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This Day in Observe & Subject-July 16
1894–10,000 spectators braved a moist and chilly day on the Queen’s Grounds at Kensington in London to look at Yale and Oxford face off within the first worldwide collegiate meet.
1900—One other busy day on the Paris Olympics, with 8 finals being determined, 5 in occasions that had brief stays on the Olympic schedule.
800—Nice Britain’s Alfred Tysoe (2:01.2) outdueled American John Cregan (2:01.8) for the win. Tysoe would win a 2nd gold medal 6 days later within the 5k group race.
200-meter hurdles—Set again a yard for a false begin(!), Al Kraenzlein nonetheless gained simply in 25.4 to seize his 4th gold medal of the Video games.
4000m-Steeplechase—In what remains to be the closest 3-person end in an Olympic distance occasion (by means of 2021), Nice
Britain’s John Rimmer (12:58.4) held off teammates Charles Bennett (12:58.6) and Sidney Robinson (12:58.8) to
win the gold. A day earlier, Bennett had gained the gold medal within the 1500, whereas Robinson gained silver within the 2500m
Steeplechase. It stays the one British medal sweep in monitor and discipline on the Olympics. (In a comparable end at
the 1996 Olympics, solely .41s separated the three medalists within the 5000-meters–Venuste Niyongabo-13:07.96,
Paul Bitok-13:08.16, Khalid Boulami-13:08.37).
Standing Excessive Soar/Lengthy Soar/Triple bounce—American Ray Ewry was the grasp of the standing jumps and gained all three occasions right here. He set a World Better of 5-5 1/8? (1.655m) within the Excessive Soar, edged Irving Baxter, the winner of the Pole Vault and the usual Excessive Soar, within the Lengthy Soar (10-6 ¼ to 10-3 ¾?), and set one other World Finest within the Triple Soar (34-8 ½). Ewry, who battled polio as a toddler, would win a complete of 8 Olympic golds within the standing jumps (and one other two on the 1906 “Intercalated” Video games—see hyperlink under).
Triple Soar—A day after his controversial loss within the Lengthy Soar, Meyer Prinstein gained this occasion with a leap of 47-5 ¾ (14.47)
Hammer Throw—John Flanagan, a local of Eire, led a U.S. 1-2-3 sweep, successful the primary of his three gold medals within the occasion with a throw of 167-4 (51.01). Successful silver and bronze have been Truxton Hare (151-9 [46.25]) and Josiah McCracken (146-0 [44.50]).
1915—Former Brown star Norm Taber, the bronze medalist within the 1500-meters on the 1912 Olympics, ran 4:12.6 for the
Mile at Harvard to interrupt the World Document of 4:14.4, which had been set by John Paul Jones on the identical monitor in 1913.
Taber’s mark would final for 8 years till Paavo Nurmi ran 4:10.4 in 1923. Taber gained the primary New England Intercollegiate
X-Nation title in 1912.
https://browntrack.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/norm-taber-1913/
1932–Jack Keller tied the World Document of 14.4 within the 110-meter hurdles on the U.S. Males’s Olympic Trials at Stanford. It was the primary world file with an official wind studying (-0.2).
Invoice Miller and Invoice Graber each cleared 14-1 5/8 (4.30) within the Pole Vault to higher the prevailing World Document, whereas Graber went on to assert sole possession of the file along with his clearance at 14-4 3/8 (4.37m). Miller had the final snort, although, successful the gold medal lower than a month later on the L.A. Olympics
Ralph Metcalfe gained the 100 (10.6) and 200 (21.5) over Eddie Tolan (10.7, 21.7), with Tolan happening to win Olympic gold in each occasions.
Others who went on to win Olympic gold in L.A. have been Invoice Carr (400), Ed Gordon (Lengthy Soar), Leo Sexton (Shot Put), John Anderson (Discus). One other gold medalist-to-be was decathlete Jim Bausch, who qualifed for the U.S. group in June
Fordham’s Joe McCluskey, who would win bronze in L.A., set an American Document of 9:14.5 within the Steeplechase.
Outcomes/Notes: https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/1932.pdf
NY Occasions(For subscribers?): https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/07/17/100835984.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
WR Progressions:
110-Hurdles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_110_metres_hurdles_world_record_progression
Pole Vault: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men’s_pole_vault_world_record_progression
Metcalfe: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/ralph-metcalfe
Tolan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Tolan
1932—19-year-old Mildred “Babe” Didrikson was the present’s star on the mixed U.S. Girls’s Olympic Trials and Nationwide Championships, held at Northwestern College in Evanston, Illinois (similar weekend because the Males’s Trials).
