Archived Homepage For June 3, 2022

Archived Homepage For June 03, 2022

LRC Gary Martin & Connor Burns Make History as Two High School Boys Go Sub-4 in the Same Race For First Time Ever

For the first time ever 2 high schoolers went sub-4 in the mile in the same high school race and for just the second time ever a US high school junior has gone sub-4.

RRW Next Weekend's 50th Mastercard NY Mini 10K is ABSOLUTELY LOADED

Check out some of these names. Reigning Boston, Olympic and NY champ Peres Jepchirchir headlines but she'll be joined by Molly Seidel, Keira D'Amato, Emily Sisson, Sara Hall, Senbere Teferi, Edna Kiplagat, and many more.

On The Boards

World Athletics Continental Tour Gold goes to Bydgoszcz, Poland on Friday

Bydgoszcz Preview

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Centro Vs Willis - Who You Got?

LRC Setting the Record Straight: Sorry Malcolm Gladwell, But Matthew Centrowitz Absolutely Belongs in the Same Sentence as Nick Willis

Earlier today best-selling author and huge track fan Malcolm Gladwell wrote, "(Matthew Centrowitz) doesn’t even belong in the same conversation as, say, Nick Willis, who never won gold but nonetheless was a threat to win every big race he entered for a good 10 years." What a ridiculous statement. We had to set the record straight.

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Our Weekly Recap

LRC WTW: Our Biggest Winners and Losers At Pre + Fast Times in Ostrava

Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Sinclaire Johnson, Berihu Aregwai, Michael Norman, Sha'Carri Richardson, Michael Norman, Paul Chelimo,Emma Coburn, Courtney Frerichs, Laua Muir, and Josette Norris all make the list. Plus do the low attendance numbers prove that Track Town USA is a myth? And watch out for Oregon's Micah Williams.

Want Pre Winners and Losers as a Podcast? Pre Winners/Losers, USATF 10,000m Recap Podcast

LRC Jakob Ingebrigtsen Declares He's Going For Double Gold At Eugene Worlds, Say He Won't Retire Until At Least After 2028 Olympics

Jakob Ingebrigtsen fans, we've got great news for you. He'll be going for the double this year at Worlds and won't be retiring at least until 2028.

Ostrava Golden Spike

LRC 2022 Ostrava Golden Spike Results: Ethiopia gets its first sub-8

History was made as Femke Bol broke the world record in the 300-meter hurdles (36.86) and Ethiopia got its first sub-8 steepler as Lamecha Girma ran 7:58.68. *WA Recap

Sarah Healy Smashes Sonia O'Sullivan's Irish Under-23 1500m Record With 4:02.86 In Ostrava She finished 6th place in the race won by Diribe Welteji (3:59.19), taking three seconds off O'Sullivan's 21-year-old record.
GB's Reece Prescond Runs A PB And His First Sub-10 Second 100m With 9.93 Victory In Ostrava This is a return to form for Prescond who says he struggled with binge eating and late night gaming before Tokyo, but here he ran his PB into a 1.2 ms/ headwind.
MB: Ethiopia gets its first sub-8 steepler. Lamecha Girma 7:58.68 in Ostrava!!
MB: Femke Bol SMASHES 300mH WR
MB: Kenya's 17-yr old sensation Emmanuel Wanyoni wins his European debut in 1:44.15. Might he be a player at Worlds?
MB: Nijel Amos feeling good after 1:44.92 in Ostrava: "1:44:92 official season opener. it's going to be a hot summer"
MB: Just catching up. A suspected intersex women wins 200m in Ostrava (Video), DESTROYS Allyson Felix

Sprint Stuff

Jamaica's World Under-20 4x100m Record Rejected By World Athletics The mark set at the Carifta Games in April won't count because not all team members were drug tested after the race. Three out of the four relay members still hold the WR though as they were part of the Jamaican squad that set the current record in 2021.
Sydney McLaughlin Will Run Her First 400H Of The Year At The Music City Track Carnival On Sunday
Christine Mboma Pulls Out Of African Championships As She Is Still Recovering From Thigh Injury She Sustained In Kenya Last Month
Karsten Warholm And Elaine Thompson-Herah Will Headline At The Rabat DL On Sunday

Retired Sprinters In The News

Good Read: Athletics Weekly Looks Back On The Silver Anniversary Of The 150m Indoor "Grudge Race" Between Donavan Bailey And Michael Johnson It was the 100m Olympic champ vs the 200/400 Olympic champ with $1 million in prize money on the line. But the race ended early as Johnson pulled up with a cramp. Afterwards, Bailey said, “He didn’t pull up. He’s a chicken and he’s afraid to lose. We should run this race again so I can kick his ass one more time.”
Jamaica's Former Multi-Time Olympic Medalist Kerron Stewart Joins SPIRE Academy Staff As Head Sprints, Hurdles And Mid-D Coach
Scottish 400 Hurdler Eilidh Doyle Looks Back At Her Greatest Race The multi-time global medalist recalls her victory at the 2014 European Championships.

