This Day in Track & Field, March 27, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan broke WR in LJ (1966) at first Euro Indoor Championships

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This Day in Track & Field–March 27

1966—Competing at the first European Indoor Championships in Dortmund, Germany, Soviet Igor Ter-Ovanesyan added two inches to his own World Record in the Long Jump with his winning leap of 27-feet even (8.23)

1970–Arizona State’s Mark Murro reached a milestone when he threw the javelin an even 300’ (91.44) on his home field in Tempe, Arizona, to better his American Record. Murro, who, along with teammate Marty Liquori, graduated from Essex Catholic H.S. (NJ) in 1967, held the prep record in the javelin (252-8 [77.01]) from 1967-1971(previous record holder was football’s Terry Bradshaw!). Liquori, of course, was the 3rd prep to run a sub-4 minute mile and went on to a brilliant career at Villanova and beyond.

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

1971–-High school senior Dwight Stones (Glendale, CA) cleared 7 feet (7 1/4) in the high jump for the first time in his career. Before heading out to a  training session a few years ago with some of the young jumpers he coaches, the loquacious Stones recalled that day (and that season):

            “It is indeed the anniversary of my first ever 7 foot (7′ 1/4″ [2.14]) clearance.  It was a Saturday, and the meeting was the Bishop Amat Relays that were held at Mt. SAC in Walnut.  My coach, John Barnes, had prepared me specifically for this event because it was one of the few places I would be jumping that provided me 3 steps on a rubberized surface.”

            “I remember getting up early that morning and washing my orange 1963 VW bug before making the 30+ mile trek from Glendale to Walnut.  The afternoon before, one of my good friends at Glendale High School, who happened to be one of the school’s sportswriters, asked me what I thought would happen.  I told him I was going to clear 7 feet.  They were putting the school paper to bed that night, and he asked me if I wanted him to print that, and I recall telling him, “No, because I might jump higher!”

            “I remember warming up with my teammate, Fritz Selzer, as we both led the nation at the time in our respective events.  He had cleared 15′ 4 3/4″ in the pole vault, and I had jumped 6′ 10″ (2.085) at the Sunkist Indoor Meet and        6′ 9 1/4″ (2.065) at a dual…