Title: TINA CONNELLY AND MINDY LEFFLER SET COURSE RECORDS
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TINA CONNELLY AND MINDY
LEFFLER SET COURSE RECORDS AND THREE-PEAT AT THE SEATTLE
OPEN CROSS COUNTRY CLASSIC
(Seattle, WA, 3 FEB 2001) Under perfect conditions, Canadian
Olympian Tina Connelly of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
and
Further to the reference in digest 3415 re the
first mention of a four-minute mile, George Smith's 1955 book "All out for the
mile" quotes (on page 50) Jesse Abramson, writing in the "New York Herald
Tribune" in 1933 after Jack Lovelock had just run a WR 4:07.6 - "It was all so
easily
Y ask Y:
While waiting to time a friend at the 200 mark of 400 at the Long Beach State
(Calif.) all-comers meet Saturday (2/3/2001), I read off splits for runners
in the first heat. I was shocked to find myself saying: "21, 22, ..." as one
guy flashed by. Mystery was soon resolved. PA lady
A tidbit of Race Walk news that might interest list members. All the
runners should not the Bill Rodgers part at the end.
Enjoy,
MJR
Hi All:
Through some happy circumstances and chance meetings, Michael Arnold a
producer for ESPN-2 has agreed to cover the 15k National racewalk for a
5 minute
SPARKASSEN CUP
Stuttgart, Germany
4 February 2001
(all GER except as noted)
MEN
60 METERS: Final: 1. C Williams (JAM) 6.63; 2. Aliu (NGR) 6.64; 3.
Goebel 6.69; 4. Mitchell (USA) 6.70; 5.
There was it was on replay Diamond Vision for all in Stuttgart's Schleyer
Halle to see again and again. Kofi Prah, charging down the long jump
runway, eyes on the tartan, totally unaware of a 95-pound blonde walking
into his path.
Wham! Full force into Gabriela Szabo, who was leaving the track
With six national records bettered in this indoor season (and Stacy
Dragila's new world record at the Millrose Games), let me update the
national records list. I have included the one instance of a record being
equaled by a second athlete, but not second performances by the same
athlete:
MEN'S TEAM SCORES: 1. P S U, 158; 2. Princeton, 111; 3. Connecticut, 90.
Complete results of Saturday's triangular meet held at University Park may
be found here:
http://www.psu.edu/sports/indtrack/men/2001/psu_prin_uconn.html
Good head to head competition with the best marks coming in the
Selected results from the Mountain States Games,
Pocatello, ID USA Feb 2-3, 2001
Men's High Jump:
Charles Clinger (Weber State) 7-6 1/4
(2.29m)
Men's Shot Put
Jim Roberts (BYU) 66-10 (20.37m)
Full results at:
http://www.isu.edu/athletic/trxnewsresults.htm
Scott Daily
