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This Day in Monitor & Area–July 28
1949–American Jim Fuchs set the primary of his 4 World Information within the Shot Put together with his toss of 58-4 3/8 (17.79) in Oslo. Corridor-of-Famer Fuchs was the bronze medalist on the 1948 and 1952 Olympics.
Obituary (free sign-up required): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/sports activities/18fuchs.html
HOF Bio: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/jim-fuchs
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Males’s_shot_put_world_record_progression
1955–Hungary’s Sándor Iharos ran 3:40.8 in Helsinki to set a World Report for 1500-meters. This was the third of six particular person World Information that Iharos, coached by the legendary Mihály Iglói, would set in 1955. He would additionally anchor Hungary to a World Report within the 4×1500 relay (9-29/15:14.8).
WR Development(1500): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1500_metres_world_record_progression
Iharos’ WRs in 1955
5-14 7:55.6 3000m
5-30 8:33.4 2-miles
7-28 3:40.8 1500m
9-10 13:50.8 5000m
10-23 13:14.2 3-miles
10-23 13:40.6 5000m
1958(27/28)–Throughout the early days of the Chilly Battle between the US and the Soviet Union, the menace (actual or imagined) of a nuclear warfare led to schoolchildren all through the U.S. hiding beneath their desks (as if that may assist), whereas others had been marching in the direction of (or constructing their very own) fall-out shelters throughout periodic air-raid drills.
However all of that worry was put aside as the 2 Tremendous Powers met in Moscow in what was the primary in a sequence of memorable twin meets between the world’s two biggest observe and area groups.
The person star of the meet was Rafer Johnson, who regained the World Report within the Decathlon by scoring an outstanding 8,302 factors (7783-current tables). Johnson bettered the earlier mark of 8,014 by nearly 300 factors, and the holder of that mark, Soviet Vasily Kuznetsov, completed a distant 2nd to Johnson right here with 7,865 factors. And Johnson drew the enthusiastic admiration of an appreciative Russian crowd. (75,000 on the primary day, solely 30,000 the subsequent–a workday). Johnson was chosen as Sports activities Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Yr in 1958.
A second World Report was set within the Males’s Triple Leap by Soviet Oleg Ryakhovskiy, who received with a mark of 54-5 ¼ (16.59).
American Glenn Davis received the flat 400 (45.6) and the 400-meter hurdles (50.4) and anchored the successful 4×400 relay (3:07.0).
American Information had been set by. Earlene Brown within the Shot Put (54-3 1/8 [16.54m]) and Lillian Inexperienced, who ran a modest 2:19.4 within the 800-meters.
SI Vault(Johnson): https://vault.si.com/vault/1959/01/05/rafer-johnson
Rafer Johnson: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/rafer-johnson
Glenn Davis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Davis_(athlete)
Earlene Brown: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/earlene-brown
Chilly Battle: http://www.historical past.com/matters/cold-war
Chilly Battle Museum: http://www.coldwar.org/
WR Progressions
Decathlon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decathlon_world_record_progression
Triple Leap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_jump_world_record_progression
1972—Kate “The Nice” Schmidt grew to become the primary American girl to throw the Javelin farther than 200-feet and set the primary of her ten American Information with a toss of 200-6 (61.12) in Valencia, California.
Corridor of Fame Bio(1994): https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/kate-the-great-schmidt
1976–Sweden’s Anders Gärderud received the gold medal within the Steeplechase on the Montreal Olympics and his successful time of 8:08.02 broke his personal World Report of 8:09.8. East Germany’s Frank Baumgartl was closing on Gärderud when he hit the ultimate hurdle and fell closely to the bottom. He obtained as much as salvage the bronze medal (8:10.36) as Poland’s Bronislaw Malinowski completed 2nd in 8:09.11.
Foto: Jan Collsiöö / SCANPIX / Kod: 1001
The U.S. had received the 110-hurdles on the 9 earlier Olympics (and 15 of 17 general), however not this time, with France’s Man Drut (13.30), the silver medalist in 1972, edging Cuba’s Alejandro Casañas (13.33) for the gold medal. 33-year previous Willie Davenport (13.39), the 1968 Olympic champion, got here again from a extreme knee damage in 1975 to win the bronze. This was the primary Olympics that the U.S. hadn’t received not less than a silver medal!
