Walt Murphy’s Information and Outcomes Service (wmurphy25@aol.com)
This Day in Observe & Subject-February 13
1925–Finland’s Paavo Nurmi misplaced the race however nonetheless set a World Report! Competing at dwelling, Syracuse College’s Al Gottlieb took full benefit of a 65-yard handicap to win the Mile by ten yards over Nurmi, who began from scratch. Nurmi’s time of 4:27-2/5 broke Joie Ray’s earlier mark of 4:28.0.
1964 –Jim Beatty fired the gun to begin the Mile on the NYAC Video games in Madison Sq. Backyard, then watched Tom O’Hara run 3:56.6 to smash his (Beatty’s) World Report by a full two seconds. Beatty had set the earlier mark of three:58.6 a yr in the past on the identical meet.
After working a warmth and semi-final, Bob Hayes gained the 60-yard sprint in 6.0, tying the world file for the 4th time that season.
Credit score: Thomas J. Dyba, photographer
20-year previous Bruce Kidd (8:42.6) got here from behind off the ultimate flip to edge Bob Schul (8:42.8) within the 2-mile, with Ron Clarke (8:43.8) ending a detailed 3rd. It was an exciting race, with all three main at numerous levels of the race,
Different winners included Yale’s Wendell Mottley (440y-48.3-Meet Report) and Invoice Crothers(880y-1:50.8)
Sports activities Illustrated Vault: https://vault.si.com/vault/1964/02/24/from-humdrum-to-welldone-in-one-easy-mile
1976—Poland’s Władysław
cleared 18-3 ¼ (5.57) within the Pole Vault in Toronto to interrupt the 5-day previous World Report of 18-3 (5.56) that was set by countryman Tadeusz Ślusarski in Warsaw. Ślusarski would go on to win Olympic gold in Montreal later within the yr.
1982–With a earlier better of 6-4 (1.93), it got here as fairly a shock when Coleen Rienstra Sommer, leaping alone after midnight (after the remainder of the occasions have been accomplished), cleared 6-6 ¾ (2.00) on the Ottawa Citizen Video games to set a World Report within the Girls’s Excessive Leap. The earlier mark of 6-6 ¼ (1.99) was set the earlier month by Canada’s Debbie Brill, who completed second right here with a clearance of 6-2 ¾ (1.89).
Earlier than her breakthrough soar, Sommer had already had a profession evening after clearing 6-5 (1.96) to interrupt Joni Huntley’s American Report of 6-4 ¾ (1.95), set in 1981 (Huntley was third right here/6-3/4 [1.85m]). Sommer turned the primary American lady to carry the World Report within the occasion since Jean Shiley cleared 5-3 1/8 (1.603) in 1929 and 5-3 ½ (1.613) in 1930. She’s additionally the final American lady to carry the World Report (It was damaged in 1983, and he or she held the American Report till Tisha Waller jumped 6-7 (2.01) in 1998).
1988–Three main information fell on the Vitalis/Olympic Inv., held on the Meadowlands Enviornment in New Jersey. Two of the record-setters have been acquainted names to most followers. Romania’s Doina Melinte, the 1984 Olympic Champion at 800-meters, gained the Girls’s Mile in 4:18.86 to interrupt Mary Slaney’s 6-year previous World Report of 4:20.5, and Corridor-of-Famer-to-be Jackie Joyner-Kersee added 2 inches to her American Report within the Lengthy Leap (23-1/2 [7.02]).
However solely hardcore followers would acknowledge the title of Brian Abshire, who gained the Males’s 3000-Meters in 7:41.57 to interrupt Doug Padilla’s earlier American Report of seven:44.9. Abshire’s feat merited intensive protection in that week’s problem of Sports activities Illustrated (see hyperlink beneath). And his AR kicked off a frenzied 30-minutes of motion that included Melinte’s WR and Marcus O’Sullivan’s fast 3:50.94 win within the Males’s Mile. Relieved that his World Report of three:49.78 was nonetheless intact was the injured Eamonn Coghlan, who fired the beginning gun for the race.
The front-running Abshire was an All-American steeplechaser at Auburn and had competed in that occasion on the 1987 World Championships in Rome, however his was hardly a family title. His coach, Auburn’s Kelly Sullivan, who educated Abshire throughout his collegiate profession, needed to “beg” to get his star runner added to a loaded discipline that already included Padilla, Frank O’Mara, the 1987 World Indoor Champion at 3000-meters, sub-3:50 miler Jim Spivey, Joe Falcon, the 1987 NCAA Indoor 3k champion, Kenya’s Yobes Ondieki, and one Sebastian Coe, who was making his U.S. indoor debut. (An out-of-shape Coe dropped out with one lap to go and, embarrassed by his poor displaying, later returned half his look charge!). Ending behind Abshire have been Ondieki (7:45.87), Terry Brahm (7:47.55), O’Mara (7:47.65-Irish Report), Padilla (7:51.82), Falcon (7:51.90), and Spivey (7:53.10).
