Willie Banks jumping
Reuters
12 October 1999 – Indianapolis - Former world record holders Willie Banks and Charles Moore, and marathon great Bill Rodgers have been elected to the National Track & Field Hall of Fame, USA Track & Field announced on Tuesday.
The late Larry Ellis, a former president of USA Track & Field (USATF), also won election in voting by Track and Field Writers of America members, Hall of Fame members and USATF officials.
The Class of 1999 raises the number of Hall of Fame inductees to 180.
Banks, 43, was one of the world's greatest triple jumpers during the 1980s and set the world record in 1985. He was a member of three Olympic teams and represented the United States internationally 18 times.
Moore, 70, recently retired as athletic director at his alma mater, Cornell University. During his competitive days, Moore set a world record in the 400 meters hurdles and was the 1952 Olympic champion.
Rodgers, 51, was a member of the 1976 Olympic team, but is best remembered as a former American record holder and four-time winner of the both the prestigious Boston and New York City Marathons.
Ellis, who died last November at age 70, was head coach at Princeton University for 22 years and besides coaching in the Olympics, was also the 1998 USA World Cup coach.
