This Day in Track & Field, September 27, Jonni Myyrä wins second Olympic title at the javelin, Ruth Chepnegetich wins World Championships (2019) marathon, by Walt Murphy News & Results Services

This Day in Observe & Area–September  27 

1922—Sweden’s Sven Lundgren set a World Report of two:28.6 for 1000-meters on the 385-meter monitor in Stockholm.

WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_metres_world_record_progression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Lundgren

1925—Finland’s Jonni Myyrä, who gained his 2nd consecutive Olympic gold medal within the Javelin in 1924, threw a private better of 224-11 (68.55) in Richmond,CA. Because the meet was not sanctioned by the AAU, the mark was not acknowledged as a World Report.

His Olympic success made Myyrä a hero in his native Finland, but it surely was later found after he emigrated to the U.S. that he had been concerned in some questionable choices in his position as a financial institution supervisor that had a detrimental impact on native companies and people.

There was a acknowledged World Report set in Turku, Finland, on this date, as Norway’s Charles Hoff raised his personal 6-week previous customary within the Pole Vault from 13-10  ½ (4.23) to  13-11  ¼ (4.25). It was the 4th World Report of his profession. An all-around athlete, Hoff competed within the 400 and 800 on the 1924 Olympics.

WR Development(PV): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menpercent27s_pole_vault_world_record_progression

Myyrä: https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/67712

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonni_Myyrä

Hoff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hoff

1955—The Soviet Union’s Albert Ivanov ran 1:17:34.0 for 25,000-Meters in Moscow to interrupt the earlier World Report of 1:19:11.8 that was set by Czech Emil Zátopek in 1952. Zátopek would regain the file a month later by working 1:16:36.4.

1958—An English crew of Mike Blagrove (4:05.4), Peter Clark (4:06.6), Derek Ibbotson (4:08.6), and Brian Hewson (4:10.0) set a World Report of 16:30.6 within the 4-Mile Relay at White Metropolis Stadium in London.

Hewson, one of many first males to interrupt 4-minutes for the mile when he ran 3:59.8 in 1955, handed away in 2022 on the age of 89.

European 1500m champion Brian Hewson passes away at 89

1980—The brand new Jumbo Elliott Observe at Villanova was devoted through the Wildcats’ soccer sport with Boston School. Among the many many Olympians available who competed for the legendary coach have been gold medalists Ron Delany, Charlie Jenkins, Paul Drayton, and Don Bragg.

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/23/obituaries/jumbo-elliott-of-villanova-is-dead-long-an-outstanding-track-coach.html

1988–This was imagined to be a day of relaxation on the Seoul Olympics. An opportunity for followers to replicate on the primary 5 days of competitors that produced Jackie Joyner-Kersee’s 4th (and closing) World Report within the Heptathlon (7,291), repeat Olympic wins for  Carl Lewis and Roger Kingdom within the Lengthy Soar and 110-hurdles, respectively, Flo-Jo’s win within the Girls’s 100, and a terrific Males’s 100 that noticed Canadian Ben Johnson beat Lewis with a brand new World Report of 9.79.

        And the off-day was going to supply these of us who have been engaged on the NBC manufacturing crew an opportunity to get an additional hour or two of sleep and perhaps deal with some laundry wants.

        However that each one modified within the early morning hours because the phrase began to unfold that Johnson had failed his drug check and could be disqualified! I acquired a name at about 6am from Pete Cava, who was working with NBC as an Olympic researcher. Announcers Charlie Jones, Frank Shorter, and Dwight Stones have been going to debate the breaking information with Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley, who have been serving because the hosts for NBC’s broadcast, and Producer John Gonzalez advised me to go together with them to supply any background info if the necessity arose. Since a press convention was scheduled to happen on the Seoul Hilton, the place we have been staying, I requested fellow researcher Ed Gordon to watch that in case any additional developments got here up.

         After we arrived on the NBC set, Gumbel, realizing the gravity of the scenario, put everybody comfortable by saying, “All proper, girls and boys, let’s have some enjoyable with this”. The section went in addition to might be anticipated, however there was no enjoyable on the minds of these of us who have been deeply concerned within the sport.

