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This Day in Observe & Area/X-Nation–March 21
1953–The Grand Avenue Boys’ “Dream Staff” of Herb McKenley (48.2), Andy Stanfield (49.8), George Rhoden (48.5), and Mal Whitfield (47.9) set an American and World Report of three:14.4 within the Mile Relay on the 220y-flat board monitor on the 174th Armory Video games in Buffalo.
McKenley was a 2-time Olympic silver medalist within the 400-meters (1948, 1952); Stanfield was the 1952 Olympic 200-meter champion; Rhoden was the gold medalist within the 400 in 1952; and Whitfield received the 800 on the 1948 and 1952 Video games. McKenley and Rhoden ran on Jamaica’s profitable 4×400 relay in 1952.
From Dave Johnson: “…it was solely within the early ’60s that the relay crew nationwide homogeneity definition modified. Earlier than that, the A.R. could possibly be set by any U.S. membership, school, or nationwide crew whatever the nationalities of the runners.” (World Indoor Information weren’t formally acknowledged by the IAAF/World Athletics till 1987)
This was the 6th World Indoor Report of the season for Whitfield.
https://discussion board.trackandfieldnews.com/discussion board/historic/2967-grand-street-boys
1977—Thom Hunt’s particular person win within the Junior race (7.5km) led the U.S. to the crew title on the World X-Nation Championships in Düsseldorf, Germany. The opposite scorers for the U.S. had been Mark Spilsbury (5th), Marty Froelick (12th), and Chris Fox (18th).
Léon Schots beat Portugal’s Carlos Lopes within the Senior race to steer Belgium to the crew title.
Spain’s Carmen Valero received the Ladies’s Senior race (no Junior race for girls), whereas runner-up Lyudmila Bragina led the Soviet Union to the crew title. The U.S. received the silver medal.
Different notable finishers:
Senior Males (12.3km): 4. Franco Fava (Italy/turned one of many main journalists within the sport), 7.Karel Lismont (Belgium), 24.Jeff Wells (USA), 30.Fernando Mamede (Portugal), 37.Rob de Castella (Australia), 42.Gary Tuttle (USA), 44.Jos Hermens (Netherlands), 45.Dave Bedford (Nice Britain), 91.Ray Treacy (Eire), 99.Tom Wysocki (USA), 103.Steve Jones (Wales), 104.Tony Sandoval (Wales), 106.Jon Anderson (USA), 109.Neil Cusack (Eire), 111.Ric Rojas (USA), 112.Steve Flanagan (USA/Shalane’s dad), 132.Roger Robinson (New Zealand), 159.Donal Walsh (Eire); DNF-Emiel Puttemans (Belgium)
Senior Ladies (5.1km): 3. Giana Romanova (Soviet Union), 4. Irina Bondarchuk (Soviet Union), 8. Sue Kinsey (USA), 9. Anne Audain (New Zealand), 11.Kathy Mills (USA), 14.Julie Brown (USA), 15.Paula Neppel (USA), 48.Doris Brown-Heritage (USA), 54.Eryn Forbes (USA)
Junior Males (7.5km): 9.José Abascal (Spain), 15.Antonio Prieto (Spain), 52.Adrian Leek (Wales)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships
Previous Outcomes (Since 1973): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Athletics_Cross_Country_Championships
1980—President Jimmy Carter introduced that the U.S. ought to boycott the Moscow Olympics, however the USOC made that call official on April 12. Some within the British authorities additionally needed to boycott the Video games, however they had been rebuffed by the British Olympic Affiliation, which determined to ship a crew to Moscow.
Listed below are some hyperlinks to associated tales.
http://www.historical past.com/this-day-in-history/carter-announces-olympic-boycott
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics_boycott
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/sports activities/year_in_sports/01.20.html
Don Paige, who would have been one of many favorites within the males’s 800, seems again(2012):
http://version.cnn.com/2012/08/07/sport/olympics-2012-moscow-boycott-1980-don-paige/index.html
Nice Britain Decides to Compete:
http://information.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hello/dates/tales/march/25/newsid_2531000/2531175.stm
(1996) http://tinyurl.com/yksjbet
1981–Lower than every week after setting an American Outside Report of 56-7 ½ (17.26m) within the Triple Bounce at UCLA
(3-15), Willie Banks traveled to Tokyo, the place he set an Indoor mark of 56-5 ¼ (17.20m).
