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Today at the Races – September 24
1932— Czech František Duda, who earlier won a bronze medal at the Los Angeles Olympics, regained the world record in the shot put with a winning throw of 53:1 ¾ (16.20) in Prague. Duda set his first WR at 52-7 ½ (16.04) in 1931, only to be broken by Poland’s Zygmont Helias in June 1932 (52-8 (16.05)). American Leo Sexton then broke the record with 53-1/4 (16.16) a month after winning the gold medal in Los Angeles.
WR progress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men’s_shot_put_world_record_progression
Duda, photo by olympijskytym.cz
1972— Bulgaria’s Yordanka Blagoeva cleared 6-4 ¼ (1.94) in the high jump in Zagreb, breaking the world record of 6-3 ½ (1.92) set by West Germany’s Ulrike Meiphart at the Munich Olympics earlier this month. Blagoeva won a silver medal after Meyfarth and would win a bronze medal 4 years later in Montreal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yordanka_Blagoeva
WR Progression (conversions are unofficial): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_high_jump_world_record_progression
1988– Just like a year ago at the World Championships in Rome, Canadian Ben Johnson beat Carl Lewis and set a world record. Men’s 100 metersRunning 9.79 to win Olympic gold in Seoul. That would all change a few days later, of course, after Johnson tested positive for steroids. Lewis won the gold medal and his 9.92 was recognized as a world record. Britain’s Linford Christie (9.97) and American Calvin Smith (9.99) won silver and bronze.
In 1984, silver medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersey set the 4thth and his final career world record of 7,291 points to win Heptathlon by nearly 400 points to East Germany’s Sabina John (6,897) and Anke Behmer (6,858). JJK would win 2th gold five days later in the long jump.
JJK signs12.69, 1.86/6-1 ¼, 15.80/51-10, 22.56, 7.27/23-10 ¼, 45.66/149-10, 2:08.51
the first two rounds Women’s 100 were held on this day. All eyes were on world record holder Florence Griffith-Joyner and she didn’t disappoint, setting an Olympic record of 10.88 in her heat, a time matched by US teammate Evelyn Ashford in her quarter-final race.
Ashford didn’t have long to enjoy his status as a Pan-Olympic record holder as Flo-Jo ran an amazing 10.62 in the next race. That’s still the 6th fastest legal time in history (although some believe his world record of 10.49 should be considered wind-aided).
Bulgarian Hristo Markov won Men’s triple jump With an Olympic record jump of 57-9 ½ (17.61). Soviet Igor Lapshin (57-5 ¾ (17.52)), Alexander Kovalenko (57-2 (17.42)) and Oleg Protsenko (57-1/4 (17, 38)). Americans Charlie Simpkins (56-8 ¾ (17.29)} and Willie Banks (55-10 ½ (17.03)}, who set the world record 58-11 ½ (17.97) three years ago), finished 5th position.th and 6threspectively.
Medal Winners/Results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1988_Summer_Olympics
Sports Illustrated Archive
Destroyed. https://vault.si.com/vault/1988/10/03/the-loser
Retrospective (Johnson-2008). https://vault.si.com/vault/2008/07/14/ben-johnson
Story Behind SI Cover Photo (Johnson):
https://deadspin.com/the-story-behind-the-iconic-photos-of-the-olympics-dirt-1797061106
Videos:
M100:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTM_mvA4kas
Heptathlon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z-QfDiV2XA
“Olympedia Reports”.: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/22/sports/ATH
2000— Great Britain’s Denise Lewis, bronze medalist in Atlanta in 1996, won Heptathlon 6584 points in wet and windy conditions at the Sydney Olympics. Russian Elena Prokhorova (6531) overtook Belarusian Natalya Sazanovich (6527) in the final round of 800 meters and won a silver medal.
Both potential medalists have been hampered by injuries. Syria’s Gada Shuaa, the defending champion, failed to finish the first race, the 100m hurdles, and France’s Eunice Barber, who was eliminated after a poor effort in the long jump.
Japan’s Naoko Takahashi held off Romania’s Lidia Timon (2:23:22) late in the race for the win. Women’s marathon in an Olympic record time of 2:23:14. Completion 3th was Kenyan Joyce Chepchumba (2:24:45).
As soon as it started to rain heavily, Men’s high jump Russia the winner Sergey Klugin 7-8 ½ (2.35) on his 1st cleanSt attempt and the other 6 jumpers who cleared 7-7 ¼ (2.32) missed on all 3 of their attempts. 1992 champion Javier Sotomayor of Cuba and Abderrahmane Hamad of Algeria won the silver and bronze medals. The current champion, the American Charles Austin, could not get out of the qualifying round.
The medal winners Men’s hammer throw Polish Szymon Ziolkowski (262-6 (80.02)), Italian Nicola Vizone.
(261-3 (79.64)) and Belarus’ Igor Astapkovich (259-9 (79.17)), who edged out teammate Ivan Tikhon on a 2-best basis.thto throw
Bulgarian Teresa Marinova won (49-10 ½ (15.20)). Women’s triple jump in windy and wet conditions over Russia’s Tatiana Lebedeva (49-2 ½ (15.00)) and Ukraine’s Elena Govorova (49-1 (14.96)).
The U.S. was out of the medals in five finals on the day.
Medal winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics
Results:: https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/olympic-games/27th-olympic-games-6951910
“Olympedia Reports”.: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/25/sports/ATH
Video (marathon). https://olympics.com/en/video/women-s-marathon-sydney-2000-great-olympic-moments
in 2023–Ethiopian Tigist Assefa won the Berlin Marathon for the 2nd timeth year in a row, running 2:11:53 to smash the previous one
World record: 2:14:04, set by Kenyan Brigid Kosgei in 2019.
Like many other recent record holders, he was reportedly wearing a pair of (adidas) “supershoes” (See Guardian).
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There was no record this time for Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge (2:02:42), but he won for the fifth time, breaking a tie with Ethiopia.
Haile Gebrselassie for most wins in race history. Kipchoge had set the last two men’s world records
winning in 2018 (2:01:39) and 2022 (2:01:09).
American Scott Foble, who wanted to reach the Olympic qualifying standard of 2:08:10, could not finish the race.
race
Top 10:: https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/berlin-marathon-results-2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Jn3I2c5eA
An interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC9qR9FD6e0
https://worldathletics.org/news/report/tigst-assefa-world-marathon-record-berlin-kipchoge-2023
WR progress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_world_record_progression
Past winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Marathon
More about Asefa:
Competed in the 800 meters at the 2016 World Indoor Championships and the 2016 Olympics. His race was in Rio
last time on the track due to an ongoing Achilles injury, sat out 2017 to recover from the injury, then switched to running.
roads in 2018. Did not compete in 2020-2021 due to the pandemic, then ran his first marathon in 2022. He ran
2:34:01 in March, when he was 17 pounds over his normal running weight (“he needed a paycheck”), then
won in Berlin in September with a time of 2:15:37.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigist_Assefa
His story: https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a41430669/who-is-tigist-assefa-berlin-marathon-winner/
