This Day in Track & Field, Cross Country History: March 30, Arturro Barrios breaks WR for 20k and Hour Run (1991), by Walt Murphy

This Day in Track & Field, Cross Country History: March 30, Arturro Barrios breaks WR for 20k and Hour Run (1991), by Walt Murphy

Walt Murphy’s News and Results Service  (wmurphy25@aol.com) This Day in T&F/X-Country—March 30 1985—Dennis Lewis thought he had set an American Record when he cleared 7-8  ¼ in the High Jump at a meet hosted by USC. However, that was an imperial measurement and U.S. (and IAAF) rules required that all new records in field events must be measured metrically.             When officials checked their conversion tables, they discovered there was no …