Olympic Financials

InsideTheGames Analyzes The Debate Between Building New Venues Vs Using Existing Ones For The Olympics A recent IOC report claims 85% of all permanent Olympic venues since 1896 remain in use today. Considering this and other factors, David Owens concludes, "Not all Olympic buildings are white elephants, but it requires skill, discipline, honest debate and a genuine sense of civic responsibility to prevent them propagating."
IOC's Games Cancellation Insurance Costs Surged 35% In Last Olympic Cycle They paid 17 million to buy cancellation insurance for the Tokyo Games.
The IOC Spent Way More On Medical And Anti-Doping This Last Olympic Cycle $27.7 million for the Tokyo/Pyeongchang Olympic cycle compared to $4.3 million for the Rio/Sochi Olympic cycle.

Three Days, Two British Papers And Six Articles About Katarina Johnson-Thompson

The Telegraph #3: "Katarina Johnson-Thompson Vows To Bounce Back After Lowly Heptathlon Score On Return" The 2019 world champ finished 7th in the Gotzis Hypo Meeting with her second-lowest score in a decade.
The Guardian #3: "Katarina Johnson Thompson 'Not Panicking' After Third Lowest Score Of Career"
The Guardian #2: "Katarina Johnson-Thompson's Painful Reality Check On Return To Action"
The Telegraph #2: "Katarina Johnson-Thompson Shows Signs Of Progress - But There Remains Huge Hurdles To Overcome"
The Telegraph #1: "The Rebirth Of Katarina Johnson-Thompson"
The Guardian #1: "Katarina Johnson-Thompson: 'I still want to do it. I still love the heptathlon."

One Week Until NCAA Champs

Texas Men Drop Out Of The Top Spot For The First Time All Season As Georgia Goes Into NCAA Champs Ranked #1 While Georgia took over the top spot, they are basically tied in the rankings with Texas while FSU and BYU made big jumps to be ranked 3-4.
Texas Women Still At #1 Going In Final Pre-NCAA Champs Rankings Florida moved up to #2, Texas A&M is #3 and Texas Tech dropped to #4.
Florida State's Trey Cunningham Ran A 110H World Lead With 13.07 At The NCAA East Regional A world lead running into a 1.5 m/s headwind. A mid-d highlight was Texas Tech's 800m world leader Moad Zahafi running 1:44.65.
Texas Tops List Of NCAA Schools With The Most Qualifiers At NCAA Champs They have 33 entries total (men and women). LSU is next with 25.
*List Of 2022 NCAA DI Champs Qualifiers
NCAA.com Gives Their 8 Best Women's NCAA Races Of The 2022 Season (So Far) First on their list is the SEC 4x400 where the top-3 teams broke the previous collegiate record, with Kentucky winning in 3:21.93 with sub-50 splits from Abby Steiner and Alexis Holmes.

Another Coaching Move For Alan Webb

MB: Alan Webb Is The New Head Coach At Ave Maria University

He's the head coach for the cross country, track and swimming teams.

More Recent Results

AW's Weekly Round-Up: Jesse Knight Runs 54.09 To Win Belgium Meet 400H And Equal #4 On The UK All-Time List
MB: Kilian Jornet is Back - CR at Zegama
Paul Onyiego Sets Course Record To Win Yamanakako Road Race In Japan He won the 13.6k road race in 40:52 (4:50 pace). Eri Oda won the women's race in 50:22 (5:58 pace).
Athletics Weekly's UK Weekly Round-Up

