September 22 Bud Held sets AR in Javelin (1956), Earlene Brown AR in Shot (1960), Heike Dreshler in LJ WR (1985), Patti Sue Plummer surprises by winning Mercedes on the Fifth Avenue Mile. (1990), Walt Murphy News and Results

This day in the field of athletics – September 22

1888– George Gray defined 1^St 8 of his previous IAAF world records in the shot put with a winning throw of 43-10 ¾ (13.38) at the NYAC Fall Games in Traverse Island, New York.

Wilson Cowdon set his 4^th (and final) American record 117-9 1/2 (35.90) ​​hammer throw at New City. “Maryland’s Strongest Man” was a two-time US champion in hammer (1883,1886) and 56-pound weight class.

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1956— Bud Held set the last of his six American records in the javelin with a throw of 270-0 (82.30) in Pasadena, California.

AR progress: http://trackfield.brinkster.net/RecProg_AllUSA.asp?RecCode=WR&EventCode=MF8&Gender=M&P=F

Hall of Fame Biography: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/franklin-bud-held

1960–Erlen Brown set his 7^th (and last) American record in the shot put, clearing 54-9 (16.69) in Frankfurt, Germany. Brown had earlier won the bronze medal at the Rome Olympics.

AR progress: http://trackfield.brinkster.net/RecProg_AllUSA.asp?RecCode=WR&EventCode=WF5&Gender=W&P=F

HOF Organic: https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/earlene-brown

1968— East Germany’s Margitta Gummel set a world record 61-11 (18.87) in the women’s shot put at the pre-Olympic meet in Frankfurt. He would take the record to another level the following month with throws of 62-6 ¾ (19.07) and 64-4 (19.61) to win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margitta_Gummel

WR progress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_shot_put_world_record_progression

1983— China’s Jianghua Zhu improved her world record in the high jump to 7-9 ¼ (2.37) 7-9 ¾ (2.38) in Shanghai.

Video:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfNPSqYljK4

WR progress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men’s_high_jump_world_record_progression

1985— East German athletes set 3 world records today in East Berlin.

Ulf Timmermann The throw of 74-2 ½ (22.62) eclipsed the world record of 72-10 ¾ (22.22) set in 1985 by East German Udo Beyer, who finished 2nd.^th here with a throw of 71-9 ½ (21.88).

Sabina Bush won the women’s 400-meter hurdles in 53.55, breaking the world record of 53.58 set by the Soviet Union’s Margarita Ponomareva in 1984.

Using a legal 2.0mpps wind tracking speed, Heike Drechsler Won the women’s long jump with a leap of 24-5 (7.44). The previous mark of 24-4 ½ (7.43) was set by Anișoara Cushmir of Romania in 1983.

WR Progressions (field event conversions are unofficial):

MSP:: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men’s_shot_put_world_record_progression

W400h: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_400_metres_hurdles_world_record_progression

WLJ:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_long_jump_world_record_progression

1990— Great Britain’s Peter Elliott won the Mercedes 5 men’s division^th For mile 3 of the avenue^th cold and rainy New York day for the past 4 years. Her time of 3:47.83 was just shy of Sydney Marie’s course record of 3:47.52.

In the women’s race, Patty Sue Plummer won in 4:16.68 to surpass the CR (4:19.48) set by Romania’s Maritza Puica in 1986. Runner-up Natalya Artyomova (RUS) was also off the previous record with a time of 4:17.49.

Plummer, who had predicted Switzerland’s Sandra Gasser to win, was chuffed to be proven wrong. “I can’t believe I did it,” he said moments after crossing the finish line. (Glaser finished 4^th-4:20.61).

Fred Lebow, president of the New York Road Runners Club, attributes the fast times to the fresh pavement on the 82d-to-62d Street course, a new recycled glass product.

Other Leads (Male) 2. Steve Cram (GBR) 3:48.39, 3. William Tanui (KEN) 3:50.52, 4. Jose Luis Gonzalez (ESP) 3:51.33, 5. Jim Spivey 3:52.04 ) 3:55.49…14. Steve Scott 3:57.16, 15. Said Aouita (MAR) 3:58.42.

New York Times

Winners:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Avenue_Mile

2000— Polish Robert Korzeniowski (1:18:59/Olympic record) won. Men’s 20 kilometer walk on 1^St competition day at the Sydney Olympics. Mexico’s Noah Hernandez (1:19:03) and Russia’s Vladimir Andreev (1:19:27) won silver and bronze. 4:^th the defending champion was Jefferson Perez from Ecuador (1:20:18).

Korzeniowski, the 1996 gold medalist in the 50k, would go on to win that event later in Sydney and for the 3rd time.^thtime: 2004

Mexico’s Bernardo Segura thought he had won the gold medal just before overtaking Korzeniowski as they re-entered the stadium for the finish. However, he had already been disqualified by the officials for numerous violations. It wasn’t until Segura received a congratulatory phone call from Mexico’s president that he learned of his suspension. An appeal by Mexican officials was denied.

Finnish representative Arsi Haryu won Men’s shooting with his 2^th– shot put 69-10 ¼ (21.29). The following 3 places were taken by the American trio: Adam Nelson (69-7 (21.21)), John Godina (69-6 ¾ (21.20)) and Andy Bloom (68-5 ¾ (20.87)).

Results:: https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/olympic-games/27th-olympic-games-6951910

Video M20kW: https://olympics.com/en/video/men-s-20km-race-walk-sydney-2000-great-olympic-moments

Olympia Reports:: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/25/sports/ATH