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This Day in Observe & Subject–October 20
1956— Information have been set in three occasions in Ontario, California, at a tuneup meet for the Melbourne Olympics. Leamon King ran 10.1 to equal the World File within the 100-meters, and American Information have been set by Max Truex within the 5000 (14:22.8) and Ira Davis within the Triple Leap (51-11[15.82]).
1964—Germany’s Willi Holdorf gained the Decathlon on the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo with a rating of 7887 factors, with the silver going to Estonia’s Rein Aun (7842) and the bronze to a different German, Hans-Joachim Wolde (7809). American Paul Herman completed 4th (7787), leaving the U.S. with no medal within the occasion for the primary time in Olympic historical past.
fifth was C.Okay. Yang, the silver medalist on the 1960 Olympics in Rome. The previous UCLA star had set a monumental World File of 9,121 factors in 1963, thanks largely to his success with the comparatively new fiberglass implement within the Pole Vault. Nonetheless, new scoring tables that took impact in 1964 lessened Yang’s benefit in that occasion.
Nice Britain’s Ann Packer gained the Girls’s 800-Meters with a World File time of two:01.1. Ending 2nd and threerd have been France’s Maryvonne Dupureur (2:01.9) and New Zealand’s Marise Chamberlain (2:02.8).
North Korea’s Shin Geum-Dan had run 1:58.0 the earlier month, however couldn’t compete in Tokyo as a result of her nation had been suspended by the IAAF (she additionally couldn’t get credit score for a WR).
A day after successful the Discus, the Soviet Union’s (and Russia’s) Tamara Press (59-6 ¼ [18.14]/OR) gained a 2nd gold within the Girls’s Shot Put. Successful silver and bronze have been East Germany’s Renate Garisch (57-9 ½ [17.61]) and the Soviet Union’s (and Russia’s) Galina Zybina (57-3 [17.45]).
Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1964_Summer_Olympics
Olympedia Stories: http://www.olympedia.org/editions/16/sports activities/ATH
Coincidentally, Kon Ichikawa’s memorable documentary (Tokyo Olympiad-2 hours) was launched within the U.S. on this date in 1965!:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHt0eAdCCns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Olympiad
Movies
W800: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F10IOKnkh0s
Packer Analyzes the 800: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmdr7NNEJtk
Toomey (2012): https://www.runnerspace.com/video.php?video_id=72207
1968-Jim Ryun had established himself because the #1 miler (metric and imperial) on this planet, setting World Information within the 1500 and mile (breaking his personal) in 1967. However he was not solely going up towards his outdated rival, Kenya’s Kip Keino, within the last of the Olympic 1500, he was additionally going through Mexico Metropolis’s 7,300’ elevation.
Unfazed by the altitude (since he grew up in an identical surroundings), Keino’s teammate, Ben Jipcho (apparently performing as a sacrificial lamb–he would end tenth), took the sphere by means of a quick 56-second first 400-meters, whereas Keino, who was behind the pack for the primary 100-meters, got here by means of in 56.6 (behind Germany’s Harald Norpoth). In the meantime, a cautious Ryun, probably weakened by a fever, was effectively again in 58.1.
Keino, who had gained the silver medal within the 5000 three days earlier, took the lead with two laps to go and went by means of the 800 cut up in 1:55.3, with Ryun greater than 3 seconds behind (1:58.5). Keino, stung by Ryun’s kick up to now, was taking no possibilities this time, and was by no means challenged as he went on to win in a quick 3:34.91, 2nd solely to Ryun’s World File of three:33.1 on the all-time listing (on the time), and a time thought unattainable at altitude. Ryun (3:37.8) completed effectively to take the silver medal, whereas Germany’s Bodo Tummler (3:39.0) gained the bronze. The opposite People didn’t fare so effectively, with Tom Von Ruden ending ninth and an injured Marty Liquori (4:18.22) struggling residence in final place.
U.S. followers had been handled to the sight of Dick Fosbury’s revolutionary approach within the Excessive Leap, however now the remainder of the world received to benefit from the wonderment of watching him going over the bar backwards! Fosbury made probably the most of his time on the world stage, grabbing the gold medal and breaking John Thomas’s 8-year outdated American File (7-3 ¾ [2/23]) together with his successful peak of 7-4 ¼ (2.24). Teammate Ed Caruthers (7-3 ¼ [2.22]) gained the silver medal, and the bronze was gained by the Soviet Union’s (and Russia’s) Valentin Gavrilov (7-2 ½ [2.20]).
Whereas Fosbury has justifiably been given credit score for introducing the fashion that bears his title, he wasn’t the primary to attempt it. That honor apparently belongs to Montana prep Bruce Quande, who used the flop on the 1963 Montana H.S. State meet! (See the hyperlink under).
