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This Day in Monitor & Discipline–March 7
1925–Paavo Nurmi ran 4:12 flat to set a World Report within the Mile on the 174th Infantry Armory in New York.
1959—With lower than two laps to go within the Mile on the Knights of Columbus meet in Madison Sq. Backyard, Hungary’s Istvan Rózsavölgyi sprinted from 4th to 1st and shortly opened up a 5-yard lead on Ron Delany. The Irishman, the 1956 Olympic champion at 1500 meters and a Backyard favourite had closed the hole as they entered the ultimate flip and was in a position to transfer forward within the quick run-in to the end line to seize his thirtieth straight win at a distance! His time of 4:01.4 broke his 2-week-old World Indoor Report of 4:02.5, which was set on the identical monitor on the U.S. Indoor Championships. Rózsavölgyi was additionally beneath the previous document along with his time of 4:01.8.
Delany was mobbed by well-wishers as quickly as he crossed the end line (see video hyperlink).
A 2nd World Indoor Report was set by Australia’s Al Lawrence, who gained the 2-Mile in 8:46.7
Different highlights:
Two eventual Corridor-of-Famers met within the 60y-Hurdles, with Hayes Jones (7.1) edging Lee Calhoun, who would win
his 2nd Olympic gold medal within the 110m-Hurdles the next 12 months in Rome. Jones, the bronze medalist in 1960,
would win his personal gold medal in 1964.
Josh Culbreath (1:10.9) gained the 600y over Charlie Jenkins (1:11.1), the 2-time Olympic gold medalist in
1956 (400,4×400), and Tom Murphy gained the 1000y in a fast 2:09.3, simply .5s off Arnie Sowell’s WIR of
2:08.8.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/03/08/89158138.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://vault.si.com/vault/1959/03/16/ron-takes-a-turn-for-the-better
Mile Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T05KblDEDQ
1964—Yale’s Wendell Mottley gained the 600y in 1:09.3, simply lacking his week-old World Report by .1s, and Villanova beat Manhattan by one level to win its 3rd straight crew title on the IC4A Championships in Madison Sq. Backyard.
Different winners included Fordham’s Sam Perry (60y-6.2), Villanova’s Tom Sullivan (Mile-4:11.8), LaSalle’s John Uelses (PV-16-1 ¼ [4.91]), and NYU’s Gary Gubner (SP-61-9 ¾ [18.84]). (From T&F Information). Uelses was the primary man to clear 16’ indoors in 1962 whereas he was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Competing for his native Trinidad & Tobago, Mottley would go on later within the 12 months to win the silver medal within the 400-meters on the Tokyo Olympics and would add a bronze medal within the 4×400 relay.
Motley: http://www.ivy50.com/blackHistory/story.aspx?sid=5/11/2007
1970—Sweden’s Kjell Isaksson set a World Indoor Report of 17-6 ¼ (5.34) in Gothenburg, Sweden.
