9/1/49 Viljo Heino – Finland – beat Emil Zatopek’s 10,000 meters world record by one second
In 29:27.2.
9/1/58 Pete McArdle wins National 15K Championship over Robert Drake in 46:04.9. The race was in Santa Monica.
9/1/63 Moses Mayfield wins DC AAU Junior 15K Championship in 49:14 over Bill Holmes.
9/2/57 John J. Kelley wins New England Senior & Open 25K Championship over Ted Corbitt in 1:24:59.
9/2/57 Malcolm Robertson – Southern California Striders wins National Junior 15K Championship over Robert Drake in 51:17.
9/2/60 Tamara Press – Soviet Union wins the Olympic Shot Put with an Olympic record.
9/2/60 Peter Snell – New Zealand wins the Olympic 800 Meters in record time of 1:46.3.
9/2/60 Wilma Rudolph wins the Olympic 100 Meters over Dorothy Hyman – Great Britain.
9/2/60 Glenn Davis, Clifton Cushman, and Dick Howard sweep for USA the Olympic 400 Meter Hurdles.
9/2/62 Pete McArdle wins National 15K Championship over Fred Best, John Kopil, and Hal Harris in
42:04.8. The race was in Greenbelt, MD.
9/2/62 George Confrey wins New England 15K Junior & Open Championship in 49:45 over Gordon McKenzie. The race was in Dennis, MA.
9/3/53 Gordon Pirie runs 29:17.2 for 10,000 meters and the year’s fastest time; only Zatopek has run faster three times.
9/3/56 Parry O’Brien tossed the shot put 62’ 6 3/8” for a world record.
9/3/62 Fred Norris, Gordon Dickson, and John J. Kelley are 1-2-3 at the Canadian Marathon Championship.
9/4/49 Imre Nemeth – Hungarian Olympic champion broke his world record in the hammer throw of 195’ 5 ¼.”
9/4/56 Gordon Pirie beat Hungary’s trio of Iharos, Rozavolgyi, and Tabori in a world record for 3,000 meters of 7:52.8.
9/4/58 Herb Elliott – Australia ran the 2nd fastest mile in history with a 3:55.4.
9/4/65 New England Junior & Open 15K Championship – Top 10 Ralph Buschman, George Confrey, John J. Kelley, Jim Keefe, Tom Osler, Amby Burfoot, Tom Laris, Tom Durre, Tony Sapienza, Ray Crothers
9/5/60 Lee Calhoun, William May, and Hayes Jones sweep for USA in the Olympic 110 Meters Hurdles.
9/5/64 Chris McCarthy University of Chicago Track Club wins National 50K Championship and U.S. Olympic team tryout in 4:45:31.
9/5/65 Wayne Van Dellen wins National Junior 30K Championship over Floyd Godwin and Darryl Beardall in 1:45:23.8.
9/5/65 John Booras – BAA wins Canadian Marathon title in 2:30:22 over Tom McCarthy and Jim McDonough.
9/5/67 Bob Scharf wins Greenbelt 15K over Lou Castagnola in record time of 46:15.
9/6/55 Laszlo Tabori outsprinted Gunnar Nielsen as both men equaled the 1500 meters world record of 3:40.8.
9/6/59 Sy Villa wins the Greenbelt Road Race over George Foulds in 47:49.
9/6/60 Herb Ellott – Australia wins the Olympic 1500 meters in a world record of 3:35.6.
9/6/60 Rafer Johnson beats C.K. Yang in the Olympic Decathlon with 8,392 points for an Olympic record.
9/7/58 John J. Kelley wins New England States 30K Championship over 30K Championship over John Booras, Jim Green, and Ted Corbitt.
9/7/59 Graham Parnell wins New England 25K Championship over Al Confalone in 1:28:35.
9/7/59 Tom Ryan – Culver City AC sets an American Record for one hour run of 11 miles, 314 yards.
9/7/60 Lyudmila Shevtsova – Soviet Union sets a world record of 2:04.3 in the Women’s Olympic 800 meters.
9/7/64 Ron Daws wins Heart of American Marathon in 2:47:27.5 in course record time on a hilly course and hot day.
9/8/56 Rudy Mendez – NYPC wins National 15K Championship over Dick Hart in 52:47. Boston Athletic Association (BAA) wins team title.
9/8/63 Ted Corbitt wins 44 mile run in Alexandria, VA over Gary Muhrke in 4:24:17.
9/9/62 Oscar Moore wins NY Metropolitan 20K Championship over Gordon McKenzie in 1:12:18.4.
9/10/55 Sandor Iharos set a world record for 5,000 meters in 13:50.8 to take 0.04 off Vladimir Kuts mark.
