About Track and Field the place where you were born.

[Jon]

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I was born in Birmingham, UK. It hosted the European Cup in 1994 and hosted the 2003 WICh's. It also hosts the annual indoor GP, where many-a-world record has been set.

[EastBayprepoftheweek67]

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I was born in Berkeley, Calif, home of Cal and Edwards Stadium.

I was sitting in the Edwards stands when Jim Ryun set his first mile World record in 1966.

I was on the Edwards infield as a photographer for the Daily Cal when Pat Matsdorf set his high jump World Record in 1971. This one jump sealed my fate as a serious photographer: I made the conscious decision that I would rather watch his jump than photograph it. So I put my camera down and watched in gerat excitement along with thousands of others as he cleared his improbable height.

I learned then that I could only be an amateur photographer. Of course, Jeff Kroot being right there with me (and others) and capturing the jump in a way I never could also contributed to my realization.

Jeff's photo of the jump was a TF&N cover. Ironically, his photo is now how I remember the record jump, not my memory, which has faded.

[Grazerism]

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I was born in China, the country that Xiang Liu is from. Does that count?

[BillCarr]

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I came into existence at Pennsylvania Hospital (incidentally, the oldest hospital in the US) at 9th & Spruce. Franklin Field is at 33rd & Spruce. I'll leave it at that.

[OldOwl]

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I was born in Houston and got to watch Jackie Joynor-Kersee set a world record in the Heptathlon -- in July!

[bad hammy]

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OK, I was born in Oakland, which has zero WRs, but it is right next door to Berkeley where Cal’s Edwards Stadium has seen the following 16 WRs, plus 26 American records and 24 collegiate records. Too bad the big meets have migrated up the road to that Hell Hole known as Sacramento.


100y
9.6 Haward Drew USA Mar 28, 1914
9.6 Charles Paddock USA Mar 26, 1921

200m
20.6 Bobby Morrow USA Jun 16, 1956
20.6 Ray Norton USA Mar 19, 1960

400y
46.0 Herbert McKenley JAM Jun 05, 1948

Mile
3.51.3 Jim Ryun USA Jul 17, 1966

5000m
13.08.4 Henry Rono KEN Apr 08, 1978

HJ
2.01 Edward Beeson USA May 02, 1914
2.29 Patrick Matzdorf USA Jul 03, 1971

PV
3.69 Norman Dole USA Apr 23, 1904
3.91 Leland Scott USA Apr 30, 1910
4.57 Cornelius Warmerdam USA Apr 13, 1940
4.74 Cornelius Warmerdam USA May 02, 1942

Hammer
53.65 Carol Cady USA Apr 28, 1984
54.86 Carol Cady USA May 05, 1984
57.51 Carol Cady USA May 05, 1984

[bad hammy]

Re: About Track and Field the place where you were bo

And broadening my horizons a bit by traveling to Cal’s cross-bay rival Stanford, the home of the Indians, Thunder Chickens and Cardinal has hosted a total of 35 WRs, as follows. Note that only Dragila’s pair are in the new scaled-down track facility (Cobb Track and Angell Field). Most of the rest (post 1921) were set on the track inside Stanford Stadium, which is apparently due to be torn out this spring as part of a facility renovation.

Can’t do the research now, but if we add Cal & Stanford’s 51 WRs to those set in the rest of the SF Bay Area (most notably San Jose) there has been a fairly respectable dose of top-flight T&F around here.


