Word: meters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...IC4A Indoor Championships, Horner qualified for the finals in the long jump and won his heat in the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.3 seconds. Horner is also competitive in the 55-meter dash and 400-meter relay events...
...addition to freshmen talent, the Crimson men's squad also has excellent senior leadership in Co-Captains Donald Lavigne and Brian Cann. Lavigne specializes in the 400 meter dash, and Cann is the team's top distance runner...
Distance runner Suzanne Jones earned All-America honors by placing fifth in the 5000-meter run. Her time of 16:09.74 is the second fastest time ever run by a Harvard woman...
...only other Harvard qualifier in the nationals was junior Meredith Rainey. Rainey, who is competitive in every event from the 55-meter dash to the 800-meter run, qualified for the NCAA championships in the 400-meter dash. Although she finished third in her trial heat, her time of 54.64 was not fast enough to qualify for the finals...
...results were spectacular. Johnson, initially a scrawny sprinter, bulked up like a wrestler. In August 1987, he shattered the 100-meter world record with a stunning 9.83-sec. performance at the Rome track-and-field championships, a feat that Francis claims was aided by an extensive anabolic- steroid program. But John Holt, general secretary of the International Amateur Athletic Federation, has said there are no grounds for nullifying the seemingly tainted record, because Johnson tested negative for the drugs after that key race. The Jamaican-born sprinter, 27, had no such luck after his 9.79 sprint in Seoul...