Bob Day (athlete)

Robert Winston "Bob" Day (October 31, 1944 – March 15, 2012) was an American long-distance runner who competed at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. He lettered and graduated from UCLA where he was on Jim Bush's track team, winning an individual NCAA Championship in the mile in 1965, with the team title following at the 1966 NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Also while at UCLA, he became the 12th American to break four minutes for the mile in 1964, and held the school record (3:56.4) for 40 years. He won the 1968 US Track & Field Senior National crown in the 5,000 meter event. Later in life, he was the first head coach of both the Cross Country and Track and Field programs at Beckman High School in Irvine. He began at Beckman in 2005, and won his first Pacific Coast League title in 2008. He died of bladder cancer at his home in Irvine, California, aged 67.^[1]

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1968 USA Olympic Track & Field Team Qualification 1968 United States Olympic Trials (track and field) Men's track & road athletes Jack Bacheler Wade Bell John Carlos Leon Coleman Willie Davenport Ron Daws Bob Day Tom Dooley Lee Evans Tom Farrell Ron Freeman Boyd Gittins Charles Greene Ervin Hall Rudy Haluza Jim Hines Larry James Goetz Klopfer Ron Kutschinski Ron Laird Tom Laris Marty Liquori Vincent Matthews Kenny Moore Van Nelson Conrad Nightingale Mel Pender Larry Questad Bill Reilly David Romansky Jim Ryun Lou Scott Ronnie Ray Smith Tommie Smith Tracy Smith Geoff Vanderstock Tom Von Ruden Ron Whitney George Young Larry Young Men's field athletes Bob Beamon Ralph Boston Reynaldo Brown Edward Burke Gary Carlsen Casey Carrigan Ed Caruthers Hal Connolly Frank Covelli Dick Fosbury Albert Hall Dave Maggard Randy Matson Charles Mays Mark Murro Al Oerter John Pennel Bob Seagren Jay Silvester Rick Sloan David Smith George Stenlund Norman Tate Bill Toomey Tom Waddell Arthur Walker George Woods Women's track & road athletes Margaret Bailes Doris Brown Lois Ann Drinkwater Julie Mae Dyer Barbara Ferrell Francie Kraker Madeline Manning Mildred Netter Mamie Rallins Jarvis Scott Esther Stroy Patty Van Wolvelaere Women's field athletes RaNae Bair Estelle Baskerville Sharon Callahan Olga Connolly Barbara Friedrich Cathy Hamblin Eleanor Montgomery Carol Moseke Maren Seidler Martha Watson Willye White Pat Winslow Coaches —