This Day in Monitor & Discipline, Might 13, Ted Meredith added half of 1 mile to his 800m WR (1916), Sydney McLaughlin units 400m hurdles in 52.75 WJR (2018), by Walt Murphy

This Day in Monitor & Discipline-Might 13

 

1916—Penn’s Ted Meredith, already the World Document holder at 800-meters (1:51.9-1912), added the 880y mark to his portfolio after operating 1:52.2 in a twin meet with Cornell at Franklin Discipline in Philadelphia. He added the 440y/400m mark two weeks later by operating 47 2/5 on the IC4A Championships. Meredith received gold medals within the 800 and 4×400 relay on the 1912 Olympics.

1933—Fresno State’s Walter Marty set a World Document of 6-8  5/8 (ratified as 6-8  3/8 [2.04]) on his residence subject on the West Coast Relays.

https://archives.stanforddaily.com/1933/05/16?web page=4&part=MODSMD_ARTICLE50#article

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MT19341201.2.36

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

 

1950—Dick Attlesey, a senior at USC, ran 13.5 on the West Coast Relays in Fresno to interrupt Harrison “Bones” Dillard’s

2-year previous World Document of 13.6 for the 120-yard hurdles. It was the primary of three World Information Attlesey would set this yr. In June, he ran 13.6 for the marginally longer 110-meter hurdles, then 13.5 in July. He additionally received NCAA and U.S. titles in 1950 and was the primary Pan-American Video games Champion in 1951,

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MT19510521.2.60&e=——-en–20–1–txt-txIN——–1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Attlesey

 

1966—It was a typical high-class Coliseum Relays In Los Angeles, with 4 main data being set.

USC set a World Document of seven:17.4 within the 2-mile relay with a lineup of John Hyperlink (1:51.7), Bruce Bess (1:49.7), Dave Buck (1:48.2), and Dennis Carr(1:47.8). The Trojans have been pressed all the best way by Texas (7:18.6) and Villanova (7:18.8), which have been anchored by Preston Davis (1:47.8) and Dave Patrick (1:47.7), respectively.

Within the 2-mile, Kenya’s nice Kip Keino threw off his orange cap with a little bit greater than a lap to go, an indication that he normally has a race in hand, however he was handed by Kansas freshman Jim Ryun and Jim Grelle, the current and previous American Document holders within the Mile, on the ultimate flip. These two went stride-for-stride down the homestretch, with Ryun holding on for a slim win as each have been credited with an American Document of 8:25.2. The earlier mark of 8:26.4 was set by Bob Schul in 1966.

Charlette Cooke, a senior at St.Mary’s Academy-Inglewood,CA, set an American (and World Junior) Document of 53.5 for the Ladies’s 440-yards. Cooke, who competed for the Compton Monitor Membership all through most of her profession, was inducted into the Nationwide H.S. Monitor & Discipline Corridor of Fame in March, 2020.

The primary document of the day got here earlier than many of the 17,000+ followers had arrived, with Arizona’s John Tushaus throwing the Javelin 284-0 (86.57?) to interrupt Al Cantello’s 7-year previous American Document (282-3 [86.04]).

2-mile Picture 

Cooke: https://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=13078&do=movies&video_id=298415

 

1967—Tommie Smith and Lee Evans placed on fairly a present on the West Coast Relays in Fresno, CA. Getting sudden assist from teammates Ken Shackelford and Bob Talmadge, the 2 Olympic-Champions-to-be the next yr (Smith-200, Evans-400) led San Jose State to a World Document of 1:22.1 within the 880y-relay (additionally getting credit score for a brand new 800m normal), and an American Document of three:03.1 within the Mile Relay.

The shorter race got here first, with Shackelford main off in 21.2, with Talmadge contributing a 20.5 cut up on the two^nd leg. A shaky handoff led to a slowish (for him) 21.1 cut up for Evans, earlier than Smith completed issues off with a terrific 19.4 anchor, the quickest cut up ever recorded.

Simply 35-minutes later, Talmadge (47.5) and Shackelford (46.4) set the desk for the mile relay, with Evans delivering a sensational 44.2 carry, yet one more fastest-ever cut up, and Smith topped off the AR with a fast cut up of his personal—45.2 (reported splits add as much as 3:03.4).

