This Day in Track & Field, September 9, Sandi Morris clears 5.00 meters (16’4.75″), American Record (2016), by Walt Murphy

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This Day in Track & Field–September  9

1916—George Bronder set an American Record of 190-6 (58.06) in the Javelin in Newark, New Jersey, Bronder won six straight U.S. titles from 1914-1919. That stood as the record for most wins in the event until Breaux Greer won his 7^th straight in 2006 (he won his 8^th in 2007),

Bronder had just finished his junior year at Poly Prep H.S. in Brooklyn when he won his first U.S. title in 1914. After a tour of duty during World War I, he entered the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a winner at the 1921 and 1922 Penn Relays and the 1922 IC4A Championships.

He moved his family to Australia in 1926 and became a fixture on the local T&F circuit into the 1930s.

http://athletics.possumbility.com/athletes/athlete2332.htm

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19150724&id=D8JXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JPQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4905,2062179

http://tinyurl.com/BronderPolyPrep (Need to zoom in to view the article in the upper left-hand corner)

AR Progression: http://trackfield.brinkster.net/RecProg_AllUSA.asp?RecCode=WR&EventCode=MF8&Gender=M&P=F

1928—Silvio Cator of Haiti became the first long-jumper to break the 26-foot barrier, jumping 26-1/4 (7.93) in Colombes, France. Cator, who had won the silver medal in the Long Jump at the Amsterdam Olympics in late July, was also a member of Haiti’s national soccer team. He remains the only athlete from Haiti to win an Olympic medal in T&F and still holds the Haitian Record, one of the oldest National Records in the sport (maybe THE oldest).

Wiki Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Cator

1933—Italy’s Luigi Beccali, the 1932 Olympic gold medalist in the 1500, ran 3:49.2 at the World Student Games in Turin, Italy, to equal the World Record, which had been set in 1930 by France’s Jules Ladoumègue. Beccali, 2^nd in that race, took sole possession of the WR when he ran 3:49.0 eight days later in Milan.

WR Progression: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1500_metres_world_record_progression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Beccali

1968—The Decathlon had already finished up two days earlier, and now it was time to select the rest of the U.S. team at the Olympic Trials at Echo Summit.

There was one final, with Tracy Smith (30:00.4), Van Nelson (30:04.0), and Tom Laris (30:09.8) taking the first three places in the 10,000-meters. Old favorites Billy Mills (30:32.2) and Gerry Lindgren (30:44.2) were…