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TRACKNEWSLETTER SupplementingTRACK & FIELDNEWS Vol. 13, No. 5 November 10, 1966 Page 33 Columbia's Mejia Outshines All in Mexico LJ (10/19), 1. Boston (US) 26'2½°'; 2. Areta (Sp) 23'6¾". TJ (10/20), 1 . Kalocsai (Hun) 54'2"; 2. Ciochina (Rum) 54'0~; Mexico City, Oct. 18-20--The find of the Second International 3. Jaskolski (Pol) 53'1"; 4. Areta 52'3½"; 5. Hernandez (Cuba) Sports Week has to be Alvaro Mejia, a 26-year-old Columbian whose 50'11¾". two victories from Olympic medalists in the 5000 and 10,000 have SP (10/18), l. Steinhauer (US) 61'5"; 2. von Moltke (WG)50'4¾". rocketed him into the Olympic distance picture for the Olympics to DT (10/19), 1. Oerter (US) 187'1%"; 2. Humphreys (US)l78'0"; be staged here two years hence. 3. Steinhauer 157'8". Trained at 8700-foot Bogota but still a splendid distance po HT (10/19), 1. Klim (SU) 230'3½"; 2. Zsivotzky (Hun) 223'9"; tential at any altitude, Mejia displayed brilliant last lap speed and 3. &!rke (US) 211'0"; 4. Samuel (Cuba) 209'11½". endurance to overtake Tunisia's Mohamed Gammoudi in the shorter JT (10/20), 1. Lusis (SU) 268'9"; 2. Covelli (US) 253'8~; 3-. event as both were timed in 14:20. 0 and to overhaul Belgium's Gaston Nikiciuk (Pol) 249'6½"; 4. Panello (Cuba) 243'1"; 5. Tushaus (US) Roelants in the 10,000, 30: 10. 8 to 30:14,.4. Neither time endangered 237'1" . Ron Clarke's world marks of 13:16.6 and 27:39.4 but both markedly · improved on Gammoudi 's winning times of last year: 14:40 .6 and 31:27.8. Roelants Ruins Clarke's 20,000m, Hour Marks __ Tommie Smith's 20 .3 around a curve for 200-meters looked Louvain, Belgium, Oct. 28- -Steeplechase great Gaston Roe (' ') remarkably effortless, particularly for a cold day and a track made lants took a crack at two longer distances--20, 000-meters and one slippery by a steady rain. He won by eight-tenths from a nameless hour--and succeeded in smashing both world records by substantial '---" field. In the 100-meters two days before, Tommie was left infuriated margins. His time of 58:06.2 clipped an astonishing 1:16.6 frllm by a most inconsistent starter though it is quite problematical that he Ron Clarke's year-old 20 kilo mark. Roelants then continued on to would have beaten Cuba's swift Enrique Figuerola, who held off the cover 12 miles 1474 yards (20, 664 -meters) in one hour--467 yards usually fast closing Smith as both timed a good 10. 4 for the 8. 