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Olympian runner Don Gehrmann looks back at his accomplishments

Don Gehrmann was named the greatest miler of the Big Ten?s first 50 years but was versatile enough to set the world record in the 880 indoors and in the 1,000 both outdoors and indoors.Tom Jones, his coach at the UW, called him “potentially the greatest runner the world has ever known.” Gehrmann looks back on the 1948 London Olympics.