This Day in Monitor & Discipline–February 22
1882 – With 120 miles, James Saunders wins NYC’s 24 hour race & $100 prize
http://planetultramarathon.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/the-history-of-the-6-day-race/
1911—The 4th version of the Millrose Video games was held in entrance of 5,000 spectators on the Thirteenth Regiment Armory in Brooklyn,NY (on a Wednesday).
The NYAC’s Harry Gissing was the winner of the 1000-yards, the featured monitor occasion, in 2:18.8.
The ten-mile handicap race, a crowd favourite, was received by T.E. Nelson in 1:04:39.4 (with a 2-minute handicap. The race began in Tub Seashore, with the final 2-miles going down on the monitor.
The meet, which included a 5-mile bicycle race, was placed on by the Millrose A.A., together with the Wanamaker retailer chain.
Gissing was one in every of many athletes who have been featured in a buying and selling card collection that was revealed by the Nationwide Licorice Firm.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/02/23/104820440.html?pageNumber=10
1916–Binga Dismond runs 51.0 and upsets Ted Meredith within the 440y on the Video games of St.Antony, which have been held on the forty seventh Regiment Armory in Brooklyn,NY. Dismond went on to turn out to be a famous doctor in Harlem.
http://question.nytimes.com/gst/summary.html?res=950DE4D9103FE233A25750C2A9649C946796D6CF
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2594046/
1958—Browning Ross, the “Father of Lengthy Distance Operating within the U.S.”, organized a gathering on the Paramount Lodge in New York whereby the Street Runners Membership of America (RRCA) was began. (From Gary Corbitt).
http://www.rrca.org/; http://www.rrca.org/about/historical past/
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_Ross
NY Instances Obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/30/sports activities/browning-ross-74-founder-of-road-runners.html
1959—Ted Corbitt (2:38:57), representing the New York Pioneer Membership, wins the Cherry Tree Marathon, the precursor to the NY Metropolis Marathon. This was the primary marathon performed by the newly shaped Street Runners Membership: New York Affiliation. The race had 12 starters and 6 finishers. Corbitt can be the membership’s first President, with Vice President: Joe Kleinerman (Millrose AA), and Secretary – Treasurer: John Sterner (New York Pioneer Membership). The membership had 47 members in 1959, and at the moment is over 60,000. Corbitt would turn out to be often called “The Father of Ultramarathon working” within the U.S. and took the lead in creating a system throughout the nation that certifies {that a} street race-course has been precisely measured.
The race began and completed in Macombs Dam Park close to Yankee Stadium, working north up Sedgwick Avenue alongside the Harlem River and looping again once more thrice.
Corbitt’s Profession Stats (Marathons/Ultramarathons):
https://tedcorbitt.com/list-of-marathons-ultramarathons/
(From Gary Corbitt, Ted’s son)
1964–With prepster Gerry Lindgren setting a quick early tempo, Australia’s Ron Clarke went on to set a World Report of 13:18.4 for 3-miles on the U.S. Indoor Championships at Madison Sq. Backyard. NY working legend Pete McArdle completed 2nd in 13:32.8, whereas Lindgren set a Nationwide H.S. Report of 13.37.8 in third place.
As quoted in T&F Information, Nebraska freshman Charlie Greene, giving an early indication of his legendary showmanship, instructed Bob Hayes earlier than the beginning of the 60-yard sprint, “You’ll should run 5.9 to beat me”. Hayes did simply that, working the primary 5.9 in historical past. Greene ran 6.0 in 2nd to equal the earlier world file.
Sports activities Illustrated Vault (Hayes Function)
https://vault.si.com/vault/1964/05/18/how-fast-is-the-fastest-man-alive
1969—Main from the gun, George Younger ran 8:27.2 for 2-miles in San Diego to equal the World Report that was set on the identical monitor a 12 months earlier by Australia’s Kerry Pearce, who would run that point once more in Seattle in 1971. Younger additionally broke Jim Beatty’s American Report of 8:30.8 that was set in 1964.
1980—Mary Decker (Slaney) set a World Report of 1:59.7 for 880-yards on the Jack-in-the-Field meet in San Diego. Her time of 1:58.9 en-route for 800-meters was an American Report.
Kenya’s Mike Boit received the Males’s ½-mile in 1:47.9 to equal the World Report that was set by Australia’s Ralph Doubell in 1969.
One other World Report was set within the Males’s Lengthy Leap, with Larry Myricks reaching out to 27-6 (8.38).
