This Day in Observe & Area, September 7, Luigi Beccali wins 1,500m in inauguaral European Championships (1934), Mary Slaney units 3000m AR of 8:25.83 (1985)

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This Day in Observe & Area–September  7 

1934—The inaugural European Championships started in Turin, Italy, and continued by way of September 9^th.

Finland’s Matti Järvinen, the gold medalist on the 1932 Olympics, supplied the primary spotlight on the opening day, setting his ninth World Document within the Javelin along with his successful throw of 251-6 (76.66). He would set his 10^th (and last) WR the next yr (253-4 [77.23]).

Italy’s Luigi Beccali, one other reigning Olympic Champion, received the 1500-Meters in 3:54.6.

Lacking from the listing of the 15 international locations that competed have been the Soviet Union, which had not but turn into a member of the IAAF, and Nice Britain, which refused to take part since historically it thought of the aggressive season as ending on the primary Sunday in August!

Medalists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_European_Athletics_Championships

Outcomes: https://www.european-athletics.com/historical-data/calendar-results/6980719

Historical past: https://www.european-athletics.com/competitions/european-athletics-championships/past-editions

1960–Al Oerter’s eventual standing as one of many “gods” of the game was in deep trouble because the Discus entered the fifth spherical on the Rome Olympics. Teammate Rink Babka was main along with his 1st-round toss of 190-4 (58.02), with defending champion Oerter standing in 2nd with a better of 189-1 (57.64m). However Oerter, due to some recommendation given to him by his good good friend Babka, got here by way of in advantageous fashion, throwing an Olympic document of 194-2 (59.18) to lock up the 2nd of his 4 straight gold medals. It was a U.S. sweep, with Babka successful the silver medal over teammate Dick Cochran(187-10 [57.26]).

        Don “Tarzan” Bragg set an Olympic Document of 15-5 (4.70m) within the Pole Vault, whereas U.S. teammate  Ron Morris received the silver medal with a soar of 15-1 (4.60), and the bronze went to Finland’s Eeles Landström (14-11 [4.55]). Rolando Cruz, like Bragg a Villanova Wildcat, completed 4^th (on misses) for Puerto Rico. It’s been reported that Bragg let free his signature Tarzan yell from the victory stand!

        Bragg grew up in New Jersey emulating the print and film character Tarzan by swinging on ropes in his yard. His childhood fantasy grew to become actuality when he truly performed the King of the Jungle in a film, that, sadly, was by no means launched! He would regale ensuing generations of vaulters along with his tales and, in fact, would deal with them to the well-known Tarzan yell.

        The Girls’s 800-Meters, again on the Olympics for the 1^st time since 1928, was received by the Soviet Union’s Lyudmila Shevtsova, who equaled her personal World Document of two:04.3. She edged Australia’s Brenda Jones (2:04.4) for the gold and the bronze went to East Germany’s Ursula Donath (2:05.6). 18-year previous Dixie Willis of Australia was main when she stepped on the curb with 70-meters to go within the race and stopped working. She ultimately bought again on the monitor, ending in about 2:27.5.

        Nice Britain’s Donald Thompson set an Olympic document within the Males’s 50k-walk (4:25:30.0). It was candy redemption for Thompson, who was considered one of a number of males who dropped out of the 50k stroll 4 years earlier because of the excessive warmth on the Melbourne Olympics. Indignant at himself for not ending the race in Melbourne, he had turned his London-area condominium right into a steam chamber, and exercised in it (one way or the other) by way of intense warmth to arrange for the warmth of Rome! (From Elliott Denman, who was 11^th within the Melbourne race!)

        And Pat Butcher provides, “…as I perceive it, he merely crammed the bathtub with boiling water, closed the door and home windows, and walked on the spot within the lavatory for hours; replenishing the water because it cooled”.

Medalists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1960_Summer_Olympics

Olympedia Reviews: http://www.olympedia.org/editions/15/sports activities/ATH

WR Development(W800): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/800_metres_world_record_progression

Movies: W800  MPV  MDT(4 golds/commentary by Oerter)

Thompson: https://www.worldathletics.org/heritage/information/don-thompson-1960-olympic-50km-race-walk

Different Bragg Hyperlinks

NY Instances Obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/obituaries/don-bragg-dead.html

(2003 article): http://www.sfgate.com/sports activities/article/WHERE-ARE-THEY-NOW-Don-Bragg-Bragg-lives-out-2666334.php

Images: http://tinyurl.com/BraggPhotos  “I Don’t Make a Good Pet”(1980-SI)

1963–Belgium’s Gaston Roelants ran 8:29.6 in Leuven, France, to set a World Document within the Males’s Steeplechase.

WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steeplechase_(athletics)

Sports activities Illustrated Vault(1967): https://vault.si.com/vault/1967/07/17/fleming-with-a-flair

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

1972–The Olympic T&F schedule in Munich was pushed again a day to accommodate a memorial service inside the primary stadium for the slain Israelis.

         Vince Matthews (44.66) and Wayne Collett (44.80) completed 1-2 within the Males’s 400, however teammate John Smith couldn’t overcome an injured hamstring and pulled up within the first 100-meters. When the race was over, Collett and Matthews helped Smith make his method off the monitor. The bronze medal was received by Kenya’s Patrick Sang (44.92).

         With the reminiscence of the Tommie Smith-John Carlos protest from 4 years earlier nonetheless recent in everybody’s thoughts,  Matthews and Collett have been barred from additional Olympic competitors due to their “relaxed” angle in the course of the medal ceremony.

         Collett succumbed to most cancers in 2010 on the age of 60.  From his NY Instances obituary (see hyperlink beneath): “Collett defended his actions many instances. ‘I couldn’t stand there and sing the phrases as a result of I don’t imagine they’re true’, he as soon as stated, including, ‘I imagine we’ve got the potential to have an attractive nation, however I don’t assume we do.’

         In 2002, he advised The Los Angeles Instances: “I like America. I simply don’t assume it’s lived as much as its promise. I’m not anti-American in any respect. To recommend in any other case is to not perceive the struggles of blacks in America on the time.”

         American Rod Milburn edged France’s Man Drut (13.34) for the gold medal within the 110-meter hurdles and set a World Document of 13.24. Thomas Hill received the bronze medal (13.48). Below the foundations in impact on the time, Milburn’s time was rounded to 13.2, which equaled the World Document held collectively by Germany’s Martin Lauer and People Lee Calhoun, Earl McCullouch, and Willie Davenport. Milburn’s 13.24 was acknowledged as the only World Document when the IAAF began recognizing auto-times in 1977.

         The Soviet Union’s Nadezhda Chizhova, the bronze medalist in 1968, set the 7^th (of her 9) World Document of her profession whereas successful the Girls’s Shot Put with a toss of 69-0 [21.03]). 2^nd and three^rd have been East Germany’s Margitta Gummel (66-4  ¼ [20.22]), the 1968 gold medalist, and Bulgaria’s Ivanka Khristova (63-6 [19.35]).

         East Germany’s Renate Stecher received the Girls’s 200-Meters within the official time of twenty-two.4 (22.40), equaling the World Document set by Taipei’s Chi Cheng in 1970. Urgent Stecher down the homestretch was Australia’s Raelene Boyle (22.45), who received the silver medal for the two^nd Video games in a row.  Poland’s Irena Kirszenstein-Szewińska (22.74) received the bronze to finish her set of Olympic medals within the occasion, having received silver in 1964 and gold in 1968!

         East Germany’s Monika Zehrt received the Girls’s 400-Meters with an Olympic Document time of 51.08, and a couple of^nd went to West Germany’s Rita Whilden (51.21). Kathy Hammond received the bronze medal and set an American Document of 51.64. It was the 4th time in Munich that the AR had been lowered. Mable Ferguson, who completed 5^th (51.96) within the last, ran 52.05 within the first spherical  (9-2), after which Hammond ran 51.92 within the first semi-final (9-4), solely to have Ferguson regain the document, no less than for just a few days, by working 51.91 within the 2nd semi.

         Medalists within the Males’s Hammer have been the Soviet Union’s (and Ukraine’s) Anatoliy Bondarchuk (247-8 [75.50], East

Germany’s Jochen Sachse (245-11 [74.96]), Soviet Union’s (and Belarus’s) Vasiliy Khmelevskiy (242-11 [74.04])

Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1972_Summer_Olympics

W200: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQkbsu_wUYg

Collett Obituaries:

NY Instances: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/sports activities/18collett.html

LA Instances: http://tinyurl.com/2vc5p2y

WR Progressions: 

M110h: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menpercent27s_110_metres_hurdles_world_record_progression

W200: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlspercent27s_200_metres_world_record_progression

