Walt Murphy’s Information and Outcomes Service (wmurphy25@aol.com), used with permission.
This Day in Monitor & Subject–February 18
1950—Freshman John Joe Barry, Villanova’s first recruit from Eire, gained the mile (4:11.5) by 5 yards over Horace Ashenfelter on the U.S. Indoor Championships earlier than 12,500 followers at Madison Sq. Backyard. (Barry was born in Illinois, however grew up in Eire).
Different notable winners:
60y-Andy Stanfield (6.2)
1000y-Roscoe Lee Browne (2:15.6)…went on to have a profitable profession as an actor
60yh-Harrison Dillard (7.3) gained the 4th of his eventual 8 titles
Pole Vault-Bob Richards (14’/4.27)
Shot Put-Jim Fuchs (56-3 5/8 [17.15+])
Mile Stroll-Henry Laskau (6:33.4) gained the third of his 10 consecutive titles.
Stanfield (200), Ashenfelter (Steeplechase), Dillard (110-hurdles), and Richards (PV) all went on to win Olympic gold
In 1952. Dillard had beforehand gained the 100-Meters on the 1948 Olympics.
NY Occasions Protection
1956–Every week after enhancing his world indoor file within the Shot Put to 59-9 (18.21), Parry O’Brien ignored the 60-foot barrier by successful the AAU title in New York with an incredible toss of 61-5 ¼ (18.725?). That was additionally higher than his out of doors file of 60-10 (18.54) It was the 4th of his 9 consecutive U.S. indoor titles.
One other WR was set by Bob Backus within the 35lb-Weight Throw (63-10 ½ [19.47]). It was the third of his 7 U.S. titles.
Outcomes (for T&FN Subscribers): https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/eTN1956_vol02_14.pdf
Previous U.S. Champions: https://www.flipsnack.com/USATF/usatf-indoor-champions/full-view.html
1967—Bob Seagren set an American Document of 17-3 (5.26) within the Pole Vault on the Cleveland Knights of Columbus meet.
Report (For T&F Information Subscribers)
1967–Making the most of Louisville’s spacious 220-yard wood oval (a rarity in these days), 2 people and one relay staff set new World Indoor Information.
Tommie Smith gained the 440y in 46.2 to smash Theron Lewis’s earlier mark of 47.1.
Tom Von Ruden gained the 880y in 1:49.0 to interrupt Tom Farrell’s file of 1:49.8.
Southern College gained the Mile Relay in 3:10.2 to take down the previous mark of three:11.1 that that they had shared with
Texas Southern.
Report (For T&F Information Subscribers)
1967–Doris Brown(Heritage) ran 4:40.4 in Vancouver to crush her personal World and American Indoor Information within the mile (4:52.0).
1973—Belgium’s Emiel Puttemans set two World Indoor Information in West Berlin, working 7:39.2 for 3000-meters on his approach to a time of 8:13.2 for 2-miles. He had set the earlier 3k file of seven:45.2 only a week earlier.
http://www.racingpast.ca/john_contents.php?id=227
1989—Dion Bentley (Penn Hills,Pa) set the still-standing U.S. Nationwide H.S. Document of 26-6 ½ (8.09) within the Lengthy Leap at Penn State. The earlier file of 26-2 (7.975?) was set by Jerry Proctor (Muir,CA) in 1967.
Bentley would bounce 26-9 ¼ (8.16) outside to interrupt Carl Lewis’s Nationwide Document of 26-8 ¼ (8.13) and would maintain on to the file for 20 years till Marquis Goodwin (Rowlett,TX) jumped 26-10 (8.18) in 2009.
He’s presently the Captain of the DeKalb County(GA) Hearth Division and the division’s public data officer.
https://wpial.org/hof.aspx?hof=16
1996–Namibia’s Frank Fredericks set the present World Indoor Document of 19.92 within the 200-meters in Liévin, France. Because the occasion is now not a championship occasion on the elite stage, that file might final a really very long time.
2001—Operating in a NY Highway Runners Problem Race at NY’s Armory, Marla Runyan set an American Indoor Document of 15:07.33 for 5000-meters. Lynn Jennings set the earlier file of 15:22.64 in 1990.
“I don’t know what to say,” an emotionally overcome Runyan instructed reporters after the race. “I simply received into this zone, and the whole lot went completely.”
