Walt Murphy’s Information and Outcomes Service (wmurphy25@aol.com)
This Day in Observe & Area–February 24
1954—Columbia’s Al Thompson received his 2nd straight IC4A Shot Put title at Madison Sq. Backyard with a toss of
52-10 ¾ (16.12).
After serving as a Lieutenant within the U.S. Naval Reserves, Thompson graduated from Columbia’s College of Dental and Oral Surgical procedure in 1960 and had tended to the dental wants of many members of the NYC-area T&F group earlier than he retired. And he was one of many few medical professionals within the U.S. to incorporate Observe and Area Information among the many magazines in his ready room! (Thompson handed away in 2021 on the age of 89)
Ending 4th within the shot was 6’-5” (1.96) Roosevelt “Rosey” Grier (Penn State), who went on to have an 11-year NFL profession as a defensive lineman with the NY Giants and Los Angeles Rams. He’s the final surviving member of L.A.’s well-known defensive unit, the “Fearsome Foursome“ (The others had been Lamar Lundy, Merlin Olsen, and Deacon Jones).
Grier was along with his buddy Bobby Kennedy when the presidential hopeful was assassinated in 1968, and, together with Decathlon legend Rafer Johnson, helped subdue the shooter, Sirhan Sirhan.
Different meet highlights
Thompson was 3rd within the Weight Throw, Tom Courtney received the 1000y in 2:14.9, John Haines received the 60, Lou Jones beat Invoice Persichetty within the 600y 1:12.0-1:13.2
Thompson: http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=205024801
1962—Jim Beatty, the defending champion, received the Mile on the U.S. Indoor Championships in entrance of 16,864 followers with a Madison Sq. Backyard Document of 4:00.2. A forty five-minute delay to the beginning of the race may need been sufficient of a distraction to maintain Beatty from breaking his latest World Document of three:58.9.
One other profitable defender was 18-year previous Canadian Bruce Kidd, who received the 3-mile in 13:48.8.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/02/25/113420127.html?pageNumber=188
There was a sub-plot to the mile. Because the previous saying goes, an image is value 1,000 phrases. Nevertheless, there are events when an image doesn’t inform the entire story. A chief instance was the photograph that appeared on the entrance web page of the NY Instances sports activities part the subsequent day (see beneath). One have a look at it and also you’d swear that Villanova freshman Tom Sullivan had simply pulled off the largest upset of the indoor season by beating Beatty!
Sullivan, who had set a U.S. Excessive College Out of doors report of 4:03.5 in 1961, explains:
“I used to be put into the mile as a final minute likelihood for Jumbo (Elliott) to attain factors for the Nova group (they’d win the group title over the NYAC). I had simply run a 1000y warmth earlier within the night however fell on the primary lap and rolled over, acquired up and the pack was half lap forward of me. Jumbo all the time stands on the backside of the ultimate flip and as I handed, I noticed him wildly waving his arms at me. I believed he was yelling for me to catch them and qualify for the factors he wanted. Every time I handed I noticed him waving and screaming at me. I caught the again of the pack however didn’t qualify.
Once I noticed Jumbo, he was indignant at me. He stated he was making an attempt to inform me to drop out, drop out. He wished to make use of me within the mile (which he had entered me in when he despatched within the entries of our group). He requested if I felt adequate to attempt the mile which was about 3 hours away. What might I say. By race time, I used to be not match to run a quick mile mentally and bodily.
I seemed over my shoulder as I went into the final flip with one lap to go and noticed Beatty behind me and my delight stated: ‘Tom, you possibly can’t be lapped-how humiliating’, and I picked it up down the straightaway and noticed the officers waving at me to maneuver to the wall however there was no room on the wall which was stuffed with timers and judges. I ran previous them and I imagine they tried to boost the end line over my head after which dropped it to let Beatty break the tape as he was only some seconds behind me. I completed and don’t keep in mind anybody in entrance of me as I went throughout the end line.
When you can see the New York Instances Sunday Sport Web page (February 25, 1962) there’s a image of me breaking the tape with Jim Beatty just some ft behind me with the headline: “And the final shall be first”. Humbling race on the entrance cowl of the NYT Sports activities web page!!!. They stated within the newspapers that Jim Beatty ran his final lap on their lonesome however I do know he had me in his sights and I used to be his “rabbit” in that final lap.
I’ve on condition that image within the NYT to my two daughters and 4 grandchildren and advised them: ‘Generally you win, and typically it’s not your day or time and lose in a giant approach. You progress on and run your finest you possibly can in your subsequent competitors’.
