This Day in Observe & Area, September 27, Sven Lundgren units WR for 1000m (1922), written by Walt Murphy

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This Day in Observe & Area–September  27

1922—Sweden’s Sven Lundgren set a World Document of two:28.6 for 1000-meters on the 385-meter monitor in Stockholm.

WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_metres_world_record_progression

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

1925—Finland’s Jonni Myyrä, who gained his 2nd consecutive Olympic gold medal within the Javelin in 1924, threw a private better of 224-11 (68.55) in Richmond,CA. For the reason that meet was not sanctioned by the AAU, the mark was not acknowledged as a World Document.

His Olympic success made Myyrä a hero in his native Finland, but it surely was later found after he emigrated to the U.S. that he had been concerned in some questionable selections in his position as a financial institution supervisor that had a detrimental impact on native companies and people.

There was a acknowledged World Document set in Turku, Finland, on this date, as Norway’s Charles Hoff raised his personal 6-week previous customary within the Pole Vault from 13-10  ½ (4.23) to  13-11  ¼ (4.25). It was the 4th World Document of his profession. An all-around athlete, Hoff competed within the 400 and 800 on the 1924 Olympics.

WR Development(PV): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menpercent27s_pole_vault_world_record_progression

Myyrä: https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/67712

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

Hoff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hoff

1955—The Soviet Union’s Albert Ivanov ran 1:17:34.0 for 25,000-Meters in Moscow to interrupt the earlier World Document of 1:19:11.8 that was set by Czech Emil Zátopek in 1952. Zátopek would regain the report a month later by working 1:16:36.4.

1958—An English crew of Mike Blagrove (4:05.4), Peter Clark (4:06.6), Derek Ibbotson (4:08.6), and Brian Hewson (4:10.0) set a World Document of 16:30.6 within the 4-Mile Relay at White Metropolis Stadium in London.

Hewson, one of many first males to interrupt 4-minutes for the mile when he ran 3:59.8 in 1955, handed away in 2022 on the age of 89.

European 1500m champion Brian Hewson passes away at 89

1980—The brand new Jumbo Elliott Observe at Villanova was devoted in the course of the Wildcats’ soccer recreation with Boston School. Among the many many Olympians available who competed for the legendary coach have been gold medalists Ron Delany, Charlie Jenkins, Paul Drayton, and Don Bragg.

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/23/obituaries/jumbo-elliott-of-villanova-is-dead-long-an-outstanding-track-coach.html

1988–This was imagined to be a day of relaxation on the Seoul Olympics. An opportunity for followers to replicate on the primary 5 days of competitors that produced Jackie Joyner-Kersee’s 4th (and ultimate) World Document within the Heptathlon (7,291), repeat Olympic wins for  Carl Lewis and Roger Kingdom within the Lengthy Soar and 110-hurdles, respectively, Flo-Jo’s win within the Ladies’s 100, and a terrific Males’s 100 that noticed Canadian Ben Johnson beat Lewis with a brand new World Document of 9.79.

        And the off-day was going to supply these of us who have been engaged on the NBC manufacturing crew an opportunity to get an additional hour or two of sleep and perhaps maintain some laundry wants.

        However that each one modified within the early morning hours because the phrase began to unfold that Johnson had failed his drug check and can be disqualified! I obtained a name at about 6am from Pete Cava, who was working with NBC as an Olympic researcher. Announcers Charlie Jones, Frank Shorter, and Dwight Stones have been going to debate the breaking information with Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley, who have been serving because the hosts for NBC’s broadcast, and Producer John Gonzalez informed me to go together with them to supply any background info if the necessity arose. Since a press convention was scheduled to happen on the Seoul Hilton, the place we have been staying, I requested fellow researcher Ed Gordon to watch that in case any additional developments got here up.

         After we arrived on the NBC set, Gumbel, realizing the gravity of the scenario, put everybody comfy by saying, “All proper, girls and boys, let’s have some enjoyable with this”. The section went in addition to could possibly be anticipated, however there was no enjoyable on the minds of these of us who have been deeply concerned within the sport.

