This Day in Monitor & Discipline–July 30
1928—Canada’s Percy Williams took the primary half of his dash double on the Amsterdam Olympics by successful the Males’s 100-meters in 10.8. He would win the 200 two days later. Successful the silver and bronze medals had been Nice Britain’s Jack London (10.9) and Germany’s Georg Lammers (10.9). Ending 4th was 18-year outdated Frank Wykoff (11.0), a current graduate of Glendale (CA) H.S. He would win the primary of his 3 Olympic gold medals within the 4×100 relay 4 days later.
Nice Britain’s Lord Burghley (aka David Cecil), was a slender winner within the Males’s 400-hurdles (53.4) over the U.S. duo of Frank Cuhel (53.6) and defending champion Morgan Taylor (53.6), the defending champion.
Eire’s Pat O’Callaghan gained the primary of his two Olympic titles within the Hammer with a throw of 168-7 (51.39). 2nd was Sweden’s Ossian Skiöld (168-3 [51.29]) and threerd was American Ed Black (160-10 [49.03]).
Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1928_Summer_Olympics
Olympedia Stories: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/9/sports activities/ATH
Movies
M100: https://olympics.com/en/video/amsterdam-1928-williams-percy
M400h (side-by-side w/Karsten Warholm’s 2021 WR!: https://www.fb.com/watch/?v=861965074907975
https://www.olympic.org/percy-williams
Percy Williams: https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/66279
1948–The primary post-World Conflict II Olympic champions had been topped in London, as Czech Emil Zátopek gained the 10,000-meters (29:59.6), Australia’s John Winter the Males’s Excessive Soar (6-6 [1.98]), and France’s Micheline Ostermeyer the Ladies’s Discus
(137-6 [41.92]). Zátopek’s 47.8s margin of victory remains to be the best in Olympic historical past.
Winter, the one one within the 20-man last utilizing the scissors/Japanese-cutoff model of leaping, needed to take care of a gentle rain and infrequently a boisterous crowd that was cheering for Zatopek throughout the 10,000.
Ostermeyer, who carried out as a live performance pianist throughout her athletic profession, would additionally win gold within the Shot Put and bronze within the Excessive Soar later within the Video games.
Different Medalists/Notes:
Males’s 10,000: France’s Alain Mimoun (30:47.4), Swden’s Bertil Albertson (30:53.6)…Finland’s Viljo Heino, the World Report holder,
dropped out after battling Zátopek for the primary 6k.
Males’s HJ: Norway’s Bjørn Paulson (6-4 ¾ [1.95]), American George Stanich (6-4 ¾ [1.95])…this was the primary 12 months that ties had been damaged
by the countback rule of fewer misses at heights (the 4th & 5th placers additionally cleared 6-4 ¾)
Ladies’s DT: Italy’s Edera Cordiale-Gentile (135-1 [41.17]), France’s Jacqueline Mazéas (132-9 [40.47])…among the many athletes lacking
from this occasion was unofficial World Report holder Nina Dumbadze of the Soviet Union, which refused to compete on the
Olympics (From Olympedia).
Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1948_Summer_Olympics
Olympedia Stories: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/12/sports activities/ATH
Winter:
Ostermeyer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micheline_Ostermeyer
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/67992
1974–Rick Wohlhuter ran 2:13.9 on the primary day of competitors on the Martin Luther King Video games in Oslo to smash the earlier World Report for 1000-meters by 2.1-seconds. Wohlhuter, who had stated earlier than the meet that he was going after the file, ran away from a loaded subject within the course of–2.Mike Boit (Kenya) 2:16.7, 3.John Walker (New Zealand) 2:17.1, 4.Rod Dixon (New Zealand) 2:17.2, 5.Byron Dyce (Jamaica) 2:17.6. Boit was with him each step of the way in which till the Notre Dame grad, who set a WR for 880-yards the earlier 12 months, sprinted away within the last 200-meters. His 2:13.9 lasted as a World Report till Sebastian Coe ran 2:13.40 in 1980, and it nonetheless stands because the American Report, the oldest one on the books.
There was nearly a second World Report within the Males’s Excessive Soar. All different occasions had lengthy been accomplished, however 1000’s of followers caught round to observe “Massive D” (Dwight Stones) attempt to enhance his year-old world mark of 7-6 ½ (2.30). With the bar set at 7-7 (2.31), Stones, who had wanted just one bounce to clear every of seven earlier heights, from 6-6 ¾ (2.00) to 7-5 ¾ (2.28), nearly did it once more on the file peak, barely brushing the bar off together with his heel! That might be the most effective of his three makes an attempt.
Video(1000): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEYDHU7saAg
Corridor-of-Fame Bios
Wohlhuter: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/rick-wohlhuter
Stones: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/dwight-stones
WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_metres_world_record_progression
Wohlhuter Appears Again(2014):
1976–Bruce Jenner closed out his sensible profession by successful the gold medal within the Decathlon on the Montreal Olympics. His rating of 8,618 factors (8,634-current tables) raised his personal World Report by 80 factors. Successful silver was West Germany’s Guido Kratschmer (8411) and the bronze went to the Soviet Union’s Nikolay Avilov (8369), the defending champion.
For the twond Olympics in a row, Finland’s Lasse Virén was a double winner, ending first immediately within the Males’s 5000-meters (13:24.76) to associate with his earlier win within the 10,000.
Virén, who ran 55.4 for his final 400, held off repeated challenges on the final lap from New Zealand’s Dick Quax (13:25.16), West Germany’s Klaus Hildenbrand (13:25.38), Quax’s teammate Rod Dixon (13:25.50), and Nice Britain’s Brendan Foster (13:26.19).
