This Day in Monitor & Box-February 13
1925–Finland’s Paavo Nurmi misplaced the race however nonetheless set a International Report! Competing at house, Syracuse College’s Al Gottlieb took complete benefit of a 65-yard handicap to win the Mile via ten yards over Nurmi, who began from scratch. Nurmi’s time of four:27-2/5 broke Joie Ray’s earlier mark of four:28.0.
Mag duvet of the generation that includes Paavo Nurmi
1964 –Jim Beatty fired the gun to start out the Mile on the NYAC Video games in Madison Sq. Lawn, then watched Tom O’Hara run 3:56.6 to break his (Beatty’s) International Report via a complete two seconds. Beatty had set the former mark of three:58.6 a yr in the past on the identical meet.
After working a warmth and semi-final, Bob Hayes received the 60-yard sprint in 6.0, tying the arena list for the 4th time that season.
Tom O’Hara, 1963, picture courtesy of Loyola Library, Tom O’Hara, 1963Credit: Thomas J. Dyba, photographer
20-year outdated Bruce Kidd (8:42.6) got here from at the back of off the overall flip to edge Bob Schul (8:42.8) within the 2-mile, with Ron Clarke (8:43.8) completing an in depth third. It was once an exhilarating race, with all 3 main at more than a few phases of the race,
Different winners integrated 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
NY Instances Protection
1976—Poland’s Władysław
Władysław Kozakiewicz, picture via Polonicult.com
cleared 18-3 ¼ (5.57) within the Pole Vault in Toronto to wreck the 5-day outdated International Report of 18-3 (5.56) that was once set via countryman Tadeusz Ślusarski in Warsaw. Ślusarski would pass directly to win Olympic gold in Montreal later within the yr.
1982–With a prior perfect of 6-4 (1.93), it got here as fairly a surprise when Coleen Rienstra Sommer, leaping by myself after nighttime (after the remainder of the occasions have been finished), cleared 6-6 ¾ (2.00) on the Ottawa Citizen Video games to set a International Report within the Girls’s Prime Bounce. The former mark of 6-6 ¼ (1.99) was once set the former month via Canada’s Debbie Brill, who completed 2nd right here with a clearance of 6-2 ¾ (1.89).
Earlier than her step forward bounce, Sommer had already had a occupation evening after clearing 6-5 (1.96) to wreck Joni Huntley’s American Report of 6-4 ¾ (1.95), set in 1981 (Huntley was once third right here/6-3/4 [1.85m]). Sommer was the primary American girl to carry the International Report within the match since Jean Shiley cleared 5-3 1/8 (1.603) in 1929 and 5-3 ½ (1.613) in 1930. She’s additionally the remaining American girl to carry the International Report (It was once damaged in 1983, and he or she held the American Report till Tisha Waller jumped 6-7 (2.01) in 1998).
1988–3 main information fell on the Vitalis/Olympic Inv., held on the Meadowlands Area in New Jersey. Two of the record-setters have been acquainted names to maximum lovers. Romania’s Doina Melinte, the 1984 Olympic Champion at 800-meters, received the Girls’s Mile in 4:18.86 to wreck Mary Slaney’s 6-year outdated International Report of four:20.5, and Corridor-of-Famer-to-be Jackie Joyner-Kersee added 2 inches to her American Report within the Lengthy Bounce (23-1/2 [7.02]).
However best hardcore lovers would acknowledge the identify of Brian Abshire, who received the Males’s 3000-Meters in 7:41.57 to wreck Doug Padilla’s earlier American Report of seven:44.9. Abshire’s feat merited in depth protection in that week’s factor of Sports activities Illustrated (see hyperlink underneath). And his AR kicked off a frenzied 30-minutes of motion that integrated Melinte’s WR and Marcus O’Sullivan’s fast 3:50.94 win within the Males’s Mile. Relieved that his International Report of three:49.78 was once nonetheless intact was once the injured Eamonn Coghlan, who fired the beginning gun for the race.
The front-running Abshire was once an All-American steeplechaser at Auburn and had competed in that match on the 1987 International Championships in Rome, however his was once hardly ever a family identify. His trainer, Auburn’s Kelly Sullivan, who educated Abshire throughout his collegiate occupation, needed to “beg” to get his famous person runner added to a loaded discipline that already integrated Padilla, Frank O’Mara, the 1987 International 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 once making his U.S. indoor debut. (An out-of-shape Coe dropped out with one lap to move and, embarrassed via his deficient exhibiting, later returned part his look price!). Completing at the back of 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 may be me-WM!) that Abshire was once able to run speedy. Lumpp agreed to just accept Abshire’s access, with the figuring out that he must make it to New Jersey on his personal. An advantage construction was once organized that may pay Abshire a certain quantity if he received, and an extra bonus must he set the American Report. In fact, Lumpp by no means idea he’d need to pay up! (however gladly did)
Finally of the bargaining to get him into the race, Abshire nearly didn’t make it to the beginning line–a sore arch nearly made him make a decision to stick house. Sullivan, who went on to train at Oregon State and Seattle U. earlier than retiring in 2024, remembers another main points from that weekend. “…when Brian got to the hotel, his name was not on any rooming list and he couldn’t reach me. But Padilla (being the nice guy he is) saw him in the lobby and offered to let him sleep in his room on a pull-out couch bed! Padilla, of course, was the current indoor 3k AR holder. “
“Doug told me later he could ‘sense’ that night/next day that Brian was ready to do ‘something big’ by his mood/confidence. Then in the race the ‘rabbit’ never got out front after the first 2+ laps, so Brian got antsy, knowing the pace felt slow and instinctly popped out, went to the front and turned up the pace. Having no idea on a banked, 10-laps to the mile track how fast he was running, he just ‘raced’ and broke the AR and narrowly missed Emiel Puttemans long-standing WR (7:39.2)”.