        This is able to grow to be our “Day of Infamy”, a day when most people’s notion of our sport was modified without end. Up till this level, most individuals regarded upon T&F as a pure newbie sport, one wherein athletes did all the fitting issues as they pursued their Olympic desires. Johnson’s subsequent trial and act of contrition meant that issues would by no means be the identical once more.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/27/sports activities/the-seoul-olympics-johnson-loses-gold-to-lewis-after-drug-test.html?pagewanted=all

Sports activities Illustrated Vault:

https://vault.si.com/vault/1988/10/10/man-not-superman-ben-johnsons-demise-revealed-a-more-endearing-carl-lewis

https://vault.si.com/vault/1989/06/26/he-has-suffered-enough-let-ben-johnsons-87-mark-stand-and-dont-ban-him-for-life

Coach Comes Clear: https://vault.si.com/vault/1989/03/13/a-dirty-coach-comes-clean

2000—Operating out of the dreaded lane one, Angelo Taylor nonetheless managed to win the Males’s 400-Meter Hurdles on the Sydney Olympics, setting a private better of 47.50. He wanted an Olympian lean to defeat Hadi Soua’an Somayli of Saudi Arabia, who ran 47.53. South Africa’s Llewellyn Herbert (47.81) beat out American James Carter (48.04) for the bronze medal.

Taylor, who would win his 2nd gold medal within the occasion 8 years later in Beijing, adopted within the footsteps of Uganda’s John Akii-Bua, who additionally gained the 400-hurdles out of lane one on the 1972 Video games in Munich.

Whereas Taylor was already well-known within the occasion, that wasn’t the case for Russia’s Irina Privalova, one of many world’s finest sprinters all through the Nineteen Nineties. A rookie within the Ladies’s 400-hurdles, Privalova gained the gold medal with a private finest time of 53.02 and beat Jamaica’s Deon Hemmings (53.45), the defending champion, within the course of. third was Morocco’s Nezha Bidouane (53.57), who would win her 2nd World title the next 12 months.

After a surprisingly gradual first 400 (53.43), all 8 finalists within the Males’s 800-Meters have been in rivalry on the finish of the ultimate backstretch. Italy’s Andrea Longo edged forward on the flip, however crowded Switzerland’s André Bucher, forcing him to take a number of strides within the infield. Longo was nonetheless in entrance halfway by the homestretch, however light to Sixth and was later disqualified for his earlier foul on Bucher. In the meantime, Germany’s Nils Schumann (1:45.08) had taken the lead and was capable of maintain off the late rush by Denmark’s Wilson Kipketer (1:45.14), the World Document holder. Algeria’s Djabir Saïd-Guerni (1:45.18) gained the bronze medal.

Profitable gold and bronze within the Ladies’s Discus have been Belarus’s Ellina Zvereva (224-5 [68.40]) and Iryna Yatchenko

(213-11 [65.20]), with Greece’s Anastasía Kelesídou (215-7 [65.71]) profitable the silver medal.

Kazakhstan’s Olga Shishigina (12.65) edged Nigeria’s Glory Alozie (12.68) to win the Ladies’s 100-Meter Hurdles, with American Melissa Morrison (12.76) profitable the bronze medal.

Gail Devers, a 2-time gold medalist within the 100-Meters (1992,1996), continued to have exhausting luck within the hurdles on the Olympics as she pulled up with a sore hamstring in her semi-final race. Devers had tripped over the ultimate hurdle whereas main within the ultimate on the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

Sergey Bubka’s Olympic issues additionally continued because the 6-time World Champion no-heighted within the qualifying spherical of the Males’s Pole Vault. After profitable gold on the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, he no-heighted within the ultimate in Barcelona in 1992 and an harm stored him out of the 1996 Video games in Atlanta.

