Can anyone verify or refute this claim from his Wikipedia page?
"During a charity event in the early 1990s, Holyfield defeated Carl Lewis, the former Olympic sprinting champion, in an 800 metre race."
Can anyone verify or refute this claim from his Wikipedia page?
"During a charity event in the early 1990s, Holyfield defeated Carl Lewis, the former Olympic sprinting champion, in an 800 metre race."
The only refutation is that is was not fo charity, and it was in 1989 but, they have raced a more than once and they each have beaten each other.
Can you imagine that Big MOFO Real Deal chasin' yo skinny ass down da street and being able to run a 2:08 800 meters after competing in other events all day long.
James Lofton 2:03??? Whoa, not bad for a sprinter footballer,
HALF MILE RUN March 24, 1985 Superstars prelim
1. Evander Holyfield 2:10.97
2. Karch Kiraly 2:14.87
3. Greg Foster 2:20.47
4. Mark Breland 2:21.83
5. Steve Lundquist 2:34.80
6. Nelson Vails DQ
HALF MILE RUN April 7, 1985 Superstars Final
1. Karch Kiraly 2:06.56
2. Evander Holyfield 2:14.8e
3. Willie Gault 2:29.9e
4. Mark Clayton 2:49.7e
5. Tony Hill 2:50.3e
HALF MILE RUN March 30, 1986 Superstars Prelim
1. James Lofton 2:07.82
2. Carl Lewis 2:10.73
3. Herschel Walker 2:15.0e
4. Roger Craig 2:27.43
5. Billy Blanks 2:30.7e
HALF MILE RUN April 20, 1986 Superstars Final
1. James Lofton 2:03.83
2. Carl Lewis 2:16.95
3. Willie Gault 2:17.0e
4. Renaldo Nehimiah 2:18.3e
5. Dusty Dvorak 2:18.4e
HALF MILE RUN April 16, 1989 Superstars Prelim
1. Evander Holyfield 2:09.88
2. Karch Kiraly 2:11.7e
3. Carl Lewis 2:24.3e
4. Gerald Young N/A
5. John Franco 2:48.00
HALF MILE RUN April 23,1989 Superstars Final
1. Willie Gault 2:10.64
2. Carl Lewis 2:12.5e
3. Tim Brown 2:14.8e
4. Evander Holyfield 2:15.6e
5. Karch Kiraly 2:26.0e
HALF MILE RUN April 15, 1990 Supestars Prelim
1. Roger Kingdom 2:16.06
2. Evander Holyfield 2:23.6e
3. Andre Ware 2:25.8e
4. Ellis Burks N/A
5. Greg Louganis 2:47.4e
6. Pedro Guerrero dnf
Not bad by Karch Kiraly (volleyball player) either.
Further evidence that sprinters don't just move up to the 800M and automatically run 1:4x. The 800M is a totally different race.
Superstars is the best competition ever. How many of us haven't built our own obstacle courses? I saw Allen Johnson lose the 800m a few years back, very disappointing.