My Race Be Gained(Matthews ebook with Neil Amdur):

http://www.amazon.com/My-race-won-Vincent-Matthews/dp/0883270234

Ceremony Images: http://tinyurl.com/MatthewsCollettCeremony

1985—Mary Decker Slaney ran 8:25.83 on the first Mobil Grand Prix Remaining in entrance of 58,000 followers in Rome to set an  American Outside Document for 3000-meters. Ending 2^nd in 8:27.83 was Romania’s Maricia Puică, the 1984 Olympic gold medalist within the occasion, and three^rd in 8:28.83 (a World Junior Document on the time) was 19-year previous Zola Budd-Pieterse, who was the important thing determine in Slaney’s spectacular fall within the earlier yr’s Olympic last. Slaney’s document stood for 39 years till Elise Cranny ran 8:25.20 in 2024. (Alicia Monson set an American Indoor Document of 8:25.05 in 2023).

A 2nd American Document was set by Judi Brown-King, who received the 400-meter hurdles in 54.38 to interrupt the previous mark of 54.66 that she shared with Latanya Sheffield.

Different occasion winners included Sergey Bubka (PV/19-2  ¼ [5.85]), Florence Griffith (100-11.00), and Jackie Joyner (LJ/22-8 [6.91]).

General winners of the GP titles have been Doug Padilla and Slaney, each of whom received a complete of $35,000.

Medalists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_IAAF_Grand_Prix_Final

AR Progressions

W3000: http://trackfield.brinkster.internet/RecProg_AllUSA.asp?RecCode=WR&EventCode=WA6&Gender=W&P=F

W400h: http://trackfield.brinkster.internet/RecProg_AllUSA.asp?RecCode=WR&EventCode=WB2&Gender=W&P=F

1986—Bulgaria’s Yordanka Donkova ran 12.26 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, to decrease her World Document within the 100-meter hurdles. It was her 4^th document of the season.

12.36      Sofia         August 13 (Tied)

12.34      Cologne     August 17 (warmth)

12.29      Cologne     August 17 (last)

12.26      Ljubjlana    September 7

           Donkova would lose the document to countrywoman Ginka Zagorcheva, who ran 12.25 in 1987, however would regain it a yr later when she ran 12.21. That mark stood because the WR for 28 years till Keni Harrison ran 12.20 in London in 2016. Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan set the present WR of 12.12 in her semi-final race on the 2022 World Championships.

WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlspercent27s_100_metres_hurdles_world_record_progression

1996—Lance Deal, who had received the silver medal on the Atlanta Olympics earlier within the yr, set an American Document of 270-9 (82.52) within the Hammer Throw in Milan, Italy. (The document lasted till 2021, when Rudy Winkler threw 271-4 (82.71) on the U.S. Olympic Trials).

   Deal, a 21-time U.S. champion (9-outdoor, 12-indoor/WT), was a coach after which the Director of Observe & Area venues and Program Help on the College of Oregon earlier than retiring and going into enterprise for himself. He’s now constructing modern throwing cages (such because the one presently in use at Hayward Area) and is a Licensed Therapeutic massage Therapist. He was inducted into the Nationwide Corridor of Fame in 2014.

Corridor of Fame Bio: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/lance-earl-deal

AR Development: http://trackfield.brinkster.internet/RecProg_AllUSA.asp?RecCode=WR&EventCode=MF7&Gender=M&P=F

https://www.lancedeallmt.com

1999—Getting nice pacing from Kenyans Robert Kibet and William Tanui, the 1992 Olympic Champion at 800-meters, Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj  ran 4:44.79 for 2000-meters on the Golden League Remaining in Berlin to take  greater than 3 seconds off the earlier World Document of 4:47.88 that was set by Algeria’s Noureddine Morceli  in 1995. It was El G’s 3^rd WR of the season. Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen set the present WR of 4:43.13 in 2023.

Splitting the $1,000,000 Jackpot for successful their respective occasions in no less than 5 of the 7 GL meets in the course of the season have been Denmark’s Wilson Kipketer (800) and Romania’s Gabriela Szabo (3000/5000). Szabo, already assured her share after successful the 5000, was the primary individual to congratulate Kipketer when he crossed the end line of the 800.

Meet Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_IAAF_Golden_League

Video(2000): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsr0mZiRbNw

https://www.cbsnews.com/information/2000m-record-broken/

2001—Many athletes who received Olympic gold in Sydney the yr earlier than returned to Australia and adopted up with wins on the 5^th(and last) Goodwill Video games in Brisbane (Sep.4-7).

