This Day in Observe & Discipline–January 12
1957–Whereas leafing by means of outdated problems with Observe and Discipline Information, it’s at all times a kick to return throughout what was in all probability the primary point out of an athlete who went on to realize greatness. Such was the case within the January, 1957, challenge, when Joe Galli wrote, “Aussie monitor was lifted out of the ‘post-Olympic doldrums’ (WM-Melbourne had simply hosted the 1956 Video games) by the looks of a possible high world class miler, Herb Elliott of Perth”.
The 18-year outdated Elliott, who was being coached by the legendary Percy Cerutty, had run 4:06.0 for the mile on today at Olympic Park to interrupt fellow Australian Ron Clarke’s unofficial World Junior file by .8s. Elliott went on to set World Data within the 1500 and mile and win the gold medal within the 1500-meters on the 1960 Olympics, and is taken into account one of many best milers in historical past. Cerutty had predicted 2-years earlier that Elliott would change into a world file holder, however the teenager’s profession suffered a brief setback in a freak accident in late 1955 when a piano crushed his foot!
Elliott Images: http://tinyurl.com/yaxxn9r
https://vault.si.com/vault/1958/11/10/the-amazing-herb-elliott
https://www.life.com/historical past/training-with-the-worlds-first-paleo-crossfitting-locavore/
1974–The fifty fifth (and last) version of the NY Knights of Columbus, as soon as one of many crown jewels of the NY indoor circuit, was held on the Nassau Coliseum.
Among the many highlights: Dick Buerkle, a day after beating Steve Prefontaine at 2-miles in School Park, gained the mile in 4:00.3; Dwight Stones gained the Excessive Leap (7-2 [2.18.5]), Herb Washington (6.1) gained the 60y over Steve Williams (6.2); Rick Wohlhuter gained the 880y (1:51.5); and Byron Dyce gained the 1000y (2:09.3).
1975—The 1st preliminary meet of the Colgate Girls’s Video games was held at NY’s Armory. The meet was based by Fred Thompson, the coach of the Atoms Observe Membership. Among the many athletes who’ve participated within the meet are Diane Dixon, Sandra Farmer-Patrick, and Dalilah Muhammad.
From the meet’s web site:
“The Colgate Girls’s Video games is the nation’s largest beginner monitor sequence open to all women from elementary college by means of faculty and past. Opponents take part in preliminary meets and a semi-finals to find out finalists who will compete for trophies and academic grants-in-aid from Colgate-Palmolive Firm. Our aim is to supply an athletic competitors that helps the taking part younger women and girls develop a robust sense of private achievement, shallowness, instill the significance of training and supply a coaching floor for many who may not in any other case take part in an organized sport.”
1977–The primary challenge of my first publication–Japanese Observe–appeared. The publication was began as a substitute for “The New Breed”, which was printed by Pete Schuder whereas he was teaching at Columbia College. T&F Information editor Garry Hill would later describe E.T. as a “funky publication”!
Whereas The New Breed primarily lined the IC4A, the “authentic E.T.” expanded to incorporate protection of all colleges within the Northeast (Males & Girls–Maine to Virginia), and likewise lined highschool and open motion. In that pre-internet/laptop computer period, outcomes have been ready on an old school typewriter and the publication was run off on a mimeograph machine (that I nonetheless have!) that Schuder had used (you kids can ask your mother and father to clarify these historic artifacts).
Among the many outcomes included in that first challenge: Princeton’s Craig Masback gained the Mile in 4:18.8 in a tri-meet with St.John’s and Temple, and a 1000y in 2:13.9 in a twin meet with Rutgers; Within the first meet held at Fordham’s Vince Lombardi Heart, former Ram Marcel Philippe gained the 1000y (2:11.4) and Mile (4:11.0); Former NYU star Byron Dyce gained a 1/2-mile race at NY’s Armory in 1:53.8; Jan Merrill ran quicker than Mary Decker’s World Report (2:26.7) within the Girls’s 1000y by working 2:25.2 on Military’s outsized monitor; Tim St Lawrence jumped 16-1 (4.905) to win his fifteenth consecutive Metropolitan AAU Senior title within the Pole Vault (8 indoors, 7 outside); New Jersey prep Renaldo Nehemiah, a senior at Scotch Plains (NJ) H.S., ran 6.9 twice within the prelims of a growth meet at Princeton to tie the Nationwide H.S. Report within the 60y-hurdles (4 hurdles), then ran 7.0 within the last.
Whereas E.T. is now not accessible in its printed type (a excessive of 15 points a 12 months at its peak), I’ve tried to maintain its spirit alive with e mail studies as a part of my “Information & Outcomes Service”.
1979–Maryland sophomore Renaldo Nehemiah ran 7.02 to interrupt his personal World Report within the 60-yard hurdles on the CYO meet in School Park,Md.
