Yep
High school conference meet
2nd in high jump
won 1600 - 4:43 following a kid for 1570m then passing lol
won 400 - 50.5
won 800 - 1:57
Yep
High school conference meet
2nd in high jump
won 1600 - 4:43 following a kid for 1570m then passing lol
won 400 - 50.5
won 800 - 1:57
Certainly not I, but Ben Jipcho did it in the 70s in an International Track Association meet once or twice if I'm not mistaken. 880, mile, 2 mile.
Just yesterday, I raced my 6 year old daughter several times in the park, from the swingset to the backstop. Must have beat her about 6 times in a row!!!! I rock.
Jason Pyrah, Missouri State meet on a hot day, 4:04, 1:51, 9:08. 1987
Happens all the time in HS (or at least it used to). Lots of good (not even great) HS distance runners will triple in the 800, 1600, 3200 in a dual meet just for points. Sometimes they will even jump in the 1600 relay to quadruple.
There are a whole lot of HS dual meets in which it does not take a tremendous amount of talent to get 3 or 4 wins.
At a HS dual meet in indoor track, I won the 1600, 3200, and 55m High Hurdles. I was not a fast sprinter at all, but I am tall and could 3-step without a problem, so I was able to beat the scrubs on the other team, and used it as a warm up for my actual races. Don't remember precisely, but I didn't have to run too fast to win, probably 4:45 and 10:20 to win the 1600 and 3200.
In a larger meet (counties, states, conferences), I would have been smoked pretty bad in the high hurdles.
At A HS dual meet I won the long jump, 100m and 800m one day.
I've also won the Long jump, 200, 400 a couple times.
You were only allowed three running events and I always ran a relay as well, but that doesn't count towards winning a triple, it seems.
Idaho had at least 3 kids (from different divisions) quadruple and win all four at our state meet last year. And that is just from the distance runners. I'm sure there were some jumpers, and maybe sprinters, who did the same.
When I was in HS I saw Yolanda Devers routinely win 4-5 events in a single meet; 100, 220, 330H, long jump, triple jump.
Sometimes she would run and win a 440 or 880. If she was anchoring 4X100 or 4x400, no lead was safe.
You might have heard of her she now goes by Gail.
In 1982 Paul McGovern won the Massachusetts State College Champs in the 5000, 10,000 & steeple then pitched for the baseball team on the same day. I'm pretty sure this effort got him a mention in Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd. Gov ran in the Oly trials marathon and was drafted by a major league baseball team.
back in the mid-80's, Jodie Bilotta of North Hunterdon HS (Brad Hudson, Brendan Heffernan, Anne Maria Letko/Lauck) swept the NJ MOC in one afternoon - 800 (2:09), 1600 (4:59) and 3200 (10:40ish). She was a FL finalist as well, injury-plagued at Stanford. Dominant performance in a state pretty well respected in the sport at the HS level.
Yes, of course. It's called high school..... I'd say most college runners, including walk ons that never travelled have won 3 in a day.
In college I tripled and won within 24 hours, but that was a 5k on a Friday night, dropping down to a 15 the next morning and an 8 that afternoon. Shouldn't count as a triple, though: two different dates; but again, it was within one day....
I tripled in a college interfraternity pledges meet.... won the HJ, 440, and 880.
I once won the hammer throw, long jump, and the mile in a dual meet. Crazy story...
The long jump and the mile happened at the same time.Yes, simultaneously. The meet official reversed the direction of the 3200 - now CW - so that I could jump while running the mile. The pit was just outside of lane 9 on the homestretch so it was completely legit. Since it was years ago I can't remember where this occurred or my marks but somewhere around 25 ft. for the LJ and 4 minutes for the mile, plus or minus a few.
Back in 1983, a HS kid in the Md state meet quadrupled
400 - 48.7
800- 1:48.2
1600- 4:17
4x800 -1:46 split
All for the Win. He just ran fast enough to win the 1600. Could have easily won the 3200 also. Possibly the 200m
Rodney Giles?
AA Co wrote:
Back in 1983, a HS kid in the Md state meet quadrupled
400 - 48.7
800- 1:48.2
1600- 4:17
4x800 -1:46 split
All for the Win. He just ran fast enough to win the 1600. Could have easily won the 3200 also. Possibly the 200m
Yes
I believe he also won the state XC champs 2 x
Pretty sure he won the 300m indoors as well
Crazy range, very gifted runner
Almost! At a college dual meet won the steeple agains some weaker guys, jogged back to the line while they were pulling the barriers off the track and the gun went off for a pretty stacked 1500. The other guys were literally laughing at me. Well, I was laughing with them. Won the 1500 beating two guys that should have crushed me, one my most memorable races. Ripped the last 400m at the bell. I think they thought I was going to blow up on the backstretch. A long hard pull was the only way I was going to beat these guys. But in the 5k later that day in 85 degree heat, the wheels started to come off and I got third.
I actually won 6 events in a day, beat that!
1500 in 3:58
800 in 1:51
TJ with 16.67m
110HH in 14.77
SP with 17.11m
5K in 14:06
Did that hungover and in trainers. My teammates carried me off the track on a gold-plated chair after it was all done.
BadAzzRunnr wrote:
Just yesterday, I raced my 6 year old daughter several times in the park, from the swingset to the backstop. Must have beat her about 6 times in a row!!!! I rock.
Wait til she's a teenager.