This Day in Observe & Discipline–July 27
1952–In a fantastic battle on the ultimate day of the Olympics in Helsinki, Jamaica edged the U.S. within the 4×400 relay as each groups (3:03.9-3:04.0) smashed the earlier World Document of three:08.2, which was set by a U.S. group on the 1932 Olympics.
Ollie Matson (46.7), who went on to have a fantastic profession within the NFL (see July 25), gave the U.S. a slight lead over Jamaica’s Arthur Wint (46.8), the 1948 Olympic 400 champion, on the opening leg. Gene Cole prolonged the U.S. lead with a fantastic 45.5 break up, whereas Les Laing saved Jamaica inside placing distance along with his 47-flat carry.
Jamaica’s Herb McKenley, hungry for gold after earlier successful silver medals within the 100 and 400, was 12-meters behind when he received the baton. Nobody thought he might keep his early tempo as he tore after Charlie Moore, the gold medalist within the 400-meter hurdles. However McKenley by no means let up and handed Moore (46.3) in the previous couple of strides, splitting an incredible 44.6. It was the primary time in historical past that anybody had ever run one lap in beneath 45-seconds. Ending 3rd was Germany (3:06.6).
The anchor leg supplied a basic matchup between Jamaica’s George Rhoden, the gold medalist within the 400, and American Mal Whitfield, now a 2-time Olympic Champion at 800-meters, and the person who had anchored the U.S. to Olympic victory on this occasion 4 years earlier in London. The 2 gave the gang a thrill, going stride-for-stride for your complete 400-meters, with Rhoden simply barely holding off Whitfield, with each splitting 45.5.
Satirically, the Jamaican group was coached by an American–Corridor-of-Famer Joe Yancey, the creator and coach of the New York Pioneer Membership! There was numerous native bitterness when the Joe Yancey Observe at Macombs Dam Park was torn as much as make room for the brand new Yankee Stadium. Nonetheless, its substitute, which is correct throughout the road from the brand new Stadium, has gone a protracted strategy to erase any lasting resentment. (See NY Occasions hyperlink beneath).
http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=11685
The U.S. received the Males’s 4×100 relay (40.1) in Helsinki with a lineup that included three acquainted runners who had already received gold medals in different occasions. Dealing with the final three legs had been Harrison Dillard (110-hurdles), Lindy Remigino (100), and Andy Stanfield (200). Main off was Dean Smith, who would later turn out to be well-known in different actions. Smith, the 1952 U.S. Champion within the 100 (and 4th in that 100 photo-finish received by Remigino), went on to turn out to be a rodeo star, an actor, and a Corridor-of-Fame stuntman in Hollywood. He handed away on June 24, 2023, on the age of 91! 2nd and threerd had been the Soviet Union (40.3) and Hungary (40.5).
The U.S. additionally received the Ladies’s 4×100 with a lineup of Mae Faggs, Barbara Jones, Janet Moreau, and Cathy Hardy, who got here from behind to edge Germany’s Marga Petersen. Each groups had been credited with a World Document of 45.9 (46.14-46.18). Jones, aged solely 15 years, 123 days on the day of the ultimate, stays the youngest athlete to have received an Olympic T&F gold medal.
Australia had set the earlier WR of 46.1 within the qualifying spherical and led within the last by two meters on the ultimate curve, run by Winsome Cripps. The alternate to Marjorie Jackson, who had beforehand received the 100/200 double, was clear initially. However Cripps introduced up a knee and knocked the baton from Jackson’s hand. To her credit score, Jackson caught the baton on the bounce, and ran on, however the delay proved disastrous, and Australia might solely end fifth (from Olympedia.org).
Czech Emil Zatopek had already received the 5000 and 10,000 in Helsinki and closed out his memorable Olympics by successful a third gold medal within the Marathon, setting an Olympic Document of two:23:03.2. Profitable silver and bronze had been Argentina’s Reinaldo Gorno (2:25:35.0) and Sweden’s Gustaf Jansson (2:26:07.0).
Medalists within the 10k Stroll had been Sweden’s John Mikaelsson (45:02.8), Switzerland’s Fritz Schwab (45:41.0), and the Soviet Union’s Bruno Junk (45:41.0).
