U.S. males have edge
but Soviet women tops

If the United States and Soviet Olympic track and field stars clashed today,
Metican men would win about two-thirds of the events but the. girls would be lucky
Score one victory. That’s the conclusion reached by comparing the performances
torded in recent U.S. Olympic trials with those produced by the Russians during
% pe “sucess : Se aN a Of course, the Yanks and
the Soviets won’t have a cosy
dual meet at the 1956 Olym-
pics in Melbourne. They'll
have to contend with the best
athletes from the rest. of the
world, many of them world
record-holders.

But a recheck of the Am-
erican and Russian pre-Olym-
pic performances shows how
these two powerful teams
compare in most of the blue-
ribbon track and field events
for the game.

The U.S. and Russian men
bettered existing) Olympic
standards in 13 of 20 events in
which ~their performances
could be compared; Soviet
women bettered Olympic re-
cords in eight of 10 Spartaki-
ade events. '

A comparison of these per-
formances indicates that U.S.
men would defeat the Russians
‘in the 100, 200, 400, 800 and
1,500 meter runs, the 110 and
400 meter hurdles, the decath-
“lon, pole vault, discus, high
jump, broad jump and shot
put. Soviet men would win
the 5,000 and 10,000 meter
runs, 3,000 meter steeplechase,
the hop, step and jump, ham-

mer throw, javelin throw and

* - Aworld record for 100 metres was broken last August 20,000 metre walk.
= Berlin by Willie Wallies Sheed
lark made in the U.S. is 10.3 seco. -
; ow. William’s time was an astounding 10.1 seconds. Be =e an am
| li e the Soviet girls made better
i ) showings in every comparable
a | OS look. ed dismal event at the Spartakiade. The

Russian women bettered the

Best America’s women recorded

7h,

ei fp e Olympic standard in every
a 0s ce event except the 100 meter
feo ing p ayo C an dash and high jump.

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| ay; ™ their crucial game have been unable to come up relay races during the trials
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, haere change the picture? Many 12,2 seconds in the 50,000 met-

gl, i but lk at the Spartakiade

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“ar future.

Pole Vault (14 ft. 1114 in.) Bob Richards, U.S., 15 ft. 1 in.

' Javelin throw

HERE. ARE THE FIGURES

MEN
Event and Olympic Record Athlete and Trial Performance
100 metres (10.3) Bobby Morrow, U.S., 10.3.
Boris Tokaryev, USSR, 10.5.
200 metres (20.7) Bobby Morrow, U.S., 20.6.
pe Anatole Ignatyev, USSR, 21.2.
400 metres (45.9) Lou Jones, U.S., 45.2.
Anatole Ignatyev, USSR, 46.5.
800 metres (1:49.2) Tom Courtney, U.S., 1:46.4.
V. Tsimbalyuk, USSR, 1:50.3.
1,500 metres (3:45.2) Jerome Walters, U.S., 3:47.6.
Ionas Pipine, USSR, 3:48.4.
5,000 metres (14:06.6) Vladimir Kuts, USSR, 13:42.2.

Bill Dellinger, U.S., 14:26.0.

10,000 metres (29:17.0) Vladimir Kuts, USSR, 28:57.8.
Max ‘Truex, U.S., 30:52.0. :

3,000 metre steeplechase Seymon Rzhischin, USSR, 8:39.8.
(8:45.4) Phil Coleman, U.S., 9:00.3.

110-metre hurdles (13.7) J. Davis, L. Calhoun, U.S., 13.8.
Boris Stolyarov, USSR, 14.4.

400-metre hurdles (50.8) Glenn Davis, U.S., 49.5.
Igor Ilyin, USSR, 51.2.

20,000 metre walk M. Lavrov, USSR, 1:27:58.2.
(no record) Jim Hewson, U.S., 1:39:16.0.
Decathlon (7,887 pts) Rafer Johnson, U.S., 7,754 pts.

V. Kuznetzov, USSR, 7,728 pts.

Hop, step and jump e L. Scherbakov, USSR, 51 ft. 11 in.
(53 ft. 2%. in.) Ira Davis, U:S., 51 ft. 434 in.

High jump (6 ft. 8% in.) C. Dumas, U.S., 7 ft. % in.
V. Padyakov, USSR, 6 ft. 634 in.

Broad jump (26 ft.5% in.) G. Bell, J. Bennett, US. 23s
8% in.
O. Fyedoseyev, USSR, 24 ft. 6 in.

a V. Chernobai, USSR, 14 ft. 4 in.

Discus throw F. Gordien, U.S.~ 187 ft. 8% in.
(180 ft. 6% in.) O. Grigalka, USSR, 172 ft. 3% in.
Hammer throw M. Krivonosov, USSR, 207 ft.
(197 ft. 11% in.) 8% in.
Albert Hall, U.S., 197 ft. 7% in.
Javelin throw V. Tsibulenko,« USSR, 257 ft.
(242 ft. 34-in.) Cy Young, U:S., 244 ft., 11 in.

Shot put (57 ft. 1% in.) P. O’Brien, U.S., 60 ft. 10 in.
: V. Ovsepyan, USSR, 56 ft. 11 in.

WOMEN
100 metres (11.5) Galina Popova, USSR, 11.6.
Isabel Dani@ls, U.S., 12.0.
200 metres (24.4) . .Maria Itkina, USSR, 23.8.
; Mae Faggs, .US., 24.2.
+-800 metres (2:16.8) Ludmila Lisenko, USSR, 2:05.3.

t 400-metre relay (45.9) USSR, Moscow team, 40.9.

80-metre hurdles (11.2) Nina Vinogradova, USSR, 10.7.
Barbara Mueller, U.S., 11.9.

High jump (5 ft. 6% in.) V. Ballod, USSR, 5 ft. 5 5/6 in.
M. McDaniel, U.S., 5 ft. 4 in.

Broad jump (20 ft. 5.66 in.) G. Bystroya, USSR, 20 ft. 9.24 in.
M. Matthews, U.S., 19 ft. 9% in.

Discus throw N. Ponomaryova, USSR, 170.16 ft.
(168 ft. 8% in.) . Brown, U.S., 145° ft. 4% in.

E

A. Chudina, USSR, 171.08 ft.
(165 ft. 7.05 in.) K. Anderson, U.S., 153, 5 in.

ie

Shotput (50 ft. 2.58 in.) Tyshkevich, USSR, 53.20 ft.
E. Brown, U.S., 46 ft. 914° in.

+—Not included in U.S. trials; not on women’s Olympic
program this year.

* On Olympic program but not included in U.S. trials.

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