Collegiate Information have been set by USC’s Bob Seagren within the Pole Vault (17-4  ¼ [5.29]) and Arizona State’s Lou Scott within the 2-mile (8:34.4). Seagren had set a World Document of 17-5  ½ (5.32) the earlier yr, however the mark wasn’t eligible for consideration as a CR since he was a Junior Faculty (Mt.SAC) scholar on the time. Following T&F Information’ lead, solely Div.I athletes can set CRs. (From Monitor & Discipline Information)

 

1967–Jim Hines ran 9.1 on the Southwestern Athletic Convention championships in Houston to tie Bob Hayes’s World Document for 100-yards. Hines additionally received the 220 (20.4) and anchored the two^nd-place 440-relay to steer Texas Southern to the crew title.

 

1978–Operating earlier than a few hundred followers in cool situations on the Northwest Relays in Seattle, Washington State’s Henry Rono ran 8:05.4 to set a World Document within the Steeplechase. The earlier mark of 8:08.0 had been set by Sweden’s Anders Gärderud on the 1976 Olympics. For the native of Kenya, it was the 2nd of what can be an unimaginable string of 4 World Information set inside a interval of 81 days

4-08-78  Berkeley, CA  5,000  13:08.4

5-13-78  Seattle,WA  Steeplechase  8:05.4

6-11-78  Vienna  10,000 27:22.4

6-27-78  Oslo  3,000  7:32.1

Jack Pfeifer, the previous director of school occasions at NY’s Armory, was within the stands that day. “I used to be there. Temp within the low 50s as I recall, however calm, long way situations. Wasn’t raining, though I feel it did later within the day. Might have been one of many few WRs set earlier than midday. (Rono) ran with Jim Johnson of Membership Northwest the primary 2 laps, then Johnson gave manner and it was solo the remainder of the best way. As I recall, he virtually jogged it in, understanding he had the document effectively in hand”.

 

1984—Chandra Cheeseborough set an American Document of fifty.52 for 400-meters on the Pepsi Invitational, held at UCLA in Westwood,CA. She went on to win silver within the 400 and gold in each relays on the L.A. Olympics later within the season. She was inducted into the U.S. Corridor of Fame in 2000 and is presently the top coach at Tennessee State. She was among the many preliminary group of athletes who have been inducted into the Nationwide H.S. T&F Corridor of Fame in 2018.

HOF Bio: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/chandra-cheeseborough

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/sports activities/track-and-field.html

H.S. HOF Bio

Acceptance Speech

Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Cheeseborough

https://tsutigers.com/sports activities/womens-track-and-field/roster/coaches/chandra-cheeseborough-guice/665

 

2018—3 Collegiate Information have been set on the SEC Championships in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Kentucky freshman Sydney McLaughlin received the 400-Meter Hurdles in 52.75, which additionally improved her World Junior Document, LSU ran 42.05 within the 4×100 Relay, and Georgia’s Keturah Orji upped her CR to 47-11  ¾ (14.62) within the Triple Soar. The earlier CR within the 400-Meter Hurdles was 53.21, set by Stanford’s Kori Carter in 2013.

Movies/Outcomes: https://www.secsports.com/article/24069588/2018-sec-outdoor-track-field-championships

 

2023—This yr’s SEC Championships in Baton Rouge was one in all (if not THE) biggest convention championships ever, with 4 Collegiate Information being set.

Arkansas’ Britton Wilson, who had set a CR of 49.40 in her warmth the day earlier than, received the ultimate of the 400-meters and improved her document to 49.13. She moved forward of Allyson Felix into 4^th-place on the All-Time U.S. record (now =#5). She got here again lower than 2 hours later to win the 400m-hurdles in 53.28.  (She was 5^th within the hurdles on the 2022 World Championships)

The three extra CRs have been set on the Males’s aspect.

LSU opened the ultimate day of competitors by successful the 4×100 in 37.90 with a lineup of Brandon Hicklin, Camel, Da’Marcus Fleming, and Godson Oghenebrume, who would later win the 100-meters in 10.04. Florida was an in depth 2^nd in 37.93 as each groups have been below the earlier CR of 37.97, which was set by one other Florida crew on the 2019 NCAA Championships in Austin.

