1971 AAU National Championship 3 Mile

Prefontaine performs a lifetime best for 3 miles beating the 3 mile American Record Holder Gerry Lindgren and the 1972 Olympic Marathon Gold Medalist Frank Shorter. PRE ran his last lap in 58 seconds to pull ahead of Eugene, OR native Steve Stageberg.

[@markmanor7936]

STEVE R PREFONTAINE, THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND, WHATA FORCE, HE'S INSPIRED ME FOR A MANY YEARS NOW, GO PRE, GO PRE, GO PRE, LOVE YA BROTHER ❤️ 💙

[@kadenvogel9078]

Thank you for these amazing videos! I couldn’t find these types of races from any other channel

[@Sam-bh3ds]

His charisma was tops. Track would be so much popular in the USA if he had lived

[@gary1961]

12.58. I believe he could have achieved that time in the 5,000 metres between 1976 and 1978 regardless of his performance in Montreal. He would have been at his absolute peak during those years and because he was predominantly a front-runner, he could have done 'a David Moorcroft' years before Moorcroft and blitzed the 5k world record in a pillar-to-post performance. Not long after this race, he competed in the 5,000 metres for the USA in the Pan American games in Colombia and won the gold medal.

[@benjaminjantzen1398]

My dad was a national contender in the 800m in the early/mid-seventies. He ran a 1:51 800m in his prime multiple times…but the political state of the country kept him from competing. Interesting how things change…quickly.