Previous Olympic Trials Results...

5000 Meters - June 29, 18.35 Hr

1. Matt Centrowitz (Or) 13:30.62

2. Dick Buerkle (NYAC) 13:31.90

3. Bill McChesney (Or) 13:34.42

4. Jerald Jones (SMTC) 13:34.71

5. Don Clary (Or) 13:38.48

6. Dan Dillon (GBTC) 13:41.58

7. Steve Ortiz (UCLA) 14:14.01

8. Doug Padilla (BYU) 14:19.80

9. Marty Liquori (AA) 14:22.0, Paul Geis (AW), Rudy Chapa (Or TC), Duncan MacDonald (West Valley TC) - Dnf

Heats - first 6 qualify, June 27, 17.50 Hr

1/ 1. Buerkle 13:40.77, 2. Jones 13:43.06, 3. Liquori 13:43.59, 4. MacDonald 13:43.75, 5. Chapa 13:44.22, 6. Geis 13:44.47, 7. Alberto Salazar (GBTC) 13:46.51, 8. Terry Cotton (J Toads) 13:47.9, 9. Mike Lohman (Or TC) 13:57.2, 10. Richard Schwartz (CGTC) 14:13.9

2/ 1. Clary 13:47.96, 2. McChesney 13:51.54, 3. Ortiz 13:53.31, 4. Dillon 13:53.45, 5. Centrowitz 13:54.20, 6. Padilla 13:55.85, 7. Randy Melancon (NYAC) 13:57.57, 8. Alan Scharsu (Penn St) 14:06.57, 9. Bill Donakowski (NYAC) 14:22.9, 10. Chris Fox (Auburn) 14:32.4. Tony Sandoval (AW) and Tom Wysocki (SSTC) - Dnf

scott hubbard wrote:

Amazing the '80 results in all events including the marathon when everybody knew we weren't going to the Games!

Somebody refresh my memory on this - I thought the boycott had been threatened beforehand, but there was still some hope we'd go to Moscow. And that the decision didn't become final until after the trials?

If my memory serves, the US boycott was pretty much in place by spring '80. Perhaps others can help...otherwise I'd have to go thru old running mags to confirm.

Garry Bjorklund ran a 2:10 at the '80 Grandma's Marathon, skipping the Trials in May so...I'm thinking the boycott was on.

The results from the '80 Trials 5000m are rich w/a ton of fast names!

To the best of my recollection, the boycott was indeed pretty set by the Trials. Carter started threatening in January. Sometime that spring they set it in stone. The OT Marathon was in May, and everyone knew it was for naught.

The whole thing was a big mistake, and it did nothing to stop the war in Afganistan.

The boycott was announced in February as an 'if the Soviets don't pull out of Afghanistan...' type of announcement. I can't recall if there was a deadline for this to occur.

I think a potential boycott was mentioned in Carter's State of the Union address in January of 1980.

joke.

Do you have the 1976 5000m and 10000m trial data? I would like to see that as well

we have a guy here at work who says he ran the trials in indy. i would assume 5k or 10k. but he is pretty cryptic about the whole thing and how fast he actually was. was that 84 or 88? beenthere do you have those results?

thanks a lot.

1972:

5000 Meters - July 9, 19.40 Hr

1. Steve Prefontaine (Or) 13:22.8 AR

2. George Young (Unat) 13:29.4

3. Len Hilton (HTC) 13:40.2

4. Sid Sink (BG TC) 13:43.8

5. Tracy Smith (LAPD) 13:44.8

6. Glenn Herold (Wisc) 13:47.8

7. Tarry Harrison (CW) 13:52.6

8. Dick Buerkle (NYAC) 13:57.2

9. Cliff Clark (USAF) 13:58.6, 10. Jim Johnson (Wash) 14:03.0, 11. Greg Fredericks (Penn St) 14:09.4, 12. Gerry Lindgren (Cougar TC) 14:17.2

Heats: - first 6 qualify, July 6, 17.00 Hr

1/ 1. Prefontaine 13:51.2, 2. Smith 13:52.8, 3. Lindgren 13:53.6, 4. Buerkle 13:55.4, 5. Clark 13:57.6, 6. Sink 13:58.4, 7. Paul Geis (Rice) 14:02.4, 8. Paul Baldwin (Ky) 14:14.4, 9. George Stewart (MATC) 14:38.0

2/ 1. Harrison 14:06.2, 2. Hilton 14:07.0, 3. Johnson 14:08.0, 4. Herold 14:10.2, 5. Young 14:11.6, 6.Fredericks 14:19.2, 7. Rick Hitchcock (KS) 14:32.4, 8. Jay Mason (CW) 14:55.0, Howard Ryan (NYAC) Dnf

