Who are some names of least known great distance runners?

Living in the Past wrote:

No one has mentioned Steve Moneghetti. Monaghetti ran the Berlin marathon in 2:08:16 and finished fourth in the 1989 World Cross Country Championship.

Steve was very well known.

Some guy named Steele from England promptly ran 1:43 in the early 90s and was never heard of again. Anyone?

Steve Crabb. Poor guy. Named very similarly to that other fellow. He ran 3:33 I think!

Martin Steele - just one of many good middle distance guys in Brtain during the 80s and early 90s. He had his 'moment of glory' winning in Oslo in 93 in 1:43.84 and still fouth on the UK all-time list. Often used to front-run I recall.

Steve Crabb is 8th on the UK all-time list at 1500m (3:33.34). He worked full-time for British Gas and was by all accounts by a really nice guy - I recall hearing that he once turned down some sponsorship because he said he didn't need it and that it should go to another runner that would benefit from it more. He ran in the 88 Olympics - not sure about any other major champs. Other PBs - 400m 48.2, 800m 1:45.69, 1M 3:51.76, 3000m 7:52.98.

John Farrington

Pat Carroll

Shaun Creighton

Darren Wilson

Dave Fitzsimons

Bill Scott

Steve Austin

Gerard Barrett

Mike Hillardt

Simon Doyle

Kerry O'Brien

Dave Power

Albie Thomas

Merv Lincoln

Al Lawrence

Graham Crouch

Ralph Doubell

Peter Bourke

Jenny Orr

Charlene Rendina

Marg Crowley

Living in the Past wrote:

Anyone remember Tommy Fulton of Texas Southern? He had an amazing ability to recover from races. He would run three events at one meet. The 880, the mile, and the three mile. He was ranked in the top 10 in the US for the 880 and the mile in 73-74..

I believe that Fulton completed the quadruple in the NAIA championships. Should you think that he didn't have any competition, one of the guys he defeated was Mike boit.

Fulton was the third afican-american to break 4:00. Can you name the other two?

malmo wrote:

Fulton was the third afican-american to break 4:00. Can you name the other two?

Hint for the first african american to break 4:00: His son is a sophomore running back at the University of Florida.

I would guess Reggie McAfee is the second.

Living in the Past wrote:

I would guess Reggie McAfee is the second.

Yup. You finessed the trick question well.

malmo wrote:

Fulton was the third afican-american to break 4:00. Can you name the other two?

Besides McAfee, Denis Fikes? I thought it might be Lou Scott but he ran about 4:04.

There are two sophomore running backs this year for the Gators. Markus Manson and Kestahn Moore.

http://www.gatorzone.com/football/bios.php

No American with the last name of Manson or Moore has ever run a mile under four minutes.

Fikes, for sure - 3:55, right?

Other "unknowns":

Steve Stageberg (spelling is hosed)

Alvaro Mejia (something like that, won Boston by beating...)

Pat Macmahon

Ron Wayne

Gred Fredricks

Len Hilton

Lachie Stewart

Dave Patrick

Living in the Past wrote:

There are two sophomore running backs this year for the Gators. Markus Manson and Kestahn Moore.

Mejia is a great name to come up with. He had a factory job while training for Boston in 1971. It required a lot of physical exertion as I recall. He ran 2:18 to beat Pat McMahon in a close race. He also finished third in the Pan American Games 10k later that year. Shorter won that race as well as the marathon.

Stageberg has already been discussed. Same with Len Hilton.

OK. That's a different roster. I see that there is a Byron Dyce II. But Byron Dyce was from Jamaica, although he may be a US citizen now. Among other things, he was the NCAA champion at 880 in 1969 and was the rabbit in the Mile of the Century.

So Reggie McAfee was the first African American to break four minutes for the mile.

Living in the Past wrote:

OK. That's a different roster. I see that there is a Byron Dyce II. But Byron Dyce was from Jamaica, although he may be a US citizen now. Among other things, he was the NCAA champion at 880 in 1969 and was the rabbit in the Mile of the Century.

So Reggie McAfee was the first African American to break four minutes for the mile.

Bryon Dyce was ALWAYS an American citizen. Dyce was the first African American to break 4:00. McAfee was second, Fulton third, and Fikes 4th.

malmo wrote:

Bryon Dyce was ALWAYS an American citizen. Dyce was the first African American to break 4:00. McAfee was second, Fulton third, and Fikes 4th.

Byron and Trevor ran the 4x400 for Jamacia in the OG.Duel citizenship I understand but when were they ran for jamacia that set the copmeted for another nation clock didn't it??

Then why did he run for Jamaica in the 1968 and 1972 Olympics?

He finished third in the AAU 800 championship behind Wade Bell and Mark Winzenried and is listed as a Jamaican.

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/tfn/archive/results.jsp?sex=M&disciplineId=5&id=1

If he was a dual citizen, I could see why he'd try out for the Jamaican team. But he's often listed as a Jamaican in championship races in the US.

So Malmo, how did Dyce acquire dual citizenship such that he was "always an American?"

Byron Dyce became a US citizen at age five, when his parents were naturalized. So Malmo is right.

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