This Day in Observe & Area–January 12
1957–Whereas leafing by way of previous problems with Observe and Area Information, it’s at all times a kick to return throughout what was most likely the primary point out of an athlete who went on to attain greatness. Such was the case within the January, 1957, subject, when Joe Galli wrote, “Aussie monitor was lifted out of the ‘post-Olympic doldrums’ (WM-Melbourne had simply hosted the 1956 Video games) by the looks of a possible prime world class miler, Herb Elliott of Perth”.
The 18-year previous Elliott, who was being coached by the legendary Percy Cerutty, had run 4:06.0 for the mile on today at Olympic Park to interrupt fellow Australian Ron Clarke’s unofficial World Junior report by .8s. Elliott went on to set World Information within the 1500 and mile and win the gold medal within the 1500-meters on the 1960 Olympics, and is taken into account one of many best milers in historical past. Cerutty had predicted 2-years earlier that Elliott would grow to be a world report holder, however the teenager’s profession suffered a short lived setback in a freak accident in late 1955 when a piano crushed his foot!
Elliott Photographs: http://tinyurl.com/yaxxn9r
https://vault.si.com/vault/1958/11/10/the-amazing-herb-elliott
https://www.life.com/historical past/training-with-the-worlds-first-paleo-crossfitting-locavore/
1974–The fifty fifth (and closing) version of the NY Knights of Columbus, as soon as one of many crown jewels of the NY indoor circuit, was held on the Nassau Coliseum.
Among the many highlights: Dick Buerkle, a day after beating Steve Prefontaine at 2-miles in School Park, received the mile in 4:00.3; Dwight Stones received the Excessive Soar (7-2 [2.18.5]), Herb Washington (6.1) received the 60y over Steve Williams (6.2); Rick Wohlhuter received the 880y (1:51.5); and Byron Dyce received the 1000y (2:09.3).
1975—The 1st preliminary meet of the Colgate Girls’s Video games was held at NY’s Armory. The meet was based by Fred Thompson, the coach of the Atoms Observe Membership. Among the many athletes who’ve participated within the meet are Diane Dixon, Sandra Farmer-Patrick, and Dalilah Muhammad.
From the meet’s web site:
“The Colgate Girls’s Video games is the nation’s largest beginner monitor collection open to all ladies from elementary college by way of faculty and past. Opponents take part in preliminary meets and a semi-finals to find out finalists who will compete for trophies and academic grants-in-aid from Colgate-Palmolive Firm. Our aim is to offer an athletic competitors that helps the taking part younger women and girls develop a robust sense of non-public achievement, shallowness, instill the significance of training and supply a coaching floor for many who won’t in any other case take part in an organized sport.”
1977–The primary subject of my first e-newsletter–Jap Observe–appeared. The publication was began as a alternative for “The New Breed”, which was printed by Pete Schuder whereas he was teaching at Columbia College. T&F Information editor Garry Hill would later describe E.T. as a “funky e-newsletter”!
Whereas The New Breed primarily coated the IC4A, the “unique E.T.” expanded to incorporate protection of all colleges within the Northeast (Males & Girls–Maine to Virginia), and likewise coated highschool and open motion. In that pre-internet/laptop computer period, outcomes have been ready on an old style typewriter and the e-newsletter was run off on a mimeograph machine (that I nonetheless have!) that Schuder had used (you children can ask your mother and father to clarify these historical artifacts).
Among the many outcomes included in that first subject: Princeton’s Craig Masback received the Mile in 4:18.8 in a tri-meet with St.John’s and Temple, and a 1000y in 2:13.9 in a twin meet with Rutgers; Within the first meet held at Fordham’s Vince Lombardi Heart, former Ram Marcel Philippe received the 1000y (2:11.4) and Mile (4:11.0); Former NYU star Byron Dyce received a 1/2-mile race at NY’s Armory in 1:53.8; Jan Merrill ran sooner than Mary Decker’s World Document (2:26.7) within the Girls’s 1000y by working 2:25.2 on Military’s outsized monitor; Tim St Lawrence jumped 16-1 (4.905) to win his fifteenth consecutive Metropolitan AAU Senior title within the Pole Vault (8 indoors, 7 open air); New Jersey prep Renaldo Nehemiah, a senior at Scotch Plains (NJ) H.S., ran 6.9 twice within the prelims of a growth meet at Princeton to tie the Nationwide H.S. Document within the 60y-hurdles (4 hurdles), then ran 7.0 within the closing.
Whereas E.T. is now not out there in its printed type (a excessive of 15 points a yr at its peak), I’ve tried to maintain its spirit alive with e mail reviews as a part of my “Information & Outcomes Service”.
1979–Maryland sophomore Renaldo Nehemiah ran 7.02 to interrupt his personal World Document within the 60-yard hurdles on the CYO meet in School Park,Md.
