This Day in Observe & Area–February 8
1916—USC’s Howard Drew set a World Report of 10-flat for 100-yards on the NYAC Video games, which had been held on the twenty second Regiment Armory (the present Armory).
Drew had been favored to win the 100-meters on the 1912 Olympics, however pulled a muscle whereas successful his semi-final race in Stockholm. Ralph Craig, who had been crushed by Drew on the Jap U.S. Olympic Trials, went on to win the gold medal within the 100 (and the 200).
Learn extra about Drew right here: http://www.howarddrew.com/
A 2nd World Report was set by future Corridor-of-Famer Ted Meredith, who ran 59.8 for 500-yards.
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https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1916/02/09/100189843.html?pageNumber=8
1921—Joie Ray had gained the Wanamaker one-and-a-half mile on the Millrose Video games 4 years in a row (1917-1920), however was no match tonight for Hal Cutbill (6:55.6), who beat him tonight by 20 yards.
Dartmouth junior Earl “Tommy” Thomson gained the 70-yard Excessive (9.0) and Low (8.2) Hurdles races. Competing for his native Canada, Thomson gained the gold medal within the 110-Meter Hurdles on the 1920 Olympics.
Thomson, who lived within the U.S. from the age of 8, went on to change into a coach at Dartmouth and Navy and was inducted into the U.S. Corridor of Fame in 1977. (He coached Billy Mills main as much as his win within the 10,000-meters on the 1964 Olympics).
(For subscribers): https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/02/09/107008287.html?pageNumber=21
1930—Ray Conger gained his 2nd Wanamaker Mile on the Millrose Video games in entrance of 17,000 followers at Madison Sq. Backyard. His successful time of 4:21.8 stays the slowest within the historical past of the long-lasting race.
(For subscribers): https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/02/09/92074382.html?pageNumber=104
1958—In a uncommon prevalence, Manhattan Faculty senior Tom Murphy anchored each the successful Mile and 2-mile relays on the Millrose Video games. Joe Soprano ran the Third leg on each groups. Murphy completed 2nd within the Athlete of the Meet voting to Ron Delany, who gained the Wanamaker Mile, his 19th consecutive indoor mile win, in 4:04.6, only one second off the World Report. (Attendance-16,500)
This was additionally the primary main meet I ever attended—I tagged together with my dad and different members of the family to look at my cousin Tom run, and I haven’t missed a Millrose Video games since!
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/02/09/91385790.html?pageNumber=208
1974–George Woods raised the World Report within the Shot Put to 72-2 ¾ (22.02m) on the L.A. Occasions meet in Inglewood, CA.
1976—Poland’s Tadeusz Ślusarski raised the World Report within the Pole Vault to 18-3 (5.56) in Warsaw, 2 days after Dan Ripley cleared 18-2 ¼ (5.54).
1980–Operating on a model new Madison Sq. Backyard observe on the Millrose Video games, and earlier than the most important (and loudest) crowd in indoor historical past (18,310), Mary Decker set a world report of 4:00.8 for 1500-meters. With speak of an Olympic boycott within the air, Decker went by the primary 1/4-mile in 60.8, a sooner tempo than had been run within the just-completed Wanamaker Mile! Decker had simply returned from New Zealand, the place she had set an outside World Report of 4:21.68 within the mile (January 26).
Different information set on the meet: Stephanie Hightower, the former USATF President, ran 7.47 to set a World Report within the 60-yard hurdles, Joni Huntley set an American Indoor Report of 6-4 ¼ (1.94) within the Excessive Leap, and UTEP’s Suleiman Nyambui set a Collegiate Report of 13:39.2 within the 5000-meters.
Slaney’s run was #4 on Howard Schmertz’s record of his “10 Most Memorable Millrose Moments”:
“Returning to the Millrose Video games for the primary time since she gained the “1000” on the age of 15 in 1974, Mary Decker captivated the Backyard crowd as no different athlete ever had.”
After two laps of the 1500 meters, Mary had opened up a 40-yard lead and the announcement of her quarter-mile time of 60.3 (60.8?) (sooner than within the Wanamaker Mile gained by Eamonn Coghlan[3:58.2] earlier) introduced the group to its ft.”
“It was rapidly obvious that Francie Larrieu’s Millrose report of 4:15.0 would fall. As Mary handed the half-mile in 2:05.9, Larrieu’s American report of 4:09.8 was in jeopardy. The 18,000+ spectators cheered wildly as this beautiful and swish athlete pushed on towards Romania’s Natalia Maracescu’s World Indoor Report of 4:03.0. The ear-splitting crowd noise over the last half of the race absolutely set a sustained decibel report. As she hit the end tape an 80-yard winner, in a World Indoor Report 4:00.8, Mary Decker turned the all-time darling of the Millrose Video games. Mary finally gained 4 extra Millrose races, on the Mile, together with her final victory in 1997 – 23 years after her first Millrose triumph.”
