longest standing WR span ...

[The King]

Re: longest standing WR span ...

>My pleasure. I didn't mean it to sound as snappy as it looks, your Highness.
>:-)

hehehe

[26mi235]

Re: longest standing WR span ...

>Jesse Owens still hold the Big Ten meet record in the long jump from his >Day-of-Days in 1935.

IIRC, Reynolds broke Owens Big 10 200m record after his breakthrough in the 400, so that one stood a long time as well. However, I was a more casual observer at the time and do not remember the details very clearly.

Question: Are the sprint times more greatly affected by the surface (dirt vs. current tracks) than are runway events such as the long jump?

[karnak]

Re: longest standing WR span ...

Bob Beamon 1968 LJ # 2
Lee Evans 1968 400 # 5
Tommie Smith 1968 200 # 8

Joao Oliveira 1975 TJ # 7
Pietro Mennea 1979 200 # 3

All of these were accomplished in altitude, which kind of screw the stats.

[karnak]

Re: longest standing WR span ...

I believe you might have ommited Menea in 79 during the Universades of Mexico. If I remember correctly his time must have been 19.72 then .