The repeat winners in the course of the 4 days of competitors have been:

MEN

Mile—Kenya’s Noah Ngeny  3:56.64

Lengthy Bounce—Cuba’s Ivan Pedroso  26-9  ¼ (8.16)

Triple Bounce—Nice Britain’s Jonathan Edwards  56-7  ½ (17.26)

Javelin—Czech Jan Železný  287-2 (87.52)

WOMEN

800–Mozambique’s Maria Mutola  1:58.76

10,000—Ethiopia’s Derartu Tulu  31:48.19

Pole Vault—American Stacy Dragila  14-11 (4.55)

Hammer—Poland’s Kamila Skolimowska  230-8 (70.31)

(Marion Jones was among the many double “winners” [100]), however her outcomes have been later voided after she was later discovered

responsible of doping violations)

Different highlights:

MEN

Mile—2.Kevin Sullivan (CAN-3:56.81)…5.Bernard Lagat (KEN-3:57.10), 6.Craig Mottram(AUS-3:58.24)

110h-1.Allen Johnson (USA-13.16), 2.Anier García (CUB-13.20), 3.Larry Wade (USA-13.46), 4.Terrence

Trammell (USA) 13.49, 5.Colin Jackson (GBR-13.63), 6.Mark Crear (USA-13.63)

400h-1. Félix Sánchez (DOM-48.47)

Pole Vault-1.Tim Mack (USA/19-1/4 [5.80])

Lengthy Bounce-1. Iván Pedroso (CUB/26-9  ¼ [8.16])

Triple Bounce-1.Jonathan Edwards (GBR/56-7  ½ [17.26])

Shot Put-1.Adam Nelson (USA/68-7  ¼ [20.91]), 2.John Godina (USA/68-1  ½ [20.76])

Javelin-2.Breaux Greer (USA/281-8 [85.86])…4.Steve Backley (GBR/273-5 [83.34])

Decathlon-1. Tomáš Dvořák (CZE-8514, 2.Erki Nool (EST-8420/2000 Olympic Champion)

WOMEN

400-1.Ana Guevara (MEX-50.32)…4.Jearl Miles-Clark (USA-51.44)

800-2.Kelly Holmes (GBR-1:59.27)

100h-1.Gail Devers (USA-12.61)

400h-1. Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova (UKR-54.47), 2.Tonja Buford-Bailey (USA-54.75)

Excessive Bounce-1.Hestrie Cloete (RSA/6-6  ¾ [2.00]), 2.Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE/6-5  ½ [1.97])

Outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2001_Goodwill_Games_–_Results

Historical past: https://www.worldathletics.org/information/function/remembering-goodwill-games

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1112628/brisbane-2032-olympics-goodwill-games

2012–Aries Merritt  had already had a dream season–he received the gold medal within the 60-meter hurdles on the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul in March and one other gold medal within the 110-meter hurdles on the London Olympics. Not content material to relaxation on his laurels, he then shocked the world of T&F by working 12.80 in Brussels to smash the present World Document of 12.87, which was set by Cuba’s Dayron Robles in 2008. Like many others within the occasion, Merritt had made the adjustment from 8 to 7 steps to the primary hurdle in the beginning of the season.

            In his post-race interview, Merritt talked about what went by way of his thoughts when he tried to know what he had accomplished. “Once I noticed 12.81 come up, it was similar to…what, what is that this I’m seeing right here? I used to be in full shock. I simply couldn’t imagine 12.81 popped up on the board after which they spherical it right down to 12.80, and I simply began screaming….I couldn’t imagine that I ran that quick. My imaginative and prescient, once I did break the World Document, was to run 12.85, (which) is throughout all the things—my e mail, my password for my cellphone. I believe I would like to alter my password!”.

         Merritt received the bronze medal on the 2015 World Championships in Beijing after which underwent a kidney transplant (from his sister) 4 days later in Phoenix. A complication brought about him to have a second surgical procedure seven weeks after the primary one. He had been advised earlier than the transplant that his profession could be over, however he resumed coaching in December. His dream of defending his Olympic title ended when he completed an in depth 4^th on the 2016 U.S. Trials!

WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menpercent27s_110_metres_hurdles_world_record_progression

Kidney Transplant

http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2015/08/21/aries-merritt-reaches-worlds-amid-kidney-disease-battle/

http://www.si.com/more-sports/2015/09/01/aries-merritt-kidney-transplant-track-and-field-world-championships