It was a German sweep within the Ladies’s 200-meters, with the East’s shocking Bärbel Eckert (22.37OR) edging the West’s Annegret Richter (22.39) for the gold medal, and the East’s Renate Stecher (22.64) successful the bronze.
The Soviet Union’s Yuriy Sedykh received the primary of his two Olympic titles within the Hammer Throw with an Olympic Report toss of 254-4 (77.52). It was a Soviet sweep, with Aleksey Spiridonov (249-06 [76.06]) and Anatoly Bondarchuk (247-8 [75.48]), the defending champion, successful silver and bronze. Ending 5th was Germany’s Walter Schmidt (245-2 [74.72]), the World Report holder. Sedykh would win a 2nd Olympic gold 4 years later in Moscow.
East Germany’s Rosemarie Ackermann set an Olympic Report of 6-4 (1.93) to win the gold medal within the Ladies’s Excessive Leap, with the opposite medals going to Italy’s Sara Simeoni and Bulgaria’s Yordanka Blagoyeva, each of whom cleared 6-3 ¼ (1.91). Simeoni would win gold in 1980 and one other silver in 1984. Ackermann, the World Report holder on the time, is the final straddler, male or feminine, to win an OG title within the occasion (from Olympedia).
Francie Larrieu completed sixth in her warmth of the Ladies’s 1500 with an American Report of 4:07.21 (she was eradicated within the semi-final spherical).
Within the first semi-final of the Ladies’s 400-meters, 19-year previous Sheila Ingram ran 50.90 to set American and U.S. Excessive College Information. She didn’t have lengthy to get pleasure from her AR standing, since U.S. teammate Rosalyn Bryant received the 2nd semi-final in 50.62!.
Video(Steeple): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMqM5ghPU0c
Video(110h, HT, Steeple): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZyPGrL8Xi0
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steeplechase_(athletics)
Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1976_Summer_Olympics
Olympedia Stories: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/19/sports activities/ATH
1980–East Germany’s Marita Koch set an Olympic Report of 48.88 whereas beating Jarmila Kratochvílová (49.46) within the Ladies’s 400-meters on the Moscow Olympics. Ending 3rd was East Germany’s Christina Latham (49.66).
Italy’s Pietro Mennea (20.19) received the Males’s 200 over Nice Britain’s Alan Wells (20.21), who had earlier received the 100-meters. The bronze medal went to Jamaica’s Donald Quarrie (20.29), the defending Olympic champion.
Winner of the Males’s Discus was the Soviet Union’s Viktor Rashchupkin (218-8 [66.64]). Ending 2nd & 3rd had been Czech Imrich Bugár (217-9 [66.38] and Cuba’s Luis Delís (217-7 [66.32]). 4th was East Germany’s Wolfgang Schmidt (215-4 [65.64]), the World Report holder, who was battling a leg damage.
Among the many lacking because of the boycott was Mac Wilkins, who would wind up ranked #1 on the planet this 12 months by Monitor & Area Information. 43-year previous Al Oerter, who had thrown a lifetime better of 227-11 (69.46?) earlier within the 12 months, was solely 4th on the U.S. Trials, however few would doubt that he might need made it to his 5th Olympics if he knew the U.S. workforce was truly going to compete in Moscow!
East Germany’s Lutz Dombrowski received the Males’s Lengthy Leap with a leap of 28-1/4 (8.54). This was the primary true 28-footer in historical past, since Bob Beamon had bypassed that barrier when he jumped his unimaginable 29-2 ½ (8.90) on the 1968 Olympics in Mexico Metropolis. Fellow East German Frank Paschek (26-11 ¼ [8.21]) received the silver medal, and the bronze went to the Soviet Union’s Valery Podluzhny (26-10 [8.18]). Among the many lacking because of the boycott had been People Carl Lewis and Larry Myricks, each potential medalists.
