another old fart wrote:
malmo wrote:I beat Marty Liquori who, in turn, beat Pre. #2
2 also. I lost to Liquori, however.
Alternative: I lost to Greg Fredericks who must have raced Pre.
If we are going by wins, my Prefontaine number is 3, but in a way different from anyone's else, I'd bet:
1) I beat Ron Laird at either the 1979 Pan Am 20k racewalk trials or the 1980 15k racewalk nationals - I can't remember which race it was.
2) Laird beat Gerry Lindgren in a local mile racewalk in southern CA in the 1960's. (This per Laird telling me.) Few people know that, although Lindgren didn't racewalk seriously, he wasn't too bad at it.
3) Lindgren beat Pre.