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This Day in Observe & Subject–September 22
1888—George Grey set the 1st of his 8 pre-IAAF World Data within the Shot Put along with his successful toss of 43-10 ¾(13.38) on the NYAC Fall Video games on NY’s Travers Island.
Wilson Coudon set his 4th (and ultimate) American Document of 117-9 1/2 (35.90) within the Hammer Throw in NY Metropolis. “The Strongest Man in Maryland” was a 2-time U.S. Champion within the Hammer (1883,1886) and the 56-pound Weight Throw.
1956—Bud Held set the final of his 6 American Data within the Javelin with a throw of 270-0 (82.30) in Pasadena, California.
AR Development: http://trackfield.brinkster.web/RecProg_AllUSA.asp?RecCode=WR&EventCode=MF8&Gender=M&P=F
Corridor of Fame Bio: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/franklin-bud-held
1960—Earlene Brown set her 7th (and ultimate) American Document within the Shot Put with a toss of 54-9 (16.69) in Frankfurt, Germany. Brown had gained the bronze medal on the Rome Olympics earlier.
AR Development: http://trackfield.brinkster.web/RecProg_AllUSA.asp?RecCode=WR&EventCode=WF5&Gender=W&P=F
HOF Bio: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/earlene-brown
1968—East Germany’s Margitta Gummel set a World Document of 61-11 (18.87) within the Girls’s Shot Put at a pre-Olympic meet in Frankfurt. She would take the Document to a different stage the next month with throws of 62-6 ¾ (19.07) and 64-4 (19.61) whereas successful the gold medal on the Mexico Metropolis Olympics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margitta_Gummel
WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlspercent27s_shot_put_world_record_progression
1983—China’s Jianhua Zhu improved his World Document within the Excessive Soar from 7-9 ¼ (2.37) to 7-9 ¾ (2.38) in Shanghai.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfNPSqYljK4
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Males’s_high_jump_world_record_progression
1985—East German athletes set 3 World Data in East Berlin as we speak.
Ulf Timmermann threw the Shot 74-2 ½ (22.62) to smash the World Document of 72-10 ¾ (22.22) that was set in 1985 by fellow East German Udo Beyer, who completed 2nd right here with a throw of 71-9 ½ (21.88).
Sabine Busch gained the Girls’s 400-meter Hurdles in 53.55, breaking the World Document of 53.58 set by the Soviet Union’s Margarita Ponomaryova in 1984.
Making the most of a just-legal 2.0mps following wind, Heike Drechsler gained the Girls’s Lengthy Soar with a leap of 24-5 (7.44). The earlier mark of 24-4 ½ (7.43) was set by Romania’s Anişoara Cuşmir in 1983.
WR Progressions(area occasion conversions are unofficial):
MSP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Males’s_shot_put_world_record_progression
W400h: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlspercent27s_400_metres_hurdles_world_record_progression
WLJ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlspercent27s_long_jump_world_record_progression
1990—Nice Britain’s Peter Elliott gained the Males’s division of the Mercedes 5th Avenue Mile for the threerd time within the final 4 years on a cold and wet day in New York. His time of three:47.83 fell simply in need of Sydney Maree’s course report of three:47.52.
PattiSue Plumer gained the Girls’s race in 4:16.68 to interrupt the CR of 4:19.48 set by Romania’s Maricica Puica in 1986. Runnerup Natalya Artyomova (RUS) was additionally beneath the earlier report together with her time of 4:17.49
Plumer, who had predicted that Sandra Gasser of Switzerland would win, was dumbfounded that she had proved herself fallacious. ”I can’t imagine I did it,” she mentioned moments after crossing the end line. (Glaser completed 4th-4:20.61).
Fred Lebow, the president of the New York Street Runners Membership, attributed the quick instances to the 82d-to-62d Road course’s contemporary pavement of glassphalt, a brand new recycled glass product.
Different main finishers (Males) 2. Steve Cram (GBR) 3:48.39, 3.William Tanui (KEN) 3:50.52, 4.José Luís González (ESP) 3:51.33, 5.Jim Spivey 3:52.04…10.Marcus O’Sullivan (IRL) 3:55.49…14.Steve Scott 3:57.16, 15.Mentioned Aouita (MAR) 3:58.42.
Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Avenue_Mile
2000—Poland’s Robert Korzeniowski (1:18:59/Olympic Document) gained the Males’s 20-kilometer Stroll on the 1st day of competitors on the Sydney Olympics. Profitable silver and bronze have been Mexico’s Noé Hernández (1:19:03) and Russia’s Vladimir Andreyev (1:19:27). 4th was Ecuador’s Jefferson Pérez (1:20:18), the defending champion.
Korzeniowski, the 1996 gold medalist within the 50k-Stroll, would win that occasion once more later in Sydney and for a 3rdtime in 2004.
Mexico’s Bernardo Segura thought he gained the gold medal after overtaking Korzeniowski shortly earlier than they reentered the stadium for the end. Nonetheless, he had already been disqualified by officers for a number of violations. It was solely after Segura had acquired a congratulatory telephone name from Mexico’s President that he was knowledgeable of his disqualification. An enchantment by Mexican officers was rejected.
Finland’s Arsi Harju gained the Males’s Shot Put along with his 2nd-round toss of 69-10 ¼ (21.29). Taking the next 3 locations was the American trio of Adam Nelson (69-7 [21.21]), John Godina (69-6 ¾ [21.20]), and Andy Bloom (68-5 ¾ [20.87]).
Outcomes: https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/olympic-games/Twenty seventh-olympic-games-6951910
Video-M20kW: https://olympics.com/en/video/men-s-20km-race-walk-sydney-2000-great-olympic-moments
Olympia Studies: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/25/sports activities/ATH