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This Day in Track & Field/–November 12
1964—Less than a month after his double-gold medal performance at the Tokyo Olympics (800/1500), New Zealand’s Peter Snell ran 2:16.6 for 1000-meters in Auckland to break the 4-year old World Record of 2:16.7, set by East Germany’s Siegfried Valentin in 1960.
WR Progression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_metres_world_record_progression
https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/74357
1964
Olympic 800m/1500m champion, photo by World Athletics
1977–Carleton’s Dale Kramer, a native of Minnesota, had no trouble dealing with Cleveland’s 4” of snow and frigid temperatures as he won his 2nd straight NCAA Div.III X-Country title. A snowmobile led the runners over the course to make sure they went in the right direction!
In 2002, Kramer was named a NCAA Silver Anniversary award winner, an honor that recognizes former outstanding student-athletes who have distinguished themselves in the 25 years since graduating.
https://www.carleton.edu/news/stories/dale-kramer-named-ncaa-silver-award-recipient/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Silver_Anniversary_Awards_recipients
Div.III History: https://sagehens.com/sports/2023/8/28/d3-cross-country-historians-report.aspx
1995—For the 2nd year in a row, Mexico’s Germán Silva (2:10:00) and Kenya’s Tegla Loroupe (2:28:06) were winners at the NY City Marathon.
Silva, who famously won in 1994 despite making a wrong turn near the end of the race, made no such mistake this time, pulling away from Great Britain’s Paul Evans (2:11:05) in the last 3-miles. He was inducted into the NYRR Hall of Fame in 2014.
After Loroupe crossed the finish line, the two winners congratulated each other in an emotional embrace, for both were running in the memory of loved ones who had died. Silva’s father, Agapito, lost his battle with cancer over the summer, and Loroupe’s sister, Albina, died only 13 days ago from severe…
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