Spills, thrills
Photo by Mark Pyn©s
Tom Byers huddles in pain after falling down at the start of the
mile
Byers wins
despite tumble
By Mike Riplinger
Of the Emerald
No world records were bro
ken Sebastian Coe, Steve
Ovett and Sydney Maree didn’t
run, but the Oregon Interna
tional Track and Field Meet will
still be remembered because
of a couple of gutty perfor
mances by Tom Byers and Bill
McChesney
Byers, after falling in the first
10 yards of the mile, came
back to win when the race was
restarted, breaking Dave Wot
tle's field record set in 1973.
The mile was supposed to
feature Coe and Ovett in the
last of their series of meetings,
none of which took place
because of injuries Maree al
so didn't run because of an
injury.
McChesney kicked home in
the last 300 meters of the 5,000
to outdistance a world-class
field and vindicate himself in
front of his home town fans
after his injury-plagued senior
season at Oregon last year
Jeff Phillips turned in a dou
ble by winning the 100 and
200-meter dashes, but the
meet was otherwise marked
more by the lackluster perfor
mances of some world class
athletes who fought the rain
and cold at Hayward Field Sa
turday
Bob Roggy in the javelin and
Dave Laut in the shot put failed
in their last attempt of the sea
son to set world records The
two had to settle for sub-par
individual performances,
Roggy with a mark of 276-10
and Laut with a 69-6 heave
David Mack, the Oregon
runner who won the NCAA
championship in the 800
meters last year, said he won't
be returning to school to finish
his senior year and ran what
Photo by Mark Pynes
Bill McChesney breaks the tape in front of his hometown crowd
could be his last race in
Eugene for quite a while Mack
said before the race that he
wasn't in shape and his time
beared him out as he finished
ninth in a field of 10 in the 800
James Robinson, who is
ranked second in the world in
the 800, finished just ahead of
Mack in seventh place
Byers' performance, coming
after he had the wind knocked
out of him and he was bruised
and bloodied on the first start,
was something that could
have come straight out of the
movie Chariots of Fire
On the restart the field
seemed uncertain about the
strategy, and after the pace
setter, Charlie Taliaferro,
dropped out after 800 meters,
no one took charge
“That changed the whole
race." Byers said of the fall
“The pace setter dropped out,
so it got to the position of most
miles in America—no one to set
the pace so you go slow for
three laps
Byers, who earlier in his
career gained entry in a few
big races by agreeing to be the
rabbit, is known for taking the
lead himself and forcing the
pace After the fall, he said, he
decided to stay with the pack
until he came into the last
corner and blew by Graham
Williamson of Scottland and
Jose Abascal of Spain for the
victory
“I was shocked The whole
season flashed before my eyes
as I lay on the track,Byers
said of his fall 'But I'd have to
have been dead not to get up
and try again."
McChesney's effort was just
as tough as Byers He is com
ing off of a disappointing sen
ior year where he was ham
pered by injuries which hid the
talent that has him ranked with
the third fastest time in the
United States for the 5,000.
Against Pac-10 champion
Peter Koech who outran
McChesney in the Oregon
Washington State dual meet
and the Pac-10 meet which
were both in Eugene,
McChesney may have been
looking for a bit of revenge
He found it as he turned on
the kick he said he has been
working on to prepare himself
for the 1984 Olympics, and
burned the Kenyan by three
seconds with a clocking of
13:31 98.
“I’d hoped to go for a
record, but the time was all
right,” McChesney said. “I felt
really tired with a mile to go. I
worked hard on my speed
work this summer which ready
helped.
“I felt the pressure of Koech,
but I had enough confidence
in my kick from the speedwork.
In the '84 Olympic games, I
have to be able to come off a
slow pace. Once I went at the
end, I was committed, so if
anybody would’ve kicked by
me, there was nothing I could
do."
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