Germany’s Thomas Wessinghage (3:57.2) gained a star-studded Mile over Paul Cummings (3:57.8), Villanova’s Amos Korir (3:59.3), Steve Lacy (3:59.4), Matt Centrowitz (4:02.1), and Marty Liquori (4:03.0).
Charlotte Bradley (2:06.6) gained the Girls’s 880y over 16-year outdated Joetta Clark (2:08.0) and former prep star Robin Campbell (2:10.3). One other 16-year outdated, Sandra Farmer (Patrick), gained the 440y in 56.6.
Each Clark and Farmer-Patrick went on to have Corridor-of-Fame careers, Clark within the 800, SFP within the 400-meter hurdles.
Different highlights: Herman Frazier gained the Males’s 500y (56.4), Suleiman Nyambui gained the Males’s 2-mile in 8:35.2, Francie Larrieu gained the Girls’s Mile in 4:29.7, and Mark Belger (1:48.9) gained the Males’s 880y over Mark Enyeart. Discipline occasion winners have been Earl Bell
(17-6 [5.335?]) within the Pole Vault (over Mike Tully and Billy Olson, each of whom cleared 17-0 [5.18]) and Franklin Jacobs within the Excessive Leap (7-4 [2.235?]).
Fairmont Heights(MD), coached by Bob Rothenberg, set a U.S. Excessive Faculty Report of three:18.4 within the Mile Relay with a lineup of Mike McEaddy (50.4), John Wallace (48.2), Darryl Gill (50.2), and Tyrone Cross (49.6).
1980–Competing in Berlin, East Germany’s Marita Koch (11.15) and Marlies Göhr (11.16) each bettered Gohr’s earlier World Indoor Report of 11.29 within the rarely-contested 100-meters
All-Time High-5 Performers
11.15 Marita Koch GDR 1 Berlin 12 Jan 1980
11.16 Marlies Göhr GDR 2 Berlin 12 Jan 1980
11.18 Christine Arron FRA 1 Tampere 4 Feb 1998
11.21 Merlene Ottey JAM 1 Tampere 12 Feb 2001
11.23 Svetlana Goncharenko RUS 1 Moscow 8 Feb 1998
2007–Francena McCorory, a freshman at Hampton College, bettered her personal American Report for 300-meters (36.96) along with her profitable time of 36.67 on the Virginia Tech Invitational. Her time additionally established a World Junior Report. McCorory turned the most effective feminine ¼-milers on the planet, profitable gold medals within the 4×400 relay on the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.
2008–The host group set a Collegiate Report of 1:36.43 within the Girls’s 4×200 on the Virginia Tech Inv. The lineup consisted of Patrice Potts, Britni Spruill, and hurdlers Kristi Castlin and Queen Harrison (Claye). The earlier mark of 1:36.5 (hand-time for 4x220y) was set by the Tennessee State Tigerbelles in 1979. The present file is 1:35.65, set by Penn State in 2014.
2013—Junior Mary Cain (Bronxville,NY) ran 9:02.10 for 3000-meters, a lot quicker than Melody Fairchild’s 22-year outdated H.S. Report of 9:17.4, however the mark was ineligible for file consideration because it was made on the College of Washington’s outsized monitor.in Seattle (300-meters/flat).
2018—A brand new chapter was added to the wealthy historical past of Coogan’s, the #1 T&F-friendly bar/restaurant on the planet.
Simply 3 days after phrase obtained out that the institution was closing attributable to a proposed hire improve that couldn’t be met, the homeowners and the owner (New York-Presbyterian Hospital) introduced {that a} deal had been reached that will permit the favored gathering place (proper across the nook from the famed Armory) to stay open!
Native politicians, figuring out what Coogan’s meant to the Washington Heights neighborhood, have been instrumental in making the deal occur. It additionally didn’t harm that the information of the approaching closing of Coogan’s had put the hospital in a foul mild. Native TV crews aired studies and the web response was widespread, fueled in no small half by a Tweet posted by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, who grew up in close by Inwood and was an everyday patron at Coogan’s.
The Broadway star and his dad, Luis A. Miranda Jr., a political marketing consultant, have been among the many celebrants at Coogan’s when the brand new settlement was reached!
The youthful Mr. Miranda joined one among its homeowners, Peter Walsh, in serenading a diner who was celebrating her birthday. They have been cheered by the complete restaurant once they completed, after which once more after Mr. Miranda pumped his fist within the air and shouted, “Coogan’s!” (From the NY Instances)
Alas, the “rebirth” of Coogan’s was short-lived, because the restrictions pressured on it by the coronavirus led the homeowners to shut the doorways for good in April, 2020!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/nyregion/coogans-washington-heights-closing.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/nyregion/coogans-bar-staying-open.html
https://pix11.com/2018/01/12/famed-manhattan-bar-coogans-will-remain-open/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/nyregion/new-york-coronavirus.html
2018—Senior Mondo Duplantis (Lafayette,LA) raised his World Junior and U.S. Excessive Faculty Indoor Data from 19-1 (5.82) to
19-1 ½ (5.83) on the Pole Vault Summit in Reno,Nevada.
