2012);
4-time NCAA Champion (Georgia)-2003 (Heptathlon), 2004 (Indoor-LJ, Pentathlon, Outside-LJ)
6-time U.S. Champion (5-Heptathlon, 1-Pentathlon)
PBs: 12.70/100h (‘12), 6-2 ¾ (1.90/’10), 22-7 ¼ (6.89/’09), 4753i (‘10/=#4 All-Time U.S.), 6735 (‘10/#4 A-T
U.S.)
Competed in bobsleigh in 2012
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyleas_Fountain
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/114383
https://www.teamusa.com/profiles/hyleas-fountain
Bobsleigh/Bobsled: https://www.ibsf.org/en/athletes/athlete/129375/Fountain
Shawn Crawford 47 (1978) 3-time Olympic medalist—Gold-200m (2004), Silver-200m (2008), 4×100 (2004)
NCAA Champion—200m (Clemson), at present teaching in California, married to hurdler Ginnie Powell-Crawford.
The Medal No One Wished: http://tinyurl.com/zonv62t
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