Word: hurdler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Tanzanian Miler Filbert Bayi first appeared in international meets three years ago, other runners viewed his style with disdain. Instead of pacing himself and saving a kick for the last quarter-mile, Bayi sprinted from the gun. His opponents, recalls Hurdler Tom Hill, "used to sit back at their old pace and say, 'Wow, this fool is going to drop dead on the third lap.' " Trouble was, Bayi never did. He began to make a habit of leaving astonished stars behind him. Last year at the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand, Bayi atomized Jim Ryun...
Harvard's shining star in the meet was hurdler Sam Butler, Butler won his individual event in the strong time of 6.6 seconds and then teamed up with John Maggio, Gary Schmidt and Joel Peters to lead the mile relay to the third cage record of the day, as they turned in 3:25:5 winning time...
...Rojas provided the long distance heroics, fighting both wind and a couple of find West Point milers, to grab first place with a 4:14. Shoe problems made Sam Butler settle with a third place in the high hurdles. The number one Harvard hurdler came back with a victory in the intermediate hurdles...
Harvard's Sam Butler will try to find a few chinks in the armor of Boston University's Ford Dennis, last year's IC4A champ, and Tyler, an undefeated hurdler...
...Hurdler Sam Butler will run into more than the usual obstacles with Army's Rick Madden and Gary Dellarocca expected to smash the Bubble's existing high hurdles record of 7.5 seconds...