Word: relays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record by 2.2 sec., neatly finished the job of turning Chicago's Pan-American Games into a one-girl swim. In all, Chris carried off five gold medals: she won the 100, 200 and 400 meters, was a member of the winning team in the 400-meter freestyle relay and the 400-meter medley. What was more, all of the times were Pan-American records...
...thinking of the food I love"). Next, thrashing home on the last lap with furious half-strokes ("They give me speed but they really wind me"), Yamanaka lopped 2.4 sec. off Konrads' mark (4:19) for the 400 meters. Still full of swimming, he swam on the relay team that broke the 800 meters record of 8:21.6 by 2.9 sec., and finally, last week, Yamanaka capped his performance by tying the Japanese record of 56.4 sec. for the 100 meters...
...meters (2:02.3), the 400 meters (4:22.3), the 800 meters (9:09.7), and the 1,500 meters (17:47.5). Final score: Japan, 41; U.S., 38. At a second meet, Yamanaka lowered the 400-meter record by 2.4 sec. to 4:16.6, then anchored the 800-meter relay team as it broke its own world record by 2.9 sec. with a startling time of 8:18.7. But McKinney splashed home in 2:17.8 to better his own world record for the 200 meters by .1 sec., and the U.S. team won, 37-33. Said U.S. Coach Willis Casey...
...indeed, blazing home in 22.5-.1 sec. under the mark for the distance around a curve. The track club president celebrated by ordering beer for all hands. Lauer? He marked one of the great performances in track history by calmly going out to anchor the winning 400-meter relay team...
...turn into a battle between two Americans, Harvard captain Albie Gordon and Yale sophomore Jim Stack. The Crimson's Joel Landau is favored in the high hurdles over Rex Van Rossum of Oxford, and either Landau or Yale's Jay Luck should take the lows. The 4 x 110 relay should go to the Americans. Either Blodgett or Yale freshman Oakley Andrews should easily win the pole vault, since Cambridge's Stuart Downhill, the best Englishman, has done only 12 ft., 5 1/2 in. Bill Markle of Yale should finish first in the shot put and his teammate Mike Pyle...