t-and-f: Mary Crew Armstrong
Stumbled across this from the AP. Regards, Martin Gold-medal winner at 1932 Olympics Framingham, Mass. -- Mary Crew Armstrong, who won a gold medal at the 1932 Olympics as a member of the record-setting U.S. 400-metre relay team, died July 12 at age 88. Ms. Armstrong was 15 years old when she won the first of four straight national titles in the 36-metre dash in 1929. At the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, Ms. Armstrong ran the first leg of the 400 relay and gave her team a lead that led to victory and a world record. The team chose her to accept the gold medal. AP
Re: t-and-f: Mary Crew Armstrong
Gold-medal winner at 1932 Olympics Framingham, Mass. -- Mary Crew Armstrong, who won a gold medal at the 1932 Olympics as a member of the record-setting U.S. 400-metre relay team, died July 12 at age 88. Ms. Armstrong was 15 years old when she won the first of four straight national titles in the 36-metre dash in 1929. 36 metre dash? -- | Bob Ramsak | *TRACK PROFILE News Service - Editor | http://www.trackprofile.com | *Race Results Weekly - Asst. Editor --- |Cleveland, Ohio USA |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Tel - 216-731-9648 |Fax - 216-731-9675
Re: t-and-f: Mary Crew Armstrong and metric distances
Apparently they consulted some media version of a little red book to report in metric distances; her titles were at 40 yards according to last week's Boston Globe story. And it is C_a_rew Steve At 12:57 PM 7/23/02 -0400, Bob Ramsak wrote: Gold-medal winner at 1932 Olympics Framingham, Mass. -- Mary Crew Armstrong, who won a gold medal at the 1932 Olympics as a member of the record-setting U.S. 400-metre relay team, died July 12 at age 88. Ms. Armstrong was 15 years old when she won the first of four straight national titles in the 36-metre dash in 1929. 36 metre dash? -- | Bob Ramsak | *TRACK PROFILE News Service - Editor | http://www.trackprofile.com | *Race Results Weekly - Asst. Editor --- |Cleveland, Ohio USA |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Tel - 216-731-9648 |Fax - 216-731-9675 Steve Vaitones Managing Director USA Track Field - New England Association P.O.Box 1905 Brookline MA 02446-0016 Phone: 617 566 7600 Fax: 617 734 6322 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.usatfne.org
t-and-f: a WR everybody missed
(too bad it didn't get caught for the telecast) El Guerrouj's 2:45.78 at the 1200 point in Monaco is a World Record far as I know for 3 laps. Previous fastest 2:46.10 at Brussels last year. gh
t-and-f: Capitol Mile race report--Madison, WI 7/20/02
Do things like this happen in Europe? 20 minutes before the 4 pm start of the Capitol Mile, high winds and torrential rains--Madison's first rain in 24 days--fell upon Capitol Hill in Madison, WI as if to sweep it clean. Caught by the thunderstorm during their warm up, some athletes took refuge in the Capitol building, some in bus stops, some under the awnings of shop windows. When the storm had abated 30 minutes later, the course was wet and strewn with leaves, but after a quick discussion it was determined that The Race Must Go On. Former UW ace Henry Dennis led the men's race from the gun, passing the 400 in :58 and finishing, easing up, in 4:09. Nate Uselding came in 2nd two seconds later and there in 3rd was none other than Jared Cordes, running what was perhaps only his second-fastest mile of the day after going out hard with Meb Keflezighi in the Bix 7 8 hours earlier. In the women's race Madison native Jenelle Deatherage missed the course record by only 1 second, in 4:39, pushed hard most of the way by Villanove teammate alumnae Carmen Douma and Kristen Nicolini, three and four seconds back. The winners took home $500 in prize money apiece, with $300 for 2nd and $100 for 3rd. The athletes showed resilience and good humor in adverse conditions, as the Capitol Mile (brought back to life by the sponsorship of Rayovac) returned to Madison for the first time since 1998. Thanks to them, the race was a success! Jim Reardon Wisconsin Track Club [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: t-and-f: Field Event Results
Don Schlesinger wrote: My suggestion is as innovative as it is simple to implement, and I'm astounded that no company has seen fit to market such a product up until now. Leave the first two columns alone. Add two extra tabs to the third column, to provide for a single panel that will express not only the ten single digits from 0 to 9, but also the numbers 10 and 11. For the fourth column, remove the current ten available digits and replace them with the three fractions, either in the aforementioned fractional form, or perhaps with their decimal equivalents, .25, .50, and .75, which may be easier to read from a distance. One problem. Such results boards would be useless for metric results. A more comprehensive solution would be to add the fractions as an additional column. Jason ___ Jason Blank Hopkins Marine Station Enloe HS '92, Duke '96, Stanford ??Oceanview Boulevard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pacific Grove, CA 93950 If I wasn't running, I would do a tough job, no money, digging, digging, digging -- a hard job. No money. -- Joseph Nderitu ___
