Is it KIMOBWA or KIMOMBWA? Seen it spelled both ways contemporaneously (check your old TnFnews). Or is this a Khaddaffi/Gaddaffi/Quadaffi kinda thing? malmo, BFD >--- Original Message --- >From: "Mcewen, Brian T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 1/29/01 9:06:07 PM > >I name Samson Kimobwa, WR setter in the 10k in 1977, but boycotted out of >the '76 and 1980 Games. > > 27:30.5 (27:30.47) Samson Kimobwa (KEN) Helsinki >30Jun77 > > > > I am curious about the status of these two WR-setters: > >27:07.91 Richard Chelimo (KEN) Stockholm 05Jul93 >26:52.23 William Sigei (KEN) Oslo 22Jul94 > >Didn't Chelimo get "blocked" by Hammou Boutayeb in 1992, and go on to win >silver, when Skah won the gold in 1992? Or, was that a different guy? > >And did Sigei run in '96? If not, add them both to the list. > >Keep in mind I don't have net access at work to check this. > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mcewen, Brian T >> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 3:45 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: WR-setting non-participants >> >> While reading over some indoor record lists I perused the World Indoor >> Records ... noting the 3000m record by Daniel Komen of 7:24.xx. >> >> He also set the 5k World Record a few years ago ... and still holds the >> outdoor 3k and 2 mile WR's. The reason it was interesting, is that Komen >> has never run in an Olympics, but has been around for two of them. >> >> The 2 mile/3k are not Olympic events ... but the 5k IS. >> >> How many athletes can you name who have set a WR in ANY track and field >> event who never went to the Olympics? >> >> Include non-standard events too (because the WR-setters in the 1000, 2000 >> and 3000 for the last 30 years have all run in the Games, excepting >> Komen). >> >> The easiest answer (so I'll post it before fifteen other people do) is >> another multi-WR setting Kenyan distance phenom - Henry Rono. >> >> Try it and see how many we can list. > >