Sullivan satisfied meet director Ray Lumpp’s assistant (that might be me-WM!) that Abshire was able to run quick. Lumpp agreed to just accept Abshire’s entry, with the understanding that he must make it to New Jersey on his personal. A bonus construction was organized that might pay Abshire a specific amount if he gained, and an extra bonus ought to he set the American Report. After all, Lumpp by no means thought he’d need to pay up! (however gladly did)
After the entire bargaining to get him into the race, Abshire nearly didn’t make it to the beginning line–a sore arch nearly made him determine to remain dwelling. Sullivan, who went on to teach at Oregon State and Seattle U. earlier than retiring in 2024, recollects another particulars from that weekend. “…when Brian bought to the resort, his title was not on any rooming checklist and he couldn’t attain me. However Padilla (being the great man he’s) noticed him within the foyer and supplied to let him sleep in his room on a pull-out sofa mattress! Padilla, in fact, was the present indoor 3k AR holder. “
“Doug advised me later he may ‘sense’ that evening/subsequent day that Brian was able to do ‘one thing massive’ by his temper/confidence. Then within the race the ‘rabbit’ by no means bought out entrance after the primary 2+ laps, so Brian bought antsy, realizing the tempo felt sluggish and instinctly popped out, went to the entrance and turned up the tempo. Having no thought on a banked, 10-laps to the mile monitor how briskly he was working, he simply ‘raced’ and broke the AR and narrowly missed Emiel Puttemans long-standing WR (7:39.2)”.
“I used to be at an indoor faculty meet at U of Florida with our Auburn staff. and I referred to as Brian/Doug’s room a few instances however bought no reply. (Manner earlier than cell telephones/web!). Just a few hours later Doug answered. He stated ‘Hello Kelly, I’ll let Brian let you know the way it went’. I requested Doug how he did and he advised me his time/place and that he was more than happy’. Brian bought on the telephone and calmly stated ‘It went rather well!, I gained’, and humbly, however excited to inform me, ‘You’ve now coached an AR holder!!’. Doug was SINCERELY glad for us each. He truly helped rub out Brian’s plantar that was actually sore and satirically would take months to heal. Which is one other story main into that summer time’s Olympic trials and our problem for him to make the staff within the steeplechase.” (Abshire gained the Steeple on the Trials and made it to the semi-final spherical on the Seoul Olympics)
Sports activities Illustrated Vault
Coe Pre- and post-meet articles
1988— East Germany’s Heike Drechsler and Christine Wachtel set World Indoor Data in Vienna. Drechsler added 2 inches to her mark within the Lengthy Leap (24-2 ¼ [7.37]), whereas Wachtel smashed her 800 greatest together with her successful time of 1:56.40. Wachtel had run 1:57.64 simply 3 days earlier in Turin, Italy.
1993–Sergey Bubka raised his World Indoor Report within the Pole Vault to 20-1 ¾ (6.14m) in Liévin, France. A 2nd World Report was set by Jamaica’s Merlene Ottey, who gained the Girls’s 200-Meters in 21.87.
Ottey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfQsbv6HAuM
1998—Kenya’s Laban Rotich, working on a board monitor for the primary time, gained the Wanamaker Mile on the Millrose Video games in 3:55.69 in entrance of a Madison Sq. Backyard crowd of 17,000 followers.
2nd was Paul McMullen (3:57.46) and threerd was 36-year previous Marcus O’Sullivan, whose time of three:58.10 earned him entry into an unique membership, becoming a member of John Walker and Steve Scott as the one males to run 100 sub-4 minute miles! O’Sullivan, a 5-time winner of the long-lasting occasion, took a well-deserved victory lap after the race.
From the NY Occasions: O’Sullivan’s contribution to trace historical past goes again 5 years. ”I used to be cleansing out my basement,” he stated, ”after I got here throughout this trophy. I spotted it was from my first sub-four-minute mile. I began counting up the variety of instances I had damaged 4 minutes, and it was 76. That’s after I made my purpose to run 100,” O’Sullivan stated. ”It actually helped maintain me motivated.”
The Males’s Pole Vault, gained this yr by Jeff Hartwig with a Meet Report clearance of 19-2 ¾ (5.86), had been a fixture at Millrose because the Twenties, however Millrose Director Howard Schmertz was reluctant so as to add the comparatively new Girls’s occasion. He reportedly stated to somebody pushing for the occasion’s inclusion, “If you may get (AR holder) Stacy Dragila, I’ll add it to this system”. Dragila was obtainable, gained the occasion with a clearance of 13-9 ¾ (4.21) and would win once more at Millrose six of the following seven years!