The ultimate males’s occasion of the day was the 4×400 and once more two groups have been below the earlier CR. Florida’s Ryan Willie (43.32), who had earlier received the 400 in 44.27, ran down Alabama’s Corde Lengthy within the homestretch to present the Gators a slim win (2:57.76-2:58.01). Georgia ran 2:59.63, marking solely the 2nd time 3 colleges had damaged 3-minutes in the identical race! Solely 7 nations have ever run quicker than Florida!

Previous Willie for Florida have been JeVaughn Powell, Emmanuel Bamidele, and Jacory Patterson (43.98).  Patterson and Willie have been members of the Florida crew that set the earlier CR of two:58.53 in 2022. The identical foursome would decrease the document to 2:57.74 the next month on the NCAA Championships.

After which there was 18-year previous Jaydon Hibbert, a freshman at Arkansas. Already the indoor document holder together with his successful soar of      57-6  ½ (17.54), he now has the Out of doors CR as effectively, leaping 58-7  ½ (17.87) to higher the 41-year previous mark of 57-7  ¾ (17.57) that was set by SMU’s Keith Connor in 1982. One other growing old mark that fell was the 38-year previous World Junior/Underneath-20 Document of 57-5 (17.50) that was set by East Germany’s Volker Mai in 1985.  Interview

The 100-meter hurdles offered a dream matchup that resulted in all 3 ladies operating below 12.50, a collegiate first.

1.Alia Armstrong (LSU)         12.40 (=MR/=#4 All-Time Faculty on the time)   Defending NCAA Champion—ran a wind-aided 12.31

in her warmth—an all-conditions CR

2.Ackera Nugent (Arkansas)  12.43PB (#6 A-T)  2-time NCAA Indoor Champion (2021, 2023). Indoor CR holder-7.72

3.Masai Russell (Kentucky)    12.47 (=#10 A-T efficiency)   Collegiate Document holder (12.36).

 

 

Different Highlights:

Arkansas’ Ayden Owens-Delerme, the 2022 NCAA Champion within the Decathlon (4^th on the 2022 Worlds for Puerto Rico), received the Males’s 400m-Hurdles in 48.28. It was solely his 3^rd race within the worldwide occasion, however he was the 2018 Pennsylvania State H.S. champion within the 300-meter hurdles! The choice to skip the Decathlon right here, thereby passing up an opportunity to defend his NCAA title (he didn’t have a qualifier), was as a result of “he has been coping with some nagging, recurring accidents”, in keeping with Coach Chris Bucknam.

“To place him in the perfect place to medal on the World Championships, we really feel like the wear and tear and tear of two decathlons [at the SEC and NCAA meets] earlier than that takes place can be a detriment,” Bucknam mentioned. “We’ve come to the conclusion that what’s finest for him long-term is to give attention to the 400 hurdles and the relays — give him that break from the Decathlon so he can go on and put together for the World Championships.” (He would withdraw from the World Championships in Budapest after no-heighting within the Pole Vault!).

https://www.nwaonline.com/information/2023/might/10/past-champion-owens-delerme-to-miss-sec-ncaa-decathlon/

Georgia freshman Will Sumner received the Males’s 800 in 1:46.20, breaking the household document of 1:46.33 that was set by his dad Brad in 1993. Each of his mother and father have been All-Individuals within the 800 whereas competing at Villanova. Mother Tosha Woodward had a finest of two:00.46.

Florida’s Jasmine Moore, the winner of the final 6 NCAA indoor & outside titles within the horizontal jumps, received each right here, reaching an out of doors better of 22-7 (6.88) within the Lengthy Soar, and 46-4  ¾ (14.14) within the Triple Soar.

Georgia’s Kyle Garland received the Decathlon with a rating of 8589 factors.