No file within the Males’s Mile, however it was nonetheless a high-quality affair, with Tanzania’s Filbert Bayi (3:55.5) profitable an in depth one over Eire’s Eamonn Coghlan (3:55.7), New Zealand’s John Walker (3:55.8), and Germany’s Thomas Wessinghage (3:56.4), with American Steve Scott (3:59.3) ending 5th.
1981—Harvard’s Adam Dixon ran 2:19.79 for 1000-meters on his dwelling monitor on the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton (HYP) meet, breaking the American (2:20.0/1973) and Collegiate (2:20.3/1979) information that have been held by Tom Von Ruden and Villanova’s Don Paige, respectively. (The time was initially reported as 2:19.80)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1981/2/23/dixon-sets-american-record-in-1000/
Harvard Corridor of Fame: https://www.harvardvarsityclub.org/article.html?help=597
1985–Sweden’s Patrik Sjöberg cleared 7-9 ¾ (2.38) in Berlin to set a World Indoor Report within the Excessive Leap.
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrik_Sjöberg
1985—Competing in entrance of a sparse Madison Sq. Backyard crowd through the afternoon session of the U.S. Indoor Championships, Arkansas’ Mike Conley received the Triple Leap with a Collegiate Report of 57-1 (17.40). He returned within the night to win the Lengthy Leap along with his indoor better of 26-11 ¾ (8.22).
Valerie Brisco-Hooks set an American Report of 23.08 within the 1st spherical of the 220y, then improved to 22.95 within the last, profitable a complete of $14,410 as the feminine total winner of the Mobil Grand Prix.
Brooklyn native Diane Dixon was additionally a double-record setter, profitable her warmth of the 440y in 52.77 earlier than working 52.20 within the last. The latter time additionally bettered Brisco-Hooks’ AR of 52.63 for 400-Meters. It was fairly an evening for Dixon, who additionally anchored her Atoms T.C. to a win within the Mile Relay, received $7,500 within the Grand Prix, and obtained a gold medal for working within the 1st spherical of the 4×400 on the earlier 12 months’s Olympics in Los Angeles (last received by the U.S.). Dixon would finally win 11 U.S. Indoor titles within the 440y/400m.
Mentioned an emotional Atoms coach Fred Thompson of his prize pupil, “It was a helluva efficiency. After the information and getting her medal, she anchored our mile relay in 53.6. It was probably the most thrilling nights within the historical past of the Atoms”.
American Report holder Jimmy Howard received the Excessive Leap (7-8 [2.34]) and received $10,000 because the Males’s total winner of the Mobil Grand Prix.
Outcomes: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42085717/1985-usa-indoor-championships-new/
1987—France’s Bruno Marie-Rose set a World Indoor Report of 20.37 for 200-Meters in Liévin, France.
1992—Algeria’s Noureddine Morceli set a World Indoor Report of two:15.26 for 1000-meters in Birmingham, England. Holland’s Rob Druppers set the earlier Report of two:16.4 in 1988.
1997—Making the most of the sprinter-friendly altitude of Colorado Springs, UTEP’s Obadele Thompson set a World and Collegiate Report of 5.99 for 55-meters, the favored dash distance amongst U.S. schools on the time, on the Western Athletic Convention Championships. Pittsburgh’s Lee McRae held the earlier information of 6.00 (1986). Ending an in depth 2nd to Thompson in 6.02 was BYU’s Leonard Myles-Mills.
1998—Mozambique’s Maria Mutola ran 1:56.36 in Liévin, France, to interrupt the 10-year previous World Indoor Report of 1:56.40, set by East Germany’s Christine Wachtel in 1988. Or so it was thought on the time. After checking video of the race, officers dominated that Mutola had stepped off the monitor on the ultimate flip and determined that her time wouldn’t be ratified as a WR!
https://www.worldathletics.org/information/report/mutola-powers-to-new-800m-indoor-record
Then Once more…: https://worldathletics.org/information/information/mutola-indoor-mark-will-not-be-ratified
2004–Russia’s Svetlana Feofanova cleared 15-11 (4.85m) in Athens to interrupt Yelena Isinbaeva’s week-old Pole Vault file of 15-10 (4.83). It was the tenth (and last) WR of her profession.
2014—On one of many more strange days within the historical past of the U.S. Indoor Championships (or some other meet), there have been controversial disqualifications in each the Girls’s and Males’s 3000-meters.
Up first was the Girls’s race, which was “received” by Gabe Grunewald, adopted by Shannon Rowbury, Sara Vaughn, and Jordan Hasay. An official had raised a flag on the ultimate flip after seeing contact between Grunewald and Hasay. After watching video of the race, officers decided that no foul had been dedicated and let the unique outcomes stand.