9/10/60 Abebe Bikilia – Ethiopia wins the Olympic marathon in Rome running barefoot in 2:15:16.5.
9/11/55 Jerzy Chromik – Poland broke steeplechase world record for the second time in 2 weeks in 8:40.2.
9/11/56 Vladmir Kuts – Ukranian set a 10,000 meters world record of 28:30.4 bettering Sandor Iharos mark by 12.4 second.
9/11/60 Jim O’Connell wins Road Runners Club New York Association 10K in 34:08.6.
9/11/65 New England 20K Championship 1. Ralph Buschmann 2. George Confrey 3. John J. Kelley 4. Tom Laris 5. John Booras
9/11/66 John J. Kelley wins Connecticut AAU 20K Championship over Amby Burfoot in 1:01:31.
9/13/64 Moses Mayfield wins Middle Atlantic 20K championship over Browning Ross, and Herb Lorenz in 1:06:28.
9/14/54 Sandor Iharos – Hungary ran the second fastest 3,000 meters into history clocking 7:59.3 to just miss Gaston Reiff’s world record.
9/14/58 Tony Sapienza – BAA wins a 10.5 mile race in Gardner, MA over John A. Kelley in 55:28.
9/15/63 Oscar Moore wins NY Metropolitan 20K Championship over Pete McArdle in 1:03:27 in the Bronx with 60 starters and 46 finishers.
9/16/56 Captain Adolph Weinacker – Air Force won the AAU 50K walk and Olympic team tryout in 4:38:57.5.
9/16/56 Sandor Rozsnyoi – Hungary set a world record in 3,000 meter steeplechase in 8:35.6.
9/16/56 Rudy Mendez wins NY Metropolitan 20K Championship over Ted Corbitt in 1:03:59.
9/17/67 Moses Mayfield wins the annual Woodbury Marathon (9.4 miles) bettering Herb Lorenz record by over a minute in record time 47:34.8. Tom Osler was second.
9/18/65 Van Nelson and Ron Daws are 1 & 2 at the Minnesota 20K Championship in 63:47.8 vs. 64:07.
9/18/66 Herb Lorenz wins Middle Atlantic 20K Championship over Tom Osler in 1:05:42.6. Neil Weygandt wins the junior title.
9/20/53 Yuriy Lituyev – Russia ran 50.4 for 400 meter hurdles in a world record two tenths under Glenn Hardins 1934 record.
9/20/64 Ken Moore wins Pacific Northwest Marathon in 2:36:54 at Olympia, Washington.
9/22/63 Larry Furnell – NYAC National 15k Championship over Dave Ellis, Hal Higdon and Oscar Moore in 44:01.5
9/23/62 Gordon McKenzie wins NY Metropolitan 25K Championship over Oscar Moore in 1:23:31. There were 35 starters.
9/23/62 Darryl Beardall – Marin AC wins the Walnut Festival Race of 5.7 miles in 28:21.
9/24/66 Bernard Gomersall wins the London to Brighton 52 mile, 875 yards ultramarathon in 5:32:50. Ted Corbitt finished 5th.
9/25/65 Bernard Gomersall wins the London to Brighton 52 mile, 875 yards ultramarathon in 5:40:11. Ted Corbitt was second in 5:44:35.
9/26/64 Bernard Gomersall wins the London to Brighton 52 mile, 875 yards ultramarathon in 5:39:44. Ted Corbitt was less than one minute behind in 5:40:42 for an American Record.
9/27/64 Ed Winrow wins NY Metropolitan 20K Championship over Abe Fornes in 1:08:32.6.
9/28/69 Dave Bagshaw wins the London to Brighton 52 mile, 875 yards ultramarathon in 5:28:35. At age 50 Ted Corbitt ran his fastest time of 5:38:11 for an American Record.
9/29/51 Emil Zatopek – Czechoslovakia set 4 world records 15k 44:55.6; 10 Miles 48:12; 20K 59:51.8, and One Hour 12 miles 809 yards on the track.
9/29/62 John Smith wins the London to Brighton 52 mile, 875 yard ultramarathon in 5:35:22. Ted Corbitt placed 4th in 5:53:37 for an American Record.
9/29/63 Browning Ross wins the Middle Atlantic AAU 25K Championship over Tom Osler in 1:25:50.2.
9/30/56 John J. Kelley, Nick Costes, Dean Thackwray were named to the Olympic Marathon team after their Yonkers Marathon performance.
9/30/62 Robert Mimm – Penn AC wins Junior National Championship & Open & Middle Atlantic 15K walk over Ron Daniels and Bruce MacDonald in 1:19:40.
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