Runyan, who’s legally blind, had change into the primary visually-impaired athlete to compete within the Olympics the earlier 12 months, ending eighth within the 1500-meters in Sydney. She would make her 2nd Olympic staff within the 5000-meters in 2004.
A five-time gold medalist on the Paralympics, Runyan was a 3-time U.S. Champion at 5000-meters (2001-2003) and gained the U.S. title on the Twin-Cities Marathon in 2006 (2:32:17), which turned out to be the ultimate race of her profession.
Runyan presently works with the Boston A.A.
Race Report: http://nypost.com/2001/02/19/runyan-smashes-indoor-record/
Runner’s World(2014): http://www.runnersworld.com/elite-runners/retired-pro-marla-runyan-continues-to-inspire
2001—Romania’s Gabriela Szabo set a World Indoor Document of 8:32.88 for 3000-meters on the Norwich Union Grand Prix meet in Birmingham, England. Szabo, who had gained the gold medal within the 5000-meters on the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, picked up a $50,000 bonus for her file run. The earlier file of 8:33.82 was set in 1989 by Holland’s Elly van Hulst.
http://information.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hello/athletics/1177143.stm
2005–Russia’s Yelena Isinbaeva turned the primary girl to clear 16-feet within the Pole Vault indoors, clearing that actual peak (4.88m) in Birmingham, England.
2006—Russia’s Yelena Soboleva ran 3:58.28 in Moscow, breaking the World Indoor Document of three:59.98 that was set by Regina Jacobs in 2003.
2009—Meseret Defar ran 14:24.37 for 5000-Meters in Stockholm to interrupt the World Document of 14:27.42 that was set by fellow Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba in 2007.
https://www.worldathletics.org/information/information/news-flash-142437-world-5000m-record-by-def
2011—A Russian staff of Aleksandra Bulanova (2:02.2), Yekaterina Sharmina-Martynova (2:03.3), Yelena Kotulskaya-Kofanova (2:00.3), and Anna Balakshina (2:00.6) set a World Document of 8:06.24 within the 4×800 in Moscow. The outdated WR of 8:12.41 was set by one other Russian staff the earlier 12 months. A U.S. staff set the present file of 8:05.89 in 2018.
2018—Christian Coleman, denied a World Document when he ran 6.37 at Clemson two weeks earlier as a result of the required digital beginning blocks weren’t used, left little question this time, working 6.34 whereas successful the 60 on the U.S. Indoor Championships within the sprinter-friendly altitude of Albuquerque. Coleman was pushed all the way in which by defending champion Ronnie Baker, whose runnerup time of 6.40 was simply .01s above Maurice Greene’s earlier mark of 6.39.
Coleman, the silver medalist within the 100-meters on the 2017 World Outside Championships (Usain Bolt was third), celebrated by virtually working one other 60-meters again in the direction of the beginning line! (Coleman gained the 100 on the 2019 World Championships.
(Coleman served an 18-month ban for “whereabouts” violations that stored him out of the Tokyo Olympics)
https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/tales/information/element/christian-coleman-ban-miss-tokyo-2020-olympics/
In one of many biggest hurdles races ever, Sharika Nelvis gained the Ladies’s 60-Meter Hurdles in 7.70 to interrupt the American Document of seven.72, which was collectively held by Lolo Jones and Keni Harrison, who completed 2nd right here with one other 7.72.
And proper behind in 7.73 was Christina Manning (now Clemons), who ran 7.73. All 3 performances cracked the all-time top-10 record.
However wait! In December, 2018, USATF introduced that NY-born Susanna Kallur, who has dual-citizenship with Sweden, ought to have been credited with an American Document when she set the present World Document of seven.68 in 2008! So Jones, Harrison (who would run 7.70 on the World Indoor Championships), and Nelvis might now not declare the AR on their resume! (Tia Jones helped make clear the scenario by reducing the AR to 7.67 in 2024!)
The anticipated battle between Jenn Suhr and Sandi Morris within the Ladies’s Pole Vault took a backseat to the breakthrough efficiency of Katie Nageotte (now Moon), who joined the indoor 16-foot membership together with her successful clearance of 16-1 ¼ (4.91). Nageotte, the 2013 NCAA Div.II Indoor and out of doors champion whereas competing for Ashland, had 8 first-jump clearances on her approach to setting 3 private bests throughout the competitors, clearing 15-9 ¼ (4.81) and 15-11 ¼ (4.86) along with her successful bounce. She missed 3-times on the World Document peak of 16-6 ½ (5.04). She has since gained gold on the 2021 Olympics and the 2022 & 2023 World Championships.
