■ 1995 PREFONTAINE CLASSIC
Pre remembered in record-breakinq memorial
Trevor Kearney
CmQcn Catty I'mar&a
Highlighted by a handful of Olympians, n few ox
Oregon stars and several record-breaking perfor
mances, Steve Prefontaine vs as remembered at Sun
day's Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field in front of
a record crowd of 13.655
Honoring the 20th anniversary of Pre s death. Sun
day s meet featured the 2 reiki ran in Prefontaine »
honor A < eremony just before the ra< >■ known as
Pre's race — included the introduction of several of
Pro's former teammates and Pre's father delivering
the starter gun to the official
"Especially at the line — when they did that that
even put another boost of adrenalin in the body ."
said Todd Williams, runner-up in the race; with a
time of 8-minutes, 14 58 seconds "That kind of
brought it up another notch."
before the rm e, Williams and Hob Kennedy, the
winner of the race with a time of 8 14.51, had pre
dicted a new American record, hut fell just under two
seconds short of the mark Kennedy's mark, howev
er, was good for a new meet and field record
"I was feeling the emotion warming up and on the
line," Kennedy said, "but as soon as the gun went off
it was just another race, which I'm sure is the way Pro'
would have felt, loo I really wanted to set the Anna
icon record, but it just didn't happen "
"I just wish we could have given (Pre) that Ameri
can record," Williams said It was meaningful any
way. but I think the icing on the i ake would have
Iveeti if we had broken the record."
The meet saw several records shattered, as Maria
Malola of Mozambique set the meet and Hayward
Field records in the 1000-meter run with a time of
2:32.33, and Suzv Hamilton set the American record
in the same race with a second-place time of 2 i t.');)
Gail Davers of Nike International set the meet
reconi in the 100-hurdles by racing ton 12.B4 sis ond
finish, and Derek Mills and Nike International s
Michael Johnson set the meet records in the 400
meter dash and 200-meter dash, respectively Mills
ran the 400 in 44 I t seconds, breaking Maxie Parks'
107(1 record, and Johnson beat out Olympian <'.«»rI
Lewis in the final stretch to break Kirk Baptiste's
1087 record
"Basically, 1 thought 1 ran the first 50 Imotersl and
the last 100 Imotersl very well and made a mistake in
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In the 2 mile race, which was In honor of Steve Prefontalne, Bob Kennedy (right) broke the meet and field records by
running the race In 0:14 53 Kennedy barely beat Todd Williams, who ran an 8:14 50
e.m. m or mmuF warn *m
MAM* Ml TffU I . uKi
Dan O'Brien lied for second In the high jump en
route to a mini-decathlon victory
.JWI.. .>'.i.i
Maria Mutola
(front) and
Sury Hamil
ton provided
one of the
! most exclt
Ing races
Sunday, as
Mutola set
new meet
j and Hay
ward Field
records with
a time of
2:32 33 and
Hamilton set
a new Amer
ican record
i with a clock
ing of
2:33.93
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