This Day in Monitor & Area, October 22, Emil Zatopek regains WR at 10,000m (1949), Grete Waitz wins her debut marathon at NYC (1978), by Walt Murphy Information & Outcomes Companies

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This Day in Monitor & Area–October 22

1949—Czech Emil Zátopek regained the World Document within the 10,000-meters, operating 29:21.2 in Ostrava, the location of his 1^st World Document that was set in June.

WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000_metres_world_record_progression

29:28.2  Emil Zátopek   Ostrava, Czechoslavakia     6-11-1949

29:27.2  Viljo Heino  Finland  Kouvala, Finland   9-1-49

29:21.2      Zátopek  Ostrava  10-22-49

29:02.6     Zátopek  Turku, Finland  8-4-50

29:01.6     Zátopek    Stará Boleslav, Czechoslavakia  11-1-53

28:54.2     Zátopek    Brussels, Belgium  6-1-54

28:42.8   Sándor Iharos  Hungary  Budapest, Hungary 7-15-56

http://www.runningpast.com/emil_zatopek.htm

1966—Marty Liquori, a senior at Essex Catholic H.S.(NJ), received the Jap States X-Nation title at NY’s Van Cortland Park, setting a Course Document of 12:23.2 (2-1/2 Miles).

VCP

1978—Operating the gap for the primary time, Norway’s Grete Waitz received the  NY Metropolis  Marathon in 2:32:29.8, greater than two minutes quicker than the World Document of two:34:47.5, which had been set in 1977 by Germany’s Christa Vahlensieck, who had dropped out of the NY race.

Swearing she would by no means run one other marathon due to the ache concerned, Waitz quickly had a change of coronary heart and would turn out to be a favourite of NY Metropolis followers after profitable the race a further 8 occasions! She would additionally win the marathon on the inaugural World Championships in Helsinki in 1983 and completed 2nd to Joan Benoit within the first girls’s Olympic marathon in 1984.

Waitz, who misplaced her battle with most cancers in 2011, had already established herself as one of many world’s greatest feminine distance runners, setting two World Information within the 3000-meters and profitable the primary of her 5 World X-Nation titles in early 1978.

After ending a disappointing third within the 3000 on the European Championships in Prague in late August, Waitz was considering retiring when the thought of competing within the NY Metropolis Marathon was introduced up throughout a post-race dinner along with her husband Jack and fellow Norwegian Knut Kvalheim, who was an All-American miler at Oregon.

Jack Waitz talked about that he was attempting to get his spouse to run a marathon and Kvalheim, who had beforehand run the race, advised she run in New York, which was lower than two months away. Kvalheim informed Grete, “Run the marathon, take every week’s trip, and end your profession in nice type”. The choice to run was made, setting in movement the second part of her already achieved profession.

Starters/Finishers: 9,875/9,357; Males: 8,875/8,688, Girls: 1,000/769

A lot of the above is from Runner’s World’s nice assortment of private recollections of the race from fellow runners and others concerned with the occasion, together with Males’s winner Invoice Rodgers (2:12:11), Jack Waitz, and former World Document holder Jaqi Hansen, one of many pre-race favorites in 1978 (a foot harm pressured her to drop out). Learn way more at:

http://www.runnersworld.com/masters/grete-waitz-from-out-of-norway  (subscription required?)

Different Notable Finishers

Males:2.Ian Thompson (Nice Britain) 2:14:12…6.Jack Foster (New Zealand) 2:17:28, 7.Chris Stewart (Nice Britain) 2:17:47…12.Frank Shorter 2:19:32…20.Ron Hill (Nice Britain) 2:20:29, 21.Tom Fleming 2;20:37…25.Jim Rafferty 2:21:24…30.Pete Squires 2:22:59…35.Dick Buerkle 2:23:56…47.Norb Sander 2:25:53, 48.Paul Fetscher 2:26:01, 49.Don Kardong  2:26:04…60.Julio Piazza 2:27:33…63.Gary Muhrcke 2:28:06 (1^st winner of the race in 1970)

Girls: 2.Marty Cooksey 2:41:48…17.Miki Gorman 2:57:08…21.Nina Kuscsik 2:58:10…28.Joan Uliyot 3:02:41

Outcomes: https://outcomes.nyrr.org/occasion/781022/examine

Historical past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Marathon

NYRR Corridor of Fame: http://www.nyrr.org/about-us/nyrr-hall-of-fame/grete-waitz

Marathon Legend:

https://www.espn.com/espnw/blogs/information/story/_/id/6389938/remembering-marathon-legend-pioneer-grete-waitz

Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grete_Waitz

NY Instances Tribute: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/sports activities/20vecsey.html

2000—Khalid Khannouchi set an American Document of two:07:01 whereas profitable the Chicago Marathon for the three^rd time in 4 years. He represented his native Morocco when he received in 1997 and 1999 (he would win once more in 2002).  He had set a World Document of two:05:42 whereas profitable right here in 1999.