Boulder Boulder 10k

Results

Aliphine Tuliamuk Becomes First American To Win The Boulder Boulder Since 2006 She won in 32:58 well ahead of Ethiopia's Biruktayit Degefa (33:35). The USA women won the international team challenge for the first time ever.
Leonard Korir Pulls Away To Win Boulder Boulder Men's Race In 29:28 He was the first American to win since 1984. Jared Ward was 4th in 29:55 as team USA lost the team title on a tie breaker to Tanzania.
Laura Thweatt Wins Boulder Boulder Citizen's Race in 34:59
Jacob White Races To Men’s Citizens Title (31:13) At The Bolder Boulder

2022 Pre Classic

LRC 2022 Pre Classic Men's Recap: Ingebrigtsen Cruises, Aregawi Dominates, & Michael Norman Is Back

Plus Berihu Aregawi was SENSATIONAL and won the 5k by 16+ seconds while Norman broke the Diamond League record in the 400 (43.60) and high schooler Colin Sahlman ran 3:56.24. Plus Rojo gives Jakob Ingebrigtsen a quick track and field history lesson about Seb Coe.

LRC 2022 Prefontaine Classic Women's Recap: Kipyegon Cruises, Thompson-Herah Wins, & Sha'Carri Richardson Looks Good

It was a good day for the women's favorites and stars at the 2022 Prefontaine Classic as the big names DELIVERED.

World Athletics Recap: Michael Norman Breaks DL 400m Record With 43.60
Matthew Hudson-Smith Breaks 25-Year-Old British 400m Record With 44.35 For Third In Eugene He got the record by Iwan Thomas by just one 100th of a second.

Video replays of races you missed

Weekend High School Action

Rocky Hansen Beats Out Newbury Park's Lex Young To Win RunningLane Track Championships Mile In 4:00.76 Young was second in 4:01.52.
Gary Martin Shatters State 1,600 Record At Pennsylvania State Championship He won handily in 4:01.56.
*MB: PIAA State Champs: Gary Martin 4:01 and 1:51 FTW!!!
MileSplit: Historic Girls 1600 Highlights Distance Races At California State Meet Sadie Engelhardt won in 4:36.67 over Dalia Frias (4:37.09) and Samantha McDonnell (4:37.37).
*MB: CA State 1600: Amazing girls race. 3 girls 4:37 or faster!!!
Bethany Michalak Wins RunningLane Track Championships Mile In 4:44.46
DyeStat Recap: Serra Girls Grab Second Title; Fresno Central Boys Capture First Crown In Return Of California State Championships
MB: Daniel Appleford of NP 2nd at CA state meet 3200

NCAA Regionals Have Begun

Streaming / Results

MB Official 2022 NCAA Regionals Live Discussion Thread

We feel for the people who ran 3:43, 13:47 and 29:03 and didn't even make it to the meet. Click on the link to see what it took to get in.

Oregon's Micah Williams Runs 9.86 At NCAA Regionals As Oregon Qualifies 23 For NCAA Champs
Cal's Camryn Rogers Breaks Her Own Collegiate Hammer Record With 76.46m At The NCAA West Regional She also broke the Canadian national record and now holds all of the top-5 performances in collegiate history.
DyeStat: Highlights From NCAA East And West Regionals Alabama's Mercy Chelangat (East) and Rice’s Grace Forbes (West) won the 10,000s.
DII Champs Recap: Pittsburg State Men And West Texas A&M Women Win Team Titles
NCAA DIII Champs Recap: UW-Eau Claire Men And Loras College Women Win Team Titles
*Deaf 400m Sprinter Gives Gallaudet University Their First NCAA DIII Title Eric Gregory ran 46.19 to win the title for the school that serves deaf and hard of hearing students.
*More Highlights From 2022 NCAA DIII Champs
NAIA Championships Recap: Life University Men And British Columbia Women Win Team Title

Non-Pre Weekend Action

Andualem Shiferaw Breaks CR To Win Ottawa Marathon In 2:06:03 Canada's Kinsey Middleton won the women's race in 2:30:09.
France's Jimmy Gressier (27:24.51) And Turkey's Yasemin Can (31:20.18) Dominate At The European 10,000m Cup *Results
Olympic Decathlon Champ Damian Warner (8797 Points) Gets His 7th Victory At The Gotzis Hypo Meet; Olympic Silver Medalist Anouk Vetter (6693 Points) Wins The Heptathlon GB's World champ Katarina Johnson-Thompson was only 7th (6174 points).
*Simon Ehammer Leads Olympic Champ Damian Warner By Just Two Points After Day 1 Of Gotzis Hypo Meeting Adrianna Sulek leads the heptathlon while GB's world champ Katarina Johnson-Thompson sat outside the top-5.
World leader Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya (10.14) suffers shock upset to Sri Lanka's Yupun Abeykoon Mudiyanselage (10.06) in Germany
Poland's Pia Skrzyszowska Runs 12.68 To Win The 100H At The Poznan GP The time was the fastest by a Polish athlete since 1984.

