A look back at five American athletes

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Julie Brown was not the first US World Champion in XC. Doris Brown won five titles starting in the late '60s.

If You don't recognize Foltz then the phrase legendary runners might be a clue.

We get it, Kyle. Things were better before the blacks figured out how easy it was to beat us.

I bet Trump retweeted the heck out of this whitewashed BS.

Phlogiston Cowboy wrote:

Julie Brown was not the first US World Champion in XC. Doris Brown won five titles starting in the late '60s.

Sorry for the error, it should have specified that she was the first IAAF World XC Champion. I will make the correction to the editor.

Thanks for sharing and have received multiple messages from various

Marc Blooms book Run With Champions is a good overview of last century US distance running greats. Bios for 20 plus lists for another 30.

Kyle Merber wrote:

Phlogiston Cowboy wrote:

Julie Brown was not the first US World Champion in XC. Doris Brown won five titles starting in the late '60s.

Sorry for the error, it should have specified that she was the first IAAF World XC Champion. I will make the correction to the editor.

Thanks for sharing and have received multiple messages from various

...runners under the age of 30 about how they had never heard of these athletes before.

Hellooooo are you a Millenial? wrote:

If You don't recognize Foltz then the phrase legendary runners might be a clue.

Fultz is a one hit wonder.

If you are going to go with unknown Boston Marathon Champions on hot days I'd go with Fultz's contemporary Jon Anderson. In 1973 Jon upset the field on a warm day by winning Boston in 2:16.

The previous year Jon, the son of Eugene's mayor, made the Olympic 10k team on a very hot day, in front of a wild hometown crowd. This was a result that no one, including Jon, expected.

Hot weather suited Jon, having also won the Honolulu Marathon in the early 1980s.

I'd say letsrun should hire you but that was too well written.

I also say real track nerds don't focus on Americans.

Bad Wigins wrote:

I'd say letsrun should hire you but that was too well written.

"his cousin recently got a beer with the '52 Olympic Champion not too long ago."

You don't need both "recently" and "not too long ago," so get rid of one of 'em.

Most of us would kill to have been the kind of one hit wonder Jack was. But before you hang that label on him, I hope you know that he came back a couple years later and ran 2:11. Also, as an east coast guy, Jack wasn't in a position to get into the big track races, which were all on the west coast then, that probably would have lead to a few hits at shorter distances. You probably could make a similar comment about Amby Burfoot. But no argument about Jon Anderson. He could have been included in that list but such a list would be massive if you put in everyone who could qualify.

Amby was not a one hit wonder. In Japan, he came within one second of the American record in the marathon.

Needs an editor wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

I'd say letsrun should hire you but that was too well written.

"his cousin recently got a beer with the '52 Olympic Champion not too long ago."

You don't need both "recently" and "not too long ago," so get rid of one of 'em.

Hemmingway would pummel me over such a sentence. My apologies.

I asked around to a few (older) friends for some forgotten performances that I may have...forgotten. A second article can and most likely will be done eventually.

Anyways, here is another article that I wrote that probably has errors in it:

I liked the article and hope you do some more. One reason I like LRC, is that every once in a while someone will bring up a past great and I get to appreciate the performances of someone I had not formerly heard of.

I really appreciated the article and found it to be a good read. Thanks for writing it, and congrats on a successful season!

Well Hello There wrote:

Amby was not a one hit wonder. In Japan, he came within one second of the American record in the marathon.

And by that standard neither was Jack.

Hellooooo are you a Millenial? wrote:

If You don't recognize Foltz then the phrase legendary runners might be a clue.

If you don't recognize Foltz, then the name "Fultz" might help you.

Not impressed wrote:

Hellooooo are you a Millenial? wrote:

If You don't recognize Foltz then the phrase legendary runners might be a clue.

Fultz is a one hit wonder.

If you are going to go with unknown Boston Marathon Champions on hot days I'd go with Fultz's contemporary Jon Anderson. In 1973 Jon upset the field on a warm day by winning Boston in 2:16.

The previous year Jon, the son of Eugene's mayor, made the Olympic 10k team on a very hot day, in front of a wild hometown crowd. This was a result that no one, including Jon, expected.

Hot weather suited Jon, having also won the Honolulu Marathon in the early 1980s.

Except that Fultz ran 2:11 two years later (at Boston) at a time when only three men had run under 2:10 (one was Rodgers on this NRE course). This would be like running 2:06:XX now.

Also, Jon Anderson considered himself more of a track runner but also placed 4th in Fukuoka the year that he won Boston. He later ran at the WCCC and won the Sydney marathon in 2:13 after placing 5th at Beppu-Oita earlier that year in 2:13, 11 years after winning Boston. Not a one-hit wonder.