“I was at an indoor college meet at U of Florida with our Auburn team. and I called Brian/Doug’s room a couple of times but got no answer. (Way before cell phones/internet!). A few hours later Doug answered. He said ‘Hi Kelly, I will let Brian tell you how it went’. I asked Doug how he did and he told me his time/place and that he was very pleased’. Brian got on the phone and calmly said ‘It went really well!, I won’, and humbly, but excited to tell me, ‘You’ve now coached an AR holder!!’. Doug was SINCERELY happy for us both. He actually helped rub out Brian’s plantar that was really sore and ironically would take months to heal. Which is another story leading into that summer’s Olympic trials and our challenge for him to make the team in the steeplechase.” (Abshire received 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
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/12/sports activities/meadowlands-meet-a-yardstick-for-coe.html?scp=1&sq=sebastian+coe&st=nyt
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/15/sports activities/track-coe-upset-by-poor-showing.html?scp=2&sq=sebastian+coe&st=nyt
1988— East Germany’s Heike Drechsler and Christine Wachtel set International Indoor Data in Vienna. Drechsler added 2 inches to her mark within the Lengthy Bounce (24-2 ¼ [7.37]), whilst Wachtel smashed her 800 perfect along with her profitable time of one:56.40. Wachtel had run 1:57.64 simply 3 days previous in Turin, Italy.
1993–Sergey Bubka raised his International Indoor Report within the Pole Vault to 20-1 ¾ (6.14m) in Liévin, France. A Second International Report was once set via Jamaica’s Merlene Ottey, who received the Girls’s 200-Meters in 21.87.
Ottey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfQsbv6HAuM
Sergey Bubka print advert, Nineties, advert courtesy of NIKE comms
1998—Kenya’s Laban Rotich, working on a board song for the primary time, received the Wanamaker Mile on the Millrose Video games in 3:55.69 in entrance of a Madison Sq. Lawn crowd of 17,000 lovers.
Second was once Paul McMullen (3:57.46) and third was once 36-year outdated Marcus O’Sullivan, whose time of three:58.10 earned him access 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 match, took a well-merited victory lap after the race.
From the NY Instances: O’Sullivan’s contribution to trace historical past is going again 5 years. ”I used to be cleansing out my basement,” he mentioned, ”once I got here throughout this trophy. I noticed it was once from my first sub-four-minute mile. I began counting up the collection of instances I had damaged 4 mins, and it was once 76. That’s once I made my purpose to run 100,” O’Sullivan mentioned. ”It in reality helped stay me motivated.”
The Males’s Pole Vault, received this yr via Jeff Hartwig with a Meet Report clearance of 19-2 ¾ (5.86), were a fixture at Millrose because the Twenties, however Millrose Director Howard Schmertz was once reluctant so as to add the fairly new Girls’s match. He reportedly mentioned to anyone pushing for the development’s inclusion, “If you can get (AR holder) Stacy Dragila, I’ll add it to the program”. Dragila was once to be had, received the development with a clearance of 13-9 ¾ (4.21) and would win once more at Millrose six of the following seven years!
Effects: https://www.flashresults.com/1998_Meets/millrose.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/14/sports activities/track-and-field-wanamaker-mile-won-by-a-wisp-of-a-kenyan.html?searchResultPosition=12
Girls’s PV—Right here to Keep!
1999—Romania’s Gabriela Szabo set a International Indoor Report of 14:47.35 for 5000-meters in Dortmund, Germany.
Szabo received 8 “global” titles throughout her occupation:
Olympics-2000 (5000)
International Championships-1997 (5000), 1999 (5000), 2001 (1500)
International 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 list within the rarely-contested 100-meters. Combest was once 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. Go 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 sought after badly to win the 5000-meters on the Tyson Inv. in Fayetteville, however he needed to accept taking down 3 important information together with his Second-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 list of 13:22.6. Successful the race was once Ethiopia’s Bekana Daba, who ran 13:17.89, whilst Liberty’s Sam Chelanga set an Japanese Collegiate Report of 13:19.79.
