Does anyone know when Crystal Palace went synthetic?
Does anyone know when Crystal Palace went synthetic?
Ron Clarke set the 10000m WR in Oslo in 1965 which was on cinders.
I know
Jimbo Jambo wrote:
Ron Clarke set the 10000m WR in Oslo in 1965 which was on cinders.
looks like it was synthetic
http://trackandfieldnews.com/discussion/archive/index.php/t-94789.html
It was a synthetic track but he ran the race pretty much solo and the conditions were apparently VERY windy. Many experts consider this run to be far better than his 1966 world-record performance in Oslo.
aussieoi wrote:
looks like it was synthetic
http://trackandfieldnews.com/discussion/archive/index.php/t-94789.html
larwood
11-18-2003, 05:50 PM
Citing as an urban legend that synthetics are as fast as cinders jla uses as an example Ron Clarke's 27:49.4 (a recent trivia question!) on Crystal Palace's synthetic surface in 1968--which was indeed slower than his 1965 Oslo race. However, jla fails to point out that it was a very windy evening for that race and Clarke himself thought the effort was only worth 28:20 and thought synthetic tracks were much faster. (Ron Clrake Talks Track, p.47.)