95 mph (433 meters) farther than Clarke. His time at 10- miles was estima - wind they had to buck . ted as 46:45.0--superior to Clarke's 47:12.8 in a 10-mile race. Other highlights included Ital!an hurdlers Eddy Ottoz and According to the Portuguese Tables, Roelants 58:06.2 is worth Roberto Frinolli, who smoothly skimmed over their IO.barriers to 1022 points, the same as Jim Ryun's 3:51.3 mile and his 12 miles win their favorite events, 14 .1 for Ottoz in the highs and 49. 7 for 1474 yards is rated at 1025 points, equal to 7:42.8 (3000m), . 8:19.6 Frinolli in .the intermediates. Best of the field events was the ham (two-miles), 12:52 .8 (three-miles), 13:;!2 .0 (5000m), 26:56.2 (six mer throw in which the three leading contenders of 1966 met with miles), 27:54:2 (10,000m) and 8:11.0 (steeplechase). The_only the result of Romuald Klim once again maintaininf his superiority distance nmners with superior performances are Clarke and Kip Kein over world record holder Gyula Zsivotzky, 230'3 2" to 223'9", as Ed Roelants was paced by Henri Clerckx for the first 5000 in &!rke, whose last meet was in July! managed only 211 '0", _ to just 14:46.6--right on world record pace. At this point, he increased nip Cuba's Enrique Samuel (209'112"). the pace to 14: 27. 2 for a 10, 000 time of 29: 13 ,.8. He continued to (A detailed article of !'his meet will appear in the Nov. T&FN.) push the pace with subsequent splits of 14:24.0 and 14:28.2 adding 100 (10/18), 1. Figuerola (Cuba) 10.4; 2. Smith'(US) 1'0.4; 3. up to a second 10,000 of 28:52.4. He ran the last 664 meters in, Gaines (US) 10.5. Heats (10/18), 1-1. Figuerola 10.3; 2. Preatonl 1:57 .8. Second was Andre de Hertoghe in 1:05:03.0 for 20,000- (It) 10.5; 3. Gaines 10 .1s. Il-1. Smith 10.5. meters . 200 (10/20), 1. Smith 20.3; 2. Preatoni 21.l. .. 5. Gaines 21.5. Heats (10/19), 1-1. Smith 21.0. Il-1. Preatoni 22.0; 2. Gaines 22,2. 400 (10/20), 1. Gayosso (Sp) 47 .3; 2. Alvaro Gonzalez(Sp)47 .6. 800 (10/19), 1. Jungwirth (Czech) 1:51.9; 2. Kasal (Czech) EPPING, AUSTRALIA, Oct. l--2Mile, Clarke 8:48.2; z. O'Brie i 1:52.4; i. Dufresne (Fr) 1:52.6; 4. Mummenthaler (Swit) 1:52.8. 9:00.6. HJ, Peckham 6'10"; 2. Sneazwell 6'8". JT, Carlton 257'5" . Heats (10/18), 1-1. Jungwirth 1:49.6; 2. Dufresne 1:49.7; 3. Mum WAL TON-ON-THAMES, ENGLAND, Oct. 15--50Miles, Phillips { ·', menthaler 1:49.9; 4. Panzano (Sp) 1:50.0; 5. Vera (Mex) 1:50.6; 5:12:39 . 8 unofficial WR 'i. Adams (WG) 1:54.3. Il-1. Gonzalez 1:54.9; 2. Kasal 1:55.0; 3. LENINAKAN, USSR (1666m alt), 400IH, Anisimov 50 . 8; 2 . Kaza '--....,,Veyrat ( Fr) 1:55. 