Horace Ashenfelter, 29 year old FBI man, is shown winning his heat in the Olympics 3,000 Meter Steppelchase. He broke the record in doing it. Today...
Olympic Games, London, England 1908- 1500 meter flat race, 1st heat, J. Sullivan, U.S.A 1st and J.D. Lightbody, U.S.A 2nd.
Nile Albright leads the way as he swoops around a turn in the first heat of the intermediate boys race at the National Indoor Speed Skating...
Sweden's Siegge Ericsson leads Japanese skater Asasaka in their heat of the 10,000-meter Olympic speed race at Cortina, January 31st. Ericsson won...
"The last shall be first" applied to David Wottle of Cassa Grande Arizona, USA 9/1 when he was right at the back of the field in the last but one lap...
Olympic Trails - Eugene, Ore: Steve Prefontaine of the University of Oregon leads the pack around one of the later turns in the 5,000 meter first...
Unser Finishes Trial Heat. Pikes, Peak, Colorado: Louis Unser, 8-time winner of the annual Pikes Peak Hill Climb, crosses the finish line 2nd in time...
Singha of India, walking barefoot, strides out in pursuit of Louis Courron of France in the second heat of the Olympic 10,000-meter walk at Empire...
"The last shall be first" applied to David Wottle of Cassa Grande Arizona, USA 9/1 when he was right at the back of the field in the last but one lap...
Munich, West Germany: US runner Jim Ryan and Ghanaian runner Billy Fordjour begin to rise to their feet again after taking falls during the running...
Ohio State University track star Jesse Owens stands on the track after winning the first heat of the 100-meter dash competition with a time of 10.5...
These are members of the United States No. 1 four man bob sleigh team who took first place in the two heats run for the Olympics at Lake Placid. Left...
The field is taking the first obstacled in the second heat of the college 400-meter hurdles at the Penn relays in Philadelphia yesterday, Charles...
Canadian girl winning 100 meter heat in Olympiad. London, England: Canada had its brief moment of triumph in the women's 100 meter competition when...
Berlin, Germany- Jesse Owens, who won four events in the Olympic games, is shown winning one of the 200-meter heats. L. Orr of Canada is second and...
Tracy Caulkins, American swimmer of Nashville, Tennessee, swims in the pool here on her way to a new Olympic record in the 200m individual medley...
Tracy Caulkins, American swimmer of Nashville, Tennessee, dives into the pool here on her way to a new Olympic record in the 200m individual medley...
Michael Gross, West Germany, dives into the pool, 7/30, on his way to an Olympic Record 54.02 time in the 100m butterfly. His record stood only...
Zola Budd the bare footed runner from South Africa, now running for Great Britain, runs in the third heat of the women's 3000 meter run at the...
Stella Walsh, the Cleveland, Ohio girl competing for Poland, set a world record for women in running the 100 meter event in her first round...
This is the third heat during the 400 meter race, trial II, with B. Eastman of U.S.A., winner; Renner of Austria, 2nd; Strandvall of Finland, 3rd;...
Bill Carr of the United States breaks the tape to win the first heat of the 400-meter event during the Los Angeles Olympic Games. Wilson of Canada is...
Mildred :Babe" Didrickson, the one-girl track team from Dallas broke her own record by setting a new world record of 11.9 seconds in the 80 meter...
Helsinki: Cuba's Alberto Juantorena screams in pain after crashing to the track during the fifth heat of men's 800 meter race at the World...
Kelly, second from right, of Southern California, winning second heat, 120 yds High Hurdles. Lukens, of Cornell, at extreme right, second.
Bill Carr of the United States breaks the tape to win the first heat of the 400 meter event during the Los Angeles Olympic Games. Wilson of Canada is...
The 1932 Olympic Games: Start of the heat in the 400 Meter for women. L. Anderson, Denmark, 1st lane, 2nd place; J. Maakal, So. Africa, 2nd lane, 1st...
Helsinki, Finland- Leslie A. Laing of Jamaica lies on the track as he tumbled after passing the baton to teammate Arthur Wint on the second change...
Mexico City: Paddles fill the air as the first heat of the men's kayak fours gets under way 10/22. Rumania finished first, Norway second, and Finland...
