AUGUST 1971 VOLUMEVII, NUMBER6 COLUMBUS,OHIO KLOPFER, YWNG CAPTUREl'Atl AIOOICANTITLESJ SOVIE.'"£SUPS.l:!:T EAST GERMANACES I N EUROPEANCHAMPIONSHIPS AT llliLSINKI Two major international championships highligh~ the month'~ ne~. At Ca~i, Coltnnbia Larry Young won his second Pan Am 50 Km title, repeating his 1967 win at Winne;eg, by edging the Mexican, Hernandez. At 20 1~:i-11,Goetz h-lopfer ups~t his U.S. teammate, Tom Dooley to capture _,the gold medal. A few days later 1:n Helsinki the top Europe.?.ns had at it in tielsinki and Russian walkers ·pulled a surpri~e in.both race~. In the 20~ vet- Larry Young and John Knifton. From there eran .Nikolai Smaga blistered the final Goetz had the race easily won to shouts 11 5 Km to break open a highly :cm?etitiv-e of "Yankee J:a.stard. , "Gringos", and "Viva race and at 50 the gutty l?enJanu.n Sol- Cuba". Dooley held his pace well and datenko walked a fantastic second hal~ was an easy second but never challenged to leave th~ se~ingly unbeatable Chris- Klopfer for the lead. Oliveros was well toph Hohne in his wake. clea .r of Jobin for third and the next three finishers were unknowns, reportedly The Pan American games opened at displaying rotten fonn. Frank J~h1;1son Cali on July 31 and the 20 }(.m walk went walked on a sprained ankle and firushed off at 4:30 that day. The U.S. walkers a distant last. In good health, he could were not in the best of health, Goetz have been a factor in the race. having a touch of dysentery and Tan Dooley suffering with a tendon strain Two days later the 50 Km men set that had allowed him only 3 hours of off at 1:30 in a hot 90 degree sun. lhe training in th e previous 10 days. How­ 3200 foot altitude was another factor ever, Cali was apparently not a place against the wallcers. Nonetheless, Larry full of healthy people, so they were Young and John Knifton moved through tre not alone. Dooley actually had offered first 10 km in 47:50 and at 20, Larry was to let an alternate replace him before just 15 seconds clear of John in l:41:10 leaving J,'.d.ami but bad been told to go 0good for fourth in the 20). From there _ on. the conditions started to tell and the pace The first 5 Km of the race found slowed markedly with Larry nearly 3 min­ Klopfer; the Cuban Lara, who had walked utes ahead with a 2:37:45.l 30 Km. At this a good 10 in the Carri bean Games, 1'.Ja.rcel point a 2O-yea.r old Mexican, Gabriel Jobin of Canada, Jose Oliveros of 1-1'..exicoHerna~dez started to come through strongly and Dooley in a pack at about 23:25. In from 5 or 6 minutes tack. Yoong passed the next 5, Klopfer and Lara started to 40 Km in 3:37:05 with the Mexican still pull out and at 10, Dooley left Oliveros gaining. With a mile-and-a-half to go an:1.Jobin, the latter dropping rapidly t he lead was dovm to 10 yards but Larry away, having also been sick. At 14 Km, was able to oull something out from sore-­ the Cuban was DQ•d by a Peruvian IAAF where, as he· usually is, and met the chal­ Judge, having had six calls and looked lenge to win by" 15 seconds. Knif~on was terrible all the way according to Jerry far in front of aeyone else in third as Hausleber, the Mexican coach from Poland, the U.S. just miss-ed a sweep of the two r-•us. August 1971 Page 2 As stated, Larry Young scored his By 10 Km, Smaga, Sperling, Nihill, second Pan American victory to go with and Frenkel were out by themselves in his third place in the Mexico Olympics. 44:00. Still very mu9h in contention Although he was a.bout 12 minutes slower were Ivtchenko (44:10) and ~bleton (~l). than in Winnepeg, the conditions had a Surprisingly, 1970 Lugano Cup winner ans­ good deal to do with that and he is mak­ Georg Reimann was not holding the pace ing good progrees.i~.._R,c1Fi.