2; 4. Klaban (Aus) 1:55 .3; 5. Balke (WG) 1:55 .6. kov 50.9. HJ, Martynov 6'10,l" . TJ, Kurkyevich 54'4"; 2. Fyedose 1500 (10/20), 1. Tummler (WG) 3:50.6; 2. Finelli (lt) 3:52.0; yev 53'7¾"; 3. Lligand 53'5:I''. HT, Tribuns~y 213'10"; 2. Nikulin 3, de Hertoghe (Bel) 3:52.2; 4. Hoffman (Czech) 3:52.5; 5. Colin 213'2"; 3. Baltovskiy213'½". SP, Gushchin62'6}"; 2. Karasyov (Fr) 3:54. 3; 6. Tyurin (SU) 3:54. 7; 7. Odlozil (Czech) 3:56 . 2 (inj); 60'3¾". PV, Fyeld 16'1". LJ, Lepik 26'4¼". DT, Lyakhov 190'7½". dnf--Grelle (US). Heats (10/19), I-1. Colin 4:01.0; 2. Finelli llOH, Styepanenko 14.0; 2. Balikhin 14.0. 4:01.0; 3. Odlozil 4:01.2; 4. Alionsius (Bel) 4:01.2; 5. Kuryan (SU) ATHENS, GREECE, PV, Papanlkolaou 16'1". 4:01.8. 11-1. Hoffman 4:04 .8; 2. Jorge Gonzalez (Sp) 4:05. l; 3 . CZECHOSLOVAKIA, DT, Danek 199' .3½". Grelle 4:05.7. Ill-1. de Hertoghe 3:58.9; 2. Tummler 3:59.8; 3. MARTIGUES, FRANCE, 30oo; Jazy 7:59 .0. Tyurin 4:00.0; 4. Klaban (Aut) 4:00.4. PRAGUE, CZECH, 100m, Kone (IC) 10.2; 2. Dudziak (Pol) 10.3 5000 (10/18), 1. Mejia (Col) 14:20.0; 2. Gammoudi (Tun) _MANOSQUE, FR~N~ E, l~0?:,]a~r,_3:41. 7. Dec, Du~ ~iler, , .. 0 0 14:20.0; 3. Tyurin 14:29.8; 4. Mecser (Hun) 14:39.8; 5. Martinez (Switz) 7324 (11.4, 23 44 , 45 34 , 6 2 , 51.4, 15.1, 120 3 , 14 54 (Mex) 14:46.4 ... 14. Young (US) 15:30.0. 184'7", 4:40.7). 10,000 (10/20), 1. Mejia 30:10.8; 2. Roelants (Bel) 30:14.4; 3. SAlNT-MAUR, FRANCE, Oct. 12--2000, Jazy 4:56.2 WR (400 Gammoudi 30:30.6; 4. Martinez 30:30.8; 5. Mecser 30:35.6; 6. splits: 53.0, 1:58.7, 2:29.2, 2:59.6, 3:44.5, 3:58.6). 1000, Tous Mikityenko (SU) 30:42.2; 7. Sasaki Uap) 31:13.0. saint 2:20.9. llOH, Chardel 14.1. LJ, Pani 25'8;}''. SP, Varju (Hur. 3000St (10/19), 1. Roelants 8:58 .ti; 2. Texereau (Fr) 9:29.0; 3. 62'1¾"; 2. Colnard 59'1½". Saruwatai:i Uap) 9:29.0; 4. Labidi (Tun) 9:42.6; 5. Alvarez (Sp) ROME, ITALY, HJ, Gavrilov (SU) and Stadnikov (SU) 6'10f'. 9:44.6; 6 . Buendia(Mex)9:49 .8; 7. Kudinskiy(SU)9:54.2(fell). WARSAW, POLAND, PV, Wecek 16'1''. llOHH (10/19), 1. Ottoz (it) 14.1; 2. Geeroms (Bel) 14.3; 3. HUNGARY, JT, Nemeth 262'9½". Morales (Cuba) 14.4; 4. Bliznyetsov (SU) 14.5. WARSAW, JT, Sidlo 265'4". DT, Piatkowski 192'8½" . 4001H (10/18), 1. Frinolli (It) 49. 7; 2. Geeroms 51. 2; 3. Gay MULHOUSE, FRANCE, 1000, Lurot 2:20.5. oso (Sp) 51.9 . WARSAW, POLAND, ~J .. czernik 6'10f' . Sidlo 265'4" (lOOt 1 f\,.. HJ (10/18), 1. Skvortsov (SU) 6'11½"; 2. Azzaro (It) 6'9;". meet over 80-meters (262 52 ) • SP, Komar 60 72 . PV (10/20), 1. Seagren (US) 16'8:l°'; 2. Papanikolaou (Gr) 16'5"; MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, LJ, Crawley 26'7"w. HJ, Peckham 3. Bliznyetsov 15 '9". 6'1of'. 2Mile, Clarke 8:42.6 . r · Page 34 1':,:,•:ember 10, 1966 l<.011w (Tex 1:,) ,J:OS.il.