1968–Martin McGrady had already established himself because the “Chairman of the Boards” (pre-Eamonn Coghlan’s reign), however now he could be going through Lee Evans for the primary time within the 600y closing on the AAU Indoor Championships in Oakland,CA.
Feeling weak after coming back from a meet in Moscow, McGrady briefly thought of withdrawing from the race, however thought, ”The folks got here to see a present on this race. I suppose I’m in adequate form to provide them one”.
And what a present it was. Two afternoon heats arrange a basic closing that included McGrady, Evans, defending champ Jim Kemp, and Ron Whitney, the reigning U.S. champion within the 440y-hurdles.
The fast-starting Kemp took the early lead, adopted by McGrady and Evans. With a lap to go, Evans moved as much as problem Kemp, with McGrady boxed on the within. Kemp was capable of maintain onto the lead as Evans and McGrady collided, practically taking the latter out of the race. However McGrady was capable of regain his stability, and, with Evans now wanting like a winner, he was capable of will himself previous each of his rivals to nab the victory as all three males had been timed in 1:09.2, simply .2s second above McGrady’s World Document of 1:09.0. It stays one of many biggest indoor races in historical past.
Eleanor Montgomery set an American Document of 5-10 ½ (1.79) within the Girls’s Excessive Bounce.
Sports activities Illustrated Vault: https://vault.si.com/vault/1968/03/04/three-on-the-line-in-the-600
T&F Information Cowl
McGrady, Evans, and Kemp cross the road collectively
1978—Houston McTear set a World Document of 6.04 for 60-Yards on the U.S. Indoor Championships at Madison Sq. Backyard. McTear shaved .07s off his earlier report of 6.11 that was set earlier within the season on the Millrose Video games.
Francie Larrieu(Smith) received the Girls’s Mile over rival Jan Merrill (4:37.0-4:37.6), with prep Lynn Jennings ending 3rd with a Excessive College Document of 4:39.0.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/02/25/110935399.html?pageNumber=11
Sports activities Illustrated (for subcribers)
1983—With Earl Jones working a 1:49.2 anchor, Japanese Michigan set a short-lived Collegiate Document of seven:21.22 on the flat 220y-yard monitor in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Arkansas would run 7:19.92 two days in a while their dwelling monitor in Fayetteville.
1984–Germany’s Carlo Thränhardt cleared 7-9 ¼ (2.37) in Berlin to set a brand new World Indoor Document within the Excessive Bounce.
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Thränhardt
1985–One 12 months to the day after fellow German Carlo Thränhardt jumped 7-9 ¼ (2.37), Dietmar Mögenburg upped the World Indoor Document to 7-10 (2.39) in Cologne. (Sweden’s Patrik Sjöberg had damaged Thränhardt’s mark two days earlier with a clearance of 7-9 ¾ (2.38)
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietmar_Mögenburg
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Males’s_high_jump_indoor_world_record_progression
1989—Brazil’s Robson da Silva set a World Indoor Document of 32.19 for 300-meters in Karlsruhe, Germany.
2002–Russia’s Svetlana Feofanova broke her 2-week previous World Document within the Pole Vault when she cleared 15-6 ½ (4.64m) in Liévin, France.
2002–Leaping in Donetsk, Ukraine, Jeff Hartwig grew to become the primary American to clear 6-meters (19-8 1/4) indoors. He would vault greater twice extra within the subsequent two weeks with jumps of 19-8 ½ (6.01m) and 19-9 (6.02), however neither mark was ratified as an American Document. He misplaced his AR to Sam Kendricks, who cleared 19-8 ½ (6.01) in Rouen, France, on February 8, 2020.
2019—16-year previous Athing Mu, a Junior at Trenton(NJ) H.S., had set a World Junior Document of 1:26.53 in her qualifying warmth of the 600m the day earlier than, however that did little to arrange followers for what occurred within the closing. Preventing off a robust problem from veteran Raevyn Rogers on the ultimate backstretch, Mu pulled away within the closing 100-meters and went on to win in 1:23.57. Her time, which prompted shocked reactions from her fellow finalists, not solely bettered her day-old WJR Document, it additionally broke Alysia Montaño’s American Document of 1:23.59! Rogers held on for twond-place (1:24.88/#5 U.S.). Mu and Rogers would end 1-3 within the 800-Meters on the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, whereas Mu would win one other gold on the 2022 World Out of doors Championships in Eugene (She received bronze on the 2023 World Championships).
Donavan Brazier went Mu one higher within the very subsequent race, setting a World Document of 1:13.77 within the Males’s 600. Kenya’s Michael Saruni set the earlier report of 1:14.79 in 2018.
