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This Day in Observe &. Subject, Walter Tewksbury units WR of 6.4 for 60 yards (1899), A Weekend Trifecta (1973), Born this Day, Chris Nilsen (1977), by Walt Murphy


This Day in Observe & Subject–January 13

1899-Penn senior Walter Tewksbury set a World Report of 6.4 for 60-yards in NY Metropolis. He would win 5 medals on the following yr’s Olympics in Paris: Gold (200m, 400m-Hurdles), Silver (60m, 100m), Bronze (200m-Hurdles).

https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/79119

Walter Tewksbury, circa 1899, picture from Wikipedia, public area

 

1973–The intense monitor fan will spare no expense or vitality to see a superb meet–or two–or three! The CYO Invitational in Maryland was the primary of my trifecta of meets this weekend. I left my job on Wall Avenue early and rushed to the native heliport to hop on a 4pm helicopter that took me to LaGuardia Airport. Took the  shuttle flight to Washington,DC, the place I had organized to have a taxi take me to School Park, Maryland, for the CYO meet.

Steve Smith set an American Report of 17-8  ½ (5.40m), Rey Brown (7-1/2.16m, jump-off) beat Dwight Stones and Pat Matzdorf to win the Excessive Soar, and Nice Britain’s Ian Stewart, who overtook Steve Prefontaine to win the bronze medal within the 5000-meters on the earlier yr’s Olympics in Munich, gained the 2-mile (8:28.4).

When that meet was over, round 11pm, I labored my approach down a hill, previous the lovely-smelling Agricultural Division amenities on the College of Maryland campus, to attend for the early-morning Greyhound bus again to NY Metropolis.

Bleary-eyed after the lengthy bus trip dwelling, I then drove to West Level to look at the mid-day annual twin meet between Military and Manhattan School (I’m an enormous fan of the Jaspers). One of many  highlights of that meet was watching Manhattan’s Ken McBryde win the Triple Soar with a leap of 50-5 (15.36m). McBryde would end Third on the NCAA Indoor Championships later within the season to assist Manhattan win the workforce title.

Two down, one to go. Subsequent up was a drive to the Nassau Coliseum on Lengthy Island to look at the Knights of Columbus meet. Among the many winners on the monitor have been Hasely Crawford within the 60y (6.1), Rick Wohlhuter within the 880y (1:53.5), and Byron Dyce within the 1000y (2:10.7–Dave Wottle was 5th—See under!).

Nevertheless, the most important story of the evening unfolded on the infield through the enjoying of the Nationwide Anthem. With the warfare in Vietnam nonetheless occurring, these have been nonetheless emotional occasions, and lots of followers within the stands began booing as not less than one member of the Jap Michigan mile relay workforce continued his warmup whereas the Anthem performed. The booing continued for nearly 30-minutes and led meet officers, citing a rule that requires the disqualification of any athlete “whose conduct is offensive to spectators…”, to bar your complete workforce from competing within the relay. Jap’s coach, Bob Parks, instructed the NY Instances, “I’m as conservative as anybody round. I stand and sing for the anthem. I feel the youngsters ought to too, and I’m going to present them hell. However why disqualify the entire workforce? The athlete who did it volunteered to get replaced by a substitute”.

A dramatic ending to what in any other case had been an “wonderful journey” for this drained tracknut, who bought a superb evening’s sleep after the trip dwelling to Queens!

Anthem Responsehttp://tinyurl.com/NYTimesAnthem

For 50 years, Wottle, one of many heroes of the earlier yr’s Olympics in Munich for his dramatic win within the 800, thought the booing was geared toward him due to his disappointing end within the 1000. It wasn’t till 2023 {that a} relieved Wottle came upon from former Duke coach Norm Ogilvie, who had attended the meet together with his father, instructed him the actual cause for the response!

1978–One of many enjoyable issues about monitor and discipline is that surprising efficiency, one which has followers saying to one another, “The place did that come from?”. Such was the case on a snowy evening in 1978 in School Park, Maryland, the location of the CYO Invitational, held on Maryland’s 11-lap to the mile board monitor.

