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This Day in Monitor & Area–September 24
1932—Czech František Douda, who had earlier received the bronze medal on the L.A. Olympics, regained the World Document within the Shot Put along with his successful toss of 53-1 ¾ (16.20) in Prague. Douda set his first WR of 52-7 ½ (16.04) in 1931, solely to see it damaged by Poland’s Zygmont Heljasz in June,1932 (52-8[16.05]). American Leo Sexton then improved the document to 53-1/4 (16.16) a month after successful the gold medal in L.A.
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Males’s_shot_put_world_record_progression
1972—Bulgaria’s Yordanka Blagoeva cleared 6-4 ¼ (1.94) within the Excessive Leap in Zagreb to interrupt the World Document of 6-3 ½ (1.92) that was set by West Germany’s Ulrike Meyfarth on the Munich Olympics earlier within the month. Blagoeva had received the silver medal behind Meyfarth and would win the bronze medal 4 years later in Montreal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yordanka_Blagoeva
WR Development(conversions are unofficial): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladiespercent27s_high_jump_world_record_progression
1988–Simply as he did a 12 months earlier than on the World Championships in Rome, Canada’s Ben Johnson beat Carl Lewis and set a World Document within the Males’s 100-meters, operating 9.79 to win Olympic gold in Seoul. That might all change a couple of days later, in fact, after Johnson examined constructive for steroids! Lewis was awarded the gold medal and his 9.92 was acknowledged because the World Document. Transferring as much as silver and bronze have been Nice Britain’s Linford Christie (9.97) and American Calvin Smith (9.99).
Jackie Joyner-Kersee, the silver medalist in 1984, set the 4th and closing World Document of her profession, scoring 7,291 factors to win the Heptathlon by virtually 400 factors over East Germany’s Sabine John (6,897) and Anke Behmer (6858). JJK would win a 2nd gold 5 days later within the Lengthy Leap.
JJK’s Marks: 12.69, 1.86/6-1 ¼, 15.80/51-10, 22.56, 7.27/23-10 ¼, 45.66/149-10, 2:08.51
The primary two rounds of the Ladies’s 100 have been held on today. All eyes have been on World Document holder Florence Griffith-Joyner and he or she didn’t disappoint, setting an Olympic Document of 10.88 in her warmth, a time matched by U.S. teammate Evelyn Ashford in her ¼-final race.
Ashford didn’t have lengthy to take pleasure in her standing as co-Olympic Document holder, since Flo-Jo ran an incredible 10.62 within the very subsequent race! That’s nonetheless the =Sixth-fastest authorized time in historical past (though some really feel that her 10.49 World Document must be thought of wind-aided).
Bulgaria’s Khristo Markov received the Males’s Triple Leap with an Olympic Document leap of 57-9 ½ (17.61). Putting 2-3-4 have been Soviets Igor Lapshin (57-5 ¾ [17.52]), Aleksandr Kovalenko (57-2 [17.42]), and Oleg Protsenko (57-1/4 [17.38]). Individuals Charlie Simpkins (56-8 ¾ [17.29]} and Willie Banks (55-10 ½ [17.03]}, who had set the World Document of 58-11 ½ (17.97) three years earlier, completed fifth and Sixth, respectively.
Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1988_Summer_Olympics
Sports activities Illustrated Vault
Busted: https://vault.si.com/vault/1988/10/03/the-loser
A Look Again(Johnson-2008): https://vault.si.com/vault/2008/07/14/ben-johnson
JJK Flo-Jo
Story Behind the SI Cowl Picture(Johnson):
https://deadspin.com/the-story-behind-the-iconic-photos-of-the-olympics-dirt-1797061106
Movies
M100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTM_mvA4kas
Heptathlon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z-QfDiV2XA
Olympedia Stories: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/22/sports activities/ATH
2000—Nice Britain’s Denise Lewis, the bronze medalist in Atlanta in 1996, received the Heptathlon in moist and windy circumstances on the Sydney Olympics with a rating of 6,584 factors. Russia’s Yelena Prokhorova (6531) outran Belarus’s Natalya Sazanovich (6527) within the closing occasion, the 800-Meters, to win the silver medal.
