Athletic History
This Day in Track & Field, September 7, Luigi Beccali wins 1,500m in inauguaral European Championships (1934), Mary Slaney sets 3000m AR of 8:25.83 (1985)
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This Day in Track & Field, September 4, Gunder Hägg runs 4:04.6 WR (1942) for mile, Valeriy Borzov completes double in Munich (1972), Steve Ovett sets WR 3:30.77 at 1,500m (1983), by Walt Murphy News & Results Services
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This Day in Track & Field, September 3, Jim Lightbody leads US 1-4 in 1,500m in St. Louis (1904), Lasse Viren wins 10,000m Oly Gold in Munich after fall (1972), by Walt Murphy News & Results Services
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This Day in Track & Field, August 19, Albert Hill wins Antwerp Olympic 1,500m (1920), Seb Coe and Renaldo Nehemiah set WRs at Zurich (1981), by Walt Murphy News and Results Services
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This Day in Track & Field, August 18, Paddy Ryan wins hammer throwDoug Brown sets AR in Steeple (1978), by Walt Murphy’s News and Results Services
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This Day in Track & Field, August 16, Charlie Paddock wins 1920 Antwerp 100 meters, Mary Decker sets 800m AR, 1:56.90 (1985), by Walt Murphy News and Results Services
This Day in Track & Field--August 16 1920--Using his patented finish-line leap, American Charley Paddock edged teammate Morris Kirksey to...
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This Day in Track & Field, August 15, Seb Coe breaks Filbert Bayi’s 1,500m WR (1979)! by Walt Murphy News and Results Services
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This Day in Track & Field, August 13, Kip Keino wins double at Commonwealth Games (1966), Tatyana Kazankina (1980), by Walt Murphy News and Results Services
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August 12th, 1975 – The 49th Anniversary Of John Walker’s 3:49.4 World Record Mile Race!!
Jeff Benjamin originally wrote this for the 45th anniversary of the first sub 3:50 mile! Sir John Walker was the...
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This Day in Track & Field, July 30, Emil Zatopek takes London 10,000m (1948), Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz wins Moscow pole vault (1980), by Walt Murphy’s News and Results Services
This Day in Track & Field--July 30 1928—Canada’s Percy Williams took the first half of his sprint double at the Amsterdam...
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