BEATS NURMI’S RECORD
TWENTY -FOUR hours after he had run a 9.05 4-5 two-mile race in Boston, Edvin Wide, of Sweden, holder of the world’s outdoor record of 9.01 3-5 for the distance, ran a mediocre field off its legs to win the two-mile test at the National track and field championships at Madison Square Garden on February 23. His time of 9.07 created a new qiiampion* ship record, breaking the previous record of 9.09 3-5, made by Nurmi in 1925.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 630, 5 April 1929, Page 7
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81BEATS NURMI’S RECORD Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 630, 5 April 1929, Page 7
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