This Day in Monitor & Box–February 17
1932 (up to date)—Leo Sexton, who would cross directly to win Olympic gold in L.A. later within the 12 months, received the Shot Put on the NYAC Video games in NY’s Madison Sq. Lawn with a toss of 52-8 3/8 (16.06) to set a brand new Global Indoor Document.
Sexton, who stood 6’-4”, 240 kilos (1.93, 109kg), was once the 1930 IC4A Indoor champion whilst at Georgetown, received the primary U.S. Indoor identify within the 35-pound Weight Throw (1932), was once a 3-time U.S. Champion within the Shot Put (2xindoors-1931,1933; 1x-outdoor-1932), and a 3-time U.S. Out of doors champion within the 56-pound Weight Throw (1930-1932).
Not up to two weeks after environment a Global Document of four:11.2 within the Wanamaker Mile on the Millrose Video games, Gene Venzke decreased the mark right here to 4:10.0.
For the Third time this 12 months, Emmett Toppino tied the Global Document of 6.2 within the 60-yard sprint. He would fit it 3 extra instances sooner than the tip of the season.
NY Occasions (for subscribers)
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/79018
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Sexton
1934 (Up to date)—Fresno State’s Walter Marty, who set a Global Out of doors Document of 6-8 5/8 (2.04) within the Top Bounce in 1933, added the Indoor Document to his resume via going upper (6-8 ¾ [2.05]) on the NYAC Video games in Madison Sq. Lawn. Completing 2d was once George Spitz, who held the former list of 6-8 ½ (2.04). Marty would win U.S. Indoor and Out of doors titles in 1934.
Walter Marty, picture from Fresno Athletic Corridor of Reputation, fresnoahof.org
A list additionally fell within the Pole Vault, with Yale’s Keith Brown clearing 14-4 (4.37) to most sensible his earlier easiest of 14-1 ¾ (4.31).
In spite of the pedestrian early tempo (2:13-880y), the Baxter Mile equipped the fun of the evening for the capability crowd of 16,000 as Invoice Bonthron’s lunge on the tape gave him a slender win over Global Document holder Glenn Cunningham, who fell to the tune in his determined try to grasp off Bonthron, and the former list holder, Gene Venzke, with all 3 males being timed in 4:14.0!
NY Occasions (for subscribers)
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Marty
Pictures: https://www.fb.com/media/set/?set=a.10151606008968844.1073741827.268537913843&kind=3
1961—Ralph Boston, the 1960 Olympic gold medalist, broke the Global Indoor Document for the Lengthy Bounce two times on the NYAC Video games at Madison Sq. Lawn. He first jumped 25-11 ½ (7.91) to higher his earlier easiest of 25-10 (7.87), then produced the primary indoor 26-footer with a soar of 26-1 ¾ (7.97). Soviet Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, the bronze medalist in Rome the former 12 months, had issues of the fast (for him) runway and fouled on all six of his jumps in his U.S. debut.
Some other U.S.-Soviet duel panned out somewhat higher, with Global Document holder Valeriy Brumel getting the simpler of John Thomas within the Top Bounce. Brumel, the silver medalist in Rome (who was once additionally making his U.S. debut) cleared 7-3 (2.21), whilst Thomas, who completed a disappointing Third on the Rome Olympics, may just solely set up a top of 7-1 (2.16).
Sports activities Illustrated Vault: https://vault.si.com/vault/1961/02/27/valeris-high-high-jump
1963—Japan’s Toru Terasawa set a Global Document of two:15:15.8 within the Beppu Marathon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru_Terasawa
1968—Villanova set a Global Indoor Document of seven:23.8 within the 2-mile relay on the Mason Dixon Video games on Louisville’s spacious 220-yard banked picket tune. The lineup was once Ian Hamilton (1:51.6), Charlie Messenger (1:53.2), Frank Murphy (1:49.8), and Dave Patrick (1:49.2).
Oregon State’s Dick Fosbury wowed a brand new set of fanatics together with his distinctive taste, profitable the Top Bounce (7-1 ¼ [2.165?]) an afternoon after profitable on the NYAC Video games in New York.
The person who reinvented the HJ, Dick Fosbury, picture via UPI.
1973—Francie Larrieu ran 4:35.6 in San Diego to set Global and American Data for the Mile. Prep Debbie Heald set the former mark of four:38.5 in 1972
1974–North Carolina’s Tony Waldrop persisted his dominance of the Mile all the way through the 1974 indoor season, operating 3:55.0 in San Diego to shatter the former Global Document of three:56.4, which was once shared via Tom O’Hara and Jim Ryun. Waldrop’s mark held up because the collegiate list (he shared it with Oklahoma State’s German Fernandez, who ran an auto-timed 3:55.02 in 2009) till BYU’s Miles Batty ran 3:54.54 on the 2012 Millrose Video games.
