This Day in Observe & Discipline, July 30, Emil Zatopek takes London 10,000m (1948), Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz wins Moscow pole vault (1980), by Walt Murphy’s Information and Outcomes Providers

This Day in Observe & Discipline–July  30

1928—Canada’s Percy Williams took the primary half of his dash double on the Amsterdam Olympics by successful the Males’s 100-meters in 10.8. He would win the 200 two days later. Profitable the silver and bronze medals had been Nice Britain’s Jack London (10.9) and Germany’s Georg Lammers (10.9). Ending 4^th was 18-year outdated Frank Wykoff (11.0), a latest graduate of Glendale (CA) H.S. He would win the primary of his 3 Olympic gold medals within the 4×100 relay 4 days later.

            Nice Britain’s Lord Burghley (aka David Cecil), was a slim winner within the Males’s 400-hurdles (53.4) over the U.S. duo of Frank Cuhel (53.6) and defending champion Morgan Taylor (53.6), the defending champion.

            Eire’s Pat O’Callaghan gained the primary of his two Olympic titles within the Hammer with a throw of 168-7 (51.39). 2^nd was Sweden’s Ossian Skiöld (168-3 [51.29]) and three^rd was American Ed Black (160-10 [49.03]).

Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1928_Summer_Olympics

Olympedia Reviews: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/9/sports activities/ATH

Movies

M100: https://olympics.com/en/video/amsterdam-1928-williams-percy

M400h (side-by-side w/Karsten Warholm’s 2021 WR!: https://www.fb.com/watch/?v=861965074907975

https://www.olympic.org/percy-williams

Percy Williams: https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/66279

1948–The primary post-World Conflict II Olympic champions had been topped in London, as Czech Emil Zátopek gained the 10,000-meters (29:59.6),  Australia’s John Winter the Males’s Excessive Leap (6-6 [1.98]), and France’s Micheline Ostermeyer the Girls’s Discus

(137-6 [41.92]). Zátopek’s 47.8s margin of victory continues to be the best in Olympic historical past.

            Winter, the one one within the 20-man closing utilizing the scissors/Japanese-cutoff type of leaping, needed to cope with a gentle rain and sometimes a boisterous crowd that was cheering for Zatopek in the course of the 10,000.

            Ostermeyer, who carried out as a live performance pianist throughout her athletic profession, would additionally win gold within the Shot Put and bronze within the Excessive Leap later within the Video games.

Different Medalists/Notes:

Males’s 10,000: France’s Alain Mimoun (30:47.4), Swden’s Bertil Albertson (30:53.6)…Finland’s Viljo Heino, the World Document holder,

dropped out after battling Zátopek for the primary 6k.

Males’s HJ: Norway’s Bjørn Paulson (6-4  ¾ [1.95]), American George Stanich (6-4  ¾ [1.95])…this was the primary yr that ties had been damaged

by the countback rule of fewer misses at heights (the 4^th & 5^th placers additionally cleared 6-4  ¾)

Girls’s DT: Italy’s  Edera Cordiale-Gentile (135-1 [41.17]), France’s Jacqueline Mazéas (132-9 [40.47])…among the many athletes lacking

from this occasion was unofficial World Document holder Nina Dumbadze of the Soviet Union, which refused to compete on the

Olympics (From Olympedia).

Medalists/Outcomes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1948_Summer_Olympics

Olympedia Reviews: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/12/sports activities/ATH

Winter:

http://www.smh.com.au/information/obituaries/champion-made-it-look-easy/2007/12/14/1197568260631.html?web page=2

Ostermeyer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micheline_Ostermeyer

https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/67992

1974–Rick Wohlhuter ran 2:13.9 on the primary day of competitors on the Martin Luther King Video games in Oslo to smash the earlier World Document for 1000-meters by 2.1-seconds. Wohlhuter, who had stated earlier than the meet that he was going after the document, ran away from a loaded discipline within the course of–2.Mike Boit (Kenya) 2:16.7, 3.John Walker (New Zealand) 2:17.1, 4.Rod Dixon (New Zealand) 2:17.2, 5.Byron Dyce (Jamaica) 2:17.6. Boit was with him each step of the best way till the Notre Dame grad, who set a WR for 880-yards the earlier yr, sprinted away within the closing 200-meters. His 2:13.9 lasted as a World Document till Sebastian Coe ran 2:13.40 in 1980, and it nonetheless stands because the American Document, the oldest one on the books.