10000 Meters - July 2, 19.30 Hr

1. Frank Shorter (Fla TC) 28:35.6

2. Jeff Galloway (Fla TC) 28:48.8

3. Jon Anderson (Or TC) 29:08.2

DQ Jack Bacheler (Fla TC) 29:09.8

4. Tom Laris (NYAC) 29:43.0

5. Bill Clark (WVTC) 29:57.0

6. Don Kardong (WVTC) 30:21.2

7. Greg Fredericks (Penn St) 30:37.6

8. Dave Antognoli (Edinboro St) 30:39.6

9. Charles Maguire (Penn St) 31:20.0

Greg Brock (CW) and Gerry Lindgren (Cougar TC) Dnf

Heats: - first 6 qualify, June 29, 19.45 Hr

1/ 1. Bacheler 29:22.6, 2. Brock 29:31.0, 3. Fredericks 29:32.2, 4. Antognoli 29:40.2, 5. Maguire 29:40.6, 6. Gerry Garcia (NMTC) 29:48.4 Ron Pryor (LB) - Dnf

2/ 1. Shorter 29:07.4, 2. Anderson 29:20.0, 3. Laris 29:27.0, 4. Lindgren 29:28.0, 5. Clark 29:31.2, 6. Kardong 29:32.2, 7. Tom Hoffman (UCTC) 29:35.8 Jim Nuccio (Portland) - Dnf

1976:

5000 Meters - June 27, 19.00 Hr

1. Dick Buerkle (NYAC) 13:26.60

2. Duncan MacDonald (Mid-Pacific RR) 13:29.46

3. Paul Geis (Or TC) 13:38.46

4. Don Kardong (CNW) 13:47.38

5. Ted Castaneda (Col TC) 13:53.94

6. Mike Keough (NYAC) 14:01.50

7. Greg Fredericks (PPC) 14:09.2

8. Pat Holleran (UCTC) 14:13.2

9. John Gregorio (Col TC) 14:39.8

Craig Virgin (Ill) Dnc

Heats - first 4 plus 2 fastest losers qualify, June 25, 16.40 Hr

1/ 1. Buerkle 13:41.76, 2. Virgin 13:43.10, 3. Gregorio 13:43.88, 4. Castaneda 13:43.93, 5. Kardong 13:43.93, 6. Holleran 14:15.52, 7. Tom Bryant (SMTC) 14:18.32, 8. Mike Haywood (Or TC) 14:20.10, 9. Herm Atkins (CNW) - no time, 10. Dave Taylor (Or) 14:31.0

2/ 1. Keough 13:51.90, 2. MacDonald 13:59.03, 3. Fredericks 14:01.01, 4. Geis 14:03.13, 5. Tom Burleson (UCTC) 14:17.5, 6. Terry Williams (Or) 14:22.3, 7. Ric Rojas (Unat) 14:32.9, 8. Pat Mandera (UCTC) 14:42.2, 9. Bruce Fischer (UCTC) 15:08.0, Marty Liquori (NYAC) - Dnf

10000 Meters - June 22, 18.05 Hr

1. Frank Shorter (Fla TC) 27:55.45

2. Craig Virgin (Ill) 27:59.43

3. Garry Bjorklund (UCTC) 28:03.74

4. Bill Rodgers (GBTC) 28:04.42

5. Ed Mendoza (Ariz) 28:25.16

6. Ted Castaneda (Col TC) 28:43.28

7. Gary Tuttle (Tob) 28:48.10

8. Jeff Wells (Rice) 29:24.19

9. Pat Mandera (UCTC) 29:51.21

Heats - first 3 plus 3 fastest losers qualify, June 19, 18.05 Hr

1/ 1. Shorter 28:33.62, 2. Virgin 28:33.63, 3. Tuttle 28:37.47, 4. Wells 28:40.81, 5. Paul Stemmer (NVTC) 30:13.76. John Gregorio (Col TC) and Mark Johnson (Wisc) - Dnf

2/ 1. Rodgers 28:32.79, 2. Bjorklund 28:44.43, 3. Castaneda 29:09.72, 4. Mendoza 29:10.25, 5. Mandera 29:28.29, 6. Rudy Chapa (Hammond HS, Ind) 30:36.30

1984:

5000 Meters - June 24, 19.30 Hr

1. Doug Padilla (AW) 13:26.34

2. Steve Lacy (NB) 13:27.72

3. Don Clary (adi) 13:28.62

4. Bruce Bickford (NB) 13:33.78

5. Chris Fox (AW) 13:36.86

6. Steve Plasencia (AW) 13:38.31

7. Brad Erickstad (Gruene TC) 13:41.28

8. Craig Virgin (FRTC) 13:41.63

9. Steve Ortiz (Unat) 13:45.21, 10. Jon Sinclair (Brooks) 13:46.71, 11. Danny Henderson (UCTC) 13:51.85, 12. Vince Draddy (Nike) 14:02.60

Semi-finals - first 5 plus 2 fastest losers qualify, June 22, 18.15 Hr

1/ 1. Clary 13:35.22, 2. Henderson 13:37.16, 3. Ortiz 13:38.28, 4. Draddy 13:38.99, 5. Padilla 13:39.57, 6. Virgin 13:40.30, 7. Sinclair 13:41.87, 8. David Barney (NB) 13:57.74, 9. Kevin McCarey (CW) 14:08.04, Ralph King (AW) and Todd Harbour (SMTC) - Dnf, Bill Krohn (PE) - Dnc

2/ 1. Plasencia 13:42.35, 2. Erickstad 13:42.67, 3. Bickford 13:43.00, 4. Lacy 13:43.98, 5. Fox 13:46.52, 6. Ryan 13:47.98, 7. Jim Hill (adi) 13:48.23, 8. Ray Wicksell (Sub 4) 13:54.33, 9. Ed Spinney (AW) 14:05.38, 10. Erin Rankin (Roos) 14:22.83, Ross Donoghue (adi) and Tom Smith (AW) - Dnf

Heats: - first 6 plus 6 fastest losers qualify, June 21, 17.00 Hr

1/ 1. Lacy 13:45.05, 2. Draddy 13:45.89, 3. Plasencia 13:46.15, 4. Erickstad 13:46.37, 5. Harbour 13:46.48, 6. King 13:46.56, 7. Hill 13:47.27, 8. Tom Downs 14:06.03, 9. Pat Vaughn (NB) 14:09.37, 10. Steve Bishop (Macc) 14:35.58, Roy Kissin (PE) - Dnf, Herb Lindsay (AW) and Tim Hacker (Wisc United) - Dnc

2/ 1. Donoghue 13:48.34, 2. Ryan 13:50.99, 3. Virgin 13:50.62, 4. Padilla 13:52.12, 5. Smith 13:52.13, 6. Sinclair 13:52.38, 7. McCarey 13:53.52, 8. Barney 13:54.58, 9. Rankin 13:55.10, 10. Dan Aldridge (AW) 14:03.55, 11. Greg Lautenslager (Nike) 14:09.41, 12. John Koningh (Sub 4) 14:14.22, 13. Dave Henderson (Port St) 14:29.48, 14. Charles DeGarmo (adi) 14:44.81

3/ 1. Clary 13:37.02, 2. Henderson 13:47.60, 3. Ortiz 13:49.51, 4. Bickford 13:50.27, 5. Fox 13:53.25, 6. Wicksell 13:54.23, 7. Spinney 13:58.83, 8. Krohn 13:59.70, 9. Jerald Jones (SMTC) 14:05.25, 10. Jed Hopfensberger (Unat) 14:16.87, 11. Troy Billings (Nike) 14:42.00, Anthony Sandoval (Unat), Mark Nenow (Unat) and Tom Wysocki (Brooks) - Dnc

10000 Meters - June 19, 19.45 Hr

1. Paul Cummings (Conv) 27:59.08

2. Craig Virgin (FRTC) 28:02.27

3. Pat Porter (AW) 28:03.86

4. Garry Bjorklund (NB) 28:05.83

5. Mark Curp (NB) 28:06.80

6. Bruce Bickford (NB) 28:18.86

7. Tom Ansberry (ASICS Tiger) 28:26.39

8. Don Clary (adi) 28:28.11

9. Robbie Perkins (AW) 28:38.64, 10. Charlie Bevier (PE) 28:40.89, 11. Mark Nenow (Todd's Rd Stumblers) 28:53.78, 12. Ed Eyestone (BYU) 28:55.78, 13. John Idstrom (Nike) 28:57.04, 14. Herb Lindsay (AW) 29:43.72, 15. Anthony Sandoval (Unat) 29:46.45, 16. Mike Buhmann (PE) 29:52.20, 17. Pat Peterson (Super Runner's Shop) 29:52.23, Steve Ortiz (Unat) - Dnf