Khannouchi, who turned a U.S. citizen on Might 2, had hoped to characterize the U.S. on the 2000 Sydney Olympics, however accidents pressured him to overlook the U.S. Trials.

Kenya’s Catherine “The Nice” Ndereba adopted up her win on the Boston Marathon in April with a win right here with a Nationwide Document of two:21:33.  Ending 2^nd in 2:22:36 was fellow Kenyan Lornah Kiplagat, who would begin competing for the Netherlands in 2003.

Ndereba would win once more in Chicago the next yr with a World Document of two:18:47, and went on to win World titles in 2003 and 2007 and Olympic silver medals in 2004 and 2008.

Different Notable Finishers:

Males: 2.Josephat Kiprono (KEN) 2:07:29, 3.Moses Tanui (KEN) 2:07:49…7.David Morris (USA) 2:12:00…10.Josh Cox (USA) 2:13:55

Girls: 4.Elana Meyer (RSA) 2:31:59…6.Libbie Hickman (USA) 2:32:09.

https://www.espn.com/moresports/information/2000/1022/832418.html

Prime 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Chicago_Marathon

Khannouchi: https://www.worldathletics.org/information/information/khannouchi-former-marathon-world-record-holde

https://www.letsrun.com/2012/khannouchi-pinkowski-0328.php

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/kenya/catherine-ndereba-14289341

2000—The World Junior (Underneath-20) Championships are identified for producing future stars, and this yr’s version in Santiago, Chile, produced no fewer than 17 (!) future World or Olympic Champions

Males’s 5000—2.Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele…3-time Olympic Champion (2004/10,000, 2008/5000,10,000)…received 16

            World titles

Males’s 110-Hurdles—4.China’s Liu Xiang  2004 Olympic and 2007 World Champion

Males’s Excessive Leap-1.South Africa’s Jacques Freitag  2003 World Champion

Males’s Pole Vault—4.Australia’s Steve Hooker  2008 Olympic gold medalist

Males’s Javelin—2.Norway’s Andreas Thorkikildsen  2-time Olympic Champion (2004, 2008), 2009 World Champion

Girls’s 5000—2.Ethiopia’s Meseret Defar…2-time Olympic (2004,2012) and World (2007,2013) Champion

Girls’s 100/200—Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell(Brown)…2-time Olympic Champion within the 200 (2004,2008).

Girls’s 400/400h—1.Australia’s Jana Pittman  2-time World Champion-400m Hurdles (2003, 2007)

Girls’s 400h—2.Jamaica’s Melaine Walker 2008 Olympic & 2009 World Champion

Girls’s 1500—1.Kenya’s Nancy Langat  2008 Olympic champion

Girls’s Excessive Leap—1.Croatia’s Blanka Vlašić…2-time World Champion (2007, 2009)

Girls’s Excessive Leap—4.Russia’s Anna Chicherova 2011 World & 2012 Olympic Champion

Girls’s Pole Vault—Yelena Isinbaeva…World Document holder, 2-time Olympic (2004,2008) and 3-time

            World (2005,2007,2013) Champion

Girls’s Pole Vault—10. Brazil’s Fabiana Murer 2011 World Champion

Girls’s Javelin—10.Germany’s Christina Obergföll  2013 World Champion

Heptathlon—Sweden’s Carolina Klüft…2004 Olympic champion, 3-time World Champion (2003, 2005,2007)

Heptathlon—4.Czech Barbora Špotáková    2xOlympic (2008, 2012) & 3xWorld (2007, 2011, 2017) Champion–Javelin

IAAF Protection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_World_Junior_Championships_in_Athletics

2006—Simply as Kenya’s Robert Cheruiyot (2:07:35) raised his arms to have a good time his imminent win on the Chicago Marathon, he slipped on a moist race decal on the end, falling backwards and hitting his head on the roadway. Along with struggling a gentle concussion, he additionally had minor bleeding on the floor of his mind. He spent two nights in a neighborhood hospital, however made a full restoration. It was the two^ndmain victory of the yr for Cheruiyot, who received the Boston Marathon in April.

Following Cheruiyot throughout the road (with out incident) have been fellow Kenyans Daniel Njenga (2:07:40) and Jimmy Muindi (2:07:51), and American Abdi Abdirahman, who ran what would grow to be the quickest time of his profession—2:08:56.

The primary 4 finishers within the Girls’s division all set Nationwide Information—Ethiopia’s Berhane Adere (2:20:42), Russia’s Galina Bogomolova (2:20:47), Australia’s Benita Willis (2:22:36), and Mexico’s Madaí Pérez (2:22:59).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWheGgqmq0A

https://www.espn.com/olympics/trackandfield/information/story?id=2634958

https://www.worldathletics.org/information/information/mens-winner-and-several-womens-national-recor

Prime 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Chicago_Marathon

https://www.chicagotribune.com/information/ct-xpm-2006-10-24-0610240016-story.html

Previous Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_of_the_Chicago_Marathon