Friday at Pre

LRC What a Race: Karissa Schweizer Outduels Alicia Monson to Win Her First USATF National Title

What a race to kick off the 2022 Pre Classic as Alicia Monson and Karissa Schweizer put on a show with Natosha Rogers showing she is back.

LRC Joe Klecker Upsets American Record Holder Grant Fisher To Win 2022 USA 10,000 Title

The last lap of the men's 10,000 was wild as Joe Klecker took down Grant Fisher to get national title #1.

LRC World Record Attempts at Pre Classic Fizzle as Niyonsaba Comes Closest

No amount of money or technology makes breaking a world record easy and Friday night proved it at Pre as Francine Niyonsaba, Letesenbet Gidey and Joshua Cheptegei all came up short.

World Athletics Friday Recap: Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh (HJ) And Mondo Duplantis (PV) Triumph On Opening Night Mahuchikh cleared 2.00m while Duplantis went over 5.91m and took three unsuccessful atempts at 6.07m. US's Valarie Allman won the discus with 68.35m.

Friday Night Pre Talk

LRC Olympic Champion Athing Mu Didn't Run Pre Because She Is Recovering From Covid

Athing Mu has revealed why she is missing Pre.

BBC: "Keely Hodgkinson 'Expecting More Of Herself' In Eugene" Hodgkinson: "It is pretty much a world final, a nice early-season world final, but I think it is going to be a lot of fun, I am looking forward to it."

The Inside Scoop From The Meet Hotel

2022 Prefontaine Video Highlights

Women's 100

Men's 100

Women's 800

Bowerman Mile

Random Quality Links That Caught Our Eye

World Athletics catches up with Anderson Peters after his monstrous 93.07 toss in Doha “I was throwing my javelin a bit flat,” said Peters. “But then when I saw Jakub threw it higher and got 90 metres, I thought ‘let me try throwing it high’.”
*MB: Should we thank youtube for the rise of javelin stars in countries like Trinidad & Tobago, Kenya, India, and Grenada?
Mongolian marathon star Ser-Od Bat-Ochir is still going strong at 40 and is hoping to make history in Paris He is hoping to be the first person to compete in six Olympic marathons and has run more than 70 (2:08:40 pb).
Valarie Allman Profile: The American Olympic discus champ is on fire & ready to battle Sandra Perkovic at Pre
Gender Recognition Reform bill is up for debate in Scotland and it it soon may be easy for biological men to compete in women's sports And former British marathon star Mara Yamauchi is playing the role of JK Rowling and standing up for women.
Lengthy TFN Q&A with Olympic 200 medallist Gabby Thomas

Gary Martin Highlights

LRC Gary Martin Opens Up on Sub-4, His Training, Newbury Park, and Being Called the "Nerd Runner"

Audio and written highlights. Gary Martin and Jim Ryun are the only 2 high schoolers to go sub-4 in the mile without a rabbit. Marin was the guest on the LetsRun.com Track Talk podcast.

Previous Pre Classic News

2022 Pre Classic Hit With Withdrawals: Olympic Champs Athing Mu, Marcell Jacobs and Matthew Centrowitz All Withdraw From Meet

The biggest shock withdrawal is Athing Mu. Centrowitz's agent Ricky Simms tells us what's ailing the aging US 1500 star.

Looking Ahead To The Rest of the Year

LRC The Eight Most Interesting Track Storylines to Follow in 2022

From world record chases to era-defining rivalries, here are the eight stories Jonathan Gault will be following closely throughout the 2022 track season.

MB: Here are the 8 storylines I'll be watching most closely in track in 2022. What are yours?

Are The Marathon Trials In Trouble?

SC Are the US Olympic Marathon Trials Broken? Examining the Business Model of America's Greatest Marathon

As USATF searches for a bidder for the 2024 Trials, those in charge of recent Olympic Marathon Trials in Houston and Atlanta believe the Trials' financial model is unsustainable. Will anything change?

LRC Trying To Make Sense of World Athletics' New Scoring Tables; Which World Records Are Worth the Most?