Morris and Suhr did have their very own non-public battle to earn a spot on the U.S. staff that might compete on the upcoming World Indoor Championships. Suhr was in 2nd place after clearing 15-9 ¼ on her first bounce, whereas Morris missed twice earlier than passing to the following peak, 15-11 ¼. She cleared on her solely remaining try, whereas Suhr missed as soon as, then went out after passing to 16-1 ¼ and lacking on each makes an attempt, leaving Morris in 2nd and on the U.S. staff.
Coleman Movies:
https://www.usatf.television/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=45365&mgroup_event_id=25&12 months=2018&do=movies&video_id=233769
Breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQZgNl2XxrI
Outcomes: https://outcomes.usatf.org/2018Indoors/
Movies: https://www.usatf.television/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=45365&mgroup_event_id=25&do=movies&folder_id=latest&12 months=2018
2023—It was in 2011 that Ryan Crouser set the present U.S. Excessive College Indoor Document of 77-2 ¾ (23.54) within the Shot Put on the Simplot Video games in Pocatello, Idaho. Passing on the U.S. Indoor Championships that have been happening the identical weekend in Albuquerque, Crouser accepted an invite to compete at this 12 months’s Simplot Video games (the primary since 2020 resulting from Covid-19) from his cousin, Haley Crouser, who’s on the meet’s Board of Administrators.
Competing towards 5 throwers from Idaho State, Crouser stunned himself (and all the highschool athletes in attendance) by throwing 76-8 ½ (23.38) within the opening spherical. That not solely smashed his personal World Indoor Document of 74-10 ½ (22.82), it bettered his Outside Document by one centimeter! Nonetheless, a required survey of the throwing circle and touchdown space revealed that they didn’t conform to World Athletics necessities, stopping the mark from being ratified as a WR!
Learn extra on the following hyperlinks:
https://simplot-games.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=1158&do=information&news_id=655695
https://trackandfieldnews.com/a-ryan-crouser-surprise-historys-longest-put/
https://worldathletics.org/information/report/ryan-crouser-world-shot-put-record-2338m-idaho
Nixed: https://trackandfieldnews.com/crousers-23-38-put-nixed/
2011: https://simplot-games.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=1158&do=movies&video_id=36923
2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxg4GpRf5CE
2023–4 of the 5 staff titles on the World X-Nation Championships in Bathurst, Australia, have been gained by Kenya, with Ethiopia successful the Ladies’s Junior/Underneath-20 race.
The U.S. Junior groups every gained bronze medals (a primary for the ladies).
With Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet bearing down on her close to the end of the Senior Ladies’s race(10k), a weakening Letesenbet Gidey, Ethiopia’s 2022 World Champion at 10,000-meters, fell to the bottom as Chebet (33:48), the 2019 Junior/Underneath-20 Champion, continued on for the win. Gidey was finally in a position to cross the end line, however was disqualified after getting help to get again on her toes!
Runners needed to cope with a difficult course and excessive temperatures earlier than issues cooled off for the Senior Males’s race.
Different winners/high U.S. Finishers
Senior Males(10k): 1.Jacob Kiplimo (Uganda) 29:17…21.Sam Chelanga
Senior Ladies(10k):…18.Ednah Kurgat…21.Weini Kelati
Junior Males(8k): 1.Ismael Kirui (Kenya) 24:29…16.Leo Younger…19.Marco Langon…21.Max Sannes…25.Kole Mathison
Junior Ladies(6k): 1.Senayet Getachew (Ethiopia) 20:53…10.Ellie Shea…12.Irene Riggs, 13.Karrie Baloga…19.Zariel Macchia
https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-cross-country-championships/bathurst23
Outcomes: https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-cross-country-championships/bathurst23/timetable
https://www.letsrun.com/information/2023/02/in-bathurst-the-worlds-greatest-footrace-lived-up-to-its-name/
https://discussion board.trackandfieldnews.com/discussion board/current-events/1781403-world-xc-2023
Movies
Sr.Ladies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjxmlYORpi8
Sr.Males: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs9Ise_8vKY
Combined: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c48ZEvj1sq0
2024 (new)–Femke Bol ran 49.24 for 400-meters on the Dutch Championships in Apeldoorn to raised her personal year-old World Document of 49.26. She would enhance the file to 49.17 on the following month’s World Indoor Championships.