Ajee’ Wilson received a deep Girls’s 1000 in 2:34.71, the #2 U.S. time ever, and she or he was adopted by Hanna Inexperienced (2:35.40/#4 U.S.), Ce’Aira Brown (2:35.64/#5), and Laura Roesler (2:36.60/#7). (A-T placings on the time)
Shelby Houlihan, 2nd within the mile the day earlier than, received her 3rd straight indoor distance title, ending 1st within the 2-mile with a time of 9:31.38. (She received the 2-mile in 2017, the 3000 in 2018/Received her 4th straight by ending first within the 3000 in 2020).
https://www.letsrun.com/occasions/2019/02/2019-usatf-indoor-championships
https://www.letsrun.com/occasions/2019/02/2019-usatf-indoor-championships
Outcomes: https://www.flashresults.com/2019_Meets/Indoor/02-22_USATF/
Movies(Subscription Required): https://www.usatf.television/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=45365&mgroup_event_id=25&do=movies&folder_id=latest&12 months=2019
2021— Grant Holloway received the 60-Meter Hurdles in 7.29 in Madrid, Spain, breaking the 27-year previous World Document of seven.30 that was set by Nice Britain’s Colin Jackson in 1994. He would match his personal report in 2022 and higher it when he ran 7.27 in his warmth on the 2024 U.S. Indoor Championships.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8omN7pyirA
https://www.worldathletics.org/information/function/grant-holloway-60-hurdles-world-record
https://www.usatf.org/information/2021/grant-holloway-breaks-60m-hurdles-world-record
2024—Georgia’s Christopher Morales-Williams, a freshman from Canada, received the 400 on the SEC Indoor Championships in 44.49, quicker than the official World Indoor Document of 44.57 that was set by Kerron Clement in 2005, and quicker than Michael Norman’s 44.52 that was by no means ratified by World Athletics (neither was Morales-Williams’ time).
After 17 earlier misses at 2-meters (6-6 ¾), Texas A&M’s Tamara Distin lastly cleared the elusive barrier on her closing try, breaking the Collegiate Document of 6-6 (1.98) that was shared by Destinee Hooker (Texas/2009) and Akela Jones (Kansas State/2018).
Important Birthdays
Born On This Day*
Aleia Hobbs 29 (1996) 2022 World Champion-4×100 (1st spherical)…5th within the 100
2021 Olympic silver medalist—4×100 (1st spherical)
2018 U.S. Champion—100m…2nd in 2022…6th on the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials, 5th in 2024
2-time U.S. Indoor Champion-60m (2023, 2024)…set the American Document of 6.94 within the 2023 closing
2018 NCAA Indoor (60m) and Out of doors (100m) Champion (LSU)…additionally anchored LSU to a win within the 4×100
Had earlier anchored the Tigers to a Collegiate Document of 42.05 within the 4×100 on the SEC Champs (since damaged)
Boston Massachusetts, USA
February 3, 2023
World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold assembly, photograph by Kevin Morris
NCAA 100-5th (2015), 6th (2017)
2019 World Relays Champion-4×100: Mikiah Brisco, Ashley Henderson, Dezerea Bryant, Aleia Hobbs
PBs: 6.94i (2023/NR), 10.81 (2022), 22.93 (2018); 2024 SB: 10.88; 2025 SB: 7.16i
Nonetheless trains at LSU with coach Dennis Shaver…coaching associate is former LSU teammate Mikiah Brisco
Adopted her son Amir in 2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleia_Hobbs
https://lsusports.internet/sports activities/tf/roster/participant/aleia-hobbs/
Movies: 2023 U.S.i-6.94 2024 U.S.i 2018 NCAA 100 2018 NCAA-4×1 4×100 CR
Profile: https://olympics.com/en/information/aleia-hobbs-usa-sprinter-100m-adoption-online-abuse
Henrik Ingebrigtsen-Norway 34 (1991) 2-time Olympian-1500m (2012-5th, 2016-semi finalist)
2012 European Champion (silver medalist-2014 & 2018, bronze-2016)
8th on the 2013 World Championships
The oldest of three brothers, all of whom have had success on the worldwide scene
Filip-2016 European Champion-1500m, bronze medalist within the 1500 on the 2017 World Championships
Jakob-2021 Olympic gold medalist-1500m, 2024 Olympic gold medalist-5000 (amongst his many accomplishments);
PBs: 3:31.46 (2014), 3:50.72 (2014), 7:36.85 (2019), 13:15.38 (2019), 28:20.39 (2022);
2024 SB: 13:26.92