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This Day in Monitor & Area–June 5
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1943—Navy ensign Hugh Cannon set an American Document of 174-10 (53.29) within the discus on the Metropolitan AAU Championships on NY’s Randall’s Island.
Garry Hill explains within the hyperlink beneath why some folks thought Cannon had additionally set a World Document!
https://www.utahsportshalloffame.org/honorees-hall-of-fame-induction/hall-of-fame-Eighties/
1948–Jamaica’s Herb McKenley lowered his World Document within the 440y to 46.0 on the Pacific AAU meet at Cal-Berkeley’s Edwards Stadium. McKenley set the earlier mark of 46.3 on the identical web site the earlier 12 months.
WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Males’s_400_metres_world_record_progression
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_McKenley
1953–Parry O’Brien improved his World Document within the Shot Put to 59-2 ¼ (18.04m) on the Compton Inv.
Kansas junior Wes Santee gained the Mile in 4:02.4 to set the primary of his 4 American Information within the occasion. The winner of the NCAA 5000 in 1952, Santee would win the 1953 NCAA Mile two weeks later and would win the NCAA X-Nation title in November, main Kansas to the workforce title.
WR Development(meters): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Males’s_shot_put_world_record_progression
Santee: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/wes-santee
1959—Al Cantello, a long-time coach on the U.S. Naval Academy, set a World Document within the Javelin together with his throw of 282-3 (86.04) on the Compton Inv. Norway’s Egil Danielson, who gained the gold medal on the 1956 Olympics, set the earlier mark of 281-2 (85.71).
Recollects Cantello, who was solely 5-7 ½ (1.715), “My 1st throw was measured at 279-9 (85.26). Rafer Johnson (who had the perfect throw entering into–mid 250’s) ran again to me and stated, ‘Al, they mismeasured your throw as a result of they weren’t prepared for it,,,it was farther!’ The following throw was the report”.
Serving to to assist his household, Cantello went to work for 2 years after graduating from Norristown H.S.(PA). An opportunity assembly with a LaSalle College alum led to a scholarship on the Philadelphia faculty, the place he was a 3 time IC4A and Penn Relays Champion (1953-1955). He went on to win the bronze medal on the 1959 Pan-American Video games and completed tenth on the 1960 Olympics in Rome.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg17528.html (Scroll down)
WR Development(meters): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menpercent27s_javelin_throw_world_record_progression
http://legacy.usatf.org/statistics/calculators/markConversions/index.asp
1964 –Two historic prep information had been set on the Compton Inv. in California. First up was senior Gerry Lindgren (Rogers-Spokane, WA), who completed 4th within the 5000-Meters with a time of 13:44.0, a U.S. Excessive College Document that stood for 40 years till Galen Rupp ran 13:37.91 in 2004. Regardless of dropping a while after he received got rid of the observe on the 2nd lap, junior Jim Ryun (Wichita East, KS) completed eighth within the Mile however ran 3:59.0 to grow to be the primary highschool runner to interrupt 4 minutes within the occasion.
The winner of the 5000 was Bob Schul, whose time of 13:38.0 smashed Jim Beatty’s American Document of 13:45.0, which was set in 1962. (Lindgren was additionally underneath the earlier AR). Schul, in fact, went on later within the 12 months to win the gold medal within the 5000 on the Tokyo Olympics. (Lindgren [10k] and Ryun [1500] would additionally later qualify for the U.S. Olympic workforce).
Dyrol Burleson (3:57.4) was the winner of the deep Mile over Tom O’Hara (3:57.6), Archie San Romani (3:57.6), Morgan Groth (3:57.9), Jim Grelle (3:58.5), Bob Day (3:58.9), Cary Weisiger (3:58.9), and Ryun (3:59.0). It was the primary time in historical past that 8 males had run sub-4 in the identical race.
SI Article on Ryun: https://vault.si.com/vault/1964/09/14/a-kansas-boy-with-a-mansize-task