Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sticking to the same old style-loafing off the pace until the last lap and then spurting to the tape-Villanova's Irish Olympian Ron Delany stuck to the same old habit of winning mile races. Ron opened the 1958 track season at the Massachusetts K. of C. Games by coming home six yards in front of Chicago's Phil Coleman in a Games record...
...second 440 as a new race, and go for your life"), and set out for glory with deep, slow strokes and a gentle-seeming six-beat kick. While fans in the stands whooped and whistled, she flashed through the second 440 in 5:12.2, sprinted the last 55-yd. lap in 35.7 and touched out in 10:17.7. The astounding announcement: Ilsa had knocked 16.9 sec. off Lorraine's world record for the 880, en route had clipped 13.2 sec. off her world record for the 800 meters...
...this point, the strain of running a longer race than is his custom began to tell on Anderson. He faltered briefly and was immediately passed by all four of the men who until then had been running behind him. In the last lap, however, he managed to muster a finishing sprint sufficient to overtake Jenkins and he narrowly missed catching Lockerbie...
...Yale's Ed Slowik passed the Crimson's Art Cahn just before the pass to the anchor-men. Slowik's brother John, who previously had finished second in the Farrell 500, fought off several challenges by Ed Martin of the Crimson, and finally pulled away at the gun-lap to win by some ten yards...
Stanley's 2:27.7 beat the old record of 2:30.6. He pulled away immediately at the start and finished a half-lap ahead of the second place varsity swimmer Doug McCartney...