trivia q's

[Guest]

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Ah! The fabled night of the three Olavis: July 11, 1957. Ninth in that race was Nurmi...Matti Nurmi, the son of Paavo.

[Guest]

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Who was the first guy to break 5:00 for 2000m?

[BisonHurdler]

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According to one source, Harald Norpoth.


According to another, Jazy.


Norpoth's is listed as earlier though.

[Guest]

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first to break 8: for 3K? (not SChase.) And in what town?

[BisonHurdler]

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Reiff in Gavle?


Who was the first person to ever run a sub 44.0 leg on a 4x400m relay, and what year?

[Per Andersen]

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<Ah! the fabled night of the three Olavis

and Dan Waern 4th with a swedish record. But the following day Stanislaw could not leave well enough alone.

[Guest]

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Tommie Smith?(43.8, 1966 LATimesInv, in first sub-3

[BisonHurdler]

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Yup. How about first sub 44 split at Penn?

[Powell]

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>Bingo! Rono's 10,000 record happened at one of
>the very few world class meets ever held in
>Vienna.

Actually, Rono was NOT the last male to set a WR in Vienna. Thomas Schoenlebe set a world indoor 400 record there in 1986.

[trackhead]

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>Yup. How about first sub 44 split at Penn?

Larry James.

[Jefferson Buffalo]

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Larry James? Isn't that another thread?

[larwood]

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Where was the first pole vault world record first set with a fiberglass pole?

[6 5.5hjsteve]

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not sure of where but think it was George Davies, at 15' 10 1/4", somewhere in the midwest, like in Oklahoma. Think he went to Okla. St.so as a flat out guess I'll say Stillwater. 1961 I think.

[Guest]

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It was set in Boulder, CO!

[larwood]

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Yes, that pole vault genius kuha1 got the correct answer. I believe it was at the 1963 Big 8 meet.