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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strickler is the national junior 1500-meter champion and recently turned in a blistering 4:26.5 for the metric mile at the National Sports Festival in Syracuse, N.Y. On the road, Strickler turned in a 13th-place finish in last year's National junior cross country meet...
...taking 27/100 sec. off the mark with a time of 3 min. 48.53 sec. Exactly a week later, Ovett announced that he wanted to go after the new record at a meet in Koblenz, West Germany. No mile event had been scheduled-its metric near equivalent, the 1,500-meter run, was on the Koblenz menu-but meet organizers quickly obliged Ovett's request and lengthened the finish line by the required 120 yds. As good as his word, Ovett flashed across the tape in 3 min. 48.40 sec. His feat set another record: shortest time needed to break...
...best chance of breaking each other's world records. In 1979 Coe burst from obscurity by snapping the record in the mile, with a 3-min. 49.0-sec. performance in Oslo (only twelve days after setting a world mark of 1 min. 42.3 sec. in the 800 meters). Just before the Olympics last year, Ovett went to Oslo and marked Coe's record "return to sender" with a time of 3 min. 48.8 sec. They finally met on the same track at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. In the 800-meter run, Ovett finished first and Coe second...
...hoped to make his latest vic tory a chain letter by breaking Ovett's 1,500-meter record as well. But a slow early pace kept him nearly 2 sec. slower than Ovett at the 1,500-meter mark (120 yds. short of a mile). Coe shifted into over drive. With a capacity crowd of 23,000 at Zurich's Letzigrund Stadium stamping in rhythm with his every step, he was able to make up lost seconds in the final 100 yds. to finish the mile in record time. He had worked during the winter on his already...
...shared the limelight in Zurich with American Renaldo Nehemiah, 22, who became the first man in history to run the 110-meter high hurdles in less than 13 sec. His 12.93 performance came after two frustrating years of injuries, a change of coaches and acrimony over his decision to drop out of the University of Maryland. Said Nehemiah: "This means the world to me after having a couple of disappointing years when I doubted my ability and honestly wondered if I was washed up. Now there's no question as to how good...