Within the very subsequent race, Steve Prefontaine ran 8:20.4 to higher his personal American Document within the 2-mile. 15-year outdated Mary Decker set H.S. Data within the 800 (2:01.8) and 880y (2:02.4). The 800 mark stood for 43 years till Sammy Watson (Rush-Henrietta,NY) ran 2:01.78 in 2017!
Sports activities Illustrated Vault(Waldrop Function): https://vault.si.com/vault/1974/03/04/hed-prefer-a-good-book
1985—Jim Howard added ½” to his American Indoor Document within the Top Bounce via clearing 7-8 ½ (2.35) on the Knights of Columbus meet in Richfield, Ohio.
1996—Fresno State freshman Melissa Value first raised the American Indoor Document to 13-3 ¾ (4.06) in Fresno, then to 13-6 ¼ (4.12m). Value would win the primary two NCAA Indoor titles within the Ladies’s Pole Vault (1998,1999).
1996—In spite of throwing up two times all the way through the closing 2 miles after having a nasty response to a sports activities drink, Bob Kempainen held on for the win on the Males’s U.S. Marathon Olympic Trials in Charlotte,NC. Becoming a member of him at the U.S. staff that may compete on the Atlanta Olympics had been Keith Brantly and Mark Coogan.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/18/sports activities/marathon-kempainen-shows-will-in-winning-trials.html
Video(Now not for the squeamish!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnUNQ_wo7lE
2001—Now not happy with environment one Global Document when she cleared 15-3 ¼ (4.66) on her “home” runway in Pocatello, Idaho (breaking Svetlana Feofanova’s mark of 15-2 ½ (4.64), Stacy Dragila had the bar raised to 15-5 (4.70) and cleared it on her Third try to set a 2d WR!
Stacy Dragila, picture courtesy of Global Athletics (then, I.A.A.F.)
The meet was once a part of USATF’s Golden Spike Excursion and was once held along with the Simplot Video games, some of the premier U.S. Top Faculty meets.
After the meet, a bunch folks went out to dinner at Remo’s Eating place in Pocatello. After putting our orders within the kitchen, the waitress returned to our desk to tell us they’d run out of baked potatoes, which, in fact, we had all ordered. In unison, we let loose a roar of laughter—“How do you run out of potatoes in Idaho?!”.
2007–Bernard Lagat received the 3000-meters in Birmingham, England, in 7:32.43 to damage Tim Broe’s American Document of seven:39.23, which was once set in 2002. At the identical program, Kenenisa Bekele ran 4:49.99 for 2000-meters to take some other Global Document from fellow Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie (4:52.86). Bekele had set the present Global Document within the 5000 (12:49.60) at the identical tune in 2004.
2007—Bianca Knight (Ridgeland,MS) ran 22.97 on the Simplot Video games in Pocatello, Idaho, to damage the Nationwide H.S. Document of 23.14 that was once set via Allyson Felix (L.A. Baptist,CA) in 2003. The list was once damaged in 2023 when Junior Mia Brahe-Pedersen (Lake Oswego,OR) ran 22.89 in Albuquerque.
Felix (2) and Knight (3) ran the center legs at the U.S. 4×100 staff that set a Global Document of 40.82 on the 2012 Olympics in London.
A Glance Again (2021): www.milesplit.com/articles/256427/behind-bianca-knights-outrageous-national-record-from-2007
Effects: https://identification.milesplit.com/meets/195019-simplot-games-2007/effects#.YCu5pi1h3BA
2015—Sophomore Kamryn McIntosh (Suffern,NY) set a Nationwide H.S. Document (since damaged) of one:28.78 for 600-meters at NY’s Armory.
Put up-Race Interview: http://www.armorytrack.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=45586&do=movies&video_id=134265
2016—Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba ran 4:13.31 for the mile in Stockholm to spoil the Global Document of four:17.14 that was once set via Romania’s Doina Melinte again in 1990! It was once the Third WR set via Dibaba at the Stockholm tune, having run 8:16.60 for 3000-Meters in 2014, and 14:18.86 for 5000-Meters in 2015.
Global Data had been additionally set via Djibouti’s Ayanleh Souleiman within the 1000-meters (2:14.20) and Qatar’s Abdalelah Haroun within the 500-meters (59.83).