2019—Penn State junior Danae Rivers ran 2:38.58 for 1000-meters on her house monitor to smash the earlier Collegiate Report of two:40.79, which was set by Oklahoma State’s Kaela Edwards in 2017.
2024—Texas senior Yusuf Bizimana set a Collegiate Report of two:18.10 for 1000-meters on the Rod McCravy Invitational in Louisville, Kentucky. The 2023 NCAA Indoor Champion at 800-meters, a local of England, bettered the earlier mark of two:18.26 that was set by Penn State’s Brannon Kidder in 2016.
Vital Birthdays
Born On This Day*
Chaunté Howard-Lowe 41 (1984) 2012 World Indoor Champion-Excessive Leap (2010-bronze);
Silver medalist on the 2005 World Championships
2008 Olympic bronze medalist—initially completed 6th in Seoul, however was upgraded to threerd in 2017 after the threerd, 4th,
and 5th place finishers have been all retroactively disqualified for doping violations!
Together with her husband Mario and their 3 youngsters by her aspect, she was offered her medal in 2017 on the Workforce USA
Awards (see video hyperlink)
“It’s simple to have a look at this example and take into consideration all that was misplaced, however I select to sit up for all that was
gained,” Lowe mentioned in a press launch. “Within the final 9 years, I’ve met wonderful new folks, my husband and I
have had two further youngsters, and all three of our children can now perceive the gravity of this second. I’m
proud to have represented this nation with integrity that withstood the check of time!”
4-time U.S. Olympian—2004 (qualifying spherical), 2012-Sixth, 2016-4th. Had hoped to make her 5th group in 2021, however
solely managed a better of 5-10 ¾(1.80) throughout the season (by no means made it to the U.S. Trials). DIdn’t compete from 2018-2020.
8-time U.S. Champion (2006, 2008-2010, 2012, 2014-2016); 4-time U.S. Indoor Champion (‘06, ‘10, ‘12, ‘15)
2004 NCAA Outside champion, 2004-2005 NCAA Indoor Champion (Georgia Tech);
American Indoor (6-7 ½ [2.02]) and Outside (6-8 ¾ [2.05]) Report holder; 12-time U.S. Champion(4-indoors, 8-
outside)
Was coached all through her profession by former excessive jumper Nat Web page, her coach at Georgia Tech
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/107100
Breast Most cancers Survivor:
https://www.si.com/olympics/2020/05/29/chaunte-lowe-breast-cancer-olympics-tokyo-track-and-field
2021 NCAA Inspiration Award Recipient:
http://www.ncaa.org/about/assets/media-center/information/2021-inspiration-award-chaunt-lowe
Husband-Mario, Kids-Jasmine, Aurora, and Mario Josiah.
Outside AR: http://www.flotrack.org/video/343958-chaunte-lowe-high-jump-ar-205
http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2017/11/14/chaunte-lowe-olympic-bronze-medal-high-jump/
Medal Ceremony: http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2017/12/23/chaunte-lowe-medal-ceremony-video/
https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/chaunte-lowe-14312978
Sir John Walker-New Zealand 73 (1952) 1976 Olympic gold medalist—1500m; 1984-8th within the 5000;
First man underneath 3:50 within the mile (3:49.4/1975). Ran greater than 100 sub-4 minute miles
PBs: 1:44.92 (‘74), 2:16.57 (‘80), 3:32.4 (‘75), 3:49.08 (‘82), 4:51.52/2k (‘76/WR on the time), 7:37.49 (’82),
13:19.28 (’86)
Has been battling Parkinson’s Illness for greater than 20 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(runner)
http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/74363
Reunion: http://tinyurl.com/JohnWalkerReunion
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/john-walker-kiwi-flyer-who-beat-the-wind/7TFQMS4LQCQOB6V4WKM5TJPC3E/
Olympic Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg2d_s1wfcU
WR & Olympic End: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmwYyBJOu6U
1976 Documentary: https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/john-walker-the-3-49-4-man-1976
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/sport/68506942/Sir-John-Walker-steps-down-from-council-committee
2008 Article:
Brendan Foster-Nice Britain 77 (1948) 1976 Olympic bronze medalist -10,000m
3-time Olympian-1972 (1500-5th); 1976 (5000-5th, 10,000-Third); 1980 (10,000-11th)
Former World Report holder—3000m (7:35.2/1974), 2-miles (8:13.68/1973)
PBs: 3:37.64 (’74), 3:55.9 (’72), 7:35.2 (’74), 8:13.68 (’73), 13:14.6 (’74), 27:30.30 (’78)
Nice North Run: http://tinyurl.com/GreatNorthRun-Foster
http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69059
Deceased
Spyros (aka Spyridon) Louis–Greece 67 (1873-March 26, 1940) Grew to become a nationwide hero after profitable the Marathon on the
1896 Olympics in Athens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyridon_Louis
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/70782