And from the Sports activities Illustrated Vault: “Now, as Decker sailed into her second quarter, her thick halo of curly hair bouncing in jaunty counterpoint to her effort, Coghlan stood beneath the stands, speaking to some reporters about his victory. Instantly, Craig Masback, who had completed third within the mile (3:59.8), interrupted. “Get this,” he mentioned (with a smile) to Coghlan. ” Mary Decker simply turned the quarter in 60. I feel she’s going to your San Diego report.” That primarily ended Coghlan’s convention as everybody broke to look at, and cheer, Decker.” Learn extra at:
1986–World Information within the Pole Vault didn’t final lengthy in the course of the 1986 season. Joe Dial had gotten the fifth report of the marketing campaign when he cleared 19-4 ¾ (5.91m) the week earlier than and Billy Olson, who held the earlier mark of 19-3 ¾ (5.89) found early on the eighth that Sergey Bubka had simply raised the mark to 19-5 (5.92) in Moscow. Having all day to consider that earlier than competing on the Vitalis/Olympic Inv. on the Meadowlands in New Jersey, Olson responded along with his 4th report of the season, clearing 19-5 ½ (5.93) on his first try. Olson didn’t have lengthy to benefit from the second, since Bubka would increase the report twice extra throughout his go to to the U.S., clearing 19-5 ¾ (5.94) on the L.A. Occasions meet and 19-6 ¼ (5.95) on the U.S. Championships.
1986—19-year previous Zola Budd-Pieterse set a World Indoor Report of 8:39.79 for 3000-Meters in Cosford, England
1987–Switzerland’s Wernor Günthör set a World Indoor report within the Shot Put along with his successful toss of 73-1/2 (22.26) in Magglingen, Switzerland.
1991–Competing on the Vitalis/Meadowlands Inv., the place Eamonn Coghlan set the Mile World Report of three:49.78 in 1983, 20-year previous Noureddine Morceli of Algeria fell quick in his try and set a brand new mark (and gather the $100,000 bonus that was on the road). His successful time of 3:50.81 was nonetheless the Third-fastest in historical past, trailing solely Coghlan, who had additionally run 3:50.6 in 1981.
It was solely a yr or two earlier that meet director Ray Lumpp acquired a name from his previous pal, Ted Banks, who had been the pinnacle coach at UTEP throughout that college’s unbelievable NCAA run in the course of the Seventies and early Nineteen Eighties. Banks was now at Riverside Group Faculty in California and was asking Lumpp if he had room in his mile for this promising younger runner he was now teaching. Saying his discipline was full, Lumpp politely turned down Banks’s request. The runner, after all, was Morceli!
Sports activities Illustrated Vault
1992–Germany’s Heike Henkel cleared 6-9 ½ (2.07) in Karlsruhe to set a World Report within the Ladies’s Excessive Leap. The mark stood for 14 years till Sweden’s Kajsa Bergqvist jumped 6-9 3/4 (2.08) in 2006.
2008–Illinois’ Lesiba Mosheto, a senior from Botswana, ran 1:00.82 to set a Collegiate Report for 500-meters on the New Stability Collegiate Inv. at NY’s Armory (Since damaged, now #4 All-Time).
2019—Tori Franklin set an American Indoor Report of 47-9 ¾ (14.57) within the Triple Leap in Madrid. She completed 2nd to Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas, who jumped 48-11 1⁄2 (14.92).
2020—20-year previous Armand “Mondo” Duplantis continued his wonderful journey within the Pole Vault by setting an “absolute” World Report of 20-2 ¾ (6.17) in Toruń, Poland, breaking the earlier mark of 20-2 ½ (6.16) that was set by France’s Renaud Lavillenie in 2014.
Duplantis was hugged by his fellow vaulters earlier than making his method to the stands to share a hug along with his mom Helena.
Saison 2021 / 2022
ISTAF-Indoor
Foto: Lukas Schulze/camera4
“How do you clarify a dream that’s been a dream because you had been three years previous?”, mentioned Duplantis, who holds many age-group information. “It’s a giant dream, too. It’s not a bit of dream. And it’s an entire course of constructing as much as that second. I can’t actually get my head round it.”
The dream would proceed the next week when he raised the report to 20-3 ¼ (6.18) in Glasgow, Scotland!
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7NSdXOhNZI
https://www.worldathletics.org/information/report/duplantis-world-pole-vault-record-torun
2020—Three American Information had been set within the area of 70-minutes on the Millrose Video games at NY’s Armory.
Donavan Brazier ran 1:44.22 within the Males’s 800 to interrupt his personal year-old mark of 1:44.41.
This report was completely sudden, with Elle (“Ellie”) Purrier, a farm woman from Vermont, smashing Mary Slaney’s 38-year previous mark of 4:20.5 together with her successful time of 4:16.85 within the Ladies’s Wanamaker Mile.
Ajee’ Wilson additionally took down her personal year-old Report of 1:58.60 by successful the Ladies’s 800 (for the 5th time) in 1:58.29.