Effects: https://flashresults.com/2009_Meets/indoor/TysonInvite/FridayInvite.htm
Publish-Race Interview
http://www.runnerspace.com/video.php?video_id=8556-Galen-Rupp-after-5k-AR-and-CR-Tyson-Invitational-2009
Oregon Bio: http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=187104
2016—The U.S. group for the Olympic Marathon was once selected on the Trials in Los Angeles:
Males-1.Galen Rupp 2:11:12 (1st marathon), 2.Meb Keflezighi 2:12:20 (4th Olympic group), 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 (third Olympic group), 4.Kara
Goucher 2:30:24)
Rupp went directly 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
Effects: Males Girls
2021—3 American Data have been set on the New Stability Indoor Grand Prix, which was once held this yr on the Ocean Breeze Complicated on NY’s Staten Island whilst the meet’s conventional house, the Reggie Lewis Heart in Roxbury(MA), was once getting used as a Covid-vaccination middle.
First up was once the Girls’s 2-mile, the place Elle (“Ellie”) Purrier ran 9:10.28 to break the former mark of 9:18.35 that was once set via Jenny Simpson at this meet in 2015. Runnerup Emma Coburn was once additionally underneath Simpson’s mark along with her time of 9:15.71. Purrier’s time additionally bettered the U.S. outside perfect of 9:11.97, set via Regina Jacobs in 1999.
Bryce Hoppel, pressed lots of the means via Nice Britain’s Charlie Grice, received 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 once handed via Canada’s Marco Arop (2:17.10) within the remaining 50-Meters.
When Donavan Brazier crossed the end line of the Males’s 800 in 1st position, he gave the impression just a little upset that the infield clock confirmed 1:44.22, which might have intended that he “only” equaled his AR. He anxiously waited for the respectable effects to return up, and smiled when the time was once adjusted to at least one:44.21!
Olli Hoare, the 2018 NCAA Champion (1500) whilst at Wisconsin, set an Australian Report of three:32.35 whilst profitable the Males’s 1500-Meters. Second was once Nice Britain’s Jake Wightman (3:34.48), and third was once 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 same old of three:35.00 (Wightman had up to now met the usual). Wightman would win the 1500 on the 2022 International Championships in Eugene.
A complete of eleven Nationwide Data have been set on the meet.
Effects: https://effects.nbindoorgrandprix.com
Protection:
Race Effects Weekly
2021—Baylor’s Okay.C. Lightfoot jumped 19-8 ¼ (6.00) on the Texas Tech Shootout in Lubbock, Texas, to set his third Collegiate Indoor Report of the season. A Second CR was once set via 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 at the first 3 legs have been Jania Martin 53.0, Syaira Richardson 51.9, and Charokee Younger’ 51.1.
Effects: 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 International Champion (2003, 2005/silver medalist-1997,2001); 6’-6 ¾” (2.00), 287 (130kg)
2006 Ecu Champion;
Simply overlooked Jürgen Schult’s International Report of 243-0 when he threw 242-5 (73.88) in 2000. (Nonetheless #2 All-Time)
Son Mykolas, lately a snior at Cal-Berkeley, had a step forward yr in 2022—completed Second on the NCAA Championships,
received gold on the Ecu Championships, and silver on the 2022 International Championships, bronze in 2023, and silver on the 2024
Olympics. He set the present International 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
Kenny Harrison 59 (1965) 1996 Olympic gold medalist—Triple Bounce; 1991 International 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-Outdoor (1987-Second), 1988-Indoors (1986-Fifth, 1987-Second)
Corridor of Reputation Bio: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/kenny-harrison
All-Time Lists
Deeper(Metric): http://www.alltime-athletics.com/mtripok.htm
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSyZJPuzyx4
Suleiman Nyambui—Tanzania 72 (1953) Gained a list 15 NCAA particular person titles at UTEP (29-years outdated 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) Writer of DyeStat.com in 1997 to look how his children, Derek (prime bounce) and Natalie (pole
vault), in comparison to different highschool competition. The website online was THE supply for highschool knowledge and, with the lend a hand
of his spouse Donna (“On The Side”), helped create a fantastic cyber-community a number of the country’s preps.
From John Dye: “The origin of what we were doing was Derek’s sophomore year (1996) when I sold a weekly
Natalie each won their events in the Maryland state meet (only brother-sister combo ever to do that in Maryland in
individual events in the same state meet). That made me want to know how they compared nationally. I got all the
state meet results and ranked girls pole vault and boys high jump. I found that Derek (6-8) was in the 80s nationally
and Natalie (9-0) in the 40s (remember, that was when girls pole vault was just getting sanctioned). Hence, I started
doing national rankings 100 deep to make sure they were listed(-:.”
John and Donna Dye have been playing their “2nd retirement” in Las Vegas, whilst Dyestat.com, which had ceased
functioning when ESPN dropped it, was once revived via Runnerspace.com.
Dye was once known for his contribution to the game via being named to the inaugural elegance of inductees into the Nationwide H.S.
T&F Corridor of Reputation in 2018. And John and Donna have been lately named winners of the Stan Saplin Award for his or her contributions
to the game.
Acceptance Speech
