Who?
Who?
don paige
jjjjjj wrote:
I have to agree with the choice of Mal Whitfield, whose name I recognized but whose accomplishments are enormous: 5 Olympic medals, including three gold, two straight 800m golds and two 880yd world records (1:49.2/1:48.6), a 4x400m gold and silver, and a 400m bronze, as well as 3 Pan Am golds in 1951 and the first African American Sullivan Award winner in 1954. He was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen in WWII and flew in Korea as well. And then helped to send thousands of African athletes to college in the United States over a 47 year period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal_Whitfield
I agree, Mal Whitfield is perhaps the 'best' most forgotten runner of all. In terms of accomplishment Sydney Maree is perhaps 2nd, Some of the athletes mentioned like Steve Scott, Lynn Jennings and Bob Kennedy are not forgotten at all especially relative to their accomplishments.
Ran for my high school. My coach coached him and would tell stories about him. Pretty bad timing with the olympics.
Jack Fultz.
Steve Prefontaine. Best runner I ever saw. He'd be a household name if he hadn't died in a car crash while still young.
Karl Paranya. First DIII runner to break 4. Legit.
Steve Stageberg
Mike Ryan
Dave Merrick
longjack wrote:
Brake wrote:Rudy Chapa
He... ya, Chapa. He was better than Salazar better than anyone out of Oregon ever. Except for Cruz that is. On a Viren, El-G or Komen "program" this guy would run 8 min 2 mile. I think at one point he won the Pac-10 800m. Guy should have set the WR at 5K. .
NO doubt!!
Saw him run a number of times in HS. Saw his 10k, a HS record that will NEVER be broken.
At the HS regional meet his junior year he won the 2 mile and Pinkowski won the mile. Rudy's mile split would have placed him second in the mile.
His weakness was that he went out too fast in all his races.
Don't know why Candiano didn't slow him down some at the start. Unapproachable records would have resulted just like his 10k.
How about Jim Stintzi and Scott Jenkins and Glen Herold
Best Forgotten US Runners
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Lynn Jennings
Julie Brown
Brenda Webb
Diana Richburg
Cathy Branta
CIndy Bremser
Suzanne Girard
Alicia Craig
Or do you mean it is best if they are forgotten?
In that case, Steph Hightower. She's in a tier all by herself.
How about Garry Bjorkland. Made two Olympic teams in 10K. Ran a 2:10 marathon at Grandma's in 1980(which is not an easy coarse).
Tom S wrote:
Greg Frederick
That Greg Fredericks not too bad back in 1972
11/16/2002 4:07AM
Read more:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&thread=43588&id=43707#ixzz3MPbnlnkH
Fun Factoid on Greg Fredericks: had it not been for the likes of three runners - Steve Prefontaine, Marty Liquori and Craig Virgin - Fredericks would have had seven National titles.
Without Pre, Liquori and Virgin (parentheses actual result):
1980 1st Olympic Trials 10,000 (2nd to Virgin, fastest 10k in the world)
1978 1st AAU 5000 (2nd to Liquori, #2 ranked 5k in the world)
1977 1st AAU 5000 (2nd to Liquori, #1 ranked 5k in the world)
1975 1st AAU Cross Country
1972 1st AAU 10000 American record
1972 1st NCAA 5000 (2nd to Prefontaine, #4 ranked 5k in the world)
1971 1st NCAA 3 mile (2nd to Prefontaine, #10 ranked 5k in the world)
Marianne Dickerson. Silver in '83 Worlds marathon behind Grete Waitz.
How about current 800m American record holder, Jearl Miles Clark?
Jim Hines
ck3237 wrote:
How about Garry Bjorkland. Made two Olympic teams in 10K. Ran a 2:10 marathon at Grandma's in 1980(which is not an easy coarse).
Good one for Bjorklund, but Grandma's is an PR type course. Point to point and ever so slight net downhill (and no big hills). Also, I think he only made the 1976 team.
maybe someone has mentioned it but Heffner qualified in marathon for 1980 Oly team - getting 3rd in trials (2:10.55)
Bob Schul
also Don Bowden, first American to break 4:00 in the mile
Parker Valby post 5k interview... Worst of all time? Are Parker Valby interviews always cringe?
MSU men > NAU by 1 point even though Nico Young and Colin Sahlman tripled!!
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Start Lists for the Men's and Women's Mile/1500 at Pre are up