http://tinyurl.com/NYT-AngeloTaylor2000

Outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics

Movies: M400h  W400h  M800  W100h

2019—The World Championships opened up in Doha, Qatar, with the Ladies’s Marathon beginning at midnight to keep away from the stifling warmth (ending on the twenty eighth), but it surely was nonetheless 90 levels (32c) with 72% humidity because the race started. In a survival of the fittest affair, Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich emerged because the winner in 2:32:43, the slowest profitable time in World Championship (and Olympic) historical past. 2nd was Bahrain’s (and Kenya’s) Rose Chelimo (2:33:46), the defending champion, and Helalia Johannes (2:34:15) gained the bronze medal, the primary for a Namibian girl on the Worlds.

41-year previous Roberta Groner (2:38:44), a mom of three sons and a full-time nursing supervisor, who’s coached by Steve Magness, was the highest American finisher, accumulating $6,000 in prize cash for putting Sixth!

Solely 40 of the unique 68 starters have been capable of end the race.

Medalists/Outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_World_Athletics_Championships

Outcomes

Video(Full Race): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZRE8_VEODk

T&F Information Protection(for subscribers)

Marathon: https://trackandfieldnews.com/article/world-champs-womens-marathon-hot-from-the-get-go/

Groner: https://www.espn.com/espnw/life-style/story/_/id/26657108/the-remarkable-story-41-year-old-olympic-marathon-hopeful-roberta-groner

Born On This Day*

Parker Valby  23 (2002)  6-time NCAA Champion whereas at Florida (gained 5 in a single educational 12 months):

              2023—5000, X-Nation

              2024—3000i, 5000i, 5000, 10,000  (2nd within the 5000 in 2022)

              2nd within the 10,000, 4th within the 5000, on the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials. Had the choice of competing in each occasions on the Olympics

                  after Elle St.Pierre gave up her spot within the 5000 to focus on the 1500. Selected to run solely the ten,000 in Paris, the place

                  she completed eleventh after boldy transferring into 2nd place with 3-1/2 laps to go.

          The “sophomore jinx” (on the elite degree) struck in 2025..a foot harm stored her on the sidelines for all however one race in all however one

             race in early February, when she ran 8:34.95 for 3000-meters.

              Set Collegiate Information indoors within the 5000 and outside within the 5000 and 10,000 in 2024

              Accidents early in her profession led to an unorthodox coaching routine (see hyperlink under).

              PBs: 8:34.95i (2024), 14:51.44 (2024/CR), 14:52.79i (2024/CR), 30:50.43 (2024/CR)

              OG 10,000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XYwu9UFlA4

              “I’m The Underdog Now”: www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a61638638/parker-valby-2024-olympics-preparation/

              Florida Bio: https://floridagators.com/sports activities/track-and-field/roster/parker-valby/16542

              “Grateful”: https://www.runnerspace.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=44531&do=information&news_id=669108

              Coaching: https://www.8020endurance.com/the-gift-of-parker-valby/

              Giving Again: https://fl.milesplit.com/articles/342705/parker-valby-on-hosting-first-ever-holiday-mile-event

              Movies: ’24 NCAA 5k  30:50.43 ’24 NCAA 5000i/CR  ’24 O.T. 10k

Peres Jepchirchir-Kenya 32 (1993)  2021 Olympic gold medalist-Marathon (Sapporo, Japan); 2024-Fifteenth

              2025 World Champion (Tokyo, Japan)…overtook Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa within the ultimate 100-meters on the monitor!

