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This Day in Monitor & Area–October 25
1981–It was thought on the time that Alberto Salazar (2:08:13) and New Zealand’s Allison Roe (2:25:28) had set World Data on the NY Metropolis Marathon, but it surely was later decided that the course was quick, a ruling that didn’t sit nicely with NY organizers, who argued that the course was measured precisely, based mostly on the requirements in place on the time. (See Coming Up Brief hyperlink).
It was the 2nd win in a row for Salazar, whereas Norway’s Grete Waitz, the 3-time defending ladies’s champion, was compelled to drop out after 15-miles with painful shin splints.
(The IAAF didn’t formally acknowledge World Data for street races, together with the marathon, till 2004).
In September, 2021, Salazar misplaced his enchantment of a 4-year ban imposed by the U.S. Anti-Doping Company (USADA) for
violations of doping rules throughout his profession as a coach. He finally obtained a lifetime ban.
Different Notable Finishers:
Males: 2.Jukka Toivola (Finland/2:10:52), 3.Hugh Jones (GBR/2:11:00)…6.Tony Sandoval (2:12:12), 7.Rodolfo Gomez (Mexico/2:12:47)
Ladies: 2.Ingrid Kristiansen (Norway/2:30:08), 3.Julie Shea (2:30:11), 4.Laura Fogli (Italy/2:34:47)…9.Julie Brown (2:40:48).
Starters/Finishers: 14,496/13,223; Males: 13,411/11,466 , Ladies: 2,405/1,757
High 25: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_New_York_City_Marathon
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/26/sports activities/2-world-records-set-as-13360-finish-marathon.html
Full Race Movies
Half 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9H8chvDg78
Half 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hORTCxwPPkw
Salazar’s End(race director Fred Lebow is pulled to the sidelines by a policeman earlier than breaking away to observe Salazar to the end!) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1u97Ic_aQo
Brief?-In-Depth Dialogue: http://www.letsrun.com/discussion board/flat_read.php?thread=4272828
The Ban
https://www.usada.org/wp-content/uploads/Salazar-AAA-Resolution-1.pdf
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-athletics-world-salazar/watchdog-will-take-close-look-at-usada-report-into-salazar-ban-coe-idUSKBN1WM003
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/06/sports activities/salazar-doping-nike-oregon-project.html
For RW Subscribers
https://www.runnersworld.com/information/g29323802/alberto-salazar-nike-oregon-project-doping/
https://www.runnersworld.com/information/a29432537/nike-shuts-down-oregon-project/
Ban Upheld: https://www.si.com/track-and-field/2021/09/16/track-alberto-salazar-four-year-doping-ban-upheld-cas
Lifetime Ban: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/sports activities/alberto-salazar-sexual-assault.html
Born On This Day*
Marileidy Paulino-Dominican Republic 29 (1996) 2024 Olympic gold medalist—400; Silver medalist within the 400 and Combined
4×400 on the 2021 Olympics
2023 World Champion-400 (silver medalist-2022 & 2025);
2022 World Champion—Combined 4×400 (2nd leg-48.47)
2023 Pan American Video games Champion—200m
2024 Diamond League Champion
PBs: 11.38 (2023), 22.30 (2025), 35.16 (2023/#6 All-Time), 47.98 (2025/#3 A-T)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marileidy_Paulino
https://www.hola.com/us/latinapowerhouse/20240929712717/marileidy-paulino/
2022 Combined 4×400: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=sC3hx4Lsf5Y
2023 WC-400: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7u18LEoORs
2024 OG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9EXMZz3TNc
Bud Held 98 (1927) Former pole-vaulter was a 3-time NCAA Champion within the Javelin (Stanford/1948-1950)
6-time U.S. Champion (1949, 1951, 1953-1955, 1958)
1952 U.S. Olympian (ninth)
Utilizing javelins that he designed, he set two World Data (263-10/80.41-1953; 268-2/81.74-1955)
Excelled within the Pole Vault, Discus, and Javelin in Masters competitors (into his 80s!)
Inducted into the Nationwide Corridor of Fame in 1987
At 98, he’s the oldest dwelling American Olympian in Monitor & Area
Corridor of Fame Bio: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/franklin-bud-held
From long-time javelin coach Jeff Gorski:
Held, who initially designed the javelins he threw, continues to be within the javelin recreation, designing and constructing spears {that a}
few athletes on the West Coast get from him. Finest end result with a males’s javelin was in Might, 2022 by Zach Holland
from Umpqua, JC in Roseburg, 0regon, who set the Junior Faculty nationwide file of 264-5 (80.61). You may
bear in mind Bud was not allowed by AAU guidelines to work at a enterprise associated to his sport, so his brother Dick
began Lakeside Provide Firm to construct them on the market to the lots. l nonetheless have a picket one from 1955.
The remainder is history- each Bud and Dick got here to a coaching camp l ran at Chula Vista’s USOC coaching heart in
1999 and Bud with a number of different US spear greats got here to the first American Javfest on the 2000 Penn Relays.
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78543
Oldest Residing Olympians: https://oldestolympians.sdsu.edu/
Remembering His Brother: https://javelinthrowmagazine.wordpress.com/2018/03/21/dick-held-in-memoriam/
Deceased
Invoice Stevenson 84 (1900-April 2, 1985) 1924 Olympic gold medalist-4×400. Ran 2nd leg (49.2) on the staff that set a
World Report of three:16.0 in Paris.
1921 U.S. Champion-440y
Attended Phillips Andover Academy, Princeton, after which Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar
Member of the U.S. Marine Corps
From his Wiki Bio:
“Throughout World Warfare II, Stevenson and his spouse, Eleanor “Bumpie” Bumstead Stevenson, a 1923 graduate of Smith Faculty, organized and administered American Pink Cross operations in Nice Britain, North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. Each he and his spouse have been awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious achievement in assist of navy operations.” President of Oberlin Faculty from 1946-1959.
Served because the U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines from 1961-1964
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/79096
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stevenson_(athlete)