Robert Le Grende of the USA Winning the sixth heat of the two hundred meters event as part of the pentathlon. He finished 4th overall.
Perhaps the most pleasing and necessary adjunct to the delightful winter sport of ice skating is the liquid imbibed to impart the requisite amount of...
Lake Placid, NY- Pictured in this view of the second heat, re-run 10,000 meter race finish are: Irving Jaffe of the U.S., 1st; Frank Stack of Canada,...
American runner Mary Decker takes the lead from Italy's Agnese Possamai on her way to victory in a heat of the women's 3000-meter run at the 1984...
Sprinter Carl Lewis runs the 200-meter sprints in the first heat of the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.
Moscow, Soviet Union- East Germany's Barbara Krause wears a broad smile as she waves to the crowd after cutting almost half a second off her own...
Colombes, France- Members of the decathlon team representing the United States at the Olympic Games pose just before one of the trial heats. Pictured...
Los Angeles, CA- Portrait of K. Kitamura of Japan, winner of the heat in the men's 1500 meter event, in today's swim program of the 1932 Olympic...
London, England- Here you see Bob Mathias, The photo shows Mathias in the 100-meter in which he placed second. The men are shown at the staring line...
Wembley, England- COCHRAN-AN OLYMPIC CHAMP IN TOP FORM. Roy B. Cochran, west coast hurdling star, is shown as he crossed the finish line in...
Cambridge, MA: Intercollegiate Championships at Harvard Stadium -- 440 yard run, third trial heat. Photo shows runners and officials at finish line,...
Melbourne, Australia- KOUTS LEADS IN 5000 METERS HEAT. Photo shows the field on the bend during the second lap of the second heat in round one of the...
Melbourne, Australia- AUSTRALIAN GIRL SWIMMER EQUALS WORLD RECORD. Australian swimmer D. Fraser, left, and V.Grant of Canada, right, first and third...
Melbourne, Australia- Bobby Morrow, Texas, sprint ace, is shown winning heat no. 12 of the 100 meter dash in the Olympics preliminaries today....
Mexico City, Mexico- Mildrette Netter of Rosedale, Mississippi passes the baton to teammate Myomia Tyus of Griffin, Georgia, during the women's...
Los Angeles, CA: Displaying her usual form and speed, Helene Madison of the United States captured the second heat of the 100-meter free style event...
The USA's Madeline manning wins her semi-final heat in the women's 800-meter run 10/19 setting new world and Olympic records in the process. She was...
Los Angeles: U.S.A. Freestylist, Nancy Hogshead, raises her fist in triumph after finishing her heat in the 100m freestyle with a time of 55.85,...
Florence Griffith Joyner, American runner of Los Angeles, and winner of her 200m semi final heat in a time of 22.27 seconds on August 9th, may have...
Zola Budd the bare footed runner from South Africa, now running for Great Britain, runs in the third heat of the women's 3000 meter run at the...
Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson peels off this helmet in an attempt to ease the 95-degree heat during the Miami Dolphin's training camp, where 62...
Tokyo, Japan- America's Bob Hayes, winner of the gold medal in the Olympic 100-meter dash, is flanked by silver medalist E. Figerola of Cuba and...
Lamberto Dalla Costa, 35 year old jet pilot in the Italian Air Force and his brakeman Giacomo Conti are shown darting down Cortina's 1,700 meter run...
The two-man bobsled of Lamberto Dalla Costa and Giacomo Conti wins the two-man bobsled Olympic event. The Italian champions were clocked an aggregate...
Florence Griffith-Joyner competig in one of the heats at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Indianapolis, 22nd July 1988.
Royal's left fielder Bo Jackson takes refuge from the near 110-degree heat and the Red Sox by ducking behind the scoreboard on Fenway Park's Green...
Henley-on-Thames, England- John B. Kelly, Jr., of Philadelphia, PA, son and namesake of a former Olympics rowing champion, gets a helping hand from...
Andreas Ostler and Laurenz Nieberl, , who compromised Germany's No. 1 two man bobsled team, prepared here for a run on their sled, "Cognac." Their...
Los Angeles: USA's Mary Decker leads the pack in the first heat of the 3000m run at the Olympics in Los Angeles. She won the heat over Italy's Agnese...