Who were the men holding these WRs on 1 Jan 1960?
only hand timing in effect
10.1-willie williams,ira murchison,lemon kingx2,ray norton
13.2h
20.6
45.2
49.2h
1:45.7
3:36.0
3:54.5
8:32.0h
13:35.0
28:30.4
2:15:17
giving you a headstart I'll fill in the 100m
50 year old trivia
edit function seems to be shut off for the holidays ;{
Right up the alley of a true TRACK AND FIELD fan:
110 HH Martin Lauer
400 Lou Jones
400 H Glenn Davis
800 Roger Moens
1500 and Mile Herb Elliott
3 SC Jerzy Chromik
5K and 10 K Vladimir Kuts
not positive on the 20.6 however so I won't guess
just finished looking it up and you are correct sir!
trailrunner67 wrote:
Right up the alley of a true TRACK AND FIELD fan:
110 HH Martin Lauer
400 Lou Jones
400 H Glenn Davis
800 Roger Moens
1500 and Mile Herb Elliott
3 SC Jerzy Chromik
5K and 10 K Vladimir Kuts
not positive on the 20.6 however so I won't guess
Is the marathon Buddy Edelen?
thanku WinoTurtle for the list wrote:
Who were the men holding these WRs on 1 Jan 1960?
only hand timing in effect
10.1-willie williams,ira murchison,lemon kingx2,ray norton
13.2h
20.6
45.2
49.2h
1:45.7
3:36.0
3:54.5
8:32.0h
13:35.0
28:30.4
2:15:17
Some guesses
20.6 Ray Norton or maybe Bobbie Morrow
2;15,17 Poppv of Russdia
giving you a headstart I'll fill in the 100m
Leonard E. did not get his 2:14:28 WR till 1963
Popov it is!
Norton- no
Morrow- yes
still looking for more 200guys
thanku WinoTurtle for the list wrote:
Leonard E. did not get his 2:14:28 WR till 1963
Popov it is!
Norton- no
Morrow- yes
still looking for more 200guys
There was no official wr for 200 or 220 on the turn until the 50's as it was most often run on the straight especially here in the US. But I think that maybe Andy Stanfield got the first credit for a 20.6.
A few others maybe besides Morrow, then I remember Brit Peter Radford had a 20.5, maybe the first one.
Radford was first at 20.5 on 1960-05-28
Stanfield first ran 20.6 on 1951-04-26
Two more runners =WR at 20.6 prior to 1960
IAAF dropped the 200/220 straight WR in 1951 chosing to only verify the curve race.
I ran straight 220yds as late as 1963. By 1963 in NYC only VCP track and Downing Stadium still had their 220 straight chutes lined for races and both were cinder. I even ran a oneturn 440 out of the Downing chute.
BTW I posted the 200 guys on the TT.net thread yesterday.
nobody out there cares/knows as much as guys like you and me wino. I looked the last two up. Both biggies.
Hints.... both Caucasian, one US, one Euro
200 - Dave Sime (Duke) and Livio Biruiti (Italia) ?
It's Wino's job to reply but I'm here so why not. These two are very good guesses but are incorrect. Sime had a straightaway 220y WR of 20.0 in 1956, and Berruti had two 20.5 200m WR's at the 1960 OG's. But neither had a 20.6 turn wr.
Livio Berruti of the darksunglass Berruti's. One of my favorite runners ever.
Pretty neat Winning an OG Gold when your country is host nation and =ing a WR twice in the same day-----
but that was 1960 and out of frame for the question.
Sime was on a baseball scholarship at Duke while he played for the football and ran for the track team!!
He never held a meters WR.
tr67 answer anything you want no need to defer to me, the thread should promote conversation not stiffle it.