In different highlights, Scotland’s Chris O’Hare gained the Males’s Wanamaker Mile in 3:55.61 for the twond time in 3 years, Ryan Crouser gained the Males’s Shot Put (72-9 ¾ [22.19]) for the twond yr in a row, beating Joe Kovacs (70-1/4[21.84]), his conqueror on the earlier yr’s World Championships in Doha, and Sandi Morris gained the Ladies’s Pole Vault with a Meet Report clearance of 16-1 ¼ (4.91).
Within the Males’s 3000, a race gained by former Syracuse star Justyn Knight (7:46.36), Nico Younger, a senior at Newbury Park(CA) H.S., completed eleventhth in 7:56.97 to interrupt the U.S. Excessive College Report of seven:59.33, set by Drew Hunter (Loudoun Valley,VA) in 2016.
There was the standard post-meet celebration at Coogan’s, however nobody knew on the time that it might be the final one, for the reason that beloved gathering place shut its doorways for good quickly after because of the pandemic!
Outcomes: https://outcomes.nyrrmillrosegames.org
https://www.letsrun.com/occasions/2020-nyrr-millrose-games/
https://ny.milesplit.com/meets/373055-the-nyrr-millrose-games-2020/protection#.YCEyKC1h3BA
Movies
M-800: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-jEfbgJB6Q
W-MILE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuQHaZ41wDE
W-800: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=aCj1g4teOsc
M-MILE(Subscription Required): https://www.runnerspace.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=45365&do=movies&video_id=295023
Vital Birthdays
Born On This Day*
Shelby Houlihan 32 (1993) 2014 NCAA Champion—1500m (Arizona State)
Completed simply out of the medals within the 1500-meters on the 2019 World Championships in Doha—positioned 4th and set an
American Report of three:54.99
Set an American Report of 14:23.92 for 5000-meters in 2020.
U.S. Titles (13)
2017: Indoors/Mile, 2-mile; Outside/5000
2018: Indoors/1500,3000; Outside/1500,5000
2019: Indoors/2-mile; Outside/1500, 5000; X-Nation
2020: Indoors/1500, 3000
Finalist within the 5000-meters on the 2016 Olympics (11th) and 2017 World Championships (13th)
PBs: 1:59.92 (2019), 3:54.99 (2019/NR), 4:23.68i (2020/O.T.), 9:31.38/2m (2019),
14:23.92 (2020/#2 A-T U.S.)
Acquired a 4-year ban in 2021 after testing optimistic for a banned substance. Her attraction was denied by the Court docket
of Arbitration of Sport shortly earlier than the start of the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials. Would have been
thought of a medal contender within the 1500 and/or the 5000 on the Tokyo Olympics.
The ban ended on January 13, 2025, and she or he returned to competitors on February 1, working a fast 8:31.56 for
3000-meters
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_Houlihan
https://xc.tfrrs.org/athletes/3652110.html
Ban (It contains Houlihan’s Instagram publish the place she first revealed that she had examined optimistic)
Return: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko9HTNfq87g
https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a63640069/shelby-houlihan-first-race-back/
Genzebe Dibaba—Ethiopia 34 (1991) 2015 World Champion—1500m; Youthful sister of Tirunesh Dibaba
5-time World Indoor Champion—2012 (1500), 2014 (3000), 2016 (3000), 2018 (1500,3000)
2016 Olympic silver medalist—1500m;
Affected by an undisclosed sickness, she completed 12th within the 1500 on the 2017 World Championships, then
withdrew from her warmth of the 5000. A heel damage saved her out of 2019 World Championships in Doha.
Ran 1:05:18 within the half-marathon in Valencia, Spain, in December, 2020.
Made her marathon debut in Amsterdam in 2022—ran 2:18:05(was 2nd)
World Report holder (w/present all-time putting)
1500—3:50.07 (2015/#2)
Mile—4:13.31 (2016-indoors/#4 general)
2000—5:23.75 (2017-indoors/#3 general)
3000—8:16.60 (2014-indoors/#1 general)
2-miles—9:00.48 (2014-indoors/#3 general)
5000—14:18.86 (2015-indoors)
Different PBs: 1:59.37 (2017), 2:33.06i /1000m (2017/#8 All-Time), 3:55.17i (2014/#2 A-T),
4:14.30 (2016/#3 A-T Outside), 5:27.50/2k (2014/#5 A-T Outside) , 8:21.29/3k
(2019), 14:15.41(2015), 2:18:05 (2022)
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genzebe_Dibaba
WR Video(1500): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aE5ZMQwiUE
http://www.runnersworld.com/elite-runners/genzebe-dibaba-comes-out-of-her-sisters-shadow
Zersenay Tadese—Eritrea 43 (1982) Winner of 12 medals in international competitors
Gold(6)-20k (2006), XC (2008), ½-Marathon (2007,2008,2009, 2012)
Silver(3)-XC (2005), 10,000 (2009-WC), ½-Marathon (2010)
Bronze(3)-10,000 (2004 Olympics), XC (2008,2009)
PBs: 7:39.93 (2005), 12:59.27 (2006), 26:37.25 (2006), 58:23 (2010-World Report), 2:10:41 (2012)
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersenay_Tadese
https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/eritrea/zersenay-tadese-14167401