Heats - first 4 plus 6 fastest losers qualify, June 16, 18.45 Hr

1/ 1. Virgin 28:19.59, 2. Cummings 28:19.63, 3. Nenow 28:19.66, 4. Bickford 28:19.68, 5. Bevier 28:32.46, 6. Ortiz 28:34.69, 7. Buhmann 28:42.05, 8. Perkins 28:43.94, 9. Bill Donakowski (CW) 28:46.14, 10. Gary Tuttle (NB) 29:16.28, 11. Jim Hill (adi) 29:16.88, 12. Jed Hopfsenberger (Unat) 29:32.41, 13. Dan Dillon (AW) 30:00.26, 14. Chris Hamilton (Or) 30:24.98, 15. Jeff Drenth (Nike) 30:24.99

2/ 1. Eyestone 28:34.37, 2. Lindsay 28:34.38, 3. Bjorklund 28:34.50, 4. Ansberry 28:34.65, 5. Idstrom 28:39.22, 6. Greg Fredericks (PSSS) 28:46.03, 7. Pat Vaughn (NB) 28:57.51, 8. Ron Tabb (adi) 29:12.01, 9. Mark Stickley (Va T) 29:12.71, 10. Dean Matthews (Unat) 29:39.16, 11. Roy Kissin (PE) 29:51.59, 12. Dean Kimball (Nike) 29:58.83, 13. Steve McCormack (adi) 30:25.48, Tom Wysocki (Brooks) - Dnc

3/ 1. Porter 28:29.34, 2. Clary 28:29.76, 3. Curp 28:29.95, 4. Peterson 28:36.20, 5. Sandoval 28:40.52, 6. Keith Brantly (Fla) 28:48.89, 7. Kirk Pfeffer (ASICS Tig) 28:50.27, 8. John Moreno (Con) 28:57.03, 9. Mark Conover (PE) 29:05.31, 10. John Easker (Wisc United) 29:19.14, 11. Bob Hodge (NB) 29:24.11, 12. Gerald Donakowski (Nike) 29:48.83, 13. Dan Grimes (Tig Int) 29:58.29, 14. John Flora (PE) 30:04.35

1988:

5000 Meters - July 23, 16.30 Hr

1. Doug Padilla (AW) 13:37.86

2. Terry Brahm (AW) 13:40.08

3. Sydney Maree (Puma) 13:44.71

4. Keith Brantly (Team Go) 13:47.86

5. Mark Nenow (Tiger) 13:48.10

6. Jay Marden (Nike Coast) 13:57.05

7. Greg Lautenslager (Nike Boston) 13:59.99

8. Scott Fry (Wisc) 14:02.67

9. Chris Fox (AW) 14:03.95, 10. Jim Farmer (NC) 14:13.74, 11. Doug Tolson (Reebok) 14:18.03, 12. Greg Whiteley (Brown) 14:24.30, 13. Ray Wicksell (Unat) 14:29.36, 14. John Gregorek (Un) 14:29.37, 15. Vince Draddy (Tiger) 14:37.91, 16. Jeff Smith (Unat) 14:53.28

Semi-finals - first 6 plus 4 fastest qualify, July 21, 20.30 Hr

1/ 1. Lautenslager 13:59.05, 2. Maree 13:59.13, 3. Brahm 13:59.99, 4. Brantly 14:00.26, 5. Fry 14:00.51, 6. Fox 14:00.68, 7. Bill Krohn (Etonic) 14:01.08, 8. Grant Whitney (NB) 14:02.19, 9. Matt Giusto (Nike) 14:12.64, 10. Steve Pinard (adi) 14:23.30, 11. Mike Blackmore (AIA) 14:27.17, 12. Alan Scharsu (Unat) 15:01.28

2/ 1. Nenow 13:50.12, 2. Whiteley 13:50.26, 3. Padilla 13:50.63, 4. Smith 13:50.69, 5. Tolson 13:50.73, 6. Gregorek 13:500.83, 7. Draddy 13:51.21, 8. Marden 13:51.93, 9. Farmer 13:52.33, 10. Wicksell 13:53.07, 11. Greg Beardsley (Nike) 13:53.37, 12. Bernie Prabucki (Unat) 14:34.54

Heats - first 4 plus 2 fastest losers qualify, July 20, 19.30 Hr

1/ 1. Wicksell 14:24.04, 2. Marden 14:25.15, 3. Maree 14:25.16, 4. Fry 14:25.40, 5. Beardsley 14:29.90, 6. Prabucki 14:32.32, 7. Pat Cross (Unat) 14:35.34, 8. Damon Martin (Adams St) 14:45.49, Richie Harris (Unat) - Dnc