- his caneback• for as he carne through in 44:26. Actually, 1972. TomDooleyAwe re also in their the mute Gerhard Sperling was an equal second Pan Am Games, Tom having been surprise since he is usually not on the fourth in the 20 and Goetz third in the pace at this point, but saving for a b:g 50 at Winnepeg. finish. Apparently anything you have read By 15 Km it was definitely a four about the con:iitions in Cali is true. man race with Smaga, Sperling, NihilJ., There were indeed rats in the showers, and Frenkel still together in 1:05:50, fleas, and things like that, according 35 seconds clear of Re~~ann. T'ne ;niddle to Tan Dooley. H) kms had been covered in 43:35, seem­ ingly enough to discourage anyone. :Ebtble­ The results: 20 Km: l. Goetz ton and Ivtchen1<o were now 5 seconds back Klopfe r, US 1:37:30 2. Tern. Dooley, US of Reimann and the rest of the field was 1:38:16 3. Jose Oliveros, i1exico well strune out. 1: 40:26 4. Marcel Jobin, Can. 1:43:18 5. Miguel Sanches, ~Jexico 1:43:43 (cor­ On the final lap, Smaga destroyed rection on the line in the above story. Sperling and Nihill, both noted for It was the next three after Sanches that their fast finishes, with a 21:30 fo r 5 looked rotten) 6. Adelberto Scorza, Km, about 6: 55 pace, and a final time d' Argentina 1:47:30 7. Anquel Estrada, 1:27 :20.2 . Sperling held off Nihill fer Columbia 1: 47: 42 8. Miguel Vanegas, l·.iex second and world-record holder Frenkel ico 1:53:10 9. Frank Johnson, Canada dropped well back in fourth. Reimann, 2:02:54. meanwhile, got well clear of Embleton 50 Km: 1. La.rr-y-Yrung, US 4:38:31 2 . for fifth . Although Smaga upset them :ffl>r Gabriel Hernandez, Mexico 4:38:46 3. the individual title, the East Germans John Knifton, US 4:42:15 4. Vega, Col­ still fielded the strongest te~n with unbia 4:57:59.6 5. Adelberto Scor-za, three in the first five. Arg. 5:07:29.4 6. Marcel Jobin, Can. 5:14:32 8. Crunpos, Mexico 5:28:31 9. ~ne 50 Km was contested 4 days later, Higuel Vanegas, Nicaragua 5:40:15 (note wlth the great Chris Hohne a prohibitive I have incorrectly listed hi r'l as Mexican favorite. As usual in recent races, rta hne above. was accompanied by the Russian Benjamin Soldatenko. They passed 10 Kms in 49:5) The European elite gathered at Hel­ and 20 in 1:39:50, a rather p;?destrian sinki for their championships with the race for these gentlemen. At the 20, 20 Km going on August 10. Hans Tenggren Igor Della-'!'ossa was 2 seconds ahead of 1 of Sweden took t.~e early lead passing 5 them and Selzer, Bs.rtsch, i eruierich, ard Km in 22:03, but no one took him ser­ DaJ.Jnati were still right with the.'Tl. Tle iously. ·This had to be a race between picture was much the same at 25 km, pa.eed the East German triwnvirate of Re~~ann, in 2:04:31. Frenkel, and Sperling, Ru3sia' s Nikolai &naga, and England' s Paul Nihill. Smaga At this point, the ~ast Gennan-Rus­ led this group with 22:15, with the oth­ sian duo took off and no one else could er three at 22:19. At t~is point , ser ­ live with their pace . !he next two 5 ~ eral others were still in this group, laps were covered in 23:42 and at 35 Km including Wil f Wesch, Pasquale fusca J. they were over a minute clear of the field. Phil Embleton, Boris Yakovlyev, and Yev­ Sodatenko then really applied the pressure geniy Ivtchenko. to Hohne, who usually is doing the same August 1971 Page 3 thing himsel f at this stage of a race. 4:14: 56 10. Charles Sowa, Luxembourg The eighth Jap was covered in a seem- 4:15:59 11. Janos Dalmati, Hungary ingly impossible 23:18 and Hohne dropped 4:16:59.6 12. Alexander Bilek, Czech. 2 seconds back. SoiMatenko then really 4:17:36.4 13. Gerhard Weidner, WG4:17:41 applied the cruncher with a 23:06 lap, 14. Orjan Andersson, Sweden 4:20:04.8 better than 7:30 miling, and had the race 15. Vittorio Visini, Italy 4:20:45.8 l6. sewed up with a 34 second lead. He let Robert Dobson, GB 4:21:15 17. Daniel up only slightly on the final lap (23: 58 Bjorkgren, Swed. 4:26:39.6 18. Antal Kiss and crossed the line more than 2 minutes Hungary 4:26:53.6 19. Nesty Fischer, IT. ahead of his nemesis. Evidently, the 4:28:18. !+ 20. Nanfred Aeberhard, Switz. man has been doing sane training since 4:35:45.6 21. Alfred &del, Switz. last fall's Lugano Cup. His second 25 4:43:12 DNF-Her bert Heier, WG(3:06:J.'.7 Km was covered in 1:57:51, world class at 35 km), Carl lawton, GB:2:46:36 at )'.)) time by itself.