This Day in Monitor & Discipline–February 22
1882 – With 120 miles, James Saunders wins NYC’s 24 hour race & $100 prize
http://planetultramarathon.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/the-history-of-the-6-day-race/
1911—The 4th version of the Millrose Video games was held in entrance of 5,000 spectators on the Thirteenth Regiment Armory in Brooklyn,NY (on a Wednesday).
The NYAC’s Harry Gissing was the winner of the 1000-yards, the featured monitor occasion, in 2:18.8.
The ten-mile handicap race, a crowd favourite, was gained by T.E. Nelson in 1:04:39.4 (with a 2-minute handicap. The race began in Bathtub Seashore, with the final 2-miles going down on the monitor.
The meet, which included a 5-mile bicycle race, was placed on by the Millrose A.A., along with the Wanamaker retailer chain.
Gissing was certainly one of many athletes who had been featured in a buying and selling card sequence that was printed by the Nationwide Licorice Firm.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/02/23/104820440.html?pageNumber=10
1916–Binga Dismond runs 51.0 and upsets Ted Meredith within the 440y on the Video games of St.Antony, which had been held on the forty seventh Regiment Armory in Brooklyn,NY. Dismond went on to turn into a famous doctor in Harlem.
http://question.nytimes.com/gst/summary.html?res=950DE4D9103FE233A25750C2A9649C946796D6CF
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2594046/
1958—Browning Ross, the “Father of Lengthy Distance Operating within the U.S.”, organized a gathering on the Paramount Lodge in New York whereby the Highway Runners Membership of America (RRCA) was began. (From Gary Corbitt).
http://www.rrca.org/; http://www.rrca.org/about/historical past/
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_Ross
NY Occasions Obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/30/sports activities/browning-ross-74-founder-of-road-runners.html
1959—Ted Corbitt (2:38:57), representing the New York Pioneer Membership, wins the Cherry Tree Marathon, the precursor to the NY Metropolis Marathon. This was the primary marathon performed by the newly shaped Highway Runners Membership: New York Affiliation. The race had 12 starters and 6 finishers. Corbitt could be the membership’s first President, with Vice President: Joe Kleinerman (Millrose AA), and Secretary – Treasurer: John Sterner (New York Pioneer Membership). The membership had 47 members in 1959, and right this moment is over 60,000. Corbitt would turn into generally known as “The Father of Ultramarathon operating” within the U.S. and took the lead in creating a system throughout the nation that certifies {that a} highway race-course has been precisely measured.
The race began and completed in Macombs Dam Park close to Yankee Stadium, operating north up Sedgwick Avenue alongside the Harlem River and looping again once more thrice.
Corbitt’s Profession Stats (Marathons/Ultramarathons):
https://tedcorbitt.com/list-of-marathons-ultramarathons/
(From Gary Corbitt, Ted’s son)
1964–With prepster Gerry Lindgren setting a quick early tempo, Australia’s Ron Clarke went on to set a World Report of 13:18.4 for 3-miles on the U.S. Indoor Championships at Madison Sq. Backyard. NY operating legend Pete McArdle completed 2nd in 13:32.8, whereas Lindgren set a Nationwide H.S. Report of 13.37.8 in third place.
As quoted in T&F Information, Nebraska freshman Charlie Greene, giving an early indication of his legendary showmanship, informed Bob Hayes earlier than the beginning of the 60-yard sprint, “You’ll need to run 5.9 to beat me”. Hayes did simply that, operating the primary 5.9 in historical past. Greene ran 6.0 in 2nd to equal the earlier world report.
Sports activities Illustrated Vault (Hayes Characteristic)
https://vault.si.com/vault/1964/05/18/how-fast-is-the-fastest-man-alive
1969—Main from the gun, George Younger ran 8:27.2 for 2-miles in San Diego to equal the World Report that was set on the identical monitor a 12 months earlier by Australia’s Kerry Pearce, who would run that point once more in Seattle in 1971. Younger additionally broke Jim Beatty’s American Report of 8:30.8 that was set in 1964.
1980—Mary Decker (Slaney) set a World Report of 1:59.7 for 880-yards on the Jack-in-the-Field meet in San Diego. Her time of 1:58.9 en-route for 800-meters was an American Report.
Kenya’s Mike Boit gained the Males’s ½-mile in 1:47.9 to equal the World Report that was set by Australia’s Ralph Doubell in 1969.
One other World Report was set within the Males’s Lengthy Bounce, with Larry Myricks reaching out to 27-6 (8.38).
