How To Get Faster At Sprinting Workouts
The literature prevalently attributes the 110 meters-hurdles’ Uganda national record to Jean-Baptiste Okello, courtesy of his personal best of 14.48 seconds that he established at the Olympics of 1960 in Rome. However, there is proof that John Akii-Bua established the national record in 1970 at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. This record seems to have stood it’s ground for nearly fifty years!
The Inspiration Of Youth Sports Stars
As a young man, I was in youth track and cross-country and was able to rank nationally, and post 4-consecutive years with no loss and all first place, and I was lucky to find something I was good at early on in my life. I didn’t realize it back then when people use to come up and want to meet me and tell me how much they enjoyed watching me run and win. Today, I do understand, as it is an innate sense we have to watch others, especially underdogs, overcome and win. Perhaps why the Rocky series movies were so popular and why people like movies like the Karate Kid.
Transgender Olympic Gold Medalist Track Stars
Okay so, I watched the Olympics, particularly I am interested in track and field events because I was a star athlete in High School and College. My mom likes the swimming events as she made the US Olympic Swim team in 1964. My brother also a track star from high school noted that the winning times in track for the women’s was about what he’d run in High School, actually a little slower 3-seconds for instance in the 800 meter. Okay so, let’s talk about the issue of transgender in sports and the controversy of the South African gal who won her race and got a gold medal, but some have said “It just isn’t fair because for all sense and purposes she is a he.”
The Sporting Joke
A reflection on the way sporting activities are conducted at the grassroot level in India. India is not known for its sporting prowess and one of the possible reasons could be that sports is not given the importance it deserves. It is rather simplistically reduced to a mode of generating funds.
The Top Three High School Boy’s Coaches of All-Time
The criteria for making this list is as follows: an impressive list of successes, no recruiting of athletes, the ability to develop an entire roster, being ahead of their time (an innovator), and helping boys grow into better men for the rest of their lives (also known as leaving a mark on all those he or she coached). Without further ado: 1) Harry Johnson, Head Boy’s Track & Field coach, South Eugene High School, Eugene, Oregon 1971-1977- Seven State Championships. When Coach Johnson (who was soon known throughout the state as simply “Harry”)…
Erasmus Samuel Amukun: Uganda Sprinter and Geologist
Erasmus Samuel A.O. Amukun was born on November 27th 1940 in Ngora in Kumi in Eastern Uganda. He is best known for his exploits as a collegiate and international sprinter and as a professional geologist. He represented Uganda at the British Empire Commonwealth Games, at the Olympic Games, and at the East and Central African Games. Amukun is also credited for having beaten Kenyan sprint legend and future Commonwealth Games (1962, Perth) double-sprint gold-medallist Seraphino Antao in a race.
Judith Ayaa: Progressive Breaking of the 400-Meters Africa Record
Judith Ayaa of Uganda and Alice Annum of Ghana, were the dominant African female sprinters during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. It was mainly in the 400 meters sprint, that young Ayaa gained international acclaim. She broke the Africa regional record several times, and became ranked as among the fastest ten 400m sprinters in the world. It was in Munich in 1972 that Ayaa would last rewrite the Africa record.
John Akii-Bua, Judith Ayaa, Steve Prefontaine: US-USSR-World All-Stars Track-Field Meet at Berkeley
The US-USSR-World All-Stars Track and Field Meet took place on Saturday, July 3rd 1971, in Berkeley at the Edwards Stadium of University of California. The elite athletes included Ugandans Judith Ayaa and John Akii-Bua; Americans Steve Prefontaine, Ron Draper, Rodney Milburn, Pat Matzdorf, and Jim Seymour.
Judith Ayaa and Athletic Performances: Africa, Commonwealth Games, Olympics, and Pan Africa-USA Meet
Judith Ayaa was born on July 15, 1952 in the sub-county Koch Goma in Nwoya District in Uganda. During an era when African women participation in athletics was in its prevalently nascent and amateur stages, young Ayaa became a resounding name amongst African women track stars. Ayaa became the first Ugandan woman to win a Commonwealth Games’ medal.
John Akii-Bua: Attempt to Smash the Hurdles World Record in Africa and the Renaming of Stanley Road
John Akii-Bua of Uganda was promoted by the dictator Idi Amin Dada to Assistant Inspector of the Police Force and the main Kampala road named after renowned Welsh-American adventurer-soldier-explorer-journalist Henry Morton Stanley was re-named by the dictator to “Akii-Bua Road.” This was only months after Akii had reduced the 400 meters-hurdles world record to 47.82 seconds at the Olympics in Munich in early September 1972. In January 1973, 23 year-old Akii-Bua, still fresh out of Munich and still heavily celebrated nationally, was now in Nigeria in the face of an excited high capacity crowd ready to witness the performance of the first African to ever win and establish a world track record in such a technical and grueling event.
Going Cross-Country
So now your heart yearns to do something more daring and you’ve decided to try cycling down the coastline? This type of enterprise requires preparation of both mind and body.
All You Need to Know About Athletics
There are many popular games where people participate. Most of them are team games. However, if you take a look at the participation in Athletics, you will find a few and most of them are individual events.
