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This Day in Observe & Subject–October 22
1949—Czech Emil Zátopek regained the World Document within the 10,000-meters, operating 29:21.2 in Ostrava, the positioning of his 1st World Document that was set in June.
WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000_metres_world_record_progression
29:28.2 Emil Zátopek Ostrava, Czechoslavakia 6-11-1949
29:27.2 Viljo Heino Finland Kouvala, Finland 9-1-49
29:21.2 Zátopek Ostrava 10-22-49
29:02.6 Zátopek Turku, Finland 8-4-50
29:01.6 Zátopek Stará Boleslav, Czechoslavakia 11-1-53
28:54.2 Zátopek Brussels, Belgium 6-1-54
28:42.8 Sándor Iharos Hungary Budapest, Hungary 7-15-56
http://www.runningpast.com/emil_zatopek.htm
1966—Marty Liquori, a senior at Essex Catholic H.S.(NJ), gained the Japanese States X-Nation title at NY’s Van Cortland Park, setting a Course Document of 12:23.2 (2-1/2 Miles).
1978—Operating the gap for the primary time, Norway’s Grete Waitz gained the NY Metropolis Marathon in 2:32:29.8, greater than two minutes sooner than the World Document of two:34:47.5, which had been set in 1977 by Germany’s Christa Vahlensieck, who had dropped out of the NY race.
Swearing she would by no means run one other marathon due to the ache concerned, Waitz quickly had a change of coronary heart and would change into a favourite of NY Metropolis followers after profitable the race an extra 8 instances! She would additionally win the marathon on the inaugural World Championships in Helsinki in 1983 and completed 2nd to Joan Benoit within the first ladies’s Olympic marathon in 1984.
Waitz, who misplaced her battle with most cancers in 2011, had already established herself as one of many world’s finest feminine distance runners, setting two World Information within the 3000-meters and profitable the primary of her 5 World X-Nation titles in early 1978.
After ending a disappointing third within the 3000 on the European Championships in Prague in late August, Waitz was considering retiring when the concept of competing within the NY Metropolis Marathon was introduced up throughout a post-race dinner together with her husband Jack and fellow Norwegian Knut Kvalheim, who was an All-American miler at Oregon.
Jack Waitz talked about that he was attempting to get his spouse to run a marathon and Kvalheim, who had beforehand run the race, recommended she run in New York, which was lower than two months away. Kvalheim instructed Grete, “Run the marathon, take every week’s trip, and end your profession in nice fashion”. The choice to run was made, setting in movement the second section of her already achieved profession.
Starters/Finishers: 9,875/9,357; Males: 8,875/8,688, Ladies: 1,000/769
A lot of the above is from Runner’s World’s nice assortment of private recollections of the race from fellow runners and others concerned with the occasion, together with Males’s winner Invoice Rodgers (2:12:11), Jack Waitz, and former World Document holder Jaqi Hansen, one of many pre-race favorites in 1978 (a foot harm compelled her to drop out). Learn rather more at:
http://www.runnersworld.com/masters/grete-waitz-from-out-of-norway (subscription required?)
Different Notable Finishers
Males:2.Ian Thompson (Nice Britain) 2:14:12…6.Jack Foster (New Zealand) 2:17:28, 7.Chris Stewart (Nice Britain) 2:17:47…12.Frank Shorter 2:19:32…20.Ron Hill (Nice Britain) 2:20:29, 21.Tom Fleming 2;20:37…25.Jim Rafferty 2:21:24…30.Pete Squires 2:22:59…35.Dick Buerkle 2:23:56…47.Norb Sander 2:25:53, 48.Paul Fetscher 2:26:01, 49.Don Kardong 2:26:04…60.Julio Piazza 2:27:33…63.Gary Muhrcke 2:28:06 (1st winner of the race in 1970)
Ladies: 2.Marty Cooksey 2:41:48…17.Miki Gorman 2:57:08…21.Nina Kuscsik 2:58:10…28.Joan Uliyot 3:02:41
Outcomes: https://outcomes.nyrr.org/occasion/781022/examine
Historical past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Marathon
NYRR Corridor of Fame: http://www.nyrr.org/about-us/nyrr-hall-of-fame/grete-waitz
Marathon Legend:
Wiki Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grete_Waitz
NY Occasions Tribute: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/sports activities/20vecsey.html
2000—Khalid Khannouchi set an American Document of two:07:01 whereas profitable the Chicago Marathon for the threerd time in 4 years. He represented his native Morocco when he gained in 1997 and 1999 (he would win once more in 2002). He had set a World Document of two:05:42 whereas profitable right here in 1999.
Khannouchi, who grew to become a U.S. citizen on Could 2, had hoped to signify the U.S. on the 2000 Sydney Olympics, however accidents compelled him to overlook the U.S. Trials.
