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- From: wlange@eis.calstate.edu (Walter C. Lange)
- Newsgroups: rec.running
- Subject: Re: high school sub-fours
- Message-ID: <C18Fsy.K2t@eis.calstate.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 01:50:56 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.235859.7957@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
- Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services
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- brianw@.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Brian Williams) writes:
- > > |> Now, I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Gary Bjorklund (sp)
- > > |> ran under 4 minutes in high school in the '69-'70 season.
- > >
- > > If he did, he joins Jim Ryun and Marty Liquori as the only US preps to
- > > break 4 minutes, and they did it in the early to mid '60s. Perhaps that
- > > tells you something about "national class" for high schoolers...
- >
- > >I'm sure someone will eventually answer this correctly, but I thought
- > >the only three high schoolers to break 4 were Ryun, Liquori, and
- > >a guy named Tim Danielson (Danielsen?) from San Diego.
- >
- > Yes yes yes. Tim Danielson ran sub 4 for Chula Vista High in San Diego County
- > in the mid-late 1960's. He went on to San Diego State thereafter but
- > was plagued by injuries.
- > Ryun and Liquori were the other two to run sub-four in high school.
- > **side note- Thom Hunt from Patrick Henry High in San Diego ran
- > 4:01 indoors his senior year in high school.
- >
- > Brian.
- >
- >
- >
- Actually, Hunt ran 4:02.7--outstanding anyway. Danielson & Liquouri were
- pulled thru 4 minutes by world class fields, Ryun was able to run under 4
- on his own, on a dirt track.
-
- Of course, the mile is no longer an official distance at the high school
- level--1600 meters is. Very weird--this is what happens when committees
- make decisions. What happens is a high school kid runs 3:58.4 or so for
- 1600? Did he run a 4 min mile?
-