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This Day in Observe & Discipline–October 23
(1955-Hungarians Rule, ’77 NYC Marathon, ’77 U.S. Marathon(W), ’83 NYC Marathon-
Be sure you try the “Race After The Race” story within the report on Rod Dixon’s win on the 1983 NY Metropolis Marathon
1954—The Soviet Union’s (and Ukraine’s) Vladimir Kuts ran 13:51.2 in Prague to regain the World Report within the 5000-meters. Kuts had run 13:56.6 on August 29, solely to lose the document to Nice Britain’s Chris Chataway, who ran 13:51.8 on October 13.
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Kuts
1955-Hungary’s Sándor Iharos ran 13:40.6 for 5000-meters in Budapest to regain the World Report from Vladimir Kuts, who had run 13:46.8 the earlier month.
WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5000_metres_world_record_progression
13:51.2 Vladimir Kuts (URS) 10-23-1954 Prague, Czechoslovakia
13:50.8 Sandor Iharos (HUN) 09-10-1955 Budapest, Hungary
13:46.8 Vladimir Kuts (URS) 09-18-1955 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
13:40.6 Sandor Iharos (HUN) 10-23-1955 Budapest, Hungary
13:36.8 Gordon Pirie (GBR) 06-19-1956 Bergen, Norway
13:35.0 Vladimir Kuts (URS) 10-13-1957 Rome, Italy
Iharos’s efficiency capped a exceptional 12 months for Hungarian runners who set or equaled 10 World Information at 8 totally different distances! And László Tábori ran 3:59.0 for the mile to develop into the threerd man to interrupt 4-minutes within the occasion.
Sports activities Illustrated’s David Mayer affords an in-depth take a look at this memorable season and the person who coached all the runners, Mihály Iglói, within the article linked beneath.
Profession Stats: http://thegreatdistancerunners.de/SandorIharos.html
Sports activities Illustrated Vault: www.si.com/vault/1955/11/21/598530/hungary-becomes-a-great-powerin-track
1955-A 12 months of Information
Might 14 3000-Meters 7:55.6 Sándor Iharos Budapest, Hungary
Might 30 2-miles 8:33.4 Sándor Iharos London, England
July 28 1500-meters 3:40.8 Sándor Iharos Helsinki, Finland
September 6 1500-meters 3:40.8 László Tábori Oslo, Norway
September 10 5000-meters 13:50.8 Sándor Iharos Budapest, Hungary
September 21 1000-meters 2:19.0 István Rózsavölgyi Tata, Hungary
September 29 4×1500 15:14.8 Budapest, Hungary (Broke personal WR)
Ferenc Mikes 3:52.0, László Tábori 3:46.6, István Rózsavölgyi 3:48.4, Sándor Iharos 3:47.8
October 2 2000-meters 5:02.2 István Rózsavölgyi Budapest, Hungary
October 23 3-miles 13:14.2 Sándor Iharos Budapest, Hungary (en path to 5000m)
October 23 5000-meters 13:40.6 Sándor Iharos Budapest, Hungary
WR Progressions
1000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_metres_world_record_progression
1500: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1500_metres_world_record_progression
3000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menpercent27s_3000_metres_world_record_progression
1977—Invoice Rodgers (2:11:28) and 42-year outdated Miki Gorman (2:43:10) had been repeat winners on the 8th NY Metropolis Marathon (the twond protecting all 5 boroughs). Rodgers, who would win right here by virtually 2-1/2 minutes, would win in NY once more the subsequent two years. Ending 2nd to Gorman was Kim Merritt (2:46:10), who had set an American Report of two:37:57 in Eugene a month earlier.
The boys’s subject was one of many strongest ever, that includes 4 of the 6 high finishers on the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, and 6 of the 9 quickest marathoners in historical past.
4,823 runners began the race, making it the biggest marathon on the planet on the time. A crowd estimated at virtually 800,000 turned out to observe what has develop into an iconic occasion within the Large Apple.