Video (mile): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3sr8dn
Genzebe Dibaba breaks world indoor mile record in Stockholm
LetsRun Protection
2017—It was once an evening of information at NY’s Armory. Right here’s what I wrote on the time:
Artie O’Connor Invitational-Data For McLaughlin-HOKA NJ*NY TC
It was once the primary version of a meet named for the overdue Artie O’Connor, the trainer at Fordham College from 1946-1973, and plenty of of his former athletes confirmed as much as honor his reminiscence. A number of the extra acquainted names who had been readily available had been Tom Courtney, the 1956 Olympic gold medalist within the 800-meters and four×400 relay, All-American citizens Jack Fath (Mile) and Frank Tomeo (880y), and, in fact, Norb Sander, the President of the Armory Basis who was once a member of the Fordham staff that received the 4-mile relay on the 1963 Penn Relays. It was once basically a meet for native faculties, however there have been two particular occasions added to this system and
they equipped the highlights of the evening
First up was once the Ladies’s 300-Meters, the place Union Catholic(NJ) senior Sydney McLaughlin, the 2016 U.S. Olympian within the 400-Meter Hurdles, would have a last likelihood to damage Francena McCorory’s Nationwide H.S. Document of 36.96. She had come shut two times on the Armory this season, operating 37.11 on January 14 and 37.09 eventually week’s Millrose Video games.
Operating within the liked lane 5 all of the race, McLaughlin after all were given the elusive list, crossing the end line in 36.82 seconds. It was once the Third Nationwide H.S. Document for McLaughlin, who set the 400 usual of 51.84 on the Armory at (the 2016) New Steadiness Indoor Nationals, and set the open air list of 54.15 within the 400-meter hurdles eventually 12 months’s U.S. Olympic Trials.
(From Armorytrack.com): “Last week there were so many more people at Millrose and much better competition,” mentioned McLaughlin, who competed within the NYRR Millrose Recreation’s Ladies’s 300m towards Olympic gold medalists Shaunae Miller and Natasha Hastings. “That got into my head a little bit and I really didn’t run my race.
“This week I tried to get out and run my race and focus on all the points my coach taught me. From last week until now it was about building confidence … I kept telling myself ‘I could do it’ because last week there was a lot of self-doubt and the competition was intense. Coming into this race I wanted to mentally prepare myself that I could do this.”
Up subsequent was once the 4-mile relay, the place Frank Gagliano’s HOKA NJ*NY TC staff could be taking purpose on the NYAC’s 24-year outdated Global Indoor Document of 16:16.67. The staff at first was hoping not to solely wreck the list, however to take it beneath 16-minutes! That did appear a chance main as much as the meet, however Colby Alexander, who had run 3:55.99 the week sooner than within the Wanamaker Mile at Millrose, got here up with a sore calf on Monday and had to get replaced via Graham Crawford, who had an harm of his personal in December and had misplaced some coaching time because of an endemic he picked up previous this month.
There have been 5 different groups within the race, nevertheless it temporarily was a race towards the clock as steepler Donn Cabral, a 2-time Olympic finalist and a 2-time NCAA champion at Princeton, were given issues rolling for trainer Gags together with his 4:05.4 lead-off leg,
The 2d leg was once treated via former Monmouth College standout Ford Palmer, who went out in a in all probability too-quick 56.6 for his first 1/4-mile, however was once ready to handle his shape and ran a wonderful 3:59.5 for his elevate. Crawford, only a 12 months out of North Carolina State, had run 3:56.05 closing August, however this could be his first race of the 12 months and he wasn’t but in that roughly form (see above). He lined his first 1/2-mile in a decent 2:02.3, however couldn’t grasp that tempo and wound up with a cut up of four:08.6. With Columbia grad Kyle Merber, contemporary off a Third-place end in closing week’s Wanamaker Mile (with a time of three:54.67), it appeared obvious that the Global Document could be damaged, however via how a lot?Merber, dressed in his trademark headscarf, ran his first 1/4-mile in 58.6 and adopted with splits of one:58.6 and a pair of:58.7 sooner than completing the race with a last cut up of three:59.3 and a staff time of 16:12.81, virtually 4 seconds beneath the former Global Document. Looking at from trackside was once Paul Mascali, who was once the trainer of the NYAC staff that had simply misplaced its standing as Phrase Document holders!
(From Armorytrack.com): Stated Merber, “It was really exciting (running anchor) but a bit chaotic. I was passing (lapped) guys constantly and it was kind of like dodging traffic. You get caught up in somebody’s pace and you have to stay in your own world”.
4-mile relay splits(from Jack Pfeifer):
1/4 1/2 3/4 Mile Ultimate
Cabral 60.2 2:01.1 3:02.8 4:05.4 4:05.4
Palmer 56.6 1:57.7 2:58.8 3:59.5 8:04.9
Crawford 60.6 2:02.3 3:06.5 4:08.6 12:13.5
Merber 58.4 1:58.6 2:58.7 3:59.3 16:12.81
Artie O’Connor
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/16/obituaries/arthur-o-connor-dies-at-77-coached-track-at-fordham.htmlArmory Protection http://www.armorytrack.com/gprofile.php?do=view_event&event_id=12173&mgroup_id=45586&12 months=2017
Becoming a member of Tom Courtney(l) on the meet was once some other NY legend, St.John’s alum Tom Farrell, the bronze medalist within the 800 on the 1968 Olympics (Hooked up)
2022—Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the gold medalist within the 1500-Meters on the Tokyo Olympics, added a Global Document to his already spectacular resume, operating 3:30.60 for the metric mile on the Global Athletics Indoor Excursion Gold assembly in Liévin France, on Thursday. Completing a far off 2d in 3:33.70 was once the former list holder, Ethiopia’s Samuel Tefera, who ran 3:31.04 in 2019. He would go back to Liévin in 2025 to set a WR of three:45.14 for the mile.
