This Day in Monitor & Box–February 8
1916—USC’s Howard Drew set a International Report of 10-flat for 100-yards on the NYAC Video games, which have been held on the twenty second Regiment Armory (the present Armory).
Drew were appreciated to win the 100-meters on the 1912 Olympics, however pulled a muscle whilst profitable his semi-final race in Stockholm. Ralph Craig, who were overwhelmed by means of Drew on the Japanese U.S. Olympic Trials, went directly to win the gold medal within the 100 (and the 200).
A second International Report used to be set by means of long run Corridor-of-Famer Ted Meredith, who ran 59.8 for 500-yards.
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1921—Joie Ray had gained the Wanamaker one-and-a-half mile on the Millrose Video games 4 years in a row (1917-1920), however used to be no fit this night for Hal Cutbill (6:55.6), who beat him this night by means of 20 yards.
Dartmouth junior Earl “Tommy” Thomson gained the 70-yard Top (9.0) and Low (8.2) Hurdles races. Competing for his local Canada, Thomson gained the gold medal within the 110-Meter Hurdles on the 1920 Olympics.
Joie Ray, picture by means of JoieRay.com
Thomson, who lived within the U.S. from the age of 8, went directly to grow to be a trainer at Dartmouth and Army and used to be inducted into the U.S. Corridor of Reputation in 1977. (He coached Billy Turbines main as much as his win within the 10,000-meters on the 1964 Olympics).
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1930—Ray Conger gained his second Wanamaker Mile on the Millrose Video games in entrance of 17,000 fanatics at Madison Sq. Lawn. His profitable time of four:21.8 stays the slowest within the historical past of the enduring race.
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1958—In an extraordinary incidence, Ny Faculty senior Tom Murphy anchored each the profitable Mile and 2-mile relays on the Millrose Video games. Joe Soprano ran the Third leg on each groups. Murphy completed second within the Athlete of the Meet vote casting to Ron Delany, who gained the Wanamaker Mile, his nineteenth consecutive indoor mile win, in 4:04.6, only one 2nd off the International Report. (Attendance-16,500)
This used to be additionally the primary primary meet I ever attended—I tagged at the side of my dad and different members of the family to look at my cousin Tom run, and I haven’t overlooked a Millrose Video games since!
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/02/09/91385790.html?pageNumber=208
1974–George Woods raised the International Report within the Shot Put to 72-2 ¾ (22.02m) on the L.A. Instances meet in Inglewood, CA.
1976—Poland’s Tadeusz Ślusarski raised the International Report within the Pole Vault to 18-3 (5.56) in Warsaw, 2 days after Dan Ripley cleared 18-2 ¼ (5.54).
Tadeusz Slusarski, picture by means of Olympic.fr
1980–Working on a brand spanking new Madison Sq. Lawn monitor on the Millrose Video games, and earlier than the largest (and loudest) crowd in indoor historical past (18,310), Mary Decker set a global report of four:00.8 for 1500-meters. With communicate of an Olympic boycott within the air, Decker went in the course of the first 1/4-mile in 60.8, a sooner tempo than were run within the just-completed Wanamaker Mile! Decker had simply returned from New Zealand, the place she had set an out of doors International Report of four:21.68 within the mile (January 26).
Different data set on the meet: Stephanie Hightower, the former USATF President, ran 7.47 to set a International Report within the 60-yard hurdles, Joni Huntley set an American Indoor Report of 6-4 ¼ (1.94) within the Top Soar, and UTEP’s Suleiman Nyambui set a Collegiate Report of 13:39.2 within the 5000-meters.
Slaney’s run used to be #4 on Howard Schmertz’s listing of his “10 Most Memorable Millrose Moments”:
“Returning to the Millrose Games for the first time since she won the “1000” on the age of 15 in 1974, Mary Decker captivated the Lawn crowd as no different athlete ever had.”
After two laps of the 1500 meters, Mary had spread out a 40-yard lead and the announcement of her quarter-mile time of 60.3 (60.8?) (sooner than within the Wanamaker Mile gained by means of Eamonn Coghlan[3:58.2] previous) introduced the gang to its toes.”
“It was quickly apparent that Francie Larrieu’s Millrose record of 4:15.0 would fall. As Mary passed the half-mile in 2:05.9, Larrieu’s American record of 4:09.8 was in jeopardy. The 18,000+ spectators cheered wildly as this lovely and graceful athlete pushed on toward Romania’s Natalia Maracescu’s World Indoor Record of 4:03.0. The ear-splitting crowd noise during the last half of the race surely set a sustained decibel record. As she hit the finish tape an 80-yard winner, in a World Indoor Record 4:00.8, Mary Decker became the all-time darling of the Millrose Games. Mary eventually won 4 more Millrose races, at the Mile, with her last victory in 1997 – 23 years after her first Millrose triumph.”
