Let’s greet Quentin Wheeler.
His Franklin Field 400 is post
Was enduring 49 years.
By Elliott Denman
It took only 49 years.
If any performance of the record list is global, national, local, institution – it is its longevity, then 400 meters for 400 meters of barriers to 400 meters on barriers in the Filadelphia franklin field.
Remember Quentin Wheeler.
They do not do not very fierce path and field fans, but I certainly do.
He (how I still predict him) that the long-footed accident from me from me (Tinton falls).
He almost got there.
48.55 came to the NCAA championships in the 1976 NCAA championships, which saw so many other major events staged in the celebration of Philadelphia. Outside of Monmouth, he was able to schedule a scholarship to San Diego State University, which is going to the southern part of America together with the 800-meter-high school team air hafman.
In those 48.55 seconds, the Olympic Games, which leave the summer in Montreal, when they will ever be held at Tinton Fall. (And John Achi-Bouduttutted from the picture of John Achi-Bua.
Path analysts, which were now valued at the top of the New Jersey Wit Montranta, Ohio / Atlanta Movses College. Another horrible candidate who has made Mike shines, Penn Stomach and NY PIONEER Club.
Well, the 1976 Olympic Games showed how close this competition could be close to. Moses won it at 48.30 in the American record. At 48.65, the wheel was highly second. With a gloss with a gloss, the team had the strong US potential to clean 1-2-3 Montreal. Moses drove the wheel with the semifinals from 49.02 to 49.29.
The world of trail and field, of course, knows that Moses passed to Montreal Gold in 47.63 world record. After the boycott of the boycott of 1980, he would earn another Olympic gold in 1984, and in 1988 was a bronze bronze in Seoul.
But Quentin Wheeler’s world-class career was decided by many opportunities. In the Montreal’s final, his early steps were the same. He was struggling and remained from three and four obstacles. Although at midnight he gathered it and came, good, as saying the saying jackets. Alas, he was too late for the podium. Moses (47.63), Shine (48:29) and Soviet star Yevgenavilenenko (49.45).
Wheeler ran a fair omission in 49.88, a fair trivial fourth, which is not close to the field of his franklin.
He will continue to run a global connection, but in 1979 his career, 48:39, just improves only less than 48.55 in Franklin Field.
Wheeler’s story is one of the big major major major major in this sport. He had what it took. He just missed.
If everyone was perfect could he beat Moses in Montreal? Could he lower his career PR among the 47s? He, like Moses, was also the eternal icon on the path and field.
We will never know. The Viller has been reportedly lived in Switzerland for most recent years, building a new life.
But for 49 years, at least that Franklin field had 48.55 records as a memory of how wonderful he was a athlete.
Now, even that has disappeared.
A smashing on Saturday in the Franklin field, the first day of the Grand Slam Track on May 31, May 31, on May 31 of the Franklin, Deleted.
Brazil’s Alison Dos Santos crossed Grand Slam Finish line on 48.11. The American trail Basit was right at 48.25.
A few posts of any description are patient for 49 years. Wherever you can find these days, Quentin Wheeler can say that it was a very good action. Win some, lose some. Life moves.