Global Athletics Protection
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si3MH1eVyrY
Research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aqeJQCMbqM
2023—DeAnna Value raised the Global Document for the 20-pound Weight Throw two times at the 2d day of motion on the U.S. Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, NM. She threw 84-6 ¾ (25.77) within the Third spherical, then crowned that via virtually a foot with a toss of 85-4 ½ (26.02) within the fifth spherical. The former list of 84-0 (25.60) have been shared via Gwen Berry (2017) and Janeah Stewart (2023).
Sequence: 81-6 ¾ (24.86), 83-6 ½ (25.46), 84-6 ¾ (25.77),82-8 ½ (25.21), 85-4 ½ (26.02), foul
Record
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdQOoVtB0m8
Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj_xPxUHrIk
2023—Oklahoma State (9:16.40) edged Washington (9:16.65) within the Distance Medley on the Arkansas Qualifier in Fayetteville as each groups had been neatly beneath the Collegiate Document of 9:19.42 that was once set via Oregon in 2021.
Lineups
OSU 9:16.40 (Fouad Messaoudi-2:49.49, DeJuana McArthur-46.81, Hafez Mahadi-1:47.27, Ryan Schoppe-3:52.83)
Washington 9:16.65 (Joe Waskom-2:49.41, Daniel Gaik-46.36, Cass Elliott-1:47.42, Kieran Lumb-3:53.46);
Oklahoma State Washington
Vital Birthdays
Born On This Day*
Mohamed Katir—Spain 27 (1998) Silver medalist within the 5000-meter on the 2023 Global Championships
Bronze medalist within the 1500 on the 2022 WC
eighth within the 5000 on the 2021 Olympics
Set 2 Eu Data in 2023—7:24.68i, 12:45.01
Born in Morocco, began representing Spain in 2020
Previous performances at the moment are suspect after he was once hit with 2 suspensions for “whereabout failures” and “tampering”.
His ban began on Feb.7, 2024, and can expire on Feb.6, 2028.
PBs: 3:28.76 (2021), 3:34.32i (2023), 7:27.64 (2021), 7:24.68i (2023/#3 All-Time), 12:45.01 (2023/ER)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Katir
https://worldathletics.org/athletes/spain/mohamed-katir-14642046
www.espn.com/olympics/tale/_/identification/43074007/mohamed-katir-spanish-athlete-handed-four-year-ban-tampering
Maru Teferi—Israel 33 (1992) Silver medalist-Marathon/2023 Global Championships…eleventh on the 2022 WC…2017-DNF
3-time Olympian—2016 (73rd), 2021 (thirteenth), 2024 (twenty sixth)
Silver medalist on the 2022 Eu Championships
Winner of the 2022 Fukuoka Marathon…Has finished 21 marathons since 2015
Born in Ethiopia, he moved to Israel together with his circle of relatives when he was once 14 years outdated
PBs: 13:40.37 (2019), 28:34.27 (Dec. 2020), 60:52 (2021), 2:04:44 (Dec. 2024)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maru_Teferi
https://worldathletics.org/athletes/israel/maru-teferi-14526757
https://www.nnrunningteam.com/staff/maru-teferi/
(Jumpin’) Joe Greene 58 (1967) 2-time Olympic bronze medalist—Lengthy Bounce (1992,1996)
A part of a U.S. sweep in 1992 (At the back of Carl Lewis and Mike Powell)
Silver medalist on the 1993 Global Indoor Championships
1995 U.S. Indoor Champion
1989 NCAA Champion—Ohio State…1st Buckeye to win the NCAA LJ since Jesse Owens in 1935 & 1936
Went from eighth to 1st together with his ultimate (wind-aided) soar of 27-7 ¼ (8.41)…Third Indoors in 1989 & 1990
Grab Bounce
NCAA Triple Bounce-1989i (2d), 1990(Third)
PBs: 27-10 (8.48/1995), 28-5w (8.66/1992), 55-4 ¾ (16.88/1989)
http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78478
His two Olympic medals wound up in a Las Vegas Pawn Store
Pawn Stars Connection:
http://www.looper.com/2754/biggest-payouts-pawn-stars-history/
http://olympicringsandotherthings.blogspot.com/2011/09/only-olympic-bronze-at-gold-silver-pawn.html
Glad Finishing (1992 medal returned!) (Just right learn!)
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