Kenya’s Catherine “The Nice” Ndereba adopted up her win on the Boston Marathon in April with a win right here with a Nationwide Document of two:21:33. Ending 2nd in 2:22:36 was fellow Kenyan Lornah Kiplagat, who would begin competing for the Netherlands in 2003.
Ndereba would win once more in Chicago the next yr with a World Document of two:18:47, and went on to win World titles in 2003 and 2007 and Olympic silver medals in 2004 and 2008.
Different Notable Finishers:
Males: 2.Josephat Kiprono (KEN) 2:07:29, 3.Moses Tanui (KEN) 2:07:49…7.David Morris (USA) 2:12:00…10.Josh Cox (USA) 2:13:55
Ladies: 4.Elana Meyer (RSA) 2:31:59…6.Libbie Hickman (USA) 2:32:09.
https://www.espn.com/moresports/information/2000/1022/832418.html
Prime 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Chicago_Marathon
Khannouchi: https://www.worldathletics.org/information/information/khannouchi-former-marathon-world-record-holde
https://www.letsrun.com/2012/khannouchi-pinkowski-0328.php
https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/kenya/catherine-ndereba-14289341
2000—The World Junior (Below-20) Championships are identified for producing future stars, and this yr’s version in Santiago, Chile, produced no fewer than 17 (!) future World or Olympic Champions
Males’s 5000—2.Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele…3-time Olympic Champion (2004/10,000, 2008/5000,10,000)…gained 16
World titles
Males’s 110-Hurdles—4.China’s Liu Xiang 2004 Olympic and 2007 World Champion
Males’s Excessive Soar-1.South Africa’s Jacques Freitag 2003 World Champion
Males’s Pole Vault—4.Australia’s Steve Hooker 2008 Olympic gold medalist
Males’s Javelin—2.Norway’s Andreas Thorkikildsen 2-time Olympic Champion (2004, 2008), 2009 World Champion
Ladies’s 5000—2.Ethiopia’s Meseret Defar…2-time Olympic (2004,2012) and World (2007,2013) Champion
Ladies’s 100/200—Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell(Brown)…2-time Olympic Champion within the 200 (2004,2008).
Ladies’s 400/400h—1.Australia’s Jana Pittman 2-time World Champion-400m Hurdles (2003, 2007)
Ladies’s 400h—2.Jamaica’s Melaine Walker 2008 Olympic & 2009 World Champion
Ladies’s 1500—1.Kenya’s Nancy Langat 2008 Olympic champion
Ladies’s Excessive Soar—1.Croatia’s Blanka Vlašić…2-time World Champion (2007, 2009)
Ladies’s Excessive Soar—4.Russia’s Anna Chicherova 2011 World & 2012 Olympic Champion
Ladies’s Pole Vault—Yelena Isinbaeva…World Document holder, 2-time Olympic (2004,2008) and 3-time
World (2005,2007,2013) Champion
Ladies’s Pole Vault—10. Brazil’s Fabiana Murer 2011 World Champion
Ladies’s Javelin—10.Germany’s Christina Obergföll 2013 World Champion
Heptathlon—Sweden’s Carolina Klüft…2004 Olympic champion, 3-time World Champion (2003, 2005,2007)
Heptathlon—4.Czech Barbora Špotáková 2xOlympic (2008, 2012) & 3xWorld (2007, 2011, 2017) Champion–Javelin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_World_Junior_Championships_in_Athletics
2006—Simply as Kenya’s Robert Cheruiyot (2:07:35) raised his arms to have fun his imminent win on the Chicago Marathon, he slipped on a moist race decal on the end, falling backwards and hitting his head on the roadway. Along with struggling a gentle concussion, he additionally had minor bleeding on the floor of his mind. He spent two nights in an area hospital, however made a full restoration. It was the twondmain victory of the yr for Cheruiyot, who gained the Boston Marathon in April.
Following Cheruiyot throughout the road (with out incident) have been fellow Kenyans Daniel Njenga (2:07:40) and Jimmy Muindi (2:07:51), and American Abdi Abdirahman, who ran what would grow to be the quickest time of his profession—2:08:56.
The primary 4 finishers within the Ladies’s division all set Nationwide Information—Ethiopia’s Berhane Adere (2:20:42), Russia’s Galina Bogomolova (2:20:47), Australia’s Benita Willis (2:22:36), and Mexico’s Madaí Pérez (2:22:59).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWheGgqmq0A
https://www.espn.com/olympics/trackandfield/information/story?id=2634958
https://www.worldathletics.org/information/information/mens-winner-and-several-womens-national-recor
Prime 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Chicago_Marathon
https://www.chicagotribune.com/information/ct-xpm-2006-10-24-0610240016-story.html
Previous Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_of_the_Chicago_Marathon