Different notable finishers within the males’s race:
2.Jerome Drayton (CAN/2:13:53)—6th in Montreal, #6 on the all-time record
3.Chris Stewart (GBR/2:13:56)—3rd for the twond 12 months in a row
5.Garry Bjorklund (2:15:16)—1976 Olympian—10,000, battled Rodgers for the lead for greater than 3 miles late within the race
6.Randy Thomas (2:15:51)—former ladies’s coach at Boston Faculty
8.Kenny Moore (2:16:28)—4th on the 1972 Olympics
10.Don Kardong (2:17:04)—4th in Montreal
12.Tom Fleming (2:17:11)—winner in NY in 1973 and 1975
13.Ian Thompson (GBR/2:17:47)…#2 on the all-time record
17.Lasse Viren (FIN/2:19:35)—5th in Montreal after profitable his 2nd Olympic double within the 5,000 and 10,000
18.Ron Hill (GBR/2:20:01)–#3 on the all-time record
32.Norb Sander (2:25:11)—winner of the 5th NY Metropolis Marathon
DNF(ankle harm)-Frank Shorter—1972 Olympic champion, silver medalist in 1976
Starters/Finishers: 4,823/3,626; Males: 4,563/3,442, Girls: 260/184
Outcomes: https://outcomes.nyrr.org/occasion/771023/finishers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_New_York_City_Marathon
Highlights: https://digital.hagley.org/FILM_1995300_FC249_02
Pre-Race:
1977—Held on the identical day because the NYC race, the primary all-women’s Marathon held within the U.S. occurred in St.Paul, Minnesota. The race served because the U.S. Championship and was received by Leal-Ann Reinhart in 2:46:34.
This was throughout a interval when the Worldwide Runners Committee, spearheaded by Jaqi Hansen, a 2-time World Report setter within the marathon, was lobbying to have distance races for girls added to the Olympic program. An harm prevented Hansen from working right here, however she was capable of cheer for Reinhart, her coaching associate, from the press truck.
Doing their half for the trigger had been race director Alex Boies and Jim Ferstle, who had been instrumental in bringing the Championship to St.Paul.
Hansen careworn “the significance of staging all-women races in our quest for recognition, till we had been established by way of championships and awards on an equal standing with males’s racing packages”.
Sarah Barker wrote in regards to the 40th Anniversary of the race on this article for the Star-Tribune(scroll down):
https://www.jacquelinehansen.com/2022/06/18/a-day-in-the-life-of-jim-ferstle/
Previous U.S. Champions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Marathon_Championships#Girlspercent27s_results
The Girls’s Marathon Motion:
https://www.jacquelinehansen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/M+B-xx-16-1w_pix-Hansen.pdf
Leal-Ann Reinhart
1983—In one of the vital dramatic finishes within the occasion’s historical past, New Zealand’s Rod Dixon chased down Nice Britain’s Geoff Smith to win the NY Metropolis Marathon on a wet day in his debut on the distance.
Trailing by 2-1/2 minutes after 20-miles, Dixon, the bronze medalist within the 1500-meters on the 1972 Olympics, methodically ate into Smith’s lead, working the tangents to make up a yard or two at each doable alternative. He lastly went into the lead with lower than ¼-mile to go and received in 2:08:59, whereas Smith, who was an All-American at Windfall, held on for twond place (2:09:08) earlier than collapsing on the end line.
Dixon’s win was the primary in NY by a non-American and commenced a streak that lasted till Meb Keflezighi received the race in 2009.
Norway’s Grete Waitz ran 2:27:00 to win the ladies’s race for the 5th time. She would finally wind up as a 9-time winner in NY.