        This may grow to be our “Day of Infamy”, a day when most of the people’s notion of our sport was modified without end. Up till this level, most individuals seemed upon T&F as a pure beginner sport, one wherein athletes did all the precise issues as they pursued their Olympic goals. Johnson’s subsequent trial and act of contrition meant that issues would by no means be the identical once more.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/27/sports activities/the-seoul-olympics-johnson-loses-gold-to-lewis-after-drug-test.html?pagewanted=all

Sports activities Illustrated Vault:

https://vault.si.com/vault/1988/10/10/man-not-superman-ben-johnsons-demise-revealed-a-more-endearing-carl-lewis

https://vault.si.com/vault/1989/06/26/he-has-suffered-enough-let-ben-johnsons-87-mark-stand-and-dont-ban-him-for-life

Coach Comes Clear: https://vault.si.com/vault/1989/03/13/a-dirty-coach-comes-clean

2000—Working out of the dreaded lane one, Angelo Taylor nonetheless managed to win the Males’s 400-Meter Hurdles on the Sydney Olympics, setting a private better of 47.50. He wanted an Olympian lean to defeat Hadi Soua’an Somayli of Saudi Arabia, who ran 47.53. South Africa’s Llewellyn Herbert (47.81) beat out American James Carter (48.04) for the bronze medal.

Taylor, who would win his 2nd gold medal within the occasion 8 years later in Beijing, adopted within the footsteps of Uganda’s John Akii-Bua, who additionally gained the 400-hurdles out of lane one on the 1972 Video games in Munich.

Whereas Taylor was already well-known within the occasion, that wasn’t the case for Russia’s Irina Privalova, one of many world’s greatest sprinters all through the Nineteen Nineties. A rookie within the Girls’s 400-hurdles, Privalova gained the gold medal with a private greatest time of 53.02 and beat Jamaica’s Deon Hemmings (53.45), the defending champion, within the course of. third was Morocco’s Nezha Bidouane (53.57), who would win her 2nd World title the next yr.

After a surprisingly sluggish first 400 (53.43), all 8 finalists within the Males’s 800-Meters have been in rivalry on the finish of the ultimate backstretch. Italy’s Andrea Longo edged forward on the flip, however crowded Switzerland’s André Bucher, forcing him to take just a few strides within the infield. Longo was nonetheless in entrance halfway by the homestretch, however pale to sixth and was later disqualified for his earlier foul on Bucher. In the meantime, Germany’s Nils Schumann (1:45.08) had taken the lead and was in a position to maintain off the late rush by Denmark’s Wilson Kipketer (1:45.14), the World Report holder. Algeria’s Djabir Saïd-Guerni (1:45.18) gained the bronze medal.

Profitable gold and bronze within the Girls’s Discus have been Belarus’s Ellina Zvereva (224-5 [68.40]) and Iryna Yatchenko

(213-11 [65.20]), with Greece’s Anastasía Kelesídou (215-7 [65.71]) profitable the silver medal.

Kazakhstan’s Olga Shishigina (12.65) edged Nigeria’s Glory Alozie (12.68) to win the Girls’s 100-Meter Hurdles, with American Melissa Morrison (12.76) profitable the bronze medal.

Gail Devers, a 2-time gold medalist within the 100-Meters (1992,1996), continued to have onerous luck within the hurdles on the Olympics as she pulled up with a sore hamstring in her semi-final race. Devers had tripped over the ultimate hurdle whereas main within the closing on the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

Sergey Bubka’s Olympic issues additionally continued because the 6-time World Champion no-heighted within the qualifying spherical of the Males’s Pole Vault. After profitable gold on the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, he no-heighted within the closing in Barcelona in 1992 and an damage stored him out of the 1996 Video games in Atlanta.

http://tinyurl.com/NYT-AngeloTaylor2000

Outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics

Movies: M400h  W400h  M800  W100h

2019—The World Championships opened up in Doha, Qatar, with the Girls’s Marathon beginning at midnight to keep away from the stifling warmth (ending on the twenty eighth), but it surely was nonetheless 90 levels (32c) with 72% humidity because the race started. In a survival of the fittest affair, Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich emerged because the winner in 2:32:43, the slowest profitable time in World Championship (and Olympic) historical past. 2nd was Bahrain’s (and Kenya’s) Rose Chelimo (2:33:46), the defending champion, and Helalia Johannes (2:34:15) gained the bronze medal, the primary for a Namibian girl on the Worlds.

41-year previous Roberta Groner (2:38:44), a mom of three sons and a full-time nursing supervisor, who’s coached by Steve Magness, was the highest American finisher, amassing $6,000 in prize cash for putting sixth!

Solely 40 of the unique 68 starters have been in a position to end the race.

Medalists/Outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_World_Athletics_Championships

Outcomes

Video(Full Race): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZRE8_VEODk

T&F Information Protection(for subscribers)

Marathon: https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/world-champs-womens-marathon-hot-from-the-get-go/

Groner: https://www.espn.com/espnw/life-style/story/_/id/26657108/the-remarkable-story-41-year-old-olympic-marathon-hopeful-roberta-groner