Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Post-meet analysis naturally produced a variety of explanations for the poor showing. Many American coaches criticized the Amateur Athletic Union for allowing members of the U.S. team to compete in track meets throughout Europe before going on to Kiev. Along the way, Olympic 5,000-meter Champion Bob Schul caught a cold that so weakened him that he lost to 35-year-old Pyotr Bolotnikov. Another outstanding U.S. distance runner, 19-year-old Gerry Lingren, got tonsilitis and finished third in the 10,000-meter race...
Ever since New Zealand's Peter Snell stormed from behind to win the 800-meter race in the 1960 Olympics, he has dominated the middle distances like no other runner in history. He set new world records for 800 meters (1 min. 44.3 sec.), 880 yds. (1 min. 45.1 sec.), 1,000 meters (2 min. 16.6 sec.), and one mile (3 min. 54.1 sec.); he outclassed all challengers at the 1964 Olympics, won both the 800-meter and the 1,500-meter races...
...June, France's Michel Jazy broke Snell's one-mile record by .5 sec. Stung, Snell hopped off for Europe to recapture his position. In Helsinki he raced in a 1,500-meter contest. He lost. In London earlier this month, he tried to win back the mile record, finished seventh, barely scraping in under the four-minute mark. Two days later he was beaten in Dublin by two British milers. In Czechoslovakia he lost two races. In Oslo he was beaten at 800 meters. Two weeks ago in Berlin, Oregon's Jim Grelle, whom Snell...
...only warming up. Last week, Clarke broke the 28-min. barrier for the 10,000 meter run (about 6¼ miles). Lapping the other runners at Oslo's Bislet Stadium, he clocked in at 27 min. 39.4 sec., slicing 34.6 sec. off the record he set four weeks ago. On the way to the 10,000 meter mark, he established a new world record of 26 min. 47 sec. at the six-mile mark as well...
...fast-chopping 50 strokes a minute, built up a one-half-length lead before slowing the pace to 41 strokes. At times, the Vespers pumped away at more than 40 strokes, but never succeeded in closing the distance. Ratzeburg glided past the finish line of the 2,000-meter course a neat 9 ft. ahead...