No report within the Males’s Mile, however it was nonetheless a high-quality affair, with Tanzania’s Filbert Bayi (3:55.5) profitable a detailed one over Eire’s Eamonn Coghlan (3:55.7), New Zealand’s John Walker (3:55.8), and Germany’s Thomas Wessinghage (3:56.4), with American Steve Scott (3:59.3) ending 5th.
1981—Harvard’s Adam Dixon ran 2:19.79 for 1000-meters on his dwelling monitor on the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton (HYP) meet, breaking the American (2:20.0/1973) and Collegiate (2:20.3/1979) information that had been held by Tom Von Ruden and Villanova’s Don Paige, respectively. (The time was initially reported as 2:19.80)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1981/2/23/dixon-sets-american-record-in-1000/
Harvard Corridor of Fame: https://www.harvardvarsityclub.org/article.html?assist=597
1985–Sweden’s Patrik Sjöberg cleared 7-9 ¾ (2.38) in Berlin to set a World Indoor Report within the Excessive Bounce.
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrik_Sjöberg
1985—Competing in entrance of a sparse Madison Sq. Backyard crowd through the afternoon session of the U.S. Indoor Championships, Arkansas’ Mike Conley gained the Triple Bounce with a Collegiate Report of 57-1 (17.40). He returned within the night to win the Lengthy Bounce along with his indoor better of 26-11 ¾ (8.22).
Valerie Brisco-Hooks set an American Report of 23.08 within the 1st spherical of the 220y, then improved to 22.95 within the last, profitable a complete of $14,410 as the feminine general winner of the Mobil Grand Prix.
Brooklyn native Diane Dixon was additionally a double-record setter, profitable her warmth of the 440y in 52.77 earlier than operating 52.20 within the last. The latter time additionally bettered Brisco-Hooks’ AR of 52.63 for 400-Meters. It was fairly an evening for Dixon, who additionally anchored her Atoms T.C. to a win within the Mile Relay, gained $7,500 within the Grand Prix, and acquired a gold medal for operating within the 1st spherical of the 4×400 on the earlier 12 months’s Olympics in Los Angeles (last gained by the U.S.). Dixon would finally win 11 U.S. Indoor titles within the 440y/400m.
Stated an emotional Atoms coach Fred Thompson of his prize pupil, “It was a helluva efficiency. After the information and getting her medal, she anchored our mile relay in 53.6. It was one of the crucial thrilling nights within the historical past of the Atoms”.
American Report holder Jimmy Howard gained the Excessive Bounce (7-8 [2.34]) and gained $10,000 because the Males’s general winner of the Mobil Grand Prix.
Outcomes: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42085717/1985-usa-indoor-championships-new/
1987—France’s Bruno Marie-Rose set a World Indoor Report of 20.37 for 200-Meters in Liévin, France.
1992—Algeria’s Noureddine Morceli set a World Indoor Report of two:15.26 for 1000-meters in Birmingham, England. Holland’s Rob Druppers set the earlier Report of two:16.4 in 1988.
1997—Benefiting from the sprinter-friendly altitude of Colorado Springs, UTEP’s Obadele Thompson set a World and Collegiate Report of 5.99 for 55-meters, the favored dash distance amongst U.S. schools on the time, on the Western Athletic Convention Championships. Pittsburgh’s Lee McRae held the earlier information of 6.00 (1986). Ending a detailed 2nd to Thompson in 6.02 was BYU’s Leonard Myles-Mills.
1998—Mozambique’s Maria Mutola ran 1:56.36 in Liévin, France, to interrupt the 10-year previous World Indoor Report of 1:56.40, set by East Germany’s Christine Wachtel in 1988. Or so it was thought on the time. After checking video of the race, officers dominated that Mutola had stepped off the monitor on the ultimate flip and determined that her time wouldn’t be ratified as a WR!
https://www.worldathletics.org/information/report/mutola-powers-to-new-800m-indoor-record
Then Once more…: https://worldathletics.org/information/information/mutola-indoor-mark-will-not-be-ratified
2004–Russia’s Svetlana Feofanova cleared 15-11 (4.85m) in Athens to interrupt Yelena Isinbaeva’s week-old Pole Vault report of 15-10 (4.83). It was the tenth (and last) WR of her profession.
2014—On one of many more odd days within the historical past of the U.S. Indoor Championships (or some other meet), there have been controversial disqualifications in each the Girls’s and Males’s 3000-meters.
Up first was the Girls’s race, which was “gained” by Gabe Grunewald, adopted by Shannon Rowbury, Sara Vaughn, and Jordan Hasay. An official had raised a flag on the ultimate flip after seeing contact between Grunewald and Hasay. After watching video of the race, officers decided that no foul had been dedicated and let the unique outcomes stand.
