WR not podunk local CR wrote:
Hard to believe you die hard fans don't know what WR means. Hint: America is not the whole World.
Idiot!
Ever heard of the world series?
WR not podunk local CR wrote:
Hard to believe you die hard fans don't know what WR means. Hint: America is not the whole World.
Idiot!
Ever heard of the world series?
Haven't looked it up yet but didn't Putemans have the indoor 2 mile wr when he died?
better question is did any die of old age with the record in hand. Answer is probably no.
Mike Powell might. Nobody can jump anymore. In his day there was Carl Lewis jumping 8.70+ every day, plus Larry Myricks and Emmiyan. Now nobody has even broken 8.56 in the last 5 years.
women's 400 might too but women's 800 is going down to Dibaba sooner or later.
Eastern block wrote:
...druggies have a tendency to die younger.
It sounds good, but is that a fact.
Kratochvilova is 64 y.o.
Is it possible that athletes such as Ottey and others will actually live healthier and longer as a result of their drug intake...
We shall see...
I believe Pheidippides held the marathon world record when he died.
How could you start this thread will the deceased Flojo currently hold two records?
And Wang Junxia has a good shot.
Latrell Spreewell after choking PJ Carlisimo.
Well documented
good info, thanks for the research
Paula is gonna take the wr with her...
You guys mad?
As will Daniel Komen. You mad, bro?
tomb raider wrote:
Paula is gonna take the wr with her...
You guys mad?
elephino wrote:
I believe Pheidippides held the marathon world record when he died.
LOL
Emiel Puttemans is not dead.
The closest thing to an answer that the OP was looking for is Samuel Wanjiru. R.I.P.
Wanjiru set the 20 km & half-marathon world records on March 17th, 2007 in the same race. Wanjiru died in an accident on May 15th, 2011. However, on March 21st, 2010 Zersenay Tadese eclipsed his records.
So Sammy Wanjiru didn't take his records to the grave, but he came close.
Ol' Sammy wrote:
The closest thing to an answer that the OP was looking for is Samuel Wanjiru
...except for the actual answers of Rudolf Harbig and Flojo.
Nike's marketing team should get a HUGE raise for making people think Pre had a bunch of WRs. It's astonishing how overrated he is. Imagine if he lived today how the LRers would utterly destroy him. He'd get the same treatment as Centro. An arrogant piece of stool who can't win anything important except a few local track races. But he will tell you how great he is that's for sure.
Rudolf Harbig
Al Blozis
Bob Gutowski - world record ratified after death
Kinue Hitomi
Jean Bouin, Georg Mickler
Flo-Jo
Ralph Rose
George Saling
Gunnar Hockert
Lilian Board (relay)
Several of the above died in combat
Sammy Wanjiru comes pretty close...he died 14 months after his half marathon record was broken by Tadese (whose mark still stands as of Sept. 2015)
Ol' Sammy wrote:
The closest thing to an answer that the OP was looking for is Samuel Wanjiru. R.I.P.
How is this closer to what they OP is looking for than the people who have been named who died while they held a WR?
George Littlewood set a WR in the six day race in 1888 which wasn't beaten for nearly a century. He was, needless to say, long dead by that time.
Joie Ray set the world indoor marathon record of 2:34:54 on November 24, 1928. The record was broken by Michael Wardian (2:27:21) on July 1, 2010. Ray died in 1978.