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This Day in Track & Field History, May 19, Jan Merrill sets 5,000m AR (1979), by Walt Murphy

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Walt Murphy’s News and Results Service  (wmurphy25@aol.com)   This Day in Track & Field–May 19 1956–-Duke’s Dave Sime ran 9.3 for the first time at the Carolinas AAU meet in Raleigh to equal the World Record for the 100-yard Dash (he would run 9.3 twice more).   The record for the metric version of the 100 was also equaled on this day when Bobby Morrow ran 10.2 at the South USA meet in Houston. Morrow would go on to win 3 gold medals (100, 200,…
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Run Blog Run broke the news in on Monday, May 19, 2025.
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