Germany’s Thomas Wessinghage (3:57.2) received a star-studded Mile over Paul Cummings (3:57.8), Villanova’s Amos Korir (3:59.3), Steve Lacy (3:59.4), Matt Centrowitz (4:02.1), and Marty Liquori (4:03.0).
Charlotte Bradley (2:06.6) received the Girls’s 880y over 16-year previous Joetta Clark (2:08.0) and former prep star Robin Campbell (2:10.3). One other 16-year previous, Sandra Farmer (Patrick), received the 440y in 56.6.
Each Clark and Farmer-Patrick went on to have Corridor-of-Fame careers, Clark within the 800, SFP within the 400-meter hurdles.
Different highlights: Herman Frazier received the Males’s 500y (56.4), Suleiman Nyambui received the Males’s 2-mile in 8:35.2, Francie Larrieu received the Girls’s Mile in 4:29.7, and Mark Belger (1:48.9) received the Males’s 880y over Mark Enyeart. Area occasion winners have been Earl Bell
(17-6 [5.335?]) within the Pole Vault (over Mike Tully and Billy Olson, each of whom cleared 17-0 [5.18]) and Franklin Jacobs within the Excessive Soar (7-4 [2.235?]).
Fairmont Heights(MD), coached by Bob Rothenberg, set a U.S. Excessive Faculty Document of three:18.4 within the Mile Relay with a lineup of Mike McEaddy (50.4), John Wallace (48.2), Darryl Gill (50.2), and Tyrone Cross (49.6).
1980–Competing in Berlin, East Germany’s Marita Koch (11.15) and Marlies Göhr (11.16) each bettered Gohr’s earlier World Indoor Document of 11.29 within the rarely-contested 100-meters
All-Time High-5 Performers
11.15 Marita Koch GDR 1 Berlin 12 Jan 1980
11.16 Marlies Göhr GDR 2 Berlin 12 Jan 1980
11.18 Christine Arron FRA 1 Tampere 4 Feb 1998
11.21 Merlene Ottey JAM 1 Tampere 12 Feb 2001
11.23 Svetlana Goncharenko RUS 1 Moscow 8 Feb 1998
2007–Francena McCorory, a freshman at Hampton College, bettered her personal American Document for 300-meters (36.96) along with her successful time of 36.67 on the Virginia Tech Invitational. Her time additionally established a World Junior Document. McCorory turned probably the greatest feminine ¼-milers on the earth, successful gold medals within the 4×400 relay on the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.
2008–The host workforce set a Collegiate Document of 1:36.43 within the Girls’s 4×200 on the Virginia Tech Inv. The lineup consisted of Patrice Potts, Britni Spruill, and hurdlers Kristi Castlin and Queen Harrison (Claye). The earlier mark of 1:36.5 (hand-time for 4x220y) was set by the Tennessee State Tigerbelles in 1979. The present report is 1:35.65, set by Penn State in 2014.
2013—Junior Mary Cain (Bronxville,NY) ran 9:02.10 for 3000-meters, a lot sooner than Melody Fairchild’s 22-year previous H.S. Document of 9:17.4, however the mark was ineligible for report consideration because it was made on the College of Washington’s outsized monitor.in Seattle (300-meters/flat).
2018—A brand new chapter was added to the wealthy historical past of Coogan’s, the #1 T&F-friendly bar/restaurant on the earth.
Simply 3 days after phrase obtained out that the institution was closing on account of a proposed lease enhance that couldn’t be met, the homeowners and the owner (New York-Presbyterian Hospital) introduced {that a} deal had been reached that will enable the favored gathering place (proper across the nook from the famed Armory) to stay open!
Native politicians, realizing what Coogan’s meant to the Washington Heights neighborhood, have been instrumental in making the deal occur. It additionally didn’t damage that the information of the approaching closing of Coogan’s had put the hospital in a nasty mild. Native TV crews aired reviews and the web response was widespread, fueled in no small half by a Tweet posted by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, who grew up in close by Inwood and was an everyday patron at Coogan’s.
The Broadway star and his dad, Luis A. Miranda Jr., a political guide, have been among the many celebrants at Coogan’s when the brand new settlement was reached!
The youthful Mr. Miranda joined certainly one of its homeowners, Peter Walsh, in serenading a diner who was celebrating her birthday. They have been cheered by your complete restaurant once they completed, after which once more after Mr. Miranda pumped his fist within the air and shouted, “Coogan’s!” (From the NY Occasions)
Alas, the “rebirth” of Coogan’s was short-lived, for the reason that restrictions compelled on it by the coronavirus led the homeowners to shut the doorways for good in April, 2020!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/nyregion/coogans-washington-heights-closing.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/nyregion/coogans-bar-staying-open.html
https://pix11.com/2018/01/12/famed-manhattan-bar-coogans-will-remain-open/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/nyregion/new-york-coronavirus.html
2018—Senior Mondo Duplantis (Lafayette,LA) raised his World Junior and U.S. Excessive Faculty Indoor Information from 19-1 (5.82) to
19-1 ½ (5.83) on the Pole Vault Summit in Reno,Nevada.