Outcomes: https://www.flashresults.com/1998_Meets/millrose.htm
Girls’s PV—Right here to Keep!
1999—Romania’s Gabriela Szabo set a World Indoor Report of 14:47.35 for 5000-meters in Dortmund, Germany.
Szabo gained 8 “world” titles throughout her profession:
Olympics-2000 (5000)
World Championships-1997 (5000), 1999 (5000), 2001 (1500)
World Indoor Championships-1995 (3000), 1997 (3000), 1999 (1500,3000)
https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/romania/gabriela-szabo-14295963
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Szabo
1999–Casey Combest (Owensboro,KY) ran 10.55 in Lexington,KY, to set a highschool file within the rarely-contested 100-meters. Combest was timed en-route at 9.71 for 100-yards.
2000(2-12/13)—Adam Goucher (4k/12k) and Deena Drossin (4k/8k) have been double winners on the U.S. Cross Nation Championships in Greensboro,NC. Junior Champions have been Shalane Flanagan and Franklyn Sanchez.
Previous Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Cross_Country_Championships
2009–Galen Rupp needed badly to win the 5000-meters on the Tyson Inv. in Fayetteville, however he needed to accept taking down three vital information together with his 2nd-place time of 13:18.12. Rupp broke Doug Padilla’s American Report of 13:20.55, Suleiman Nyambui’s Collegiate Report of 13:20.4, and Alberto Salazar’s Oregon faculty file of 13:22.6. Successful the race was Ethiopia’s Bekana Daba, who ran 13:17.89, whereas Liberty’s Sam Chelanga set an Japanese Collegiate Report of 13:19.79.
Outcomes: https://flashresults.com/2009_Meets/indoor/TysonInvite/FridayInvite.htm
Put up-Race Interview
Oregon Bio: http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=187104
2016—The U.S. staff for the Olympic Marathon was chosen on the Trials in Los Angeles:
Males-1.Galen Rupp 2:11:12 (1st marathon), 2.Meb Keflezighi 2:12:20 (4th Olympic staff), 3.Jared Ward 2:13:00
Girls-1.Amy Cragg 2:28:20, 2.Desiree Linden 2:28:54, 3.Shalane Flanagan 2:29:19 (3rd Olympic staff), 4.Kara
Goucher 2:30:24)
Rupp went on to win the bronze medal on the Rio Olympics
NBC Protection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASKZpQnI2q8
LetsRun’s in-depth protection Males Girls
2021—Three American Data have been set on the New Steadiness Indoor Grand Prix, which was held this yr on the Ocean Breeze Complicated on NY’s Staten Island whereas the meet’s conventional dwelling, the Reggie Lewis Heart in Roxbury(MA), was getting used as a Covid-vaccination middle.
First up was the Girls’s 2-mile, the place Elle (“Ellie”) Purrier ran 9:10.28 to smash the earlier mark of 9:18.35 that was set by Jenny Simpson at this meet in 2015. Runnerup Emma Coburn was additionally underneath Simpson’s mark together with her time of 9:15.71. Purrier’s time additionally bettered the U.S. outside better of 9:11.97, set by Regina Jacobs in 1999.
Bryce Hoppel, pressed a lot of the manner by Nice Britain’s Charlie Grice, gained the Males’s 1000-Meters in 2:16.27, breaking David Torrence’s earlier AR of two:16.76 (2014). Grice (2:17.20/NR) was handed by Canada’s Marco Arop (2:17.10) within the final 50-Meters.
When Donavan Brazier crossed the end line of the Males’s 800 in 1st place, he appeared a little bit disenchanted that the infield clock confirmed 1:44.22, which might have meant that he “solely” equaled his AR. He anxiously waited for the official outcomes to come back up, and smiled when the time was adjusted to 1:44.21!
Olli Hoare, the 2018 NCAA Champion (1500) whereas at Wisconsin, set an Australian Report of three:32.35 whereas successful the Males’s 1500-Meters. 2nd was Nice Britain’s Jake Wightman (3:34.48), and threerd was New Zealand’s Sam Tanner, a redshirt freshman on the College of Washington, who set a Nationwide Report (in addition to a U.S. Collegiate Report!) of three:34.72. Hoare and Tanner additionally met the Olympic qualifying commonplace of three:35.00 (Wightman had beforehand met the usual). Wightman would win the 1500 on the 2022 World Championships in Eugene.
A complete of 11 Nationwide Data have been set on the meet.