Arkansas swept the crew titles  Males (22^nd)  Ladies (10^th)  Coach Lance Harter (retired after the 2023 season)

Outcomes: https://reside.deltatiming.com/meets/20380

Movies: W400  M4x100  M4x400

https://www.dyestat.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=44531&do=information&news_id=661920

For Subscribers: https://trackandfieldnews.com/sec-men-record-relays-shine-hibbert-flies/

All-Time Lists (From T&F Information)

U.S.-W400 (Performers)

48.70       Sanya Richards-Ross (Nike)                      9/16/06

48.74       Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (New Stability)  7/08/23

48.83       Valerie Brisco (World Class AC)                 8/06/84

49.05       Chandra Cheeseborough (Athletics West)    8/06/84

49.13     Britton Wilson (Arkansas)                  5/13/23

49.26       Allyson Felix (Nike)                                8/27/15

49.40       Jearl Miles Clark (Reebok)                        6/14/97

49.48       Francena McCorory (adidas)                     6/28/14

49.52       Shakima Wimbley (adidas)                       6/23/18

49.56       Monique Hennagan (unattached)               7/17/04

 

Faculty-100m-Hurdles (Performances)

12.36       Masai Russell (Kentucky)                         4/01/23

12.39       Brianna McNeal (Clemson)                        6/08/13

12.40       Jasmine Camacho-Quinn’ (Kentucky)          5/13/18

12.40       Janeek Brown’ (Arkansas)                        6/08/19

12.40     Alia Armstrong (LSU)                      5/13/23

12.43     Ackera Nugent’ (Arkansas)                5/13/23

12.44       Tonea Marshall (LSU)                              5/29/21

12.44       Demisha Roswell’ (Texas Tech)                 5/15/22

12.45       ————Nugent’ (Baylor)                         5/15/22

12.47       ————McNeal                                     6/06/13

12.47     ————Russell                            5/13/23

12.47       Grace Stark (Florida)                              6/08/24

**11 performances by 8 performers**

12.48       Ginnie Crawford (USC)                            6/09/06

 

Born On This Day*

 

Diribe Welteji—Ethiopia 23 (2002)  Silver medalist within the 1500m on the 2023 World Championships

Additionally a silver medalist on the 2025 World Indoor Championships

4^th on the 2024 Olympics; 5^th on the 2024 World Indoor Championships

4^th within the 800 on the 2022 World Championships

2023 World Highway Mile Champion

Earned $100,000 because the winner of the “Brief Distance” Grand Slam in Kingston, Jamaica in 2025

PBs: 1:57.02 (2022), 3:52.75 (2024), 3:55.47i (2024), 4:23.76i (2024), 4:20.98 (street/WR), 8:21.50 (2024)

2025 SBs: 1:58.29, 3:58.89i, 4:04.51

https://worldathletics.org/athletes/ethiopia/diribe-welteji-14848719

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

Alicia Monson 27 (1998) 2019 NCAA Indoor Champion—5000m(Wisconsin)

2022 U.S. X-Nation Champion; 2^nd on the 2019 NCAA X-Nation Championships(2018-4^th)

2021 U.S. Olympian-10,000m (13^th); Additionally 13^th on the 2022 World Championships

5^th within the 10,000 on the 2023 World Championships (was 3^rd with one lap to go!)

3^rd within the 10,000 on the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials—race was moved to the morning to keep away from the anticipated

brutal afternoon warmth, however runners nonetheless confronted temperatures within the 80s. Exhausted after the race, she spent the

evening in an area hospital as a precaution.

Her 2024 season got here to a untimely finish after she underwent meniscus surgical procedure in April—hasn’t competed since

then

7^th within the 3000 on the 2022 World Indoor Championships

Set three American Information in 2023—3000i/8:25.05 indoors on the Millrose Video games,  5000/14:19.45 on July 23,

10,000/30:03.82 on March 4

Member of the On Athletic Membership—coached by Dathan Ritzenhein

PBs:

1500-4:07.09 (2021) 4:06.38i (2023)

Mile-4:23.55i (2023)

3000-8:25.05i (2023/Nat’l Document on the time, now #2), 8:26.81 (2022/#3 A-T U.S./Out of doors),

2-Miles (i)-9:09.70/2m (2024/NR),

5000-14:19.45 (2023/NR)

10,000-30:03.82 (2023/NR)

OAC: https://www.on-running.com/en-us/athletes/alicia-monson

https://worldathletics.org/information/function/alicia-monson-usa-distance-runner-belgrade-eugene-oregon

O.T.: Full Race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_cCw4NnCeU

https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a37039055/alicia-monson-us-olympic-trials-10000-meters/

https://citiusmag.com/alicia-monson-breaks-molly-huddle-10k-record-the-ten-recap/

Susanna Sullivan 35 (1990) Represented the U.S. within the Marathon on the 2023 World Championships (58^th)

10^th on the 2023 London Marathon—ran 2:24:27

20^th on the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials

Competed collegiately for Notre Dame

At present an Assistant coach at George Mason and a sixth grade math and science trainer for Fairfax County Public

Faculties…coached by Andrew Gerard, her boss at George Mason!

