Word: haegg
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Sweden's Gunder Haegg: a 3,000-meter run; in 8 min., 1.2 sec., a new world's record; at Stockholm. In less than two months Runner Haegg has set five world's records. The others: one mile (4:06.2), two miles (8:47.8), 1,500 meters (3:45.8), 2,000 meters (5:11.8). If transportation can be arranged, Haegg will tour the U.S. this winter as guest of the Amateur Athletic Union...
...Gaunt & gainly Gunder Haegg, Sweden's No. 1 foot racer: a 2,000-meter run in 5 min., 16.4 sec.; clipping four-tenths of a second off the accepted world's record set by Kansan Archie San Romani in 1937; at Malmö, Sweden. It was the fourth time in three weeks that Haegg had set a new world's record. He ran 1,500 meters in 3:45.8, a mile in 4:06.2, two miles in 8:47.8. Hailed as another Nurmi, Haegg has been invited to tour the U.S. next winter...
When the International Amateur Athletic Federation meets again, some time after the war, it will have scores of new world's records to ratify. A double entry was recorded last week by Sweden's No. 1 runner: a cadaverous 26-year-old fireman named Gunder Haegg...
...Goteborg track meet, Haegg ran a mile in 4:06.2, two-tenths of a second under the record set by Britain's Sydney Wooderson in 1937.* Two days later, at Stockholm, he ran two miles in 8:47.8 -to shatter Finn Taisto Maki's pending out door mark by five seconds and Montanan Gregory Rice's indoor mark by three...