Dick Buerkle, who had been a 4:28 walk-on miler at Villanova, had established himself as a formidable distance runner, rating #4 on the planet at 5000-meters in 1974 and making the 1976 U.S. Olympic workforce at that distance. However nobody, together with CYO meet director Bob Comstock, took the bald-headed Buerkle significantly as a miler heading into the 1978 season.

However Buerkle was so assured he was going to run effectively that he phoned his dad and mom to induce them to come back to the meet, telling them he was going to interrupt the World Report within the Mile! And it didn’t faze Buerkle that he can be working on Friday the thirteenth!

Dick Buerkle on SI cowl

After speaking his approach into the race, Buerkle fulfilled his promise to Comstock to set a quick tempo, a lot as he had finished on the earlier week’s Muhammad Ali Inv., when he completed Third within the 1500-meters in 3:40.0. Working from the entrance, and getting stress from Tanzania’s Filbert Bayi, the previous outside document holder within the Mile, Buerkle went via splits of 57.2, 1:58.9,  and a couple of:58.3 earlier than ending off in 3:54.9 (truly 3:54.93) to interrupt Tony Waldrop’s 4-year previous world indoor document by .1s. Bayi completed a distant 2nd in 3:58.4.

Buerkle was not the one document breaker on the meet. Canadian Greg Pleasure gained a sensational Excessive Soar battle over diminutive Franklin Jacobs, clearing  7-7 (2.31) to raised Dwight Stones’s earlier World Indoor Report of 7-6 ½ (2.30). Jacobs cleared a private better of 7-6 (2.29). There have been additionally two American Data–Mark Belger ran 1:48.1 for a brand new mark within the 1/2-mile (however was upset he didn’t get the World Report), and Joni Huntley broke her personal U.S. Excessive Soar document twice, first clearing 6-3 (1.905) after which 6-4 (1.93).

(Because of Bob Hersh’s story within the March, 1978, version of Observe & Subject Information)

TFN Cowl Photograph https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1978_03.jpg

Sports activities Illustrated Vault

SI Cowl(New Grasp of the Mile):

https://sicovers.com/featured/dick-buerkle-1978-millrose-games-february-06-1978-sports-illustrated-cover.html

Unlikely Report Holderhttp://villanovarunning.blogspot.com/2010/01/unexpected-world-record-holder.html

1985–Diana Richburg ran 2:39.28 for 1000-meters in Sherbrooke, Canada, to interrupt her personal American Report of two:40.1. Richburg had competed Within the first spherical of the 1500-meters on the 1984 Olympics in L.A.

https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/77949

1989–Louise Ritter, the shock gold medalist the yr earlier than on the Seoul Olympics,  equaled her American Indoor Report of 6-6 (1.98) within the excessive bounce in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

Corridor of Fame Biohttps://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/louise-ritter

1996–Idaho State’s Stacy Dragila set the primary American Data of her profession when she jumped 12-9 (3.89) after which   12-11 ¾ (3.96) on her “dwelling” runway in Pocatello, Idaho.

            Dragila, the primary girl to win Olympic and World Indoor and Outside titles within the occasion, was inducted into the Nationwide Corridor of Fame in 2014.

Corridor of Fame Biohttps://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/stacy-dragila

2001–Leaping on the Snake River Open in Pocatello, Dragila turned the primary girl to clear 15’ indoors (4.57m).

2006–38-year previous Pat Manson cleared 18-1/2 (5.50) on the Air Pressure Academy to increase his unbelievable streak of getting cleared 18-feet to 21 years in a row! (The streak led to 2007).  Manson now conducts pole vault camps in Boulder,CO. www.patmanson.com/

2007–Rutgers, with a lineup of Joe Porter, Bruce Owens, Marcel Coleman, and Rob Waters, ran 1:25.05 within the 4×200 relay at Penn State to interrupt Arkansas’ Collegiate Report of 1:25.18. (Penn State lowered the document to 1:24.70 in 2013)

2017—Lake Braddock (Va), with senior Kate Murphy working a 4:37.9 anchor, set a U.S. Excessive Faculty Report of 11:34.54 within the Distance Medley on the Virginia Showcase in Lynchburg. (Shannon Browning 3:41.1, Skyla Davidson 59.2, Samantha Schwers 2:16.3, Kate Murphy 4:37.9).

