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This Day in Observe & Subject/–November 12
1964—Lower than a month after his double-gold medal efficiency on the Tokyo Olympics (800/1500), New Zealand’s Peter Snell ran 2:16.6 for 1000-meters in Auckland to interrupt the 4-year outdated World Document of two:16.7, set by East Germany’s Siegfried Valentin in 1960.
WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_metres_world_record_progression
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/74357
1964
Olympic 800m/1500m champion, picture by World Athletics
1977–Carleton’s Dale Kramer, a local of Minnesota, had no hassle coping with Cleveland’s 4” of snow and frigid temperatures as he gained his 2nd straight NCAA Div.III X-Nation title. A snowmobile led the runners over the course to ensure they went in the fitting route!
In 2002, Kramer was named a NCAA Silver Anniversary award winner, an honor that acknowledges former excellent student-athletes who’ve distinguished themselves within the 25 years since graduating.
https://www.carleton.edu/information/tales/dale-kramer-named-ncaa-silver-award-recipient/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Silver_Anniversary_Awards_recipients
Div.III Historical past: https://sagehens.com/sports activities/2023/8/28/d3-cross-country-historians-report.aspx
1995—For the twond 12 months in a row, Mexico’s Germán Silva (2:10:00) and Kenya’s Tegla Loroupe (2:28:06) had been winners on the NY Metropolis Marathon.
Silva, who famously gained in 1994 regardless of making a unsuitable flip close to the tip of the race, made no such mistake this time, pulling away from Nice Britain’s Paul Evans (2:11:05) within the final 3-miles. He was inducted into the NYRR Corridor of Fame in 2014.
After Loroupe crossed the end line, the 2 winners congratulated one another in an emotional embrace, for each had been operating within the reminiscence of family members who had died. Silva’s father, Agapito, misplaced his battle with most cancers over the summer season, and Loroupe’s sister, Albina, died solely 13 days in the past from extreme abdomen hemorrhages. (From Frank Litsky’s NY Occasions article)
Runners needed to take care of the coldest circumstances within the historical past of the race, with the wind-chill issue registering beneath 20-degrees at occasions.
Different Notable/U.S. Finishers
Males: 5.John Kagwe (Kenya/would win in 1997&1998) 2:11:42…33.Maximo Olivares (High American!) 2:22:20
Ladies: 2.Manuela Machado (Portugal) 2:30:37…4.Joyce Chepchumba (Kenya/would win in 2002) 2:33:51…8.Lidia Şimon (Romania) 2:37:39…14.Colleen De Reuck (South Africa) 2:46:18…19.Regina Ronan (High American) 2:48:34
Outcomes: https://outcomes.nyrr.org/occasion/951112/finishers/1654996
High 25: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Marathon_1995
NY Occasions: www.nytimes.com/1995/11/13/sports activities/new-york-city-marathon-same-time-next-year-silva-and-loroupe-triumph-again.html
Previous NY Metropolis Marathon Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_of_the_New_York_City_Marathon
Media Information (2024)
By The Years:
2014 HOF: http://www.marathonguide.com/pressreleases/index.cfm?file=NewYorkRoadRunners_141020
2000—Kenya’s Paul Tergat (1:03:47), the defending males’s champion, and Nice Britain’s Paula Radcliffe (1:09:07) had been the winners in sizzling and humid circumstances on the World Half-Marathon Championships in Veracruz, Mexico.
Whereas Radcliffe had little hassle profitable over Kenya’s Susan Chepkemei (1:09:40), Tergat waited till late within the race earlier than taking management and pulling away from Tanzania’s Phaustin Baha Sulle (1:03:48), Ethiopia’s Tesfaye Jifar (1:03:50), and Kenya’s Joseph Kimani (1:03:52).
Tergat, who gained the silver medal within the 10,000-meters on the Sydney Olympics lower than 2 months earlier, grew to become the primary man to win 2 World Half-Marathon titles.
For Tergat, profitable in Mexico additionally had a particular significance: “Kenyan athletics actually began in Mexico in 1968, on the Olympics, so it makes this win particularly essential for me.”
Groups (3 rating): Males-Kenya (3:11:38), Ethiopia (; Ladies-Romania (3:34:22), Japan (3:36:25)
Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhYSNub35Dc
Previous Champions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Athletics_Road_Running_Championships