The Race After The Race
Former Duke coach Norm Ogilvie, a reasonably respectable runner in his day, describes his function in a race that started shortly after Rod Dixon crossed the end line:
“In 1983, the NFL At the moment was a 30 minute pregame present that aired nationally on CBS. I used to be a 24 12 months outdated researcher on the present, which primarily concerned calling direct to NFL Press Packing containers and getting info straight from the group’s press steward on any variety of particulars from the sport so the present may present updates from across the league into markets airing different video games. There was no web, no NFL Redzone Channel, and far information was nonetheless gathered by telephone and scribbled down by researchers…accuracy was important. The job additionally included different essential duties, corresponding to getting Brent Musberger’s sandwich order, and following the whims of the Director and Producer. Then one Monday, in the course of the weekly planning assembly for the subsequent week’s protection, I used to be requested by one producer, who knew I used to be a runner, to weigh in on doable NYC Marathon protection. ABC Sports activities was protecting it Dwell coast to coast from 10:30am to 1:00pm. Nonetheless, many anticipated that ABC would lose a good portion of their viewers when the 2 NFL Pre-Recreation reveals would air on CBS and NBC, respectively, at 12:30pm. I used to be requested if I may bodily run over a videotape, plucked straight from the recorder, that will be positioned on the Tavern On The Inexperienced restaurant proper on the Central Park end line of the 26.2 mile race. And if I used to be keen to do the job, may I get it to the CBS studios on the Broadcast Heart on 57th St. and eleventh Avenue in time to get the tape of the end on our air previous to 12:59pm, after we would ship our viewers out to their respective stadiums for 1:00pm NFL kickoffs. “I can promise you I can run the tape to you from Tavern On The Inexperienced (virtually precisely 2 miles) in underneath 10:00, however that can solely be ok if the race winner goes 2:10 or sooner. ‘Are you able to promise me that’? After all they couldn’t, so it was agreed that regardless of the chance, it was value taking if CBS may scoop NBC, positioned barely additional away at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. As we all know now, Rod Dixon’s dramatic come-from-behind win over Geoff Smith, the place he raised his arms in triumph and ecstasy, was one of many nice finishes in main marathon historical past. But it surely was extremely possible that extra viewers first noticed the unbelievable drama of that end not on ABC’s incredible reside protection with Jim McKay and Marty Liqouri on the decision, however about twelve minutes in a while tape delay on the NFL At the moment, which had a wider viewers.
I needed to run near 9 minutes flat over the practically 2M over NYC streets, by way of visitors, dodging cabs and vehicles to run essentially the most environment friendly tangent, and even then we barely bought the tape cued up on time. It aired once more in the course of the varied halftime reveals to most likely much more eyeballs an hour and a half later. I felt pleased with my effort, however was truly heckled by the Director for sporting working gear on the NFL At the moment set, which had its’ personal gown code, even for lowly researchers. The web, low-cost satellite tv for pc time and the appearance of all-sports channels corresponding to ESPN have made these sorts of TV manufacturing tales a factor of the previous, however within the phrases of legendary CBS Information Anchorman Walter Cronkite ‘That’s the best way it was’ again in 1983.”
Different Notable Finishers
Males: 3.Ron Tabb (2:10:46), 4.John Tuttle (2:10:51)…6.Gidamis Shahanga (Tanzania/2:11:05), 7.Rudy Chapa (2:11:13)…12.Pat Petersen (2:12:06), 13.Kirk Pfeffer (2:12:20)…18.Tony Sandoval (2:13:21).
Girls: 2.Laura Fogli (Italy/2:31:49), 3.Priscilla Welch (England/2:32:31)…5.Nancy Ditz (2:35:31), 6.Christa Vahlensieck (Germany/2:35:59)…12.Julie Shea (2:39:02).
High 25: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_New_York_City_Marathon
NY Occasions Protection:
Dixon Seems to be Again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llfcZUyTJGA
Waitz: https://www.nyrr.org/about-us/nyrr-hall-of-fame/grete-waitz
Previous Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_of_the_New_York_City_Marathon
Movies
Half 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phxnt4u1ZXY
