Chuck Smead
Chuck Smead (left) at 2012 Mount Washington Road Race | |||||||||||||||
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Born | August 4, 1951 (1951-08-04) (age 72) | ||||||||||||||
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Charles Smead (born August 4, 1951)[1] is an American long-distance runner, who made his most significant mark on the sport taking second in the Marathon at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City.[2]
Originally from Santa Paula High School in Santa Paula, California, where he was an outstanding 2 miler, taking second place at the prestigious Arcadia Invitational in 1968.[3]
He continued to excel in long distance at Humboldt State University,[4] where he won the NCAA Division II 6 mile/10000 metre Championship twice.[5] In 1972 he began a string of three straight wins in the famous Pikes Peak Marathon, he added a fourth victory in 1976.[6][7] He has completed the race six times, the most recent as a 57-year-old.[8] He also won the Avenue of the Giants Marathon in 1974[9] In 1980, he was runner up at the Chicago Marathon.[10]
In the 1970s he was one of the early luminaries of ultramarathoning,[11][12] yet as a Senior athlete he is not above sprinting 100 metres.[13] He was twice ranked in the United States top ten in the marathon.[14] He continues to be active, winning the M60 division of the 2012 USA Masters 5 km Cross Country Championships in October 2012.[15]
Smead has been credited with spreading the sport of ultramarathoning into Europe.[16][17][18]
References
- ^ "Track and Field Statistics".
- ^ Lodi News-Sentinel
- ^ Arcadia History Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Humboldt State top 10
- ^ http://www.hickoksports.com/history/ncmd2otrack.shtml#10000mr Archived 2010-12-04 at the Wayback Machine NCAA Div II champions
- ^ "Pikes Peak Winners". Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
- ^ Masters History
- ^ Pikes Peak Hill Climb
- ^ https://www.arrs.run/HP_AvGMa.htm Avenue of the Giants Marathon
- ^ http://assets.chicagomarathon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2012-Bank-of-America-Chicago-Marathon-Media-Guide.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ American Ultra
- ^ Silicon Valley Speedster Ultra Classic
- ^ "Colorado Senior Olympics" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
- ^ Track and Field News Archived 2011-05-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "2012 USA Masters 5 km Cross Country Championships Men's Age Division Results". Archived from the original on 2019-12-22. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
- ^ http://mostlypaved.blogspot.com/ Mostly Paved Blog
- ^ "Pablo: The Man Behind a Remarkable Sierre-Zinal Record - Run the Alps". 25 April 2015.
- ^ "Legends of the Trail". 24 February 2020.
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- 1889: S. Thomas
- 1890: Thomas Conneff
- 1891: Edward Carter
- 1892: William O'Keefe
- 1893–94: Edward Carter
- 1895: Not held
- 1896: H. Gray
- 1897: Not held
- 1898: Thomas McGirr
- 1899: George Orton (CAN)
- 1900–02: Not held
- 1903–05: Johnny Joyce
- 1906: Not held
- 1907: John Daly (IRL)
- 1908: John Eisele
- 1909: George Bonhag
- 1910: W.C. Bailey
- 1911: Louis Scott
- 1912: Harry Smith
- 1913–16: Hannes Kolehmainen (FIN)
- 1917: Ville Kyrönen (FIN)
- 1918: Charles Pores
- 1919–20: Fred Faller
- 1921: Earl Johnson
- 1922–23: Ville Ritola (FIN)
- 1924: Earl Johnson
- 1925–27: Ville Ritola (FIN)
- 1928: Frank Titterton
- 1929: James McDade
- 1930: Gus Moore
- 1931: William Zepp
- 1932–34: Paul Mundy
- 1935–36: Robert Rankin
- 1937: Johnny A. Kelley
- 1938: Victor Dyrgall
- 1939: Ellison Brown
- 1940: Eino Pentti
- 1941–42: Joe McCluskey
- 1943: Lou Gregory
- 1944: Clayton Farrar
- 1945: Johnny A. Kelley
- 1946: Victor Dyrgall
- 1947: Fred Kline
- 1948–49: Victor Dyrgall
- 1950–51: Louis White
- 1952: John DiComandrea
- 1953: Walt Deike
- 1954–55: Browning Ross
- 1956: Rudy Mendez
- 1957: Johnny J. Kelley
- 1958: Pete McArdle
- 1959: Alex Breckenridge
- 1960: Al Confalone
- 1961: George Foulds
- 1962: Pete McArdle
- 1963: Larry Furnell
- 1964: Karl Weiser
- 1965: Merle McGee
- 1966: Doug Brown
- 1967: James Freeman
- 1968: Steve Matthews
- 1969: Garry Bjorklund
- 1970: Phil Camp
- 1971: Tom Hoffman
- 1972–73: Chuck Smead
- 1974: Frank Shorter
- 1975: Hamilton Amer
- 1976: Gary Tuttle
- 1977: Randy Thomas
- 1978: Alex Kasich
- 1979: Benton Hart
- 1980: Pete Pfitzinger
- 1981: Terry Baker
- 1982: Jeff Adkins
- 1983: Bill Rodgers
- 1984: Paul Cummings
- 1985–93: Not held
- 1994–96: Todd Williams
- 1997: Joe LeMay
- 1998–99: Todd Williams
- 2000: Dan Browne
- 2001–04: Meb Keflezighi
- 2005: Ryan Shay
- 2006: Meb Keflezighi
- 2007: Not held
- 2008: Andrew Carlson
- 2009: Anthony Famiglietti
- 2010–11: Mo Trafeh
- 2012: Christo Landry
- 2013–15: Ben True
- 2016: Stanley Kebenei
- 2017–18: Leonard Korir
- 2019: Shadrack Kipchirchir
- 2020: Frank Lara
- 2021: Clayton Young