              Winner on the Valencia (2020), NY Metropolis (2021), Boston (2022), and London (2024) Marathons

              Missed the 2022 World Championships because of a hip harm

              3-time World Champion: Half-Marathon (2016, 2020, 2023)

              PBs: 1:05:06 (2017/WR on the time), 2:16:16 (2024/#11 All-Time)  2025 SB: 2:24:43

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

              https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/144809

              Movies: ’21 OG   ’21 NYC  ’22 Boston  ’24 London   ’25 WC 

              OG Report: https://www.olympedia.org/outcomes/19000740

Jeneba Tarmoh 36 (1989) 2012 Olympic gold medalist-4×100 (1st spherical)

              Silver medalist within the 4×100 on the 2013 World Championships

              2-time finalist within the 200 on the World Championships (2013-Fifth, 2016-Sixth)

              3-time NCAA Champion (Texas A&M)-2010 (4×100), 2011 (4×400-indoors & outside)

              Different NCAA placings:

              2010-100 (third), 200 (2nd, Fifth[i]); 2011-200 (2nd, 2nd[i])

              3-time World Junior Champion-100 (2008), 4×100 (2006,2008)

              2008 U.S. Junior Champion-100

              Was concerned in a controversial dead-heat with coaching associate Allyson Felix for third place within the 100-Meters on the

                 2012 U.S.  Olympic Trials. A runoff to find out who would compete within the 100 on the London Olympics was

                  scheduled for the day after the Trials ended, but it surely was canceled after she withdrew from the race, saying she

                  was drained, each bodily and emotionally. “I don’t imagine that I’d have been at my finest if I went out

                  there”. She was nonetheless named to the U.S. crew as a member of the relay pool and went on to win a gold medal in

                  London after working in Felix’s place within the first spherical of the 4×100. With Felix working the 2nd leg, the U.S. set

                  the present World Document of 40.82 within the ultimate.

              At the moment on the employees at Group West, a psychological well being therapy heart in Los Angeles.

              https://communitywesttreatment.com/jeneba-tarmoh-ma/

              PBs:7.22i (2012), 10.93 (2013), 22.23 (2015)

              https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/126526

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

              https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/jeneba-tarmoh-14322457

              Useless-Warmth:

              https://olympics.time.com/2012/07/03/felix-vs-tarmoh-dead-heat-why-tracks-big-night-went-caput/

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

              Texas A&M Corridor of Fame: https://12thman.com/honors/texas-am-athletic-hall-of-fame/jeneba-tarmoh/337

              https://www.instagram.com/aggietfxc/p/CxPFYLHssdU/?img_index=1

Jacques Borlée—Belgium  68 (1957) The daddy and coach of Belgium’s “Borlée Dynasty”

              He and his spouse, Edith de Martelaere, have been each Belgian dash champions.  PB-46.17

              Twins Kevin (44.56) and Jonathan (44.43) have been All-People at Florida State and have traded

                   the Nationwide Document for 400-meters. Youthful brother Dylan (45.57) joined his siblings on

                   the Belgian 4×400 crew that completed 4th on the Rio Olympics and set a Nationwide Document of

                    2:58.52. All 3 additionally ran on the crew that completed 4th on the 2017 World Championships

                    in London. Sister Olivia, the oldest of the group, led off the Belgian 4×100 crew on the

                    2008 Olympics that was upgraded to gold medalists in 2017 after Russia was

                    retroactively disqualified for doping infractions. She competed within the first spherical of the

                   200 in Rio.

              Kevin anchored Belgium to a win within the 4×400 on the 2022 World Indoor Championships, whereas he and Dylan gained

                  bronze within the 4×400 on the 2022 World Outside Championships. Additionally they ran on the profitable crew on the 2023 European

                  Indoor Championships.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_BorlpercentC3percentA9e

Deceased

Fred Schule 82 (1879-Sep.14, 1962)  1904 Olympic gold medalist—110 Meter Hurdles

              1903 U.S. Champion-120y Hurdles

              2-time Huge-10 Champion—Lengthy Soar (Wisconsin/1900,1901)

              Obtained a bachelor of science diploma from the College of Wisconsin in 1901 in bacteriology and chemistry

              Pursued a Grasp’s diploma at Michigan, the place he was a member of the T&F and soccer groups. Gained the 120y-

                 hurdles on the 1904 Penn Relays and was a member of the 1903 soccer crew that had a report of 11-0-1 and

                 outscored its opponents 565-6. (From Wikipedia)

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

              https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/79005