This Day in Track & Field–July 30
1928—Canada’s Percy Williams took the first half of his sprint double at the Amsterdam Olympics by winning the Men’s 100-meters in 10.8. He would win the 200 two days later. Winning the silver and bronze medals were Great Britain’s Jack London (10.9) and Germany’s Georg Lammers (10.9). Finishing 4th was 18-year old Frank Wykoff (11.0), a recent graduate of Glendale (CA) H.S. He would win the first of his 3 Olympic gold medals in the 4×100 relay four days later.
Great Britain’s Lord Burghley (aka David Cecil), was a narrow winner in the Men’s 400-hurdles (53.4) over the U.S. duo of Frank Cuhel (53.6) and defending champion Morgan Taylor (53.6), the defending champion.
Ireland’s Pat O’Callaghan won the first of his two Olympic titles in the Hammer with a throw of 168-7 (51.39). 2nd was Sweden’s Ossian Skiöld (168-3 [51.29]) and 3rd was American Ed Black (160-10 [49.03]).
Medalists/Results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1928_Summer_Olympics
Olympedia Reports: https://www.olympedia.org/editions/9/sports/ATH
Videos
M100: https://olympics.com/en/video/amsterdam-1928-williams-percy
M400h (side-by-side w/Karsten Warholm’s 2021 WR!: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=861965074907975
https://www.olympic.org/percy-williams
Percy Williams: https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/66279
1948–The first post-World War II Olympic champions were crowned in London, as Czech Emil Zátopek won the 10,000-meters (29:59.6), Australia’s John Winter the Men’s High Jump (6-6 [1.98]), and France’s Micheline Ostermeyer the Women’s Discus
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