Sophomore Tyrese Cooper (American,FL) gained the 300 in 33.03 to interrupt Michael Cherry’s 4-year previous Nationwide Report of 33.05. He would decrease the document to 32.87 later within the season. (Brian Herron/Lakeside,GA ran 32.64 in 2018)

Murphy, who ran 4:07.21 for 1500-meters as a junior in 2016,  would sit out her complete freshman yr at Oregon in 2018 and has since “medically retired”. (Hasn’t competed since 2017)

From the MileSplit article (August,2018) linked under:

“However a uncommon vascular situation–popliteal artery entrapment syndrome–restricted Murphy’s ultimate season of highschool monitor. Final September, she had surgical procedure to take away the popliteus muscle tissue in each of her knees, together with a piece of her proper calf muscle. However a uncommon vascular situation–popliteal artery entrapment syndrome–restricted Murphy’s ultimate season of highschool monitor. Final September (2017), she had surgical procedure to take away the popliteus muscle tissue in each of her knees, together with a piece of her proper calf muscle.”

DMR Video(final 2 laps): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97FshY3Q7Mw

https://www.milesplit.com/articles/245302/kate-murphy-still-optimistic-after-tough-1st-year-at-oregon

2017—Oklahoma State’s Kaela Edwards ran 2:40.79 in Lincoln, Nebraska, to set a Collegiate Report for 1000-meters. (Since damaged, nonetheless #4 All-time).

2023—In a battle between two of one of the best 400-meter hurdlers on the planet, Shamier Little beat Arkansas’ Britton Wilson in  the 600-meters on the Arkansas Invitational in Fayetteville. Little’s time of 1:24.65 moved her to #7 on the all-time World record (now #9, #6-U.S.), whereas Wilson’s 1:25.16 broke Athing Mu’s Collegiate Report of 1:25.80 (2021). She is now #8

all-time-U.S.

Outcomeshttps://outcomes.flashresults.com/2023_01-13_ArkInvite/index.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4p0rCzr5KY

All-Time Listshttps://trackandfieldnews.com/tfn-lists/

 

2023—H.S. Senior Amanda Moll gained the Invitational Division on the Pole Vault Summit in Reno with a clearance of 15-1  ½ (4.61) to set new U.S. Excessive Faculty and Junior (Beneath 20) Data. Twin sister Hana, the 2022 World Junior/Beneath-20 Champion, cleared a private better of 14-9  ½ (4.51). She would go on to set an Outside H.S. Report of 15-3 (4.65) within the qualifying spherical on the World Championships in Budapest! She tied for 9th within the ultimate (she had completed 3rd on the U.S. Championships).

https://www.runnerspace.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=44531&do=information&news_id=653249

 

Important Birthdays

 

Born on This Day*

Chris  Nilsen 27 (1998)  2021 Olympic silver medalist—Pole Vault…Additionally a silver medalist on the 2022 World

            Championships…gained bronze on the 2023 Worlds; Didn’t make the ultimate on the 2024 Olympics

         Set an American Indoor Report of 19-10  ¼ (6.05) in 2022…additionally cleared an outside better of 19-8  ¼ (6.00) in

                2022…2024 SB: 19-4  ¼ (5.90)

            Bronze medalist on the 2022 World Indoor Championships…4th in 2024

            3-time U.S. Champion (2021-O.T., 2022, 2023)…Third on the 2017 U.S. Championships—didn’t make the ultimate at

                the World Championships in London…2nd on the 2018 U.S. Championships, 7th in 2019

            2022 U.S. Indoor Champion

            Upset LSU’s Mondo Duplantis to win his 3rd NCAA title in 2019—regardless of hitting the crossbar exhausting, he cleared a

                 lifetime greatest (on the time) of 19-6  1/4 (5.95)…additionally gained NCAA titles in 2017 (Indoor) and 2018 (Outside)

            PBs: 19-10  ¼i (6.05/2022/NR/=#7 All-Time World/ind-out), 19-8  ¼ (6.00/2022)

            School PBs19-5  ½i (5.93/2020/#3 All-Time), Outside greatest: 19-8  ¼ (5.95/2022)

            Handed up a possibility to show professional with a view to use his ultimate yr of collegiate eligibility at South Dakota in 2020,

                after which Covid hit!

