This Day in Observe & Discipline–Might 14
1881–Lehigh defeated Lafayette of their first twin meet.
From Wikipedia: “The primary joint athletic observe and subject occasion held between the 2 establishments was on Might 14, 1881 on the grounds of the Lehigh College Athletic Affiliation. The meet consisted of fourteen occasions; Hundred Yards Sprint, Half-Mile Run, Throwing the Hammer, Working Excessive Bounce, 440 Yards Sprint, Mile Stroll, Placing the Shot, Working Broad Bounce, 220 Yards Sprint, Mile Run, Pole Vaulting, 120 Yards Hurdle Race, Bicycle Race, Standing Excessive Bounce, and Tug of Conflict. Lehigh emerged with a decisive victory successful ten of the fourteen occasions.
As an indication of the extreme rivalry that might develop between these two faculties, an article in Lafayette’s scholar newspaper, the Lafayette Faculty Journal, referred to as the loss a “defeat in our latest contest with Lehigh College, -a defeat, too, doubly humiliating, coming, because it did, from an adversary in each different respect our inferior.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rivalry_(Lehigh-Lafayette)
1885/1887—Penn’s Billy Web page turned the first American to prime the 6-foot barrier within the Excessive Bounce, clearing 6-1/4 (1.835) in Philadelphia. On the identical date two years later, he cleared 6-1(1.855), additionally in Philadelphia. He set a complete of 8 American Information within the pre-AAU period and received 3 IC4A and three U.S. titles (1885-1887).
1910—Harvard beat Yale, 52 ½-51 ½, on its residence observe as D. P. Ranney beat F. A. Reilly by inches to get 2nd place within the ultimate race of the day, the 220y, to win the meet for the Crimson.
1966—19-year previous Bob Seagren set the primary of his 4 World Information (and the primary of his 7 American Information) within the Pole Vault, clearing 17-5 ½ (5.32) on the West Coast Relays in Fresno,CA. Fred Hansen set the earlier document of 17-4 in 1964 (ratified as 5.28/17-3 3/4).
Seagren went on to have a Corridor-of-Fame profession that included a gold medal on the 1968 Olympics.
WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menpercent27s_pole_vault_world_record_progression
https://www.usatf.org/athlete-bios/bob-seagren
https://vault.si.com/vault/2001/04/23/bob-seagren-pole-vaulter-february-20-1967
1966—Washington State sophomore Gerry Lindgren ran 12:53.0 for 3-miles in Seattle to smash his personal American File of 13:04.2, which was set in 1965.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Lindgren
1967—Germany’s Kurt Bendlin scored 8319 factors (8235-new tables) in Heidelberg to interrupt Russ Hodge’s World File of 8230 (8120). He would win the bronze medal on the 1968 Olympics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Bendlin
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/70151
WR Development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decathlon_world_record_progression
1977-Jan Merrill ran 4:30.98 at West Level to interrupt Francie Larrieu’s American File (4:31.69) within the mile. Merrill-Morin was a finalist (eighth) within the 1500-meters on the 1976 Olympics.
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/77915
1993—Tennessee freshman Lawrence Johnson, who would turn into higher identified for his exploits within the Pole Vault, received the Decathlon on the SEC Championships at his residence facility in Knoxville. His rating of 7576 nonetheless has him in fifth place on the All-Time U.S. Junior/Below-20 listing.
“LoJo” went on to win gold within the Vault on the 2001 World Indoor Championships and silver on the 2000 Olympics and 1997 World Indoor Championships, and held the Collegiate File of 19-7 ½(5.98) from 1996 till LSU freshman Mondo Duplantis cleared 19-8 ¼ (6.00) on the 2019 SEC Championships.
2006— UCLA senior Chelsea Johnson received the Pole Vault on the PAC-10 Championships in Eugene,OR, with a clearance of 15-1 (4.60) to interrupt the Collegiate File of 15-1/4 (4.58), which was set by Florida State’s Lacy Janson earlier within the 12 months. Janson would beat Johnson to win the NCAA title in June.