The Soviet Union’s Viktor Saneyev gained his 3rd straight Olympic gold medal within the Triple Soar, however he needed to come from behind to take action. American James Butts had taken the lead together with his 4th-round bounce of 56-4 ½ (17.18), a private greatest, however Saneyev got here via within the 5th spherical together with his successful bounce of 56-8 ¾ (17.29). 3rd was Brazil’s João do Pulo (55-5 ½ [16.90]).
One other Soviet, Tatyana Kazankina, who had gained the Ladies’s 800 4 days earlier, accomplished her Olympic double by successful a slow-paced Ladies’s 1500-meters in 4:05.5. Kazankina, who sprinted from behind within the homestretch, lined her final 800 in 2:03.5 and her last 400 in 56.9! Silver and bronze went to the East German duo of Gunhild Hoffmeister (4:06.02) and Ulrike Klapezynski (4:06.09). Jan Merrill, who had set an American Report of 4:02.61 in her semi-final, completed 8th-4:08.5)
Medalists/Outcomes:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1976_Summer_Olympics
Olympedia Stories: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/19/sports activities/ATH
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decathlon_world_record_progression
Jenner’s Marks:
10.94, 23-8 ¼/7.22, 50-4 ¼/15.35, 6-8/2.03, 47.51[4298]. 14.84, 164-2/50.04, 15-9/4.80, 224-9,/68.52 4:12.61
Learn Tim Layden’s glorious Sports activities Illustrated article about Jenner’s transition from Bruce to Caitlyn
http://www.si.com/olympics/2016/06/28/caitlyn-jenner-1976-olympics-gold-medal
Movies
Males’s 5k
(full race): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3PehlOMyAM
Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91qa_2QJ9CU
Decathlon(deal with Jenner): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL4CDvCqvrE
1977—Mark Belger (4:03.32), about to enter his senior 12 months at Villanova, gained the mile on the Boston Relay Carnival over his teammate-to-be Sydney Maree (4:03.91), who had just lately arrived from his native South Africa. 3rd within the race was Villanova grad Ken Schappert (4:04.48), whose daughter Nicole (Tully) gained the 5000 on the 2015 U.S. Championships.
In different highlights, 17-year outdated prep Lynn Jennings, in-between her junior and senior years on the Bromfield Faculty(MA), gained the 800 (2:10.3) and the Mile (4:52.2); a month out of highschool, Renaldo Nehemiah, who ran 10.43 in his warmth, completed a detailed 2nd within the 100 to Cliff Wiley (10.53-10.59/headwind); Rosalyn Bryant gained the Ladies’s 400 in 52.9.
The Philadelphia Pioneer Membership gained all 3 dash relays–Jason Grimes, Tony Darden, Herman Frazier, and Charles Joseph gained the 4×200 in 1:21.23, sooner than the World Report of 1:21.4, however the mark couldn’t be ratified for the reason that staff included Joseph, a local of Trinidad & Tobago. Grimes, Rudy Reid, Joseph, and Frazier gained the 4×100 in 39.59, and Frazier (46.5), Bruce Greene (46.2), Darden (46.6), and Joseph (47.4) gained the 4×400 in 3:06.66.
The meet, which was televised on Public Broadcasting, was held at Boston College’s Nickerson Discipline and was directed by BU grad John Thomas, the previous World Report holder within the Excessive Soar.
1980–Regardless of intense heckling from the Soviet crowd on the Moscow Olympics, which was rooting for co-silver medalist Konstantin Volkov, Poland’s Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz gained the gold medal within the Pole Vault and set a World Report of 18-11 ½ (5.78). Poland’s Tadeusz Ślusarski, the defending champion, shared the silver medal with Volkov (each cleared 18-6 ½ [5.95]). Lacking as a result of U.S.-led boycott had been People Mike Tully and Tom Hintnaus. Kozakiewicz’s response to the gang after his file vault (celebrated through the use of a well known gesture, telling the Soviet crowd the place they may shove it!-from Olympedia) was caught on this photograph (scroll down):
https://tradition.pl/en/article/kozakiewicz-pole-vault-olympics-scandal-poland
Russia’s Viktor Markin gained the Males’s 400 in 44.60, adopted by Australia’s Rick Mitchell (44.84) and East Germany’s Frank Schaffer (44.87). Cuba’s Alberto Juantorena, the defending champion who was recovering from an harm, completed 4th in 45.09.
East Germany’s Bärbel Wöckel (22.03), operating from lane one, efficiently defended her Olympic title within the Ladies’s 200-Meters. Successful silver and bronze had been the Soviet Union’s Nataliya Bochina (22.19) and Jamaica’s Merlene Ottey (22.20), who gained the primary of her 30 world medals! Lacking as a result of boycott was American Evelyn Ashford.
The Soviet Union received a 1-2 end within the Males’s Shot Put from Vladimir Kiselyov (70-1/2 [21.35]/OR) and Aleksandr Baryshnikov (69-2 [21.08]). East Germany’s Udo Beyer (69-1 ¼ [21.06]), the World Report holder and defending champion, gained the bronze medal.
East Germany’s Hartwig Gauder (3:49:24) gained the 50k Stroll, which was reinstated to the Olympic program after not being contested in 1976. Successful silver and bronze had been Spain’s Jorge Llopart (3:51.25) and the Soviet Union’s Yevgeny Ivchenko (3:56.32).
Outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics
Olympedia Stories: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/20/sports activities/ATH
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Males’s_pole_vault_world_record_progression
T&F Information Cowl(Kozakiewicz-September):
https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1980_09.jpg
