This Day in Track & Field, Lon Myers sets WR for 880 yards enroute to 1000 yards (1881), Galen Rupp wins Chicago (2017), Kelvin Kiptum sets Marathon WR, Sifan Hassan sets European Record for Marathon, both in Chicago! (2023), by Walt Murphy News and Results Services

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This Day in Track & Field–October  8

1881—Running on a 640y track in NY City, Lon Myers won the 1000-yards in 2:13.0 and improved his World Record

 in the 880y to 1:53.6 along the way. Myers is a charter member of the National Hall of Fame.

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

https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a20846307/rise-of-a-running-nation/

2006—The Netherlands’ Lornah Kiplagat set a World Record of 1:03:21 for 20,000-Meters at the inaugural IAAF World Road Running Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.

https://www.worldathletics.org/news/news/lornah-the-lion-fearless-and-now-first-de

2017—Galen Rupp became the first American since 2002 to win the Chicago Marathon (2:09:20).

Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba won the Women’s division in 2:18:31, with Jordan Hasay finishing 3^rd with a personal best time of 2:20:57.

From Runner’s World:

It’s Rupp’s fourth marathon, his best time and first World Marathon Majors victory. He crossed the finish line with a smile, greeted by his wife, Keara, and three young children. “My wife has given up her life to support me and my kids. I work my butt off, and I don’t get to see them as much as I’d like. So it’s a real emotional thing,” Rupp said. “You put so much into this one race—to see them at the finish line, to see them happy, it means the world to me.”

www.runnersworld.com/news/a20862371/fueled-by-faith-and-confidence-galen-rupp-wins-the-2017-chicago-marathon/

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/mens-chicago-marathon-winner-2017-449972823.html

Videos

Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9zHTc8K-lI

Full Race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRwNLIOlIKg

Past Winners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_of_the_Chicago_Marathon

2023–And the beat goes on. Two weeks after Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa stunned the running world by setting a Women’s World…