We take a close look at the tables where some distances times are worth less points than before but some are bizarrely worth more. Plus which WR is the greatest in all of track and field according to the tables?

MB: World Athletics' scoring tables have been updated for 2022 - anyone know what the changes entail? .

Ross Tucker Speaks

LRC Sports Scientist Ross Tucker Weighs in on the Shelby Houlihan Case

We paid one of the top sports scientists in the world to analyze the Shelby Houlihan doping case and CAS ruling. He has 2 pieces for us, the piece above is an opinion piece where he answers our questions. In a 2nd more technical piece, Ross goes through the CAS decision step by step and outlines in clear terms exactly what Houlihan argued and why he thinks CAS ultimately (correctly) ruled against her.

Discussion: Sports Scientist Ross Tucker breaks down the Shelby Houlihan case for us

LRC An Improved LetsRun.com Forum Is Here

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LRC Gary Martin & Connor Burns Make History as Two High School Boys Go Sub-4 in the Same Race For First Time Ever

RRW Next Weekend's 50th Mastercard NY Mini 10K is ABSOLUTELY LOADED

LRC Setting the Record Straight: Sorry Malcolm Gladwell, But Matthew Centrowitz Absolutely Belongs in the Same Sentence as Nick Willis

LRC WTW: Our Biggest Winners and Losers At Pre + Fast Times in Ostrava

LRC Jakob Ingebrigtsen Declares He's Going For Double Gold At Eugene Worlds, Say He Won't Retire Until At Least After 2028 Olympics

LRC 2022 Ostrava Golden Spike Results: Ethiopia gets its first sub-8

MB: Alan Webb Is The New Head Coach At Ave Maria University

LRC 2022 Pre Classic Men's Recap: Ingebrigtsen Cruises, Aregawi Dominates, & Michael Norman Is Back

LRC 2022 Prefontaine Classic Women's Recap: Kipyegon Cruises, Thompson-Herah Wins, & Sha'Carri Richardson Looks Good

Video replays of races you missed

MB Official 2022 NCAA Regionals Live Discussion Thread

LRC What a Race: Karissa Schweizer Outduels Alicia Monson to Win Her First USATF National Title

LRC Joe Klecker Upsets American Record Holder Grant Fisher To Win 2022 USA 10,000 Title

LRC World Record Attempts at Pre Classic Fizzle as Niyonsaba Comes Closest

LRC Olympic Champion Athing Mu Didn't Run Pre Because She Is Recovering From Covid

LRC Gary Martin Opens Up on Sub-4, His Training, Newbury Park, and Being Called the "Nerd Runner"

2022 Pre Classic Hit With Withdrawals: Olympic Champs Athing Mu, Marcell Jacobs and Matthew Centrowitz All Withdraw From Meet

LRC The Eight Most Interesting Track Storylines to Follow in 2022

SC Are the US Olympic Marathon Trials Broken? Examining the Business Model of America's Greatest Marathon

LRC Trying To Make Sense of World Athletics' New Scoring Tables; Which World Records Are Worth the Most?

LRC Sports Scientist Ross Tucker Weighs in on the Shelby Houlihan Case

LRC An Improved LetsRun.com Forum Is Here

American Record Pod: Yared Nuguse and Wood Kincaid Open Up

Webb, Ritz, and Hall

Madeline Manning Mims

Frank Shorter

LRC American Marathon Record Podcast: Keira D'Amato and Deena Kastor

LRC Emily Sisson - The Next US Marathon Superstar?

LRC Woody Kincaid - On His American Record and Leaving Bowerman

LRC New Balance Boston's Mark Coogan

LRC Brooks Beasts' Danny Mackey

LRC OAC's Dathan Ritzenhein

The Rise of Syracuse: How a Cross Country Powerhouse Was Built From Scratch in 10 Years

26:59: The Story of Chris Solinsky's American Record and Upset of Galen Rupp

The Summer of Webb: An Inside Look at Alan Webb’s Magical 2007 Season

Dreams Become Reality: Jake Wightman Stuns Jakob Ingebrigtsen to Win World 1500m Title

Wejo Speaks: Why I Sucked in College

Escorting Paula - How LRC Co-Founder Weldon Johnson Paced Radcliffe To Her 1st World Record

American Strong: How American Teamwork Helped Meb Keflezighi Win Boston

LRC's Robert and Weldon Johnson Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”

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