Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Understroking the Yugoslavs for much of the race, the Crimson stepped up the pace to 40 as the boats reached the 1600-meter mark 400 meters from home. They opened up a gap of more than a length, and withstood a power burst at 44 by the Yugoslavs with 200 meters...
...clipping 6.2 sec. from the record set in 1963 by Australia's Ron Clarke; at the national A.A.U. track and field championships in San Diego, where the team to meet the U.S.S.R. at Kiev this month was chosen. Proving that his astonishing 10,000-meter victory in the Olympics was no fluke, Mills held off a strong challenge from Washington State's Gerry Lindgren, 19, who matched him stride for stride through a bristling 58 sec. final quarter-mile before Mills breasted the tape barely inches ahead. Timers called it a dead heat, and both will...
...France's Michel Jazy, 29: the 5,000-meter run in 13 min. 27.6 sec., paring 2 sec. from his own European mark; at Helsinki's World Games. Continuing a fantastic, month-long campaign that has seen him smash seven European and world records, including the mile (TIME, June 18), Jazy took this occasion to show that he could run against topflight competition as well as against the clock in carefully staged set-piece races. Ranged against him at Helsinki was a raft of world stars, among them Australia's Ron Clarke and U.S. Olympic Winner...
...rowed all season and had won them by huge margins. It had broken the Charles record by ten seconds and obliterated the Lake Carnegie (Princeton) record by 20. It has beaten the field in the Eastern sprints by two and a half lengths, a record margin in the 2000-meter race. And it had left Yale ten lengths astern in the four-mile chase down the Thames River in New London...
...Australia's Ron Clarke, 28: the 10,000-meter run in 28 min. 14 sec., snipping 1.6 sec. off his own world record; on the famed track at Turku, Finland. Outdistancing a pack of Finnish runners, Clarke finished without his usual sprint, leading observers to believe that the intense Aussie can run still faster...