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This Day in Monitor & Area, September 22, Bud Held units AR in Javelin (1956), Earlene Brown units AR in Shot Put (1960), Heike Dreschler units LJ WR (1985), PattiSue Plumer surprises with win in Mercedes Fifth Avenue Mile (1990), by Walt Murphy Information and Outcomes

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This Day in Monitor & Area–September 22 

 

1888—George Grey set the 1st of his 8 pre-IAAF World Information within the Shot Put together with his profitable toss of 43-10  ¾(13.38) on the NYAC Fall Video games on NY’s Travers Island.

Wilson Coudon set his 4th (and closing) American Report of 117-9  1/2 (35.90) within the Hammer Throw in NY Metropolis.  “The Strongest Man in Maryland” was a 2-time U.S. Champion within the Hammer (1883,1886) and the 56-pound Weight Throw.

www.cecildaily.com/our_cecil/perryville-s-coupon-man-of-brawn-wit-and-business/article_0b46ccfb-f718-565a-8fe1-b5b69fa37b31.html

1956—Bud Held set the final of his 6 American Information within the Javelin with a throw of 270-0 (82.30) in Pasadena, California.

AR Developmenthttp://trackfield.brinkster.internet/RecProg_AllUSA.asp?RecCode=WR&EventCode=MF8&Gender=M&P=F

Corridor of Fame Biohttps://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/franklin-bud-held

 

1960Earlene Brown set her 7th (and closing) American Report within the Shot Put with a toss of 54-9 (16.69) in Frankfurt, Germany. Brown had gained the bronze medal on the Rome Olympics earlier.

AR Developmenthttp://trackfield.brinkster.internet/RecProg_AllUSA.asp?RecCode=WR&EventCode=WF5&Gender=W&P=F

HOF Biohttps://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/earlene-brown

1968—East Germany’s Margitta Gummel set a World Report of 61-11 (18.87) within the Ladies’s Shot Put at a pre-Olympic meet in Frankfurt. She would take the Report to a different degree the next month with throws of 62-6  ¾ (19.07) and  64-4 (19.61) whereas profitable the gold medal on the Mexico Metropolis Olympics.

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

WR Developmenthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladiespercent27s_shot_put_world_record_progression

1983—China’s Jianhua Zhu improved his World Report within the Excessive Bounce from 7-9  ¼ (2.37) to 7-9  ¾ (2.38) in Shanghai.

Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfNPSqYljK4

WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Males’s_high_jump_world_record_progression

 

1985—East German athletes set 3 World Information in East Berlin at this time.

 Ulf Timmermann threw the Shot 74-2  ½ (22.62) to smash the World Report of 72-10  ¾ (22.22) that was set in 1985 by fellow East German Udo Beyer, who completed 2nd right here with a throw of  71-9  ½ (21.88).

Sabine Busch gained the Ladies’s 400-meter Hurdles in 53.55, breaking the World Report of 53.58 set by the Soviet Union’s Margarita Ponomaryova in 1984.

Heike Dreschler, picture by Olympics.org

Making the most of a just-legal 2.0mps following wind, Heike Drechsler gained the Ladies’s Lengthy Bounce with a leap of 24-5 (7.44). The earlier mark of 24-4  ½ (7.43) was set by Romania’s Anişoara Cuşmir in 1983.

WR Progressions(subject occasion conversions are unofficial):

MSPhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Males’s_shot_put_world_record_progression

W400hhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladiespercent27s_400_metres_hurdles_world_record_progression

WLJhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladiespercent27s_long_jump_world_record_progression

1990—Nice Britain’s Peter Elliott gained the Males’s division of the Mercedes 5th Avenue Mile for the threerd time within the final 4 years on a cold and wet day in New York. His time of three:47.83 fell simply in need of Sydney Maree’s course report of three:47.52.

  PattiSue Plumer gained the Ladies’s race in 4:16.68 to interrupt the CR of 4:19.48 set by Romania’s Maricica Puica in 1986. Runnerup Natalya Artyomova (RUS) was additionally below the earlier report along with her time of 4:17.49

Plumer, who had predicted that Sandra Gasser of Switzerland would win, was dumbfounded that she had proved herself incorrect. ”I can’t consider I did it,” she stated moments after crossing the end line. (Glaser completed 4th-4:20.61).

Fred Lebow, the president of the New York Street Runners Membership, attributed the quick occasions to the 82d-to-62d Avenue course’s contemporary pavement of glassphalt, a brand new recycled glass product.

Different main finishers (Males) 2. Steve Cram (GBR) 3:48.39, 3.William Tanui (KEN) 3:50.52, 4.José Luís González (ESP) 3:51.33, 5.Jim Spivey 3:52.04…10.Marcus O’Sullivan (IRL) 3:55.49…14.Steve Scott 3:57.16, 15.Stated Aouita (MAR) 3:58.42.

NY Instances

Winnershttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Avenue_Mile

2000—Poland’s Robert Korzeniowski (1:18:59/Olympic Report) gained the Males’s 20-kilometer Stroll on the 1st day of competitors on the Sydney Olympics. Successful silver and bronze had been Mexico’s Noé Hernández (1:19:03) and Russia’s Vladimir Andreyev (1:19:27). 4th was Ecuador’s Jefferson Pérez (1:20:18), the defending champion.

Korzeniowski, the 1996 gold medalist within the 50k-Stroll, would win that occasion once more later in Sydney and for a 3rdtime in 2004.

Mexico’s Bernardo Segura thought he gained the gold medal after overtaking Korzeniowski shortly earlier than they reentered the stadium for the end. Nonetheless, he had already been disqualified by officers for a number of violations. It was solely after Segura had acquired a congratulatory cellphone name from Mexico’s President that he was knowledgeable of his disqualification. An enchantment by Mexican officers was rejected.

Finland’s Arsi Harju gained the Males’s Shot Put together with his 2nd-round toss of 69-10  ¼ (21.29). Taking the next 3 locations was the American trio of Adam Nelson (69-7 [21.21]), John Godina (69-6  ¾  [21.20]), and Andy Bloom (68-5  ¾ [20.87]).

Outcomeshttps://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/olympic-games/Twenty seventh-olympic-games-6951910

Video-M20kWhttps://olympics.com/en/video/men-s-20km-race-walk-sydney-2000-great-olympic-moments

Olympia Reviewshttps://www.olympedia.org/editions/25/sports activities/ATH

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