For the third Olympics in a row, a runner from Ethiopia gained the Males’s Marathon. The good Abebe Bikila, the winner in 1960 and 1964, needed to drop out of the race with a leg damage, however countryman Mamo Wolde, who had earlier gained the silver medal within the 10,000, picked up the slack, successful in 2:20:26.4. Silver and bronze went to Japan’s Kenji Kimihara (2:23:31) and New Zealand’s Mike Ryan (2:23:45). Kenny Moore (2:29:49) was the highest American in 14th place, with teammates George Younger inserting 16th (2:31:15) and Ron Daws 22nd (2:33:53).
East Germany’s Margitta Gummell bettered her personal World File (61-11 [18.87]) whereas successful the Girls’s Shot Put, throwing 62-6 ¾ (19.07) and 64-4 (19.61). 2nd was East Germany’s Marita Lange (61-7 ½ [18.78]) and threerd was the Soviet Union’s (and Russia’s Nadezhda Chizhova (59-8 ¼ [18.19]).
The U.S. gained all three relays and set World Information in every (the Girls’s 4×400 wasn’t added to the Olympic program till 1972).
Males’s 4×100 (38.2/38.24)–Charlie Greene, Mel Pender, Ronnie Ray Smith, and Jim Hines, the 100-meter champion. 2nd and threerdhave been Cuba (38.3/38.40) and France (38.4/38.43), which edged Jamaica (38.4/38.47) to earn the bronze medals.
Girls’s 4×100 (42.8/42.88)–Barbara Ferrell, Margaret Bailes, Mildrette Netter, and Wyomia Tyus, the 100-meter
Champion. 2nd and threerd have been Cuba (43.3/43.36) and the Soviet Union (43.4/43.41).
Males’s 4×400 (2:56.1/2:56.16/last T&F occasion of the Video games)– Vince Matthews-45.0, Ron Freeman-43.2, Larry James-43.9, Lee Evans-44.1. With a crew that included the three medalists from the 400, together with two who had been beneath the earlier World File, and the benefit of Mexico Metropolis’s altitude, the one query was how briskly they might run within the last. The reply was a fast 2:56.1, which was greater than 3 seconds quicker than the earlier mark of two:59.6. That point would stand alone because the World File till one other U.S. crew matched the auto-time of two:56.16 on the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Subsequent throughout the road have been Kenya (2:59.6/2:59.64) and West Germany (3:00.5/3:00.57), which edged Poland (3:00.5/3:00.58) for the bronze medals.
Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1968_Summer_Olympics
Olympedia Stories: http://www.olympedia.org/editions/17/sports activities/ATH
Movies:
1500: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_9AAy7yZTc
Excessive Leap: https://olympics.com/en/video/men-s-high-jump-final-mexico-1968-great-olympic-moments
Fosbury-50th Anniversary(2018): https://www.worldathletics.org/information/characteristic/dick-fosbury-flop
Statue Unveiled:
https://onceuponatimeinthevest.blogspot.com/2018/10/v-8-n-64-50-years-ago-today-oct-20-2018.html
The First Flopper?:
“1968”-NBC’s wonderful documentary that facilities on the U.S. Olympic T&F crew and the turbulent occasions that passed off in the course of the yr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ss6qavj29c
The official outcomes for working occasions on the 1964 and 1968 Olympics have been recorded in tenths, however auto-times have been obtainable.
Previous Olympics—High 8 plus American finishes: https://trackandfieldnews.com/olympic-results/
1985–The ninth Chicago Marathon turned out the most important variety of runners the race had seen up to now, and the quickest. Practically 10,000 competed as Welshman Steve Jones (2:07:13) and Joan Benoit Samuelson (2:21:21), working her first 26.2-miler since changing into the primary ladies’s Olympic champion within the occasion in 1984, claimed victory.
Jones’s purpose was to regain the World File (which he set in Chicago in 1984), however he missed Carlos Lopes’ present normal by only one second. His victory earned him $35,000 for successful, $10,000 for setting the brand new course file and $13,000 in time bonuses for working beneath 2:08
The ladies’s division featured one of many prime fields ever assembled. Following Benoit Samuelson throughout the road have been Norway’s Ingrid Kristiansen (2:23:05), the World File holder, and Portugal’s Rosa Mota (2:23:29), the Olympic bronze medalist (and Chicago’s defending champion).
Whereas Benoit Samuelson’s successful time of two:21:21 missed Kristiansen’s World File by simply 15 seconds, she did set American and course information.
Race Highlights(28 minutes lengthy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HZ7u5aU0PY
Benoit Appears to be like Again:
http://www.si.com/more-sports/2015/10/08/joan-benoit-samuelson-reflects-1985-chicago-marathon-win
Jones’ Preparation:
Previous Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_of_the_Chicago_Marathon