There was virtually a second World Document within the Males’s Excessive Leap. All different occasions had lengthy been accomplished, however 1000’s of followers caught round to observe “Massive D” (Dwight Stones) attempt to enhance his year-old world mark of 7-6  ½ (2.30). With the bar set at 7-7 (2.31), Stones, who had wanted just one leap to clear every of seven earlier heights, from 6-6  ¾ (2.00) to 7-5  ¾ (2.28), virtually did it once more on the document peak, barely brushing the bar off along with his heel! That might be the most effective of his three makes an attempt.

Video(1000): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEYDHU7saAg

Corridor-of-Fame Bios

Wohlhuter: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/rick-wohlhuter

Stones: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/dwight-stones

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

Wohlhuter Appears Again(2014): 

http://fl.milesplit.com/articles/132043-rick-wohlhuter-40-years-later-still-the-american-record-holder#.U9mNGhy1_Jm

1976–Bruce Jenner closed out his sensible profession by successful the gold medal within the Decathlon on the Montreal Olympics. His rating of 8,618 factors (8,634-current tables) raised his personal World Document by 80 factors. Profitable silver was West Germany’s Guido Kratschmer (8411) and the bronze went to the Soviet Union’s Nikolay Avilov (8369), the defending champion.

            For the two^nd Olympics in a row, Finland’s Lasse Virén was a double winner, ending first right now within the Males’s 5000-meters (13:24.76) to go together with his earlier win within the 10,000.

            Virén, who ran 55.4 for his final 400, held off repeated challenges on the final lap from New Zealand’s Dick Quax (13:25.16), West Germany’s Klaus Hildenbrand (13:25.38), Quax’s teammate Rod Dixon (13:25.50), and Nice Britain’s Brendan Foster  (13:26.19).

            The Soviet Union’s Viktor Saneyev gained his 3^rd straight Olympic gold medal within the Triple Leap, however he needed to come from behind to take action. American James Butts had taken the lead along with his 4^th-round leap of 56-4  ½ (17.18), a private finest, however Saneyev got here by way of within the 5^th spherical along with his successful leap of 56-8  ¾ (17.29). 3^rd was Brazil’s João do Pulo (55-5  ½ [16.90]).

            One other Soviet, Tatyana Kazankina, who had gained the Girls’s 800 4 days earlier, accomplished her Olympic double by successful a slow-paced Girls’s 1500-meters in 4:05.5. Kazankina, who sprinted from behind within the homestretch, lined her final 800 in 2:03.5 and her closing 400 in 56.9! Silver and bronze went to the East German duo of Gunhild Hoffmeister (4:06.02) and Ulrike Klapezynski (4:06.09). Jan Merrill, who had set an American Document of 4:02.61 in her semi-final, completed 8^th-4:08.5)

Medalists/Outcomes:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1976_Summer_Olympics

Olympedia Reviews: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/19/sports activities/ATH

WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decathlon_world_record_progression

Jenner’s Marks:

10.94, 23-8  ¼/7.22, 50-4  ¼/15.35, 6-8/2.03, 47.51[4298]. 14.84, 164-2/50.04, 15-9/4.80, 224-9,/68.52 4:12.61

Learn Tim Layden’s glorious Sports activities Illustrated article about Jenner’s transition from Bruce to Caitlyn

http://www.si.com/olympics/2016/06/28/caitlyn-jenner-1976-olympics-gold-medal

Movies

Males’s 5k

(full race): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3PehlOMyAM

Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91qa_2QJ9CU

Decathlon(deal with Jenner): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL4CDvCqvrE

1977—Mark Belger (4:03.32), about to enter his senior yr at Villanova, gained the mile on the Boston Relay Carnival over his teammate-to-be Sydney Maree (4:03.91), who had just lately arrived from his native South Africa. 3^rd within the race was Villanova grad Ken Schappert (4:04.48), whose daughter Nicole (Tully) gained the 5000 on the 2015 U.S. Championships.

