1940 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships | |
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Dates | February 24 (men) |
Host city | New York City, New York, United States (men) |
Venue | Madison Square Garden (men) |
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Level | Senior |
Type | Indoor |
Events | 14 (14 men's + 0 women's) |
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The 1940 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships were organized by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) and served as the national championships in indoor track and field for the United States.
The men's edition was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, and it took place February 24. There was no corresponding women's championships in 1940. [1] [2]
At the championships, the University of Notre Dame's Greg Rice ran a world record time of 13:55.9 for 3 miles indoors. He ran the race minutes after Taisto Mäki raced in an exhibition at the same venue, and commentators viewed Rice's performance as a response to Finnish distance running dominance of the time. About 15,000 spectators attended. [3] [4]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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60 yards | Mozelle Ellerbe | 6.2 | ||||
600 yards | Charles Belcher | 1:11.6 | ||||
1000 yards | John Borican | 2:13.0 | ||||
Mile run | Charles Fenske | 4:08.8 | ||||
3 miles | Greg Rice | 13:55.9 | ||||
70 yards hurdles | Allan Tolmich | 8.4 | ||||
2 miles steeplechase [lower-alpha 1] | Joe McCluskey | 10:03.4 | ||||
High jump | Arthur Byrnes | 1.94 m | ||||
Pole vault | Earle Meadows | 4.35 m | ||||
Long jump | Anson Perina | 7.21 m | ||||
Shot put | Al Blozis | 16.98 m | ||||
Weight throw | Niles Perkins | 17.08 m | ||||
1 mile walk | Charles Eschenbach | 6:51.7 |
Joseph Gregory Rice was an American long-distance runner. He was five times American champion in the 5000 m, set world indoor best times at two miles and three miles, and in 1940 received the Sullivan Award as the outstanding American amateur athlete. Like most athletes of his generation his athletics career was curtailed by the outbreak of World War II.
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