Bob Day (athlete)

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Robert Winston "Bob" Day (born October 31, 1944 in Los Angeles , † March 15, 2012 in Irvine , California ) was an American long-distance runner and participant in the 1968 Summer Olympics .

Career

After high school in San Marino , California, he received an athletics scholarship from UCLA and was part of Jim Bush's first team . In 1965 he ran the UCLA Distance Medley (Bob Frey, Dennis Breckow, Arnd Krüger , Bob Day) American university record, faster than the world record. In 1965 he was American college champion over the mile, in 1966 American champion. After his college career, he started for the Southern California Striders . In 1968 he won the American championships over 5000 m, which he qualified for the Olympic Games, where he was eliminated in the preliminary stages. After years of slack in the middle distance, Bob Day was the first of the new generation, but was quickly replaced by the successes of Jim Ryun .

After completing his bachelor's degree in business administration , he worked in the healthcare industry before becoming a voluntary assistant coach, and then since 2005 a full-time athletics coach at Beckman High School in Irvine. In 2008 his team won the championship of the Pacific Coast League . In 2002 he was inducted into the UCLA Hall of Fame .

Day died on March 15, 2012 in Irvine, California at the age of 67.

Personal bests

  • 880y - 1: 50.3 (1964)
  • 1500 m : 3: 41.6 min (1967)
  • 1 mile: 3: 56.4 min (1965)
  • 2 miles: 8: 35.4 (1965)
  • 5000 m: 13: 40.2 min (1968)

Web links

  • Bob Day in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.usatf.org/Mobile/News/Detail.aspx?ID=657
  2. ↑ http://www.ocregister.com/articles/day-345590-varvas-track.html?page=1
  3. ↑ Bob Day dies at 67; UCLA's greatest distance runner. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Day, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Day, Robert Winston
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 2012
Place of death Irvine , California