Two potential medalists have been hampered by accidents. Syria’s Ghada Shouaa, the defending champion, failed to complete the primary occasion, the 100-Meter Hurdles, and France’s Eunice Barber, who dropped out after making one poor effort within the Lengthy Leap.
Japan’s Naoko Takahashi pulled away from Romania’s Lidia Șimon (2:23:22) late within the race to win the Ladies’s Marathon within the Olympic Document time of two:23:14. Ending third was Kenya’s Joyce Chepchumba (2:24:45).
Simply as a heavy rain began to fall, Males’s Excessive Leap winner Russia’s Sergey Klyugin cleared 7-8 ½ (2.35) on his 1st try, whereas the opposite 6 jumpers who had cleared 7-7 ¼ (2.32) missed on all 3 of their makes an attempt. Profitable the silver and bronze medals primarily based on fewer misses have been Cuba’s Javier Sotomayor, the 1992 champion, and Algeria’s Abderahmane Hammad. American Charles Austin, the defending champion, didn’t make it out of the qualifying spherical.
The medalists within the Males’s Hammer Throw have been Poland’s Szymon Ziółkowski (262-6 [80.02]), Italy’s Nicola Vizzone
(261-3 [79.64]), and Belarus’s Igor Astapkovich (259-9 [79.17]), who edged teammate Ivan Tikhon on the premise of a greater 2ndthrow.
Bulgaria’s Tereza Marinova (49-10 ½ [15.20]) received the Ladies’s Triple Leap in windy and moist circumstances over Russia’s Tatyana Lebedeva (49-2 ½ [15.00]) and Ukraine’s Yelena Govorova (49-1 [14.96]).
The U.S. was shut out of the medals on this day’s 5 finals.
Medalists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics
Outcomes: https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/olympic-games/Twenty seventh-olympic-games-6951910
Olympedia Stories: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/25/sports activities/ATH
Video(Marathon): https://olympics.com/en/video/women-s-marathon-sydney-2000-great-olympic-moments
2023—Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa received the Berlin Marathon for the 2nd 12 months in a row, operating 2:11:53 to smash the earlier
World Document of two:14:04, set by Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei in 2019,
Like many different current record-breakers, she reportedly wore a pair of (adidas) “supershoes” (See Guardian
article)
No document this time for Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge (2:02:42), however he did win for the fifth time, breaking a tie with Ethiopia’s
Haile Gebrselassie for probably the most wins within the race’s historical past. Kipchoge had set the final two males’s World Data
whereas successful in 2018 (2:01:39) & 2022 (2:01:09).
American Scott Fauble, who hoped to realize the Olympic qualifying customary of two:08:10, was unable to complete the
race.
High 10: https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/information/berlin-marathon-results-2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Jn3I2c5eA
Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC9qR9FD6e0
https://worldathletics.org/information/report/tigst-assefa-world-marathon-record-berlin-kipchoge-2023
WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_world_record_progression
Previous Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Marathon
www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/sep/24/tigist-assefa-smashes-marathon-world-record-in-berlin-in-new-400-shoes
Extra on Assefa:
Competed within the 800-meters on the 2016 World Indoor Championships and 2016 Olympics. Her race in Rio was her
final on the observe attributable to an ongoing achilles damage, Took 2017 off to get better from the damage, then switched to the
roads in 2018. Didn’t compete in 2020-2021 as a result of pandemic, then ran her first marathon in 2022. Ran
2:34:01 in March when she was 17 kilos over her regular operating weight (“she wanted a paycheck”), then
broke by when she received in Berlin in September with a time of two:15:37.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigist_Assefa
Her Story: https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a41430669/who-is-tigist-assefa-berlin-marathon-winner/
