To indicate the 80th anniversary TimeWe look back at the most memorable sports events, from the post-war age during the first few years of the magazine’s life
Wooderson Rehabilitation Force
The achievements of Sydney’s Woodson Athletics were massive, but for World War II, it is very likely that in 1940 and 1944 he would win Olympic gold. He might even be the first to break four minutes for a mile.
1938 The European Champion of Armenia became an Olympic Olympic, who represented Britain in 1936 in Berlin, but was wounded before the games and could not even finish her warmth. He made world records in 1937, 1938 and 1939 miles (4: 06.4), half a miles (1: 48.4), 800 m (1: 48.4).
The best remembered performance of Harrier’s Blackheath came from August 1945, when the famous public entered the White City Stadium in London to watch the man recently restored from the rheumatic fever. In front of a crowd that contained a teenagers Roger Bannister, Woodgerson improved its miles of the British and Cooperation Record 4. For 04.2.
He moved from afar and won 5,000 million gold at the Oslo European Championships. Her hour. The time of 08.6 was 23 seconds the second fastest in British records and history.
Skin-Cohen gloss
The British athletes’ team manager Jack Kram was released, that he was “too old to make the class.” The letters he received, emphasizing that “the housewife, not to work in the stadium, should be prioritized. Fanny Blankers Koen arrived at the 1948 Olympics in London to prove.
The 30-year-old mother of the two events has already created a history of the creation of two. This was an era when it was not considered something done to make women engage in serious sports competition. Actions have been considered as too masculine, female body is also fragile to make such an enterprise.
Of the 4073 participants in London, only 393 were women, and there are only nine ways and field events in which they could compete.
The woman was almost unhearded after becoming a mother again, and it is clear that very stereotypes are ready to be completely, a number of obstacles that need to be overcome.
Skin-Ken finally understood “wisdom” on his head, not one gold medal, but four. During the seven remarkable days, he stood at the Wembley Stadium for winning 100m and 80 m transparents, 200 m and 4×100 m relays.
“I was very old.” He said. “I would show them.”
The list is the first of Jamaica
Taking into account the Flood of Ama Monastic Success over the years, it is difficult to imagine a time when the nation had no Olympic champion. It was not Arthur, who rolled the ball, becoming the first. Winning 800 m in central American games in 1938, his sports career was stopped by the war, during which he served actively fighting the royal air force.
The London Olympics were Jamaican competing as an independent nation and 400 m away, beating his team’s friend’s herb, and saw that he was written by a very special piece of history.
McKenley Great
He may have lost the glory of his Olympic glory in London, but in 1947 and 1948, Herb McKenley set a world record three times in one arm (400 m / 440yds). He was the first athlete, 400 meters per 400 m, 45.9 in Milwaukee in the lead London Games. He is the only man who reached the Olympic 100 m, 200 m and 400 m final.
Gaston goes to it
The Gaston’s Reiff was the first Belgian who won the Olympic path and the golden gold when he was offended by Emil Zatopek in the 1948 games. A year later, he reached another one, however, becoming the first athlete to take eight minutes for 3,000 m, running 7. 58.8 and darkened 19. The World Record of 01.2 was 1942
Do you know?
Starting blocks first appeared at the Olympic Games, 1948. For the first time. Competitors had previously had to dug the basket in a dirty track.
See: Aug Issue of AW magazine In the 80ths of Athletics for our complete feature.