After fouling thrice on the U.S. Indoor Championships in NY, Banks was initially dropped from the U.S. squad scheduled to compete in Tokyo. Nonetheless, Ollan Cassell, the top of TAC (The Athletics Congress), reinstated him after he obtained his Outside AR. One other American Report was set by Jeanette Bolden, who received the ladies’s 60 in 7.21. (From T&F Information)
1982—Highlights from the World Cross Nation Championships in Rome
Senior Males (11.978km): 1. Mohammed Kedir (ETH) 33:40.5, 2.Alberto Salazar (USA) 33:44.8, 3.Rod Dixon (NZL) 34:01.8, 4.Hansjörg Kunze (GDR), 5.Mike McLeod (GBR)…7.Alberto Cova (ITA), 8.Werner Schildauer (GDR)…10.Rob de Castella (AUS), 13.Fernando Mamede (PO, 16.Miruts Yifter (ETH), 23.Steve Jones (Wales), 27.Don Clary (USA), 37.Emiel Puttemans (BEL), 47.Jon Treacy (IRL), 60.Dan Dillon (USA), 64.Pat Porter (USA), 69.Herb Lindsay (USA), 78.Dan Heikkinen (USA), 93.Jon Sinclair (USA), 102.Man Arbogast (USA), 107.Neil Cusack (IRL), 129.Randy Jackson (USA); Groups:1.Ethiopia 98, 2.England 114, 3.Soviet Union 257;
Senior Ladies (4.663km):1.Maricica Puică (RUM) 14:38.9, 2.Fița Lovin (RUM) 14:40.5, 3.Grete Waitz (NOR) 14:43.9, 6.Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR), 10.Jan Merrill (USA), 12.Kate Wiley (CAN), 17.Marty Cooksey (USA), 20.Aileen O’Connor (USA), 21.Rosa Mota (POR), 23.Brenda Webb (USA), 27.Joan Hansen (USA), 42.Yvonne Murray (SCO), 45.Wanda Panfil (POL), 71.Liz Lynch (SCO), 75.Lesley Welch (USA), 87.Elly Van Hulst (NED), Groups:1.Soviet Union 44, 2.Italy 57, 3.England 67;
Junior Males (7.926km):1.Zurbachev Gelaw (ETH) 22:45.3, 2.Adugna Lema (ETH) 22:46.6, 3.Stefano Mei (ITA) 22:48.7, 6.Francesco Panetta (ITA), 11.John Easker (USA), 14.Tom Ansberry (USA), 16.Martín Fiz (ESP), 22.George Nicholas (USA), 23.Joe Stintzi (USA), 46.Jonathan Knight (USA), 73.Andy Ronan (IRL); DNF-Gabriella Dorio (ITA); Groups: 1. Ethiopia 12, 2.Italy 37, 3.USA 70
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships
1992—Working on a snow-covered Franklin Park course in Boston in sub-freezing temperatures, Lynn Jennings waited till the final 100 meters earlier than pulling forward of Eire’s Catherina McKiernan to win her third consecutive World X-Nation title.
Jennings, who first ran on this course as a highschool sophomore, was anticipated to duel with Scotland’s Liz McColgan, however the World 10k Champion was underneath the climate and was by no means an element (forty first). 1988 Olympian Vicki Huber returned to type together with her 4th-place end because the U.S. ladies received the silver medals behind Kenya. Backing up Jennings and Huber had been Annette Peters (thirtieth), Sylvia Mosqueda (forty second), Melinda Schmidt (forty seventh), and Lisa Karnopp (89th). Eire’s Sonia O’Sullivan (1990,1991), like Huber (1989), a former NCAA X-C Champion from Villanova, completed seventh.
”I knew everybody,” Jennings mentioned of the acquainted environment, ”all of the technical individuals and all the officers on the beginning line. My neighbors had been right here with their two kids. It was like placing on a race in my very own yard. I needed to cease and take all of it in.”
Two future World Report holders had been on view within the Ladies’s Junior race as Nice Britain’s Paula Radcliffe (marathon) and China’s Wang Junxia (10,000) completed 1-2.
Kenya’s nice John Ngugi went by means of some powerful instances after profitable his 4th World Cross title in 1989 (see under) however bounced again right here to win a file fifth males’s title.
The Males’s Junior race featured two future greats as Haile Gebrselassie completed 2nd and 17-year-old Hicham El Guerrouj positioned 14th.
Jennings, who would go on to win the bronze medal within the 10,000-meters on the Barcelona Olympics later within the 12 months, was inducted into the USATF Corridor of Fame in 2006.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships
Corridor of Fame Bio: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/lynn-jennings
Sports activities Illustrated Vault:
Jennings Function: http://www.si.com/vault/1993/03/29/128288/lynn-jennings
Movies(non-English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycgMGEtoBxg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkCNIh7UtGc
From Ngugi’s web site
However after a five-year run of arduous racing and success, accidents started to meet up with Ngugi. “I believe I raced many instances after the Seoul Olympics. I acquired many invites worldwide, and the lure of prize cash at all times tempted me to honor them. “In the long run, I suffered many accidents.”
So, within the subsequent World Cross, in France in 1990, Ngugi completed solely twentieth. Nevertheless, with 5 males within the prime 10, Kenya comfortably retained the crew title—with out Ngugi making the scoring six. Khalid Skah of Morocco received that day, with Moses Tanui second and Julius Korir third.
The next 12 months, Ngugi didn’t even end the race in Antwerp. Skah retained the title, with Tanui once more second, forward of Simon Karori and Richard Chelimo. Was the nice Ngugi completed?
Earlier than the 1992 season, Ngugi says, “I prayed arduous and appealed to God to revive my hope and power. I knew deep inside myself that I nonetheless had the power to win extra world titles.”
And so it was that Ngugi once more made the Kenyan crew, this time to race at Boston. Simply months earlier than his thirtieth birthday, Ngugi was once more World Champion for a record-breaking fifth time. “I at all times loved tough circumstances. Boston had a whole lot of snow, nearly ankle-deep, and a tricky hill. I like such circumstances, and that’s how I received the title,” he says.
2004–Working within the wind, rain, chilly, and dirt in Brussels, Belgium, Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele received his third straight double within the brief (3-20) and lengthy (3-21) races on the IAAF World X-Nation Championships. Ethiopia ended Kenya’s 18-year reign as crew champions within the males’s lengthy race.
Australia’s Benita Willis (27:17) received the Ladies’s lengthy race (3-20) over Ethiopia’s Ejegayehu Dibaba (27:29), whereas Kenya’s Edith Masai (13:07) received the brief race over Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba (13:09)
The highest American finisher within the Males’s Brief race was Robert Gary (thirty third), presently the top coach at Furman, whereas Abdi Abdirahman was 34th within the lengthy race.
Shalane Flanagan (14th) and Lauren Fleshman (twenty fourth) had been the highest two American finishers within the Ladies’s Lengthy race.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships
A enjoyable addition: 50 years of World Cross Nation, by World Athletics: https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-cross-country-championships/Forty fourth-world-athletics-cross-country-championsh-7138983/information/sequence/50-years-world-cross-country-championships-1993-2002