Outcomes: https://outcomes.nbindoorgrandprix.com
Protection:
https://trackandfieldnews.com/new-balance-gp-a-trio-of-american-records/
2021—Baylor’s Ok.C. Lightfoot jumped 19-8 ¼ (6.00) on the Texas Tech Shootout in Lubbock, Texas, to set his 3rd Collegiate Indoor Report of the season. A 2nd CR was set by Arizona State’s Turner Washington within the Males’s Shot Put (71-8 ¼ [21.85]).
2021— Texas A&M, with Athing Mu working a 50.3 anchor, set a Collegiate Report of three:26.27 within the Girls’s 4×400 on the Tyson Inv. in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Previous Mu on the primary 3 legs have been Jania Martin 53.0, Syaira Richardson 51.9, and Charokee Younger’ 51.1.
Outcomes: https://www.flashresults.com/2021_Meets/Indoor/02-12_Tyson/
Vital Birthdays
Born On This Day*
Virgiljus Alekna-Lithuania 53 (1972) 2-time Olympic gold medalist—Discus 2000,2004/bronze medalist-2008)
2-time World Champion (2003, 2005/silver medalist-1997,2001); 6’-6 ¾” (2.00), 287 (130kg)
2006 European Champion;
Simply missed Jürgen Schult’s World Report of 243-0 when he threw 242-5 (73.88) in 2000. (Nonetheless #2 All-Time)
Son Mykolas, presently a snior at Cal-Berkeley, had a breakthrough yr in 2022—completed 2nd on the NCAA Championships,
gained gold on the European Championships, and silver on the 2022 World Championships, bronze in 2023, and silver on the 2024
Olympics. He set the present World Report of 243-11 (74.35) in 2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgilijus_Alekna
Video Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GINgxzxbtNw
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/73209
https://trackandfieldnews.com/tfn-lists/world-all-time-list-men/
Kenny Harrison 59 (1965) 1996 Olympic gold medalist—Triple Leap; 1991 World Champion;
Held the American Report from 1996-2015; PB: 59-4 ½ (18.09/1996) #4-All-Time
2-time NCAA Champion at Kansas State: 1986-Outside (1987-2nd), 1988-Indoors (1986-5th, 1987-2nd)
Corridor of Fame Bio: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/kenny-harrison
All-Time Lists
Prime-10: https://trackandfieldnews.com/tfn-lists/world-all-time-list-men/
Deeper(Metric): http://www.alltime-athletics.com/mtripok.htm
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSyZJPuzyx4
https://www.sportsry.com/sports-news/usa-track-legends-olympic-record/
Suleiman Nyambui—Tanzania 72 (1953) Received a file 15 NCAA particular person titles at UTEP (29-years previous as a senior)
4×10,000m (1979-1982)
3x5000m (1980-1982)
4xmile (1979-1982)
3x Indoor 2-miles (1979,1980,1982)
1980 NCAA X-Nation Champion
1980 Olympic silver medalist—5000m
PBs:3:51.94 (’81), 8:17.9i (’78), 13:12.29 (’79), 27:51.73 (’81), 2:09:52 (’89)
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman_Nyambui
Deceased
John Dye 86 (1936-September 30, 2022) Creator of DyeStat.com in 1997 to see how his children, Derek (excessive soar) and Natalie (pole
vault), in comparison with different highschool rivals. The positioning turned THE supply for highschool info and, with the assistance
of his spouse Donna (“On The Aspect”), helped create an unimaginable cyber-community among the many nation’s preps.
From John Dye: “The origin of what we have been doing was Derek’s sophomore yr (1996) after I offered a weekly
publication with rankings in 5 Western Maryland counties. (DyeStat started) in 1997, which was when Derek and
Natalie every gained their occasions within the Maryland state meet (solely brother-sister combo ever to do this in Maryland in
particular person occasions in the identical state meet). That made me need to know the way they in contrast nationally. I bought all of the
state meet outcomes and ranked women pole vault and boys excessive soar. I discovered that Derek (6-8) was within the 80s nationally
and Natalie (9-0) within the 40s (keep in mind, that was when women pole vault was simply getting sanctioned). Therefore, I began
doing nationwide rankings 100 deep to ensure they have been listed(-:.”
John and Donna Dye have been having fun with their “2nd retirement” in Las Vegas, whereas Dyestat.com, which had ceased
functioning when ESPN dropped it, was revived by Runnerspace.com.
Dye was acknowledged for his contribution to the game by being named to the inaugural class of inductees into the Nationwide H.S.
T&F Corridor of Fame in 2018. And John and Donna have been lately named winners of the Stan Saplin Award for his or her contributions
to the game.
http://www.dyestat.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=44531&do=information&news_id=514510
Saplin Award: https://www.armorytrack.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=45586&do=information&news_id=653441