Chuck Smead
.jpg) Chuck Smead (left) at 2012 Mount Washington Road Race | |||||||||||||||
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Charles Smead (born August 4, 1951)[1] is an American long-distance runner, who made his mark on the sport by 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 two-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
[edit]- ^ "Track and Field Statistics".
- ^ "Lodi News-Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ Arcadia History Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Men's Top 10 List (PDF)" (PDF). Cal Poly Humboldt Athletics.
- ^ "NCAA Division II Men's Track & Field Champions - 10,000-Meter Run". Archived from the original on 2010-12-04. NCAA Div II champions
- ^ "Pikes Peak Winners". Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
- ^ "Masters History" (PDF).
- ^ "Results". Pikes Peak Marathon.
- ^ "Avenue of the Giants Marathon".
- ^ "Chicago inspires - Media Guide" (PDF). 2012-10-07. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-02-04.
- ^ "American UltraRunning Association". www.americanultra.org.
- ^ "Ultra fast (November 08, 2002)". www.paloaltoonline.com.
- ^ "Colorado Senior Olympics" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
- ^ "All-Time U.S. Rankings — Men's Marathon" (PDF). www.trackandfieldnews.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 20, 2011.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
External links
[edit]- Chuck Smead at ARRS
- Chuck Smead at ITRA
- American male long-distance runners
- Track and field athletes from California
- 1951 births
- Living people
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1975 Pan American Games
- Senior Olympic competitors
- Sportspeople from Ventura County, California
- California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt alumni
- People from Santa Paula, California
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field)
- Medalists at the 1975 Pan American Games
- 20th-century American sportsmen