2/ 1. Smith 14:13.32, 2. Whitney 14:14.10, 3. Giusto 14:16.60, 4. Nenow 14:18.95, 5. Whiteley 14:19.56, 6. Krohn 14:20.27, 7. Padilla 14:25.82, 8. Tolson 14:27.30, Don Clary (Unat) - Dnc

3/ 1. Lautenslager 14:13.10, 2. Brantly 14:13.46, 3. Gregorek 14:13.56, 4. Draddy 14:14.35, 5. Fox 14:14.46, 6. Brahm 14:14.47, 7. Farmer 14:14.83, 8. Pinard 14:15.68, 9. Blackmore 14:19.66, 10. Scharsu 14:28.54

10000 Meters - July 18, 20.25 Hr

1. Bruce Bickford (NB) 29:07.35

2. Steve Plasencia (AW) 29:08.58

3. Pat Porter (AW) 29:09.92

4. Mark Nenow (Tiger) 29:11.74

5. Chris Fox (AW) 29:34.84

6. Harry Green (Texas) 29:37.75

7. John Tuttle (Tiger) 29:43.63

8. Gerard Donakowski (AW) 29:46.04

9. Keith Brantly (Team Go) 29:48.28, 10. Greg Lautenslager (Nike Bos) 29:49.90, 11. Bo Reed (Unat) 30:02.69, 12. Charlie Bevier (Reeb) 30:06.63, 13. Randy Reina (Nike) 30:07.89, 14. David Barney (Ark TC) 30:12.74, 15. Bob Kempainen (Dart) 30:28.01, 16. Dennis Simonaitis (Reeb) 30:31.91, 17. Ken Halla (NYAC) 30:35.01, 18. Jim Sapienza (AW) 31:28.19

Heats - first 6 plus 6 fastest losers qualify, July 15, 20.30 Hr

1/ 1. Reina 29:46.65, 2. Porter 29:46.68, 3. Green 29:47.37, 4. Kempainen 30:09.72, 5. Donakowski 30:15.06, 6. Sapienza 30:22.00, 7. Halla 30:24.59, 8. Bob Hodge (Greater Lowell TC) 31:07.59, 9. Keith Hanson (Nike Boston) 31:08.58, 10. Rich Brownsberger (Tiger) 31:57.61, 11. Dave Cuadrado (adi) 32:03.51, Jeff Scuffins (Unat), Frank Powers (Nike Bos), Sam Montoya (Reebok), Terry Cotton (Tiger), Tom Ansberry (LWC), Jay Marden (Nike Coast) - all Dnf

2/ 1. Reed 29:34.47, 2. Plasencia 29:36.86, 3. Bickford 29:36.86, 4. Nenow 29:36.93, 5. Brantly 29:44.06, 6. Tuttle 29:51.03, 7. Bevier 29:52.59, 8. Lautenslager 30:00.28, 9. Simonaitis 30:02.44, 10. Fox 30:10.83, 11. Barney 30:27.23, 12. Dirk Lakeman (Reebok) 30:33.19, 13. Jim Hill (Unat) 31:09.05, 14. Ken Valasquez (Unat) 31:28.85, 15. Troy Billings (Nike Bos) 31:32.20, 16. Dan Dillon (Rich Classic) 31:36.75, 17. Steve Taylor (Nike Coast) 32:01.11, George Nicholas (Reebok) - Dnf

Thanks,

didn't find him but really appreciate the results. Safe and injury-free wishes to all.

Now this is what I call a great thread. Thanks for all the results. While you are at it, do you have the 800, 1500 and Steeple? Is there a link to obtain these results?

What happened in the heats of the 5K in 1988? I noticed that Padilla was 7th and should hage been a non qualifier as it was first 4 and fastest 2.

BF

bfullem wrote:

What happened in the heats of the 5K in 1988? I noticed that Padilla was 7th and should hage been a non qualifier as it was first 4 and fastest 2.

BF

Notice that there are 24 men in the Semis, yet if in fact they only took the top 4 and the next 2, you would only get 14. I figured that there was a typo, and that it should have been the next "12," then, having nothing better to do, went through the results to calculate and see if I was right, and I was. The top 2 non-top-four runners from the first heat qualified, the top 4 from the second heat, and all 6 from the third heat. Thus, it was simply a typo. It should have read "The Top 4 finishers plus the next 12 fastest."

That said, where did these results come from? I would be very curious to look over some of these old Olympic Qualifying results.

Does anyone else find it said that Gabe Jennings has the 2nd fastest time in the 1500?

Oy vey.

I noticed Jerald Jones running 4th place in the 1980 trials in the 5000m. I also know he is a sub-4 miler, but he seems to be kind of an unknown for a 3:58/13:35 type. Does any one else know any info about this runner?