            2019 Pan-American Video games Champion

            Gained Nationwide Scholastic and U.S. Junior titles in 2016

            At 6-5, 185 (1.96/84), he is without doubt one of the greatest world-class vaulters

            His coach is Derek Miles, the 2008 Olympic bronze medalist within the Pole Vault (moved up from 4th after the

               unique Third-placer was retroactively disqualified for a doping violation.

            Set a U.S. Excessive Faculty Report of 18-4  ½ in 2016 (since damaged by Mondo Duplantis)

            Mother and father Mark and Karen… Was a kinesiology and sport administration main.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Nilsen

            https://goyotes.com/sports activities/track-and-field/roster/chris-nilsen/10299

            Olympics Delay

            https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/christopher-nilsen-14709278

            6.05https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFSLo-ZN660

            Slo-Mo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwKdMjHi3b8

            https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/147316

Alan Webb  42 (1983)  Former American Report holder within the mile-3:46.91; Ran 3:53.43 in 2001 to interrupt Jim Ryun’s 36-

          yr previous U.S. Excessive Faculty Report within the Mile (3:55.0/1965); Ran 3:59.86 in 2001 to develop into the primary prep to  break

           4-minutes for the mile indoors…additionally set a H.S. Indoor Report within the 1000m in 2001-2:23.68 (now #5 All-Time)

        3-time U.S. Champion—1500m (2004[Olympic Trials], 2005, 2007); 2004 U.S. Olympian (1st spherical)

        2-time finalist on the World Championships-2005 (9th), 2007 (8th);

        A member of the Penn Relays Wall of Fame:

           As a junior, he ran a 3:59.9 anchor (1600m/quickest ever at Penn) to guide South Lakes (VA) to a 2nd-place end in

              the H.S. Distance Medley. The next yr, he ran 4:04.7 as SL set a Relays Report of 9:59.66. Additionally gained the

              Olympic Improvement Mile in 2004 and the 5000 in 2004 & 2005

        Presently the pinnacle coach at Ave Maria College (FL)

        https://avemariagyrenes.com/sports activities/mens-cross-country/roster/coaches/alan-webb/901

        PBs: 1:43.84 (2007), 3:30.54 (2007/#7 All-Time U.S.)3:46.91 (2007/#2 A-T U.S., #10 A-T World),

           8:11.48/2-miles (2005/#8 A-T U.S/ind-out.), 13:10.86 (2005), 27:34.72 (2006);

      AR Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aTRTvo2ouo

      The Alan Webb Story(documentary):

        http://www.usatf.television/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=45365&do=movies&video_id=106500

      Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Webb_(runner)

        https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/105610

      Triathlon:

        http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/sports activities/alan-webb-grinds-out-a-bumpy-transition-to-triathlon.html?_r=0

        http://triathlon.competitor.com/2015/03/options/runner-interrupted-alan-webbs-new-olympic-dream_113062

Billy Hardin  83 (1942)  1964 NCAA & U.S. Champion—400-meter hurdles (LSU) ; Semi-Finalist 1964 Olympics PB-50.90 (1964);

           His father, Glenn “Slats” Hardin, additionally a 400-hurdler, was the 1936 Olympic gold medalist within the occasion and is a member of the U.S.

           Corridor of Fame.

        https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78513

        Louisiana Corridor of Fame:

      Sonhttp://www.lasportshall.com/inductees/track-and-field/billy-hardin/?again=inductee

        Dadhttps://lasportshall.com/?inductees=glenn-slats-hardin

Herb Barten 97 (1928) 1948 U.S. Champion-800m; 1948 U.S. Olympian-800m (4th)

        All-American at Michigan: NCAA-880y (1947-Third, 1949-2nd)

        PBs: 1:49.8y, 4:14.6y; At 97, he’s the twond-oldest dwelling U.S. Olympian in T&F (Bud Held was born on October 25, 1927)

        http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78083

        https://www.wyff4.com/article/upstate-man-competed-in-1948-olympics/7023685

        Oldest Dwelling Olympianshttps://acsweb.ucsd.edu/~ptchir/

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