The Soviet Union’s Vera Komisova received the 100-meter hurdles in 12.56 (Olympic Report). Silver & bronze went to East Germany’s Johanna Klier (12.63) and Poland’s Lucyna Langer (12.65). This was one of many few occasions not impacted by the boycott, since all 10 World Rankers on the finish of the 12 months had been all from Japanese-bloc international locations.
Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics
Olympedia Stories: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/20/sports activities/ATH
W400: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCbANjuOexI
M200: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77KZ66HIh0A
1984–The Opening Ceremony of the 1984 Olympic Video games in Los Angeles featured the Rocket Man, 84 pianos taking part in Rhapsody in Blue, Gina Hemphill (Jesse Owens’ granddaughter), Rafer Johnson (who lit the torch) and way more.
Hammer thrower Ed Burke carried the American flag, whereas carrying the Olympic flag had been Parry O’Brien, Bruce Jenner, Wyomia Tyus, Al Oerter, Mack Robinson (Jackie’s brother), Billy Mills, Invoice Thorpe, the grandson of Jim Thorpe, and swimmer John Naber.
Rumor has it that Jenner was able to step in on the final minute for Johnson, who was involved that cramps would stop him from making his approach up the steps of the Coliseum to gentle the torch! (From Wealthy Perelman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbbVk3AGVhE
http://www.google.com/search?consumer=safari&rls=en&q=1984+opening+ceremony+video&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Lighting the Torch
https://vault.si.com/vault/1984/08/20/the-legacy-of-these-games
1996–Charles Austin set an Olympic Report of 7-10 (2.39) whereas successful the gold medal within the Males’s Excessive Leap on the Atlanta Olympics. Austin, who set the present American Report of 7-10 ½ (2.40) in 1991, was inducted into the USATF Corridor of Fame in 2012.
Austin trailed Poland’s Artur Partyka, the bronze medalist in 1992, after lacking twice at 7-9 ¼ (2.37), then handed his remaining try at that top. With the bar now at 7-10 (2.39), Austin, understanding {that a} miss would relegate him to a 2nd-place end, cleared cleanly, a lot to the delight of the partisan Atlanta crowd. After lacking his first try at 7-10, Partyka missed twice extra at 7-10 ¾ (2.41), giving Austin the gold medal, the primary by an American on this occasion since Dick Fosbury received in 1968. Profitable the bronze was Nice Britain’s Steve Smith (7-8 ½ [2.35])
Hungary’s Balázs Kiss, a USC grad who had received his 4th straight NCAA title in June, received the gold medal within the Hammer Throw
(266-6 [81.24]). American Lance Deal completed an in depth 2nd to win the silver medal with a throw of 266-2 (81.12). 3rd was Ukraine’s Oleksandr Krykun (262-6 [80.02]) Kiss nonetheless holds the Collegiate Report of 268-10 (81.94).
In deference to the mid-day warmth in Atlanta, the Ladies’s Marathon began at 7:05am and was received by Ethiopia’s Fatuma Roba in 2:26:05. 2nd & 3rd had been Russia’s Valentina Yegorova (2:28:05) and Japan’s Yuko Arimori (2:28:39).
Syria’s Ghadda Shouaa, the 1995 World Champion, received the Heptathlon with a rating of 6,780 factors. 2nd was Belarus’s Natasha Sazanovich (6563), and threerd was Nice Britain’s Denise Lewis (6489). Jackie Joyner-Kersee had withdrawn the day gone by after injuring herself within the 100-meter hurdles.
China’s Wang Junxia received the Ladies’s 5000 in 14:59.88(OR), with Eire’s Sonia O’Sullivan, the 1995 World Champion, dropping out because of a abdomen ailment. Profitable silver & bronze had been Kenya’s Pauline Konga (15:03.49) and Italy’s Roberta Brunet (15:07.52). 9th & 10th had been People Lynn Jennings (15:17.50) and Amy Rudolph (15:19.77).
Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics
Olympedia Stories: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/24/sports activities/ATH
Males’s HJ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yrG0deqB8
HOF Bio(Austin): https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/charles-austin
Video(Austin): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsol2AMIaPQ