PBs: 9:06.99i (2023), 15:25.94i (2023), 31:55.80 (2023), 1:08.59 (2025), 2:21:56 (2024);

2025 SBs: 9:10.90i, 2:29:30 (London-10^th)

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

https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/susanna-sullivan-14385840

https://www.tfrrs.org/athletes/2216667/Notre_Dame_IN/Susanna_Sullivan

https://gomason.com/sports activities/womens-track-and-field/roster/coaches/susanna-sullivan/1592

Daybreak Harper-Nelson  41 (1984)  2008 Olympic gold medalist—100-meter hurdles (silver 2012)

Silver medalist-2017 World Championships (Bronze-2011/7^th-2009, 4^th-2013)

PBs: 7.98i (2006), 12.37(2012)

Semi-Finalist on the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials.

4-time U.S. Champion (2009,2012,2014,2015)

2003 U.S. Junior Champion

All-American at UCLA: NCAA-2004(8), 2005(3), 2006(4)

World Rankings:’08 (3),’09 (2),’11 (3),’12 (2),’13 (2),’14 (1),’15 (1),’16 (5), ’17 (5)

            “Retired” on the finish of the 2018 season, however then introduced in late 2019 that she would prepare for the 2020

Olympics. Regardless that the Video games have been postponed till 2021, she continued to coach, however didn’t get previous the

first spherical on the U.S. Olympic Trials

From her Twitter Account (in 2018)

         “To say I’ll miss you is an understatement however I used to be blessed to have the ability to name you mine since I used to be 12. Tears will

circulation this yr however the smiles shall be larger. Let’s make this final one nice “my expensive buddy, TRACK&FIELD”.

#victorylap #blessed”

http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/114911

Rankings: http://trackandfieldnews.com/photos/tales/Rankings/09-w100HRank.pdf

Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Harper-Nelson

(2014 Article) https://www.worldathletics.org/information/function/dawn-harper-iaaf-diamond-league

Fb: https://www.fb.com/dawnharpernelson

Juli Benson (Henner)  55 (1970)  1996 U.S. Olympian—1500m (1^st spherical); PBs: 2:00.80, 4:06.84 (both-’96)

Provides on-line teaching at http://julibensontraining.com. Beforehand coached at James Madison, Georgetown, George

Mason, the Air Pressure Academy, and Penn. Jenny Simpson’s coach when she received the 1500 on the 2011

World Championships.

At present coaches Nikki Hiltz:https://www.instagram.com/p/DGjKKFrS37w/?hl=en&img_index=1

CitiusMag Podcast: https://citiusmag.com/podcast/citius-mag-podcast-juli-benson

 

Deceased

 

Kōkichi Tsuburaya-Japan 27 (1940-January 8, 1968)  1964 Olympic bronze medalist—Marathon (6^th-10,000m)…entered

the stadium in 2^nd place (behind winner Abebe Bikila), however was overtaken by Nice Britain’s Basil Heatley.

From Olympedia: A member of the Japanese Military, his preparation for the 1968 Olympics was first interrupted  by

a collection of accidents, after which he was ordered by his superior officer to postpone his wedding ceremony till after the

Mexico Metropolis Olympics. The delay led to the engagement being known as off and his ex-fiancée finally married

one other man. Depressed, he took his personal life in early January, 1968.

His suicide is described as the largest supply of ache in Japanese sports activities historical past. After the tragedy the Japan

Olympic Committee began offering help and psychological well being take care of athletes.

http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/72647

Tragic Story

Roy Tomizawa, the writer of 1964-The Biggest 12 months within the Historical past of Japan, wrote about Tsuburaya on this 4-part story that was a part of his Olympians collection that he revealed main as much as the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo.

Half 1  Half 2  Half 3  Half 4

OG Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxOdp8ka25U