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...Clarke, 28: the 5,000-meter run in 13 min. 25.8 sec., clipping 7.8 sec. off his own world mark and breaking the three-mile record along the way; at the Compton Invitational track meet in Los Angeles. Clarke stole the limelight from New Zealand's Peter Snell, 26, the world record holder in the mile, who had to run a 55.1-sec. final quarter to edge Oregon's Jim Grelle with both men clocking a fast 3 min. 56.4 sec. The Aussie's great run made it four new world records in the space of seven...
...Kansas' Jim Ryun, 18: a 3-min. 58.3-sec. mile, fastest ever run by a high-schooler and only 4.2 sec. off the world record held by New Zealand's Peter Snell; in a meet at Wichita. Passing the three-quarter-mile mark in 3 min. 2 sec. Ryun sprinted the last quarter in 56.3 sec., clipped 3.7 sec. off his own high school record set last month...
...Clarke, 27: a wind-whipped, three-mile race at Melbourne's Olympic Park, in the world-record time of 13 min. 7.6 sec.-clipping 2.4 sec. off the old mark held by New Zealand's Murray Halberg, who trailed Clarke through the tape by 150 yds. Peter Snell failed in his attempt to break his own world record for the mile (3 min. 54.1 sec.), still clocked 3 min. 57.6 sec.-the eleventh time the muscular New Zealander has cracked...
...cheers started when Snell breezed through the first quarter in 56 sec. They became a roar when he turned the half-mile in 1 min. 54 sec., setting his own blazing pace, running easily in that long, loping stride of his. At that rate, he would have an incredible 3-min. 48-sec. mile-if Odlozil and Davies could drive him on. Then Snell started to pull away-5 yds., 10 yds., 15 yds. Odlozil and Davies struggled to keep up, but they were fighting for wind. Snell would have to do it alone. At the threequarter mark...
...world record all right-.3 sec. faster than Snell had ever run the mile before. But he was bitterly disappointed. "It's very hard without competition," he said. "It detracts from the incentive." This week, in another meet at Wanganui, Snell will try again. There is talk of getting a mechanical rabbit...