2019—Penn State junior Danae Rivers ran 2:38.58 for 1000-meters on her house monitor to smash the earlier Collegiate Document of two:40.79, which was set by Oklahoma State’s Kaela Edwards in 2017.
2024—Texas senior Yusuf Bizimana set a Collegiate Document of two:18.10 for 1000-meters on the Rod McCravy Invitational in Louisville, Kentucky. The 2023 NCAA Indoor Champion at 800-meters, a local of England, bettered the earlier mark of two:18.26 that was set by Penn State’s Brannon Kidder in 2016.
Important Birthdays
Born On This Day*
Chaunté Howard-Lowe 41 (1984) 2012 World Indoor Champion-Excessive Soar (2010-bronze);
Silver medalist on the 2005 World Championships
2008 Olympic bronze medalist—initially completed 6th in Seoul, however was upgraded to threerd in 2017 after the threerd, 4th,
and 5th place finishers have been all retroactively disqualified for doping violations!
Along with her husband Mario and their 3 kids by her aspect, she was introduced her medal in 2017 on the Staff USA
Awards (see video hyperlink)
“It’s simple to take a look at this example and take into consideration all that was misplaced, however I select to stay up for all that was
gained,” Lowe stated in a press launch. “Within the final 9 years, I’ve met superb new folks, my husband and I
have had two extra kids, and all three of our children can now perceive the gravity of this second. I’m
proud to have represented this nation with integrity that withstood the take a look at of time!”
4-time U.S. Olympian—2004 (qualifying spherical), 2012-Sixth, 2016-4th. Had hoped to make her 5th workforce in 2021, however
solely managed a better of 5-10 ¾(1.80) through the season (by no means made it to the U.S. Trials). DIdn’t compete from 2018-2020.
8-time U.S. Champion (2006, 2008-2010, 2012, 2014-2016); 4-time U.S. Indoor Champion (‘06, ‘10, ‘12, ‘15)
2004 NCAA Outside champion, 2004-2005 NCAA Indoor Champion (Georgia Tech);
American Indoor (6-7 ½ [2.02]) and Outside (6-8 ¾ [2.05]) Document holder; 12-time U.S. Champion(4-indoors, 8-
open air)
Was coached all through her profession by former excessive jumper Nat Web page, her coach at Georgia Tech
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/107100
Breast Most cancers Survivor:
https://www.si.com/olympics/2020/05/29/chaunte-lowe-breast-cancer-olympics-tokyo-track-and-field
2021 NCAA Inspiration Award Recipient:
http://www.ncaa.org/about/sources/media-center/information/2021-inspiration-award-chaunt-lowe
Husband-Mario, Youngsters-Jasmine, Aurora, and Mario Josiah.
Outside AR: http://www.flotrack.org/video/343958-chaunte-lowe-high-jump-ar-205
http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2017/11/14/chaunte-lowe-olympic-bronze-medal-high-jump/
Medal Ceremony: http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2017/12/23/chaunte-lowe-medal-ceremony-video/
https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/chaunte-lowe-14312978
Sir John Walker-New Zealand 73 (1952) 1976 Olympic gold medalist—1500m; 1984-8th within the 5000;
First man beneath 3:50 within the mile (3:49.4/1975). Ran greater than 100 sub-4 minute miles
PBs: 1:44.92 (‘74), 2:16.57 (‘80), 3:32.4 (‘75), 3:49.08 (‘82), 4:51.52/2k (‘76/WR on the time), 7:37.49 (’82),
13:19.28 (’86)
Has been battling Parkinson’s Illness for greater than 20 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(runner)
http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/74363
Reunion: http://tinyurl.com/JohnWalkerReunion
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/john-walker-kiwi-flyer-who-beat-the-wind/7TFQMS4LQCQOB6V4WKM5TJPC3E/
Olympic Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg2d_s1wfcU
WR & Olympic End: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmwYyBJOu6U
1976 Documentary: https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/john-walker-the-3-49-4-man-1976
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/sport/68506942/Sir-John-Walker-steps-down-from-council-committee
2008 Article:
Brendan Foster-Nice Britain 77 (1948) 1976 Olympic bronze medalist -10,000m
3-time Olympian-1972 (1500-5th); 1976 (5000-5th, 10,000-Third); 1980 (10,000-11th)
Former World Document holder—3000m (7:35.2/1974), 2-miles (8:13.68/1973)
PBs: 3:37.64 (’74), 3:55.9 (’72), 7:35.2 (’74), 8:13.68 (’73), 13:14.6 (’74), 27:30.30 (’78)
Nice North Run: http://tinyurl.com/GreatNorthRun-Foster
http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69059
Deceased
Spyros (aka Spyridon) Louis–Greece 67 (1873-March 26, 1940) Grew to become a nationwide hero after successful the Marathon on the
1896 Olympics in Athens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyridon_Louis
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/70782