Hail The Conquering Hero
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports activities/1980/02/09/world-marks-fall-in-millrose/b6203612-9840-474e-ae63-ad6964eb7eeb/
1986–International Information within the Pole Vault didn’t ultimate lengthy all over the 1986 season. Joe Dial had gotten the fifth report of the marketing campaign when he cleared 19-4 ¾ (5.91m) the week earlier than and Billy Olson, who held the former mark of 19-3 ¾ (5.89) found out early at the eighth that Sergey Bubka had simply raised the mark to 19-5 (5.92) in Moscow. Having all day to take into consideration that earlier than competing on the Vitalis/Olympic Inv. on the Meadowlands in New Jersey, Olson replied along with his 4th report of the season, clearing 19-5 ½ (5.93) on his first strive. Olson didn’t have lengthy to benefit from the second, since Bubka would carry the report two times extra all over his discuss with to the U.S., clearing 19-5 ¾ (5.94) on the L.A. Instances meet and 19-6 ¼ (5.95) on the U.S. Championships.
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/09/sports activities/olson-hits-19-5-3-4-for-vault-best.html?searchResultPosition=1
Sergey Bubka print advert, Nineteen Nineties, advert courtesy of NIKE comms
1986—19-year previous Zola Budd-Pieterse set a International Indoor Report of 8:39.79 for 3000-Meters in Cosford, England
1987–Switzerland’s Wernor Günthör set a International Indoor report within the Shot Put along with his profitable toss of 73-1/2 (22.26) in Magglingen, Switzerland.
1991–Competing on the Vitalis/Meadowlands Inv., the place Eamonn Coghlan set the Mile International Report of three:49.78 in 1983, 20-year previous Noureddine Morceli of Algeria fell quick in his try to set a brand new mark (and gather the $100,000 bonus that used to be at the line). His profitable time of 3:50.81 used to be nonetheless the Third-fastest in historical past, trailing handiest Coghlan, who had additionally run 3:50.6 in 1981.
It used to be just a 12 months or two previous that meet director Ray Lumpp gained a choice from his previous pal, Ted Banks, who were the top trainer at UTEP all over that college’s unbelievable NCAA run all over the Nineteen Seventies and early Eighties. Banks used to be now at Riverside Group Faculty in California and used to be asking Lumpp if he had room in his mile for this promising younger runner he used to be now training. Announcing his box used to be complete, Lumpp courteously grew to become down Banks’s request. The runner, in fact, used to be Morceli!
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1992–Germany’s Heike Henkel cleared 6-9 ½ (2.07) in Karlsruhe to set a International Report within the Girls’s Top Soar. The mark stood for 14 years till Sweden’s Kajsa Bergqvist jumped 6-9 3/4 (2.08) in 2006.
2008–Illinois’ Lesiba Mosheto, a senior from Botswana, ran 1:00.82 to set a Collegiate Report for 500-meters on the New Steadiness Collegiate Inv. at NY’s Armory (Since damaged, now #4 All-Time).
2019—Tori Franklin set an American Indoor Report of 47-9 ¾ (14.57) within the Triple Soar in Madrid. She completed second to Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas, who jumped 48-11 1⁄2 (14.92).
2020—20-year previous Armand “Mondo” Duplantis persisted his wonderful adventure within the Pole Vault by means of environment an “absolute” International Report of 20-2 ¾ (6.17) in Toruń, Poland, breaking the former mark of 20-2 ½ (6.16) that used to be set by means of France’s Renaud Lavillenie in 2014.
Duplantis used to be hugged by means of his fellow vaulters earlier than making his approach to the stands to proportion a hug along with his mom Helena.
Mondo Duplantis, Leichtathletik Berlin 04.02.2022Saison 2021 / 2022ISTAF-IndoorFoto: Lukas Schulze/camera4
“How do you explain a dream that’s been a dream since you were three years old?”, stated Duplantis, who holds many age-group data. “It’s a big dream, too. It’s not a little dream. And it’s a whole process building up to that moment. I can’t really get my head around it.”
The dream would proceed the next week when he raised the report to 20-3 ¼ (6.18) in Glasgow, Scotland!
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7NSdXOhNZI
2020—3 American Information had been set within the house of 70-minutes on the Millrose Video games at NY’s Armory.
Donavan Brazier ran 1:44.22 within the Males’s 800 to damage his personal year-old mark of one:44.41.
This report used to be utterly surprising, with Elle (“Ellie”) Purrier, a farm lady from Vermont, smashing Mary Slaney’s 38-year previous mark of four:20.5 along with her profitable time of four:16.85 within the Girls’s Wanamaker Mile.
Ajee’ Wilson additionally took down her personal year-old Report of one:58.60 by means of profitable the Girls’s 800 (for the fifth time) in 1:58.29.
