The high-altitude training center and site of the U.S. Olympic Men’s Track and Field Trials on Echo Summit in 1968 has been recognized as a World Athletics Heritage Site. The site has been awarded The World Athletics Heritage Plaque for outstanding contributions to the worldwide history and development of the sport of track and field.
Four world records were broken at the Echo Summit Trials, in the men’s 200m, 400m, 400m hurdles and pole vault, according to Museum of World Athletics. | worldathletics.org