100y
9.6 Charles Paddock USA Mar 29, 1921
9.6 Morris Kirksey USA Mar 29, 1921
9.3 Dennis Johnson JAM Apr 01, 1961

100m
10.64 Ralph Metcalfe USA Jul 16, 1932

200m
20.5 Ray Norton USA Jul 02, 1960
20.5 Stone Johnson USA Jul 02, 1960

400y
46.4 Benjamin Eastman USA Mar 26, 1932

400m
47.0 Emerson Spencer USA May 12, 1928

110h
14.53 Jack Keller USA Jul 16, 1932

3000st
9.14.5 Joseph McCluskey USA Jul 16, 1932

HJ
1.98 George Horine USA Mar 29, 1912
2.00 George Horine USA May 18, 1912
2.06 Walter Marty USA Apr 28, 1934
2.195 John Thomas USA Jul 01, 1960
2.22 John Thomas USA Jul 01, 1960
2.26 Valeriy Brumel URS Jul 22, 1962

PV
4.37 William Graber USA Jul 16, 1932
4.48 Earle Meadows USA May 08, 1937
4.64 Cornelius Warmerdam USA Apr 12, 1941
4.78 Robert Gutowski USA Apr 27, 1957
4.80 Donald Bragg USA Jul 02, 1960

SP
16.48 John Lyman USA Apr 21, 1934
19.45 William Nieder USA Mar 19, 1960

DT
48.20 Clarence Houser USA Apr 03, 1926
49.90 Eric Krenz USA Mar 09, 1929
49.94 Eric Krenz USA May 17, 1930
51.03 Eric Krenz USA May 17, 1930
53.26 Archie Harris USA Jun 20, 1941

HT
70.67 Harold Connolly USA Jul 21, 1962

5000(w)
15.30.6 Janice Merrill USA Mar 22, 1980

PV (w)
4.71 Stacy Dragila USA Jun 09, 2001
4.81 Stacy Dragila USA Jun 09, 2001

HT (w)
38.33 Debbie Lombard USA Apr 10, 1982
41.99 Carol Cady USA Apr 10, 1982
48.13 Carol Cady USA Nov 27, 1982

[dukehjsteve]

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Stanford has hosted a
>total of 35 WRs






HJ
1.98 George Horine USA Mar 29, 1912
2.00 George Horine USA
>May 18, 1912
2.06 Walter Marty USA Apr 28, 1934
2.195 John Thomas
>s USA Jul 01, 1960
2.22 John Thomas USA Jul 01, 1960
2.26 Valeriy
>Brumel URS Jul 22, 1962

Little stat rant of mine has always been that John Thomas got cheated out of a full centimeter when he got credit for a 2.22 WR. He jumped a measured ( with a foot/inches tape) 7' 3 3/4", but no metric tape was used, so when it was measured, officials recorded it to the lower 1/4" which gave us the 7' 3 3/4". Mathematically, that converts to exactly 2.22885, which then got rounded all the way down to 2.22, quite properly, by the IAAF !

Surely, if the officials had had the smarts to find a metric tape and measure with it, another sliver the width of a hair would have yielded a 2.23. Dumb. But the 7' 3 3/4" itself was so high I guess no one cared...

[jlightnin]

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But in more recent days, Brunswick has been the site of the Maine Distance Classic, a terrific meet that has produced American records and other fine performances.

Hey Tandfan; I really didnt know that, and it gives me a reason to visit Brunswick, I lived there for the first 3 monhs of my life, but I have always wanted to go back .
Thanks, I guess that's has something to do with why track & field's in my blood so much. lol

[R. Sloane]

Re: About Track and Field the place where you were bo

>I was born in Berkeley, Calif, home of Cal and Edwards Stadium.

I was
>sitting in the Edwards stands when Jim Ryun set his first mile World record in
>1966.

I was on the Edwards infield as a photographer for the Daily Cal when
>Pat Matsdorf set his high jump World Record in 1971. This one jump sealed my
>fate as a serious photographer: I made the conscious decision that I would
>rather watch his jump than photograph it. So I put my camera down and watched
>in gerat excitement along with thousands of others as he cleared his improbable
>height.

I learned then that I could only be an amateur photographer. Of
>course, Jeff Kroot being right there with me (and others) and capturing the
>jump in a way I never could also contributed to my realization.

Jeff's
>photo of the jump was a TF&N cover. Ironically, his photo is now how I remember
>the record jump, not my memory, which has faded.


Ditto for me too...

BHS grad, 1965. First to Chico State then to Cal.

Many WR, AR, NHS, etc. records at Edwards.