In different highlights, Scotland’s Chris O’Hare gained the Males’s Wanamaker Mile in 3:55.61 for the second time in 3 years, Ryan Crouser gained the Males’s Shot Put (72-9 ¾ [22.19]) for the second 12 months in a row, beating Joe Kovacs (70-1/4[21.84]), his conqueror on the earlier 12 months’s International Championships in Doha, and Sandi Morris gained the Girls’s Pole Vault with a Meet Report clearance of 16-1 ¼ (4.91).
Within the Males’s 3000, a race gained by means of former Syracuse megastar Justyn Knight (7:46.36), Nico Younger, a senior at Newbury Park(CA) H.S., completed 11thth in 7:56.97 to damage the U.S. Top College Report of seven:59.33, set by means of Drew Hunter (Loudoun Valley,VA) in 2016.
There used to be the standard post-meet birthday celebration at Coogan’s, however no person knew on the time that it will be the ultimate one, for the reason that liked collecting position close its doorways for excellent quickly after because of the pandemic!
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Movies
M-800: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-jEfbgJB6Q
W-MILE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuQHaZ41wDE
W-800: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=aCj1g4teOsc
M-MILE(Subscription Required): https://www.runnerspace.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=45365&do=movies&video_id=295023
Vital Birthdays
Born On This Day*
Shelby Houlihan 32 (1993) 2014 NCAA Champion—1500m (Arizona State)
Completed simply out of the medals within the 1500-meters on the 2019 International Championships in Doha—positioned 4th and set an
American Report of three:54.99
Set an American Report of 14:23.92 for 5000-meters in 2020.
U.S. Titles (13)
2017: Indoors/Mile, 2-mile; Outdoor/5000
2018: Indoors/1500,3000; Outdoor/1500,5000
2019: Indoors/2-mile; Outdoor/1500, 5000; X-Nation
2020: Indoors/1500, 3000
Finalist within the 5000-meters on the 2016 Olympics (eleventh) and 2017 International Championships (thirteenth)
PBs: 1:59.92 (2019), 3:54.99 (2019/NR), 4:23.68i (2020/O.T.), 9:31.38/2m (2019),
14:23.92 (2020/#2 A-T U.S.)
Gained a 4-year ban in 2021 after trying out sure for a banned substance. Her attraction used to be denied by means of the Courtroom
of Arbitration of Recreation in a while earlier than the start of the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials. Would were
regarded as a medal contender within the 1500 and/or the 5000 on the Tokyo Olympics.
The ban ended on January 13, 2025, and he or she returned to festival on February 1, operating a handy guide a rough 8:31.56 for
3000-meters
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_Houlihan
https://xc.tfrrs.org/athletes/3652110.html
Enchantment Denied
Ban (It comprises Houlihan’s Instagram put up the place she first printed that she had examined sure)
Go back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko9HTNfq87g
https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a63640069/shelby-houlihan-first-race-back/
Genzebe Dibaba—Ethiopia 34 (1991) 2015 International Champion—1500m; More youthful sister of Tirunesh Dibaba
5-time International Indoor Champion—2012 (1500), 2014 (3000), 2016 (3000), 2018 (1500,3000)
2016 Olympic silver medalist—1500m;
Affected by an undisclosed sickness, she completed twelfth within the 1500 on the 2017 International Championships, then
withdrew from her warmth of the 5000. A heel damage stored her out of 2019 International Championships in Doha.
Ran 1:05:18 within the half-marathon in Valencia, Spain, in December, 2020.
Made her marathon debut in Amsterdam in 2022—ran 2:18:05(used to be second)
International Report holder (w/present all-time striking)
1500—3:50.07 (2015/#2)
Mile—4:13.31 (2016-indoors/#4 total)
2000—5:23.75 (2017-indoors/#3 total)
3000—8:16.60 (2014-indoors/#1 total)
2-miles—9:00.48 (2014-indoors/#3 total)
5000—14:18.86 (2015-indoors)
Different PBs: 1:59.37 (2017), 2:33.06i /1000m (2017/#8 All-Time), 3:55.17i (2014/#2 A-T),
4:14.30 (2016/#3 A-T Outdoor), 5:27.50/2k (2014/#5 A-T Outdoor) , 8:21.29/3k
(2019), 14:15.41(2015), 2:18:05 (2022)
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genzebe_Dibaba
WR Video(1500): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aE5ZMQwiUE
http://www.runnersworld.com/elite-runners/genzebe-dibaba-comes-out-of-her-sisters-shadow
Zersenay Tadese—Eritrea 43 (1982) Winner of 12 medals in world festival
Gold(6)-20k (2006), XC (2008), ½-Marathon (2007,2008,2009, 2012)
Silver(3)-XC (2005), 10,000 (2009-WC), ½-Marathon (2010)
Bronze(3)-10,000 (2004 Olympics), XC (2008,2009)
PBs: 7:39.93 (2005), 12:59.27 (2006), 26:37.25 (2006), 58:23 (2010-International Report), 2:10:41 (2012)
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersenay_Tadese
https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/eritrea/zersenay-tadese-14167401
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5tcgpHIaw0
