Success in Track & Field ... and Life
Share This is Part 2 of a tribute to John Akii-Bua. Click here for Part 1. This article is guest blogged by Jonathan Musere. John Akii-Bua – Triumph and Tragedy After Uganda’s Olympic Gold Medal Win The second All-Africa Games, after the 400 meters-hurdles Olympic gold medal win in Munich in September 1972, were John [...]
Share Today is John Akii-Bua’s birthday. John Akii-Bua (December 3, 1949 – June 20, 1997) was a Ugandan hurdler but coached by famed British-born coach Malcolm Arnold. He won the 400 meter hurdles Olympic Gold medal in Munich 1972 from Lane 1, and was denied a repeat chance with the African boycott in Montreal 1976. [...]
Share In an exclusive interview with Lee Evans, the 1968 Olympic 400 meter champion and anchor leg of the 4x400m relay (both World Records), I asked him on why he has decided to sell his Gold Medals from those Games. SpeedEndurance.com: As you may be aware, Tommie Smith tried to sell his Gold medal and [...]
Share It was reported Usain Bolt’s Anchor Leg at the 2010 Penn Relays was 8.71 seconds. With a 9.58 second personal best, Bolt surely has the POTENTIAL to run 8.58 with a running start. Was Usain Bolt the Fastest 100 meter split ever recorded in the 4×100 meter relay? Sorry, no. At the 2008 Beijing [...]
Share Last week’s article on Pietro Mennea’s Detailed Training Workouts for 200 meters brought some good discussion on super high volume, medium intensity training methods. In all fairness, I will present the final week of training prior to his 7 day taper period. I will only focus on track workouts and times, which will give [...]
Share Harry Jerome concurrently held or equaled 4 World Records from 1960-65 (60 yard, 100 yards, 100 meters, 4×100m). He attended the University of Oregon on a track scholarship from 1960 to 1964 under the tenure of Bill Bowerman’s of NIKE fame. He also won a bronze medal in the 100 meter sprint at the [...]
Share Pietro Mennea’s 19.72 200 meter World Record was set at the 1979 World University Games in Mexico City. The WR would later become the holy grail of the 200 meters until Michael Johnson broke it (twice) in 1996. Today, that 19.72 sounds like molasses in January compared to 19.19. Pietro Mennea also won the [...]
Share There will be a ceremony naming Harry Jerome as a Person of National Historical Significance on Saturday May 15th at 9:00 AM at the Harry Jerome statue located on the Stanley Park Seawall (see photo below). As well, they will also name the Canadian Landmark in his honour. Other famous runners inducted are Terry [...]
Share Rome’s Golden Gala will take place on 10 June, 2010 as the fourth stop on this year’s inaugural IAAF Diamond League series. Normally the meet is held in July, but we’ll have to wait and see the turnout as the next day is still a school day for children. Moreover, the Italian Masters Nationals [...]
Share Wayne Collett is most famous for his 1972 Olympic medal presentation “protest” where he won the silver medal behind American teammate Vince Matthews in the 400 meters. Had John Smith not been injured, we would have seen an American sweep. The IOC banned Collett and Matthews for life and with John Smith injured, that [...]
Share 43 years ago today… John Smith of HSI once said the goal of a 100 meter performance is to ELIMINATE the Negative Acceleration Phase. Another term is deceleration. Everyone decelerates in a 100m. Even Usain Bolt decelerates, as seen in his splits, though he reaches his top speed well past 60 meters. When Carl [...]
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Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett 1972 – The Forgotten Protest?
Share February is Black History Month in the USA and Canada. In the UK, it is celebrated in October. Last year’s post was dedicated to Stan Wright. I will honor this post to Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett. I was 9 years old when I watched the Munich Olympics in 1972. I had no idea [...]