        In different highlights, 17-year outdated prep Lynn Jennings, in-between her junior and senior years on the Bromfield College(MA), gained the 800 (2:10.3) and the Mile (4:52.2); a month out of highschool, Renaldo Nehemiah, who ran 10.43 in his warmth, completed an in depth 2^nd within the 100 to Cliff Wiley (10.53-10.59/headwind); Rosalyn Bryant gained the Girls’s 400 in 52.9.

        The Philadelphia Pioneer Membership gained all 3 dash relays–Jason Grimes, Tony Darden, Herman Frazier, and Charles Joseph gained the 4×200 in 1:21.23, sooner than the World Document of 1:21.4, however the mark couldn’t be ratified because the workforce included Joseph, a local of Trinidad & Tobago. Grimes, Rudy Reid, Joseph, and Frazier gained the 4×100 in 39.59, and Frazier (46.5), Bruce Greene (46.2), Darden (46.6), and Joseph (47.4) gained the 4×400 in 3:06.66.

        The meet, which was televised on Public Broadcasting, was held at Boston College’s Nickerson Discipline and was directed by BU grad John Thomas, the previous World Document holder within the Excessive Leap.

1980–Regardless of intense heckling from the Soviet crowd on the Moscow Olympics, which was rooting for co-silver medalist Konstantin Volkov, Poland’s Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz gained the gold medal within the Pole Vault and set a World Document of 18-11  ½ (5.78). Poland’s Tadeusz Ślusarski, the defending champion, shared the silver medal with Volkov (each cleared 18-6  ½ [5.95]). Lacking as a result of U.S.-led boycott had been People Mike Tully and Tom Hintnaus. Kozakiewicz’s response to the group after his document vault (celebrated by utilizing a widely known gesture, telling the Soviet crowd the place they might shove it!-from Olympedia) was caught on this picture (scroll down):

https://tradition.pl/en/article/kozakiewicz-pole-vault-olympics-scandal-poland

Russia’s Viktor Markin gained the Males’s 400 in 44.60, adopted by Australia’s Rick Mitchell (44.84) and East Germany’s Frank  Schaffer (44.87). Cuba’s Alberto Juantorena, the defending champion who was recovering from an damage, completed 4^th in 45.09.

East Germany’s Bärbel Wöckel (22.03), working from lane one, efficiently defended her Olympic title within the Girls’s 200-Meters. Profitable silver and bronze had been the Soviet Union’s Nataliya Bochina (22.19) and Jamaica’s Merlene Ottey (22.20), who gained the primary of her 30 world medals! Lacking as a result of boycott was American Evelyn Ashford.

The Soviet Union received a 1-2 end within the Males’s Shot Put from Vladimir Kiselyov (70-1/2 [21.35]/OR) and Aleksandr Baryshnikov (69-2 [21.08]). East Germany’s Udo Beyer (69-1  ¼ [21.06]), the World Document holder and defending champion, gained the bronze medal.

East Germany’s Hartwig Gauder (3:49:24) gained the 50k Stroll, which was reinstated to the Olympic program after not being contested in 1976. Profitable silver and bronze had been Spain’s Jorge Llopart (3:51.25) and the Soviet Union’s Yevgeny Ivchenko (3:56.32).

Outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics

Olympedia Reviews: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/20/sports activities/ATH

WR Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Males’s_pole_vault_world_record_progression

T&F Information Cowl(Kozakiewicz-September):

https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1980_09.jpg