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This Day in Monitor & Discipline–February 25
1966–Kansas freshman Jim Ryun, 2 months shy of his nineteenth birthday, set an American Junior Indoor Report of three:59.6 within the mile in Kansas Metropolis.
1971—Frank Shorter gained the 3-mile on the U.S. Indoor Championships at N.Y.’s Madison Sq. Backyard in 13:10.6, simply lacking George Younger’s World Indoor Report of 13:09.8. Shorter thought he might break the document, however the deep breaths didn’t come on the final lap, saying “I simply couldn’t dig down sufficient. The smoke was attending to me on the final two laps.” (The Backyard hadn’t but banned smoking within the area)
Ending fifth in 13:37.0 was prep Dave Merrick (Lincoln Approach-New Lenox, IL), who broke Gerry Lindgren’s U.S. Excessive College Report of 13:37.8 (1964).
N.Y. Occasions
Merrick: https://www.letsrun.com/discussion board/flat_read.php?thread=2466555
1977—Clancy Devery, a Junior at South Salem (OR), set a U.S. Excessive College Report of two:23:05 on the Path’s Finish Marathon in Seaside, Oregon.
https://runningnewmexico.podbean.com/e/episode-49-clancy-devery/
1982–Eveyln Ashford set a World Report of 6.54 within the 60-yard sprint on the U.S. Indoor Championships in Madison Sq. Backyard.
Joan Hansen (9:37.03), Brenda Web9:37.64), and Margaret Groos (9:37.65) all broke Francie Larrieu’s earlier World Report within the Girls’s 2-mile (9:38.1). Larrieu, the early pace-setter, completed 4th in 9:44.85.
Having to start out his runup on the banked observe after discovering the standard Backyard runway was brief, Carl Lewis gained the Males’s Lengthy Soar with a leap of 28-3/4 (8.55), falling only one centimeter wanting matching his 7-week-old World Report!
Lewis had been declared ineligible at Houston after failing a historical past course however didn’t appear to thoughts. “I don’t have the burden of additional crew meets and a number of occasions,” he mentioned on the time. “I like it!”
The “winner” of the Girls’s Lengthy Soar, held within the morning earlier than mayors, was unheralded Veronica Bell, a junior at Cal Poly Pomona. With a earlier better of 20-6 ½ (6.26/outdoor), Bell was credited with a bounce of 21-11 ¾ (6.70) within the first spherical, ostensibly breaking Martha Watson’s 9-year-old American Indoor Report of 21-4 ¾ (6.52). Nevertheless, it’s greater than seemingly that officers mis-read the metric studying on the measuring tape! (Bell’s mark was by no means ratified as an American Report.) See SI’s cowl and browse extra particulars.
Sports activities Illustrated Vault: http://www.si.com/vault/1982/03/08/616468/a-meeting-of-the-brilliant-and-the-bizarre
1983—Arkansas ran 7:19.92 within the 4×800 relay on the Razorback Inv. in Fayetteville, breaking Japanese Michigan’s
2-day previous Collegiate Report of seven:21.22.
(Ed Williams 1:50.8, Tom Moloney 1:49.7, David Swain 1:50.4, Frank O’Mara 1:49.0)
1988–Germany’s Carlo Thränhardt cleared 7-11 1/4(2.42m) in Berlin to interrupt Patrik Sjöberg’s World Report within the excessive bounce(7-10 3/4, 2.41m).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menpercent27s_high_jump_world_record_progression
1993–At a time when worldwide athletes might compete on the U.S. Indoor Nationals, Algeria’s Noureddine Morceli beat Eire’s Marcus O’Sullivan to win the Males’s Mile in New York, 3:54.59 to three:54.90. Steve Holman completed third in 3:55.41 to say the U.S. title. 40-year previous Eamonn Coghlan fell wanting his objective of breaking 4-minutes however nonetheless set a Masters Report of 4:01.39.
Gail Devers set an American Report of 6.99 within the Girls’s 60-Meters
This may be the final yr the Championships could be held at N.Y.’s Madison Sq. Backyard, which had been the meet’s dwelling for many of its lengthy existence.
N.Y. Occasions Protection:
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/27/sports activities/track-field-vroom-that-was-devers-whipping-bl
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/09/sports activities/track-field-indoor-championships-to-leave-the-garden.html
U.S. Indoor Championships Venues(From 1958 on): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Track_percent26_Field_Indoor_Championships
2000—37-year-old Chris Clark was the shock winner on the U.S. Olympic Girls’s Marathon Trials on a heat day in Columbia, SC. Her profitable time of two:33:31 met the “B” qualifying normal (2:45:00) for the Olympics however was wanting the “A” normal of two:33:00, that means that she could be the one American lady competing in Sydney. Getting a shutout was runner-up Kristy Johnson and Eighth-placer Libbie Hickman, the highest two finishers who had beforehand met the “A” normal.
“To be sincere, the qualifying normal was on my thoughts,” Clark mentioned. “I knew the two:33 was big. If there may be any method I might have gone beneath it, I might have. I really feel unhealthy that I’m the one one going to the Olympics.”
From the article linked beneath:
“The win was so surprising for a lot of causes, and it’s exhausting to know what Wattending Begin is. However the treadmill is nearly as good a spot as any. Day after day, mile after mile, Clark ran in place in her Anchorage dwelling to arrange for the race.
The trials have been in late February in South Carolina, so to acclimate herself to warmth— and since it’s chilly, darkish, and icy that point of yr in Alaska — Clark cranked up the thermostat and ran on a treadmill. That’s like a skier coaching for the Olympics on a Nordic observe.
All of the whereas, she was elevating a household and dealing — she was a mother to 2 boys beneath the age of 10 and a pathologist who labored three days every week on the hospital.”
Clark completed nineteenth within the Olympic Marathon with a private greatest time of two:31:35.
https://alaskasportshall.org/inductee/chris-clarks-olympic-trial-victory/
Sports activities Illustrated
https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2020/03/06/chris-clark-olympic-marathon-qualifier
Outcomes: http://www.marathonguide.com/outcomes/browse.cfm?RL=1&MIDD=1014000226&Gen=F&Start=1&Finish=100&Max=141
