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This Day in Monitor & Area–October 7
1886—Wilson Coudon set a pre-AAU American Report of 99-1(30.20) within the Hammer Throw in Wilmington, Delaware.
Coudon, a 2-time U.S. Champion (1883,1886), later turned a profitable businessman and newspaper writer/author in Maryland.
http://www.cecildaily.com/our_cecil/article_0b46ccfb-f718-565a-8fe1-b5b69fa37b31.html
1887–Billy Web page set a pre-IAAF World Report of 6-4(1.93) in a solo exhibition in Philadelphia. It was additionally his 10th (and final) American Report. Penn grad Web page was a 3-time IC4A and U.S. Champion (1885-1887)
Web page clearing 6-4, apparently utilizing the lengthy bounce pit as his touchdown space!
1928–Paavo Nurmi set World Information for 10-miles (50:15) and the 1-hour run (19,210m) in Berlin.
1950— Lloyd LaBeach, “The Jamaican Flash”, ran the primary 10.1-100 in historical past in Guayaquil, Ecuador, however there was no wind gauge available and the mark was by no means submitted for document ratification.
LaBeach was the bronze medalist within the 100 and 200 on the 1948 Olympics whereas competing for his household’s adopted nation of Panama. These have been the primary Olympic medals received by an athlete from Panama and he obtained a hero’s welcome when he returned dwelling.
He spent one full 12 months at Wisconsin, the place he completed sixth within the Lengthy Leap and 2nd within the 100y and 220y on the 1946 NCAA Championships. He then moved on to UCLA, the place he was coached by Corridor-of-Famer Elvin “Ducky” Drake. LaBeach was ranked #1 on the earth by Monitor and Area Information within the 100 and 200 in 1950.
Wisconsin Bio: http://www.uwbadgers.com/genrel/022811aac.html
UCLA: http://thesilverpeopleheritage.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/lloyd-labeach-and-life-at-ucla/
Forgotten Hero?: http://epiac1216.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/an-olympic-athlete-history-almost-forgot/
1988—Simply 6 days after closing out her busy workload on the Seoul Olympics, the place she received 3 golds and a silver, Florence Griffith-Joyner (10.91) ran the ultimate race of her profession, profitable the 100-meters on a cool and wet day on the Tokyo Worldwide. Trailing her have been Evelyn Ashford (11.14) and East Germany’s Marlies Göhr (11.30), who additionally ended her profession on today.
2001–Kenya’s Catherine (“The Nice”) Ndereba ran 2:18:47 in Chicago to set a World Report within the Ladies’s Marathon.
She was a 2-time World Champion (2003,2007) and 2-time Olympic silver medalist (2004,2008) within the Marathon.
Retirement: http://www.runnersworld.com/elite-runners/marathon-great-catherine-ndereba-retires
WR Pogression: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_world_record_progression
Gary Cohen Interview(2010) Past Winners
2001—Nice Britain’s Paula Radcliffe set a World Report of 1:03:26 for 20k on her strategy to profitable on the World Half Marathon Championships (1:06:47) in Bristol, England.
Haile Gebrselassie (1:00:03) edged fellow Ethiopian Tesfaye Jifar (1:00:04) to win the Males’s race.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_IAAF_World_Half_Marathon_Championships
Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh5iioqzOEg
2018–Regardless of working nearly 3-minutes quicker (2:06:21) than he did in 2017 when he received the race, Galen Rupp completed fifth on this 12 months’s Chicago Marathon, a race that was received by Nice Britain’s Mo Farah (2:05:11), his former coaching accomplice.
Chicago Tribune Coverage Runner’s World (2017 Race)
2020—Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei ran 26:11.00 in Valencia, Spain, to interrupt the 15-year previous World Report of 26:17.53 that was set by Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele in 2005. He had earlier damaged Bekele’s WR for the Males’s 5000-Meters (12:37.35) when he ran 12:35.36 in Monaco in August.
A 2nd World Report was set by Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey, who received the Ladies’s 5000 in 14:06.62, breaking the WR of 14:11.15, set by Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba in 2008.
Video-Each Races: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voCiHeGseZI
