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Jun 29, 2012 · Steve Prefontaine died in a car crash on May 30, 1975. At the time of his death, he held every American track record from 2,000 meters to 10,000 meters.
Sep 1, 2020 · January 25, 1951–May 30, 1975. Steve Prefontaine, the finest all-around distance runner in U.S. track history, is dead. Pre was killed in a one-car accident in the early hours of May 30 on a wooded hillside street in Eugene, a road he ran over countless times training while attending the University of Oregon.
May 28, 1995 · EUGENE, Ore. - Track and field in the United States has not been the same since that early morning 20 years ago when Steve Prefontaine died. On a rock wall along Skyline Boulevard, a narrow, winding street in the hills just east of the University of Oregon's Hayward Field, there's a freshly painted reminder of what happened there.
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May 30, 2015 · When a post on the social media site with an old Register-Guard photograph of him running at Hayward Field in his final race just hours before he was killed in a car crash 40 years ago this...
Jul 22, 2022 · American running legend Steve Prefontaine died in a car crash in 1975 at the Willamette Valley in Eugene, Ore., while preparing for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. Decades later, the place is...
Jun 9, 1975 · A FINAL DRIVE TO THE FINISH. Hours after winning yet another race with a surging kick, distance runner Steve Prefontaine was killed in a car crash. The author, a fellow Olympian, looks back...
May 29, 2015 · by Mary Pilon on May 29, 2015. O n May 29, 1975, having won his 5,000-meter race at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, earlier that day, Steve Prefontaine attended a post-race celebration. The party was at his friend Geoff Hollister’s house, tucked amid the trees in the older, statelier part of town. The night was clear, the mood was jubilant.