South Africa’s Esther Model (5-5 ¾ [1.67]) received the Ladies’s Excessive Bounce over Nice Britain’s Sheila Erwill (6-5 [1.65]) and the Soviet Union’s Aleksandra Chudina (6-4 ¼ [1.63])
Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1952_Summer_Olympics
Video(4×400/anchor leg): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ2lw7dXHhM
Joe Yancey
Olympedia Studies: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/13/sports activities/ATH
Macombs Dam Park: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/10/nyregion/10macombs.html?_r=1
Dean Smith
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Smith_(sprinter)
Memoir: “Cowboy Stuntman: From Olympic Gold to the Silver Display screen”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/us/cowboy-stuntman-dean-smith-writes-a-memoir.html
http://www.amazon.com/Cowboy-Stuntman-Olympic-Silver-Display screen/dp/0896727890
1967–Australian Ron Clarke set a World Document of 8:19.8 for 2-miles in Västerås, Sweden.
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_miles
1980–Nadezhda Olizarenko of the Soviet Union received the Ladies’s 800-meters on the Moscow Olympics, operating 1:53.43 to smash the earlier World Document of 1:54.9, which she had shared with fellow Soviet Tatyana Kazankina. Teammate Olga Mineyeva was additionally beneath Kazankina’s mark together with her runnerup time of 1:54.81. Tatyana Providokhina (1:55.5) made it a Soviet sweep together with her 3rd-place end.
Three days after operating a warmth, Ethiopia’s Miruts Yifter (“The Shifter”) received an exciting 10,000-meters (27:42.69), sprinting previous teammate Mohammed Kedir and Finland’s Lasse Virén, the 2-time defending Olympic champion, with 300-meters to go to take the primary half of his distance double (Yifter, who ran his last 400 in 54.9, would win the 5000 5 days later). Kedir wound up 3rd (27:44.64) behind Finland’s Kaarlo Maaninka (27:44.28), whereas Viren (27:50.46) light to fiveth.
East Germany’s Thomas Munkelt edged Cuba’s Alejandro Casañas, 13.39-13.40, to win the gold medal within the 110-meter hurdles. Ending 3rd was the Soviet Union’s Aleksandr Puchkov (13.44). The boycott saved away the highest People, together with Renaldo Nehemiah.
The Soviet Union’s Dainis Kūla (299-2 [91.20]) and Aleksandr Makarov (294-1 [89.64]) completed 1-2 within the Males’s Javelin, with the bronze medal going to East Germany’s Wolfgang Hanisch (284-6 [86.72])
Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics
WR Development(W800): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/800_metres_world_record_progression
Olympedia Studies: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/20/sports activities/ATH
10k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6eHUXDCKmQ
110h: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWimaOqgxoM
800: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emKCD1-8JZc
1985–Most meets could be thrilled to have one world report, however this yr’s Bislett Video games in Oslo, Norway, produced three! The primary mark to fall was within the Males’s 5000-meters, the place Morocco’s Mentioned Aouita, overtaking Sydney Maree on the ultimate homestretch after a fantastic last-lap battle, ran 13:00.40 to interrupt Dave Moorcroft’s report of 13:00.41 by the barest of margins. Maree adopted in 13:01.15 to interrupt Alberto Salazar’s American Document (13:11.93-1982).
Subsequent up was the Ladies’s 10,000-meters. Working the occasion for the primary time on the observe, Norway’s Ingrid Kristiansen, already the holder of world information within the 5000 (14:58.89) and Marathon (2:21:06), broke the 31-minute barrier together with her report time of 30:59.42. The previous mark of 31:13.78 was set by Olga Bondarenko in 1984.
Lastly, there was the Dream Mile. This was no mere report chase, however a battle of titans. The sector included Nice Britain’s dynamic duo of world report holder Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram, who had simply set a WR within the 1500 (3:29.67) 11 days earlier, and three further sub-3:50 milers–Steve Scott, John Walker, and José Luis González. Coe had crushed Cram for the gold medal within the 1500-meters on the earlier yr’s Olympics in L.A., however Cram had the recent hand this yr and received going away in 3:46.32 (initially reported as 3:46.31) to interrupt Coe’s mark of three:47.33. Coe slipped to threerd (3:49.22) behind González (3:47.79), with Scott additionally getting beneath 3:50 (3:49.93).
Sports activities Illustrated Vault: https://vault.si.com/vault/1985/08/05/a-midsummer-nights-dream-mile
Maree: http://villanovarunning.blogspot.com/2010/07/
WR Progressions:
5000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5000_metres
10,000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000_metres
Mile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile_run_world_record_progression
Video(Mile-ABC Protection with Marty Liquori) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpNfSBD0OvE