Since a berth on the U.S. group that might compete on the World Indoor Championships was at stake (Vaughn hadn’t met the qualifying normal), Alberto Salazar, Hasay’s coach, filed a protest, which was then upheld, with Grunewald being disqualified and Hasay positioned on the World group.
Grunewald’s representatives then began engaged on the arbitration course of. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, with Salazar withdrawing his preliminary protest after Hasay declined her spot on the World group and Grunewald was reinstated because the winner.
Whereas it took two days to resolve Grunewald’s destiny, it took 10-months for Andrew Bumbalough to be reinstated because the 8th-place finisher within the Males’s 3000!
Bernard Lagat and Galen Rupp completed 1-2 within the Males’s race, whereas Bumbalough was disqualified after being mistakenly recognized because the runner who had impeded Rupp on the ultimate lap.
This was the final race of the night time, and Bumbalough and his coach, Jerry Schumacher, didn’t discover out concerning the DQ till they had been again at their resort. Once they returned to the monitor, they had been informed in no unsure phrases that Bumbalough had certainly been noticed committing a foul, in order that they left with out submitting a protest. Solely downside was, it was Ryan Hill, not Bumbalough, who had veered in entrance of Rupp as he moved exterior to problem for the lead (he wound up ending 3rd)!
Officers quickly grew to become conscious of their mistake, however it wasn’t till the USATF assembly in December that Bumbalough’s Eighth-place end was formally acknowledged.
USATF officers took quite a lot of warmth for his or her dealing with of each incidents, and shaped the “Albuquerque Working Group”, which finally put into place a sequence of provisions that might assist keep away from related conditions sooner or later.
https://www.letsrun.com/occasions/2014-usatf-indoor-track-field-championships/
http://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/why-was-andrew-bumbalough-disqualified-in-usa-indoor-3000#
http://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/andrew-bumbalough-reacts-to-usatf-report-on-his-errant-dq
http://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/grunewald-reinstated-as-3000-meter-champ
Outcomes: https://flashresults.com/2014_Meets/indoor/2-21-USA/index.htm
Movies:
2019—LSU freshman Mondo Duplantis set a Collegiate Report of 19-5 (5.92) within the Pole Vault on the SEC Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He would win the NCAA Indoor title two weeks later and is now the World Report holder and the reigning Olympic and World Champion.
2019—Kendell Williams (4496) gained the Pentathlon on the primary day of the U.S. Indoor Championships, which returned to
New York for the primary time since 2002, however at a brand new venue–the Ocean Breeze Advanced on Staten Island. Anna Corridor (Valor,
Highlands Ranch, CO) completed 3rd with a rating of 4302 to smash Williams’ Excessive College and American Junior Data. (4068/2013)
Corridor’s Marks: (8.59, 5-111⁄4/1.81, 41-81⁄2/12.34, 18-41⁄2/5.60, 2:16.11).U.S. Indoors
Important birthdays
Born On This Day*
Jonathan Borlée–Belgium 37 (1988) 2009 NCAA Champion—400m, 4×400 (Florida State);
PB-44.43 (’12), 2023 SB: 46.31
https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/belgium/jonathan-borlee-14177716
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Borlée
Kevin Borlée—Belgium 37 (1988) 2010 European Champion—400m; PB: 44.56 (’12); 2023 SB: 46.14
2009 NCAA Champion—4×400 (Florida State-43.8 anchor/4th within the 400-brother gained)
https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/belgium/kevin-borlee-14177713
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Borlée
Borlee Household: https://spikes.worldathletics.org/put up/super-belgiums-borlee-brothers
Belgian Report-400m
44.88 Kevin 2008
44.78 Jonathan 2009
44.77 Jonathan 2010
44.71 Jonathan 2010
44.56 Kevin 2012
44.43 Jonathan 2012
Each ran on these 4×400 relays
2009 NCAA (1st) 2:59.99
2010 WIC (2nd) 3:06.94NR
2011 WC (4th) 3:00.41
2012 EC (1st) 3:01.09
2012 OG (fifth) 3:01.83/3:01.70-heat
2013 WC (4th/together with brother Dylan) 3:01.02/3:00.82
2015 WC (fifth) 3:00.24/2:59.28NR
2016 EC (gold/Dylan) 3:01.10
2016 OG (4th/Dylan) 2:58.52NR/2:59.25NR-heat)
2017 WC (4th/Dylan) 3:00.04/2:59.47-heat)
2018 WIC (bronze/Dylan) 3:02.51NR
2018 EC (gold/Dylan) 2:59.47
2019 WC (bronze/Dylan & Kevin/no Jonathan) 2:58.76
2021 OG (4th/Dylan & Kevin-Jonathan ran 1st spherical) 2:57.88NR