Since a berth on the U.S. workforce that might compete on the World Indoor Championships was at stake (Vaughn hadn’t met the qualifying customary), Alberto Salazar, Hasay’s coach, filed a protest, which was then upheld, with Grunewald being disqualified and Hasay positioned on the World workforce.
Grunewald’s representatives then began engaged on the arbitration course of. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, with Salazar withdrawing his preliminary protest after Hasay declined her spot on the World workforce and Grunewald was reinstated because the winner.
Whereas it took two days to determine Grunewald’s destiny, it took 10-months for Andrew Bumbalough to be reinstated because the 8th-place finisher within the Males’s 3000!
Bernard Lagat and Galen Rupp completed 1-2 within the Males’s race, whereas Bumbalough was disqualified after being mistakenly recognized because the runner who had impeded Rupp on the ultimate lap.
This was the final race of the night time, and Bumbalough and his coach, Jerry Schumacher, didn’t discover out concerning the DQ till they have been again at their resort. After they returned to the monitor, they have been instructed in no unsure phrases that Bumbalough had certainly been noticed committing a foul, so that they left with out submitting a protest. Solely drawback was, it was Ryan Hill, not Bumbalough, who had veered in entrance of Rupp as he moved exterior to problem for the lead (he wound up ending 3rd)!
Officers quickly turned conscious of their mistake, however it wasn’t till the USATF assembly in December that Bumbalough’s Eighth-place end was formally acknowledged.
USATF officers took numerous warmth for his or her dealing with of each incidents, and shaped the “Albuquerque Working Group”, which finally put into place a collection of provisions that might assist keep away from related conditions sooner or later.
https://www.letsrun.com/occasions/2014-usatf-indoor-track-field-championships/
http://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/why-was-andrew-bumbalough-disqualified-in-usa-indoor-3000#
http://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/andrew-bumbalough-reacts-to-usatf-report-on-his-errant-dq
http://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/grunewald-reinstated-as-3000-meter-champ
Outcomes: https://flashresults.com/2014_Meets/indoor/2-21-USA/index.htm
Movies:
2019—LSU freshman Mondo Duplantis set a Collegiate Report of 19-5 (5.92) within the Pole Vault on the SEC Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He would win the NCAA Indoor title two weeks later and is now the World Report holder and the reigning Olympic and World Champion.
2019—Kendell Williams (4496) received the Pentathlon on the primary day of the U.S. Indoor Championships, which returned to
New York for the primary time since 2002, however at a brand new venue–the Ocean Breeze Advanced on Staten Island. Anna Corridor (Valor,
Highlands Ranch, CO) completed 3rd with a rating of 4302 to smash Williams’ Excessive College and American Junior Data. (4068/2013)
Corridor’s Marks: (8.59, 5-111⁄4/1.81, 41-81⁄2/12.34, 18-41⁄2/5.60, 2:16.11).U.S. Indoors
Vital birthdays
Born On This Day*
Jonathan Borlée–Belgium 37 (1988) 2009 NCAA Champion—400m, 4×400 (Florida State);
PB-44.43 (’12), 2023 SB: 46.31
https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/belgium/jonathan-borlee-14177716
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Borlée
Kevin Borlée—Belgium 37 (1988) 2010 European Champion—400m; PB: 44.56 (’12); 2023 SB: 46.14
2009 NCAA Champion—4×400 (Florida State-43.8 anchor/4th within the 400-brother received)
https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/belgium/kevin-borlee-14177713
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Borlée
Borlee Household: https://spikes.worldathletics.org/publish/super-belgiums-borlee-brothers
Belgian Report-400m
44.88 Kevin 2008
44.78 Jonathan 2009
44.77 Jonathan 2010
44.71 Jonathan 2010
44.56 Kevin 2012
44.43 Jonathan 2012
Each ran on these 4×400 relays
2009 NCAA (1st) 2:59.99
2010 WIC (2nd) 3:06.94NR
2011 WC (4th) 3:00.41
2012 EC (1st) 3:01.09
2012 OG (fifth) 3:01.83/3:01.70-heat
2013 WC (4th/together with brother Dylan) 3:01.02/3:00.82
2015 WC (fifth) 3:00.24/2:59.28NR
2016 EC (gold/Dylan) 3:01.10
2016 OG (4th/Dylan) 2:58.52NR/2:59.25NR-heat)
2017 WC (4th/Dylan) 3:00.04/2:59.47-heat)
2018 WIC (bronze/Dylan) 3:02.51NR
2018 EC (gold/Dylan) 2:59.47
2019 WC (bronze/Dylan & Kevin/no Jonathan) 2:58.76
2021 OG (4th/Dylan & Kevin-Jonathan ran 1st spherical) 2:57.88NR