https://worldathletics.org/information/report/femke-bol-world-indoor-400m-record-apeldoorn-2024
Important Birthdays
Born On This Day*
Konstanze Klosterhalfen—Germany 28 (1997) Bronze medalist within the 5000m on the 2019 World Championships
2022 European Champion—5000m
Silver Medalist on the 2022 & 2024 European Cross Nation Championships
3 European Indoor Silvers–2017: 1500 2019: 3000 2023: 3000
eighth within the 10,000m on the 2021 Olympic Video games
seventh within the 3000m on the 2018 World Indoor Championships
PBs: 1:59.65 (2017), 3:58.92 (2017), 4:17.26i (2020), 5:34.53 (2021), 9:16.73/2m (2022), 14:26.76 (2019),
31:01.71 (2021)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstanze_Klosterhalfen
https://worldathletics.org/athletes/germany/konstanze-klosterhalfen-14496249
Again From Damage:
www.european-athletics.com/information/klosterhalfen-thrilled-with-return-to-podium-after-21-month-gap
A.G. Kruger 46 (1979) 5-time U.S. Champion—Hammer Throw (‘06-‘09, ‘13)
Member of 8 U.S. Nationwide groups (three Olympics (‘04, ‘08, ‘12) and 5 World
Championships (‘05, ‘07, ‘09, ‘13, ‘15)
4th on the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials
9-time U.S. Indoor Champion—Weight Throw (’03, ’05-’07, ’09-’10, ’12, ’14-’15);
2001 NCAA Div.II Champion-Hammer (Morningside)
PBs:82-7 ½ (25.18/2012/#6 All-Time U.S.), 260-0 (74.26/2004/#9 A-T U.S.);
Final competed in 2020
Changed the late Jud Logan because the Head Coach at Ashland College…had beforehand coached at Ashland earlier than
he took the same place at South Dakota
https://goashlandeagles.com/staff-directory/a-g-kruger/227
New Rent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._G._Kruger
Adam Goucher 50 (1975) 2000 Olympic finalist—5000 (thirteenth);
3-time World Championships finalist—5000 (’99-Twelfth, ’01-Tenth, ’07-Eleventh)
4-time NCAA Champion at Colorado—1997 (Indoor 3k), 1998-Indoor 3k, Outside 5k, X-Nation
1993 Foot Locker XC Champion (Doherty H.S, CO); One of many few elite males to have been coached by a lady in
highschool—Judy Fellhauer
Hampered by accidents late in his profession
PBs: 1:49.12 (‘99), 3:36.64 (‘01), 3:54.17 (‘99), 7:34.96 (‘01), 8:12.73/2-mile (’06), 13:10.00 (’06), 27:59.31
(’08), 1:04:52 (’11)
Co-Founding father of Run the Edge, a digital health problem: https://runtheedge.com/meet-the-team
Spouse is Kara Goucher
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Goucher
https://cubuffs.com/honors/cu-athletic-hall-of-fame/adam-goucher/61
In The Starting: https://www.runnersworld.com/superior/a20785963/learning-to-fly/
The Gouchers’ Timeline: https://www.denverpost.com/2017/04/04/kara-adam-goucher-career-timeline/
https://www.teamusa.com/profiles/adam-goucher
Operating the Edge: https://runtheedge.com/running-the-edge-book
Colin Jackson—Nice Britain(Wales) 58 (1967) 1988 Olympic silver medalist—110m-Hurdles
2-time World Champion (1993,1999/1997-silver,1987-bronze)
4-time European Champion (1990, 1994, 1998, 2002)
1999 World Indoor Champion-60m-Hurdles. 3-time silver medalist (1989,1993,1997)
Set a World Document of 12.91 on the 1993 World Championships (Now #9 All-Time)
Additionally set a World Indoor Document of seven.30 within the 60m-Hurdles in 1994. Document stood for 27-years till Grant Holloway
ran 7.29 in 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Jackson
http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69187
’88 OG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnFFtgiT2d0
’93 WC/WR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F58uAi46Pj0<