Working from occasion to occasion, she was an outright winner in 5 occasions and tied for 1st in one other. She certified for the Olympic group within the 80-Meter Hurdles (12.1), the Javelin (139-3 [42.44], and the Excessive Soar, the place she shared the win with Jean Shiley as each cleared an American Document of 5-3 3/16 (1.60). She additionally gained Nationwide Tiles within the Lengthy Soar (17-6 1/8 [5.335]), Shot Put (39-6 ¼ [12.045]), and the Baseball Throw! (272-2 [82.96?]). She additionally completed 4th within the Discus. The one entry for the Employers Casualty Firm Membership of Dallas, she gained the AAU group title by herself!
Didrikson would win gold medals within the hurdles and the Javelin on the L.A. Olympics however was crushed for the gold within the HJ by Shiley.
Others who went on to medal in L.A. have been Lillian Copeland (gold) and Ruth Osburn (silver) within the Discus, and Evelyne Corridor (Silver) within the 80-Meter Hurdles. Osburn set an American Document of 133-3/4 (40.55) on the Trials.
Bios
Didrikson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Didrikson_Zaharias
Additionally: https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/77808
Shiley(1993): https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/jean-shiley
Copeland(1994): https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/lillian-copeland
Outcomes/Notes: https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/1932.pdf
NY Occasions(for subscribers?): https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/07/17/100835983.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1960—5 American Data have been set on the U.S. Girls’s Olympic Trials in Abilene, Texas (July 15,16)—Wilma Rudolph within the 100 (=11.5/additionally gained the 200), Billie Pat Daniels within the 800 (2:15.6), Willye White within the Lengthy Soar (20-4 ½ [6.21m]), Earlene Brown within the Discus (176-10 [53.90]), additionally gained the Shot Put), and Karen Anderson Oldham within the Javelin (163-5 ½ [49.82]).
Rudolph would attain legend standing by successful 3 gold medals on the Rome Olympics (100, 200, 4×100). Brown gained the bronze medal within the SP in Rome.
The Girls’s 800 was contested on the Trials for the primary time since 1928 when Olympic officers dropped the occasion after falsely concluding after the Video games in Amsterdam that ladies couldn’t safely run that far! It might return to the Olympic program in Rome.
4 ladies who competed within the 800 on the Trials had profitable careers within the sport.
16-year-old Daniels, later generally known as Pat Connolly, competed within the 5-event Pentathlon on the 1964 and 1968 Olympics and was the primary ladies’s coach at UCLA (coached by Evelyn Ashford).
Third-placer Doris Severtsen (17), higher recognized now as Doris Brown Heritage, turned a 5-time World X-Nation Champion and member of the Nationwide Corridor of Fame.
4th within the race was Louise Mead (Tricard), who chronicled the historical past of girls’s T&F within the U.S. together with her two books: American Women’s Track and Field : A History, 1895 Through 1980, adopted by American Women’s Track and Field, 1981-2000 : A History
fifth was Judy Shapiro (Ikenberry), who turned the primary U.S. Girls’s Champion within the Marathon in 1974.
(Due to Amby Burfoot’s insightful take a look at the state of girls’s operating within the U.S. in 1960 and the younger pioneers who paved the best way for a greater future.)
Outcomes/Notes: https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/1960.pdf
Bios
Rudolph: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/wilma-rudolph
White: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willye_White
E.Brown: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/earlene-brown
D.Brown-Heritage: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/doris-brown-heritage
Daniels-Connolly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Daniels
Different Hyperlinks
Shapiro-Ikenberry: http://joehwritings.blogspot.com/2016/03/judy-ikenberry.html
Mead-Tricard: https://forum.trackandfieldnews.com/forum/historical/31380-louise-tricard-has-died
1961-Six World Data have been set on the Third version of the U.S.-Soviet Union twin meet, which was held over two days in Moscow (7-15/16). Attendance was about 60,000 on the primary day, 70,000 on the second day!
The U.S. set new requirements in each 4×100 relays on the primary day of competitors (7-15). Hayes Jones, Frank Budd, Charles Frazier, and Paul Drayton gained the boys’s race in 39.1 to interrupt Germany’s World Document of 39.5, whereas Willye White, Ernestine Pollard, Vivian Brown, and the good Wilma Rudolph gained the ladies’s race in 44.3. Rudolph additionally gained the 100 (7-15) within the world-record tying time of 11.3 (mark by no means ratified by the IAAF).
Ralph Boston raised his personal World Document within the Lengthy Soar by two inches, leaping 27-2 (8.24) Ending 2nd with a bounce of
26-3 ½ (8.01) was Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, one in all Boston’s greatest rivals.