2010—The IAAF Diamond League made its debut in Doha, Qatar. Among the many winners:
Males
100-Asafa Powell (JAM) 9.81w
800-David Rudisha (KEN) 1:43.00
5000-Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) 12:51.21
400 Hurdles-Bershawn Jackson (USA) 48.66
Shot Put-Christian Cantwell (USA) 71-7 ¼ (21.82)
Ladies
400-Allyson Felix (USA) 50.15
1500-Nancy Langat (KEN) 4:01.63
100 Hurdles-Lolo Jones (USA) 12.63w
Excessive Bounce-1.Blanka Vlašić (CRO) 6-6 (1.98), 2. Chaunté Lowe (USA) 6-6 (1.98)
Outcomes: https://doha.diamondleague.com/programme-results/results-archive/
Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aJUjXtghc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_IAAF_Diamond_League
2011—Arkansas’ Tina Šutej, a Junior from Slovenia, set a Collegiate (and Nationwide) File of 15-1 ½ (4.61) within the Pole Vault on the SEC Championships in Athens,GA. UCLA’s Chelsea Johnson set the earlier mark of 15-1 (4.60) 5 years earlier on this identical date(2006).
2011—Oregon freshman English Gardner received the 100 on the PAC-10 Championships in 11.03 to set an American Junior/Below-20 File (now #9).
2012—Columbia’s Kyle Merber ran 3:35.59 at Swarthmore Faculty to set an American Collegiate File for 1500-meters (since damaged). It was the quickest time run by a collegian since Villanova’s Sydney Maree (South Africa) set the general CR of three:35.30 in 1981. The holder of each information is now Villanova’s Liam Murphy (3:33.02/2025).
Merber has contributed to a few World Relay Information:
4×800(i)-7:11.30 NJ*NY TC 2017 Boston College
(Joe McAsey 1:49.1, Kyle Merber 1:47.1, Chris Giesting 1:47.4, Jesse Garn 1:47.7)
4xmile(i)-16:12.81 NJ*NY TC 2017 NY’s Armory (since damaged)
(Donn Cabral 4:05.0, Ford Palmer 3:59.9, Graham Crawford 4:08.6, Kyle Merber 3:59.3)
Distance Medley-9:15.50 USA (2015 World Relays)
(Kyle Merber 2:53.6, Brycen Spratling 46.0, Brandon Johnson 1:44.7, Ben Blankenship 3:51.2)
Now retired from competitors, he spent the previous few years publishing The Lap Depend, and now he’s on the workers of Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Observe!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Merber
https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/kyle-merber-246990
2022—Senior Gary Martin (Archbishop Wooden,PA) received the Mile in 3:57.98 on the Philadelphia Catholic League Championships. That’s the quickest mile ever run in a excessive school-only race, bettering the earlier greatest of three:58.3 that Jim Ryun ran on the 1965 Kansas state meet.
“I believe it’s loopy to have a look at the corporate I’m in,” Martin mentioned after the meet of one of the best American highschool milers. “It’s been such an enormous bounce for me. Simply to know the fellows I’m surrounded with like Jim Ryun, Alan Webb and clearly final 12 months Hobbs Kessler ran 3:57 indoors, it’s some unbelievable firm to be in.
“I don’t suppose it’s but to set in. I’ve been operating round all day so I actually haven’t had any time to sit down with it and let it sink in. I believe that can most likely come tomorrow. Once I actually sit down and simply give it some thought, it is going to be a extremely massive deal.”
He would enhance to three:57.89 later within the season and ran an excellent 3:48.82 this previous indoor season (2025) as a Virginia Junior.
Learn extra at:
https://pa.milesplit.com/articles/314588/the-new-standard-in-hs-only-mile-competition#.YoEdWYweuN4.twitter
All-Time Prime-10 Perfomers (From T&F Information)
3:53.43 Alan Webb (South Lakes, Reston, Virginia) 2001
3:55.3h Jim Ryun (East, Wichita, Kansas) 1965
3:56.24 Colin Sahlman (Newbury Park, California) 2022
3:56.66 Owen Powell (Mercer Island, Washington) 2025
3:57.47 Josiah Tostenson (Crater, Central Level, Oregon) 2025
3:57.53 Simeon Birnbaum (Stevens, Speedy Metropolis, South Dakota) 2023
3:57.66i Hobbs Kessler (Skyline, Ann Arbor, Michigan) 2021
3:57.72 Drew Griffith (Butler, Pennsylvania) 2024
3:57.81i Drew Hunter (Loudoun Valley, Purcellville, Virginia) 2016
3:57.89 Gary Martin (Wooden, Warminster, Pennsylvaia) 2022
2023—A Texas lineup of Julien Alfred, Ezzine Abba, Rahsidat Adeleke, and Kevona Davis set a Collegiate File of 41.89 within the Ladies’s 4×100 on the Huge-12 Championships in Norman, Oklahoma. The identical foursome set the earlier document of 42.00 earlier within the season. They’d enhance to 41.55 the next month on their residence observe on the NCAA Championships. Solely nationwide groups from the U.S., Jamaica, East Germany, and Russia have ever run quicker!
