The name of O’Brien was once on everyone’s lips. Who among athletics fans did not know the shot putter Parry, who set his stamp on an entire era? But for a world record to happen at ISTAF this time, it took another by the name of O’Brien. The 24-year-old Australian steeplechaser Kerry O’Brien, fourth in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, seized his opportunity and set a world record of 8:22.0 for the 3,000m steeplechase in front of 7,000 fans in the Olympic Stadium on July 4.