t-and-f: Versatule HS relay runner
Netters: I have just been redoing my NJ HS annual which covers the 1981 outdoor season and was strck by just how versatile a relay runner John Marshall was. Despite two phyiscal setbacks that spring (first a minor leg problem, then some heavy dental word), he managed to anchor the Penn relay winner for Plainfield (3:13.0), a SMR team tht set a short-lived national record of 3:23,2, a 7:46.3 3200R team and a 10:18.8 DMR (a team which really had no 1200 leg of any quality) But he may have missed the big one. In 1980, Plainfield had set the still-standing SR of 41.0 for 400M at the New Jersey Relays and hit the midway spot of the 800R that night in around 42.0, only to have Tony Ashley pull up lame on the third leg. One member of that foursome, Mark Henry, graduated, and the plan was to have John anchor the 800 team at the NJ Relays the next year. But the meet fell at a time when he was recovering from his leg inury and, to make matters worse, another member of the team, Dorrell Hilliman, was also having leg problems at the time. In good health, that team would probably have broken 1:25. John ran several times over two seasons against our top miler of the 1981 season, (now Dr.) Cliff Sheehan (later a sub-4:00 runner) and never lost to him. And, as a junior, he cut down a field of 47+ 400 runners in a JO meet as if they were standing still/ Ed Grant
RE: t-and-f: Bix 7 road race report
Oh...I will get even! That wasn't me. It was my slow evil twin brother. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Trujillo Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: t-and-f: Bix 7 road race report Greetings all, Yesterday was the Bix 7M race here in Davenport, IA. Race start conditions were 75 Fahrenheit with 85% humidity. Uggh. Temperatures rose during the race, while humidity dropped slightly. Nice breeze from the east cooled the runners during the first half of the out-and-back course, with significant hills at the start and turn-around, and another long grade at about 5.5M. Men's winner Meb Keflezighi broke away from Abdi Abdirahman at about 1.5M with a 4:12 downhill mile, built a huge lead of about 400M and coasted to a :52 victory in 32:36. Abdirahman was 2nd in 33:28, Kyle Baker 3rd :05 behind Abdi, then a group of contenders between 33:50 and 34:25--Brian Sell, Jeff Campbell, Ryan Kirkpatrick, former winner Phillimon Hanneck, Rod DeHaven, Scott Strand, and Keith Dowling. Meb's winning margin was 3rd-largest in race history, with Bill Rogers having the widest-ever lead at the line. Rogers won his age group yesterday in his 23rd Bix race, BTW. Women's winner Colleen de Reuck took command in a similar fashion, opening an early lead and steadily cranking away to 37:44 (a :41 margin of victory) at the line. She joins Joan Samuelson as the only 4-time winners, male or female. 2nd went to former Big 10 champ Katie McGregor of Michigan in 38:25, followed closely by Libbie Hickman, Cheri Kenah, and Jeanne Hennessy (between 38:43 and 38:55). About a minute back, covering a :40 spread, were Rosa Gutierrez, Monica Hostetler, Nicole Kulikov, Kim Pawelek, and Faith Byrum. The race served as the American 7-mile championship. Prize money was available only to Americans, keeping the usual slew of Africans and other furriners away (leading to considerable controversy in the local media, especially post-9/11). Performances were thus much thinner than in years past, with only two women cracking the all-time top-100 list and only two men in the all-time top-150. If anyone wants more details, feel free to contact me privately. Oh, and list member Ray Cook ran 44:27 despite waiting nearly two minutes to get to the start line in the crowd of 16,158, and weaving through the walk/joggers for the first mile. You're welcome, Ray! -- *** Mike Trujillo, ex-Angeleno [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (563) 391-5448 ***
Re: t-and-f: a WR everybody missed
In a message dated 7/23/02 5:27:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (too bad it didn't get caught for the telecast) El Guerrouj's 2:45.78 at the 1200 point in Monaco is a World Record far as I know for 3 laps. Previous fastest 2:46.10 at Brussels last year. I believe Larry Rawson said during the broadcast that it may have been the fastest 1200 ever run. Of course, it would have been nice to say that it was the fastest ever. Walt Murphy
