October 9, This Day on the Track Valerie Brummel puts ER in HJ (1960), Dina Castor wins LSB Chicago Marathon (2005), Ruth Czepnegetik wins Bank of America Chicago Marathon (2022), Walt Murphy News and by results services.

October 10, 2024

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This day is athletics – October 9 o’clock

1960– 18-year-old Valery Brummel, who won a silver medal at the Rome Olympics at the beginning of the year, raised the European high jump record 7-2 ¼ (2.19) in Lugansk, Ukraine. Brummel won a gold medal at the 1964 Olympics and set six world records between 1961 and 1963 (best 7-5 ¾ (2.28)).

Valery Brumel, Olympic champion, photo from Peoples.Ru

Sports Illustrated Vault (1963 – In his own words).

https://vault.si.com/vault/1963/02/04/the-big-jump-a-siberian-champion-tells-his-story

https://vault.si.com/vault/1969/10/20/you-cant-keep-a-good-high-jumper-down

2005— Dina Castor wins the Women’s race at the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon. It was the first marathon victory of his career, and his time of 2:21:25 was not far off his American record of 2:21:16.

Castor was on his way to improving that AR until he started struggling about 20 miles into the race. Romania’s Constantina Dizzia, the defending champion, began to close the once huge gap with every step, but Castor was able to hold on for a 5-second win, with Dizzia setting a personal best of 2:21:30.

Dina Castor wins in 2005. La Salle Bank at the Chicago Marathon, photo courtesy of LSB Chicago Marathon

“I hurt a lot in the last 5K, but I made it to the finish line. “I’m just now starting to feel OK,” Castor said more than an hour after finishing. “At 20 miles I thought I was starting to feel it, starting to feel the pavement a little bit, the bottoms of my feet were getting a little tender. Four miles in, I thought this is going to be a really long four miles. It was really the last three miles that were the ugliest and I felt really terrible.’ “I had nothing. A glance over my shoulder revealed that the defending champion was closing in fast. Where the hell was the finish line?’

Led by Felix Limo (2:07:02) and Benjamin Mayo (2:07:09), the Kenyans took the top 10 spots in the men’s race.

Top 10:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Chicago_Marathon

https://www.time-to-run.com/marathon/chicago/report-2005-chicago

http://www.yourrun.com/deena-kastor-chicago-marathon.html

Videos (Women)

Features:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCgUl94B7KI

Graduate/Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAd0FsCgvnE

Past winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_of_the_Chicago_Marathon

2022— Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich was the winner of Chicago Marathon 2^th year in a row with a 2:14:18 run, 2^th the fastest time in history (at the time), but fell short of his goal of breaking the world record of 2:14:04. Completion 2^th In 2:18:29 it was Emily Sisson who broke Kira D’Amato’s 9 month old American record of 2:19:12.