Two Soviets accounted for the opposite two marks. Valery Brumel raised his World Document within the Excessive Soar to 7-4 ¼ (2.24), with John Thomas ending 2nd with a leap of 7-2 1/4 (2.19), and Tatyana Shchelkanova set a brand new normal within the Lengthy Soar (21-3 ¼ [6.48]).
Extra American Data have been set by Willye White within the Girls’s Lengthy Soar (21-0 [6.40]), George Younger within the Steeplechase (8:38.0), and Cherrie Parrish and JoAnn Terry, each of whom ran 11.1 within the 80-meter hurdles.
Sports activities Illustrated Vault:
https://vault.si.com/vault/1961/07/24/the-high-meet-the-mighty
Rudolph Hyperlink
E-book Excerpt: http://tinyurl.com/2957lvn
Story on the 1962 US-Soviet twin meet:
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/342578-usa-vs-ussr-1962-the-greatest-track-meet-of-all-time
WR Progressions:
Males’s 4×100: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_4_x_100_metres_relay_world_record_progression
Girls’s 4×100: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_4_×_100_metres_relay_world_record_progression
Excessive Soar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men’s_high_jump_world_record_progression
Males’s Lengthy Soar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_jump_world_record_progression
Girls’s Lengthy Soar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_jump_world_record_progression
1961–Iolanda Balas set her 14th (and ultimate) World Document within the Excessive Soar together with her clearance of 6-3 1/4 (1.91) in Sofia, Bulgaria.
IAAF Corridor of Fame Bio: http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/hall-of-fame
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women’s_high_jump_world_record_progression
5-08 7/8 1.75 July 14, 1956
5-09 ¼ 1.76 October 13, 1957 (Tied Mildred McDaniel-USA/Dec.1, 1956)
5-10 1/8 1.78 June 7, 1958 (Zheng Fengrong-CHN 5-09 5/8 (1.77) Nov.17, 1957
5-10 7/8 1.80 June 22, 1958
5-11 ¼ 1.81 July 31, 1958
5-11 5/8 1.82 October 4, 1958
6-00 1.83 October 18, 1958
6-00 ½ 1.84 September 21, 1959
6-00 ¾ 1.85 June 6, 1960
6-01 ¼ 1.86 July 10, 1960
6-01 ½ 1.87 April 15, 1961
6-02 1.88 June 18, 1961
6-02 ¾ 1.90 July 8, 1961
6-03 ¼ 1.91 July 16, 1961
1967—Earl McCullouch, the latest NCAA Champion from USC, ran 13.2 (13.43-auto) on the Pan-American Video games Trials in Minneapolis to equal the World Document within the 110-meter hurdles, which was shared by Germany’s Martin Lauer and American Lee Calhoun. McCullouch took as a lot pleasure at beating Willie Davenport (13.6) for the first time as he did for getting a share of the file.
Wiki Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_McCullouch
1970—Kansas State’s Ken Swenson, winner of the 880y on the NCAA Championships the earlier month, set an American Document of 1:44.8 for 800-meters in Stuttgart.
https://www.kshof.org/team/ken-swenson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8zYcpMosGI
1971—The Pan-Africa vs USA Twin meet, held at Duke’s Wallace Stadium in Durham, North Carolina, was a smashing success, drawing greater than 50,000 spectators to the 2-day affair (16/18,000, 17/34,000).
The spotlight of the primary day of competitors was the Males’s 5000-Meters, which featured a spirited duel between America’s finest, Steve Prefontaine, towards the unheralded Miruts Yifter of Ethiopia.
With lower than 2 laps to go, Yifter went into overdrive, opening up a 40-yard hole on Pre. As he approached the start of the ultimate lap, Yifter threw his arms up-in victory and stopped, pondering the race was over! He didn’t hassle to renew operating as Pre glided by him, operating the complete distance and successful in 13:57.6.
Yifter returned the following day as a non-scoring entrant within the 10,000-Meters, and, with Pan-Africa coaches and officers ensuring he was conscious of the lap depend, he gained an in depth race over Frank Shorter (28:53.2-28:54.0).
Whereas Yifter was just about unknown earlier than this weekend, he would go on to have an awesome profession as probably the greatest distance runners on this planet, capped by a double win within the 5000 and 10,000 on the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
The meet, which was carried out in 90-degree climate each days, was put collectively by coaches Dr.Leroy Walker (North Carolina Central) and Al Buehler (Duke) and was supported by favorable native media.
https://today.duke.edu/2016/07/panafrica
https://vault.si.com/vault/1971/07/26/africa-was-right-on-in-dixie
https://fansided.com/2021/07/19/duke-pan-africa-usa-international-track-meet/
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