Wednesday, June 19, 2019

He Hasn't Aged A Bit!




On this day in track nerd history Greg Fredericks nailed a nifty 28:08.0 while slicing 9.6 seconds off Billy Mills' American 10,000 meters record (June 15, 1972 @ AAUs ins Seattle)

Two months later, Frank (Shorter) would take the record during the semis in Munich and then again in the finals...two years after that
Pre broke Frank's record...(Craig) Virgin broke that (twice) and held it until Al Sal(azar) grabbed his share of the AR pie..who broke Salazar's mark? correct, Mark Nenow...good knowledge     -Mike Fanelli.



Thanks to Mike Fanelli, Larry Mangan and Anne Fredericks for these three pics from 1971, 1972, and 2018.

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