This Day in Track & Field History, July 13, Jim Thorpe Wins Olympic Decathlon (3 Day event), 1912, Dave Bedford breaks 10,000m WR (1973), written and compiled by Walt Murphy
Walt Murphy’s News and Results Service (wmurphy25@aol.com) This Day in Track & Field–July 13 1912–This day in Stockholm marked the beginning of the first Olympic Decathlon conducted with the same 10 events that are currently used. The one wrinkle in Stockholm is that the event was held over 3 days! (day 1-100, LJ, […]