Plus Devon Allen runs 12.84, did an obscure NCAA rule cost Notre Dame's Yared Nuguse an NCAA title and Molly Seidel doesn't run the Mastercard New York Mini 10K.
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Our Weekly Recap
2022 NYC Marathon
The reigning Olympic, NYC and Boston champ missed the NYC course record by just eight seconds when she won in 2:22:39 last year.
On The Boards
On The Boards
2022 USATF NYC Grand Prix
The NFL practices need to wait as Allen whacked 0.15 off his pb and CRUSHED world champ Grant Holloway in the process.
- NYC Grand Prix. Official Discussion Thread.
- Holy SHI*. Devon Allen. 12.84!!!! OMG.
- LRC Archives: Devon Allen Podcast Allen joined us on the LetsRun Track Talk podcast after joining the sub 13.00 club last year.
Six years after the final New York Diamond League, world-class track & field returned to NYC and all eyes were on Sha'Carri Richardson. Plus all 3 US Olympians battled in the 800 - Jewett, Hoppel and Murphy - and it was a battle of the Wilsons in the women's 800.
Kately Tuohy got NCAA title #1 as Courtney Wayment and Abby Steiner crushed NCAA records.
Day 4 Talk
- MB: Official 2022 NCAA Outdoors Day 4 - Women's Finals - Discussion Thread
- KATELYN TUOHY NCAA 5000M CHAMPION
- Who is the better pro/Olympic prospect? Nico Young or Katelyn Tuohy? I think you've gotta say the answer is....
- Florida is a rigged scholarship game!
- Is abby Steiner overrated? She is pretty good at 200 meters but let's not say she is the next Flo JO
- Anna Hall on pace to SMASH the Collegiate Heptathlon Record
Portland Track Festival
Yared Nuguse returned to good form, Hobbs Kessler didn't have the magic he had last year this meet, Emma Coburn was 5 seconds faster at 1500 than 3 weeks ago, Weini Kelati went sub 15:00 again, and others (Raevyn Rogers 1:58, Karissa Schweizer 4:00) did as one might expect.
High School Mie Record!
The time is faster than Alexa Efraimson's 4:33.29 1600m record and also converts to a 4:27.71 which is faster than Mary Cain's 4:28.35 high school mile record. Wiley's previous PB was just 4:37.98.
50th NYC Mini Saturday
Teferi ran 30:43 to beat out Sharon Lokedi (30:52), Keira D'Amato (31:03) and Aliphine Tuliamuk (31:08). Olympic marathon champ Peres Jepchirchir finished 5th (31:19) after a mid-race fall.
What a meet. We recap it all for you including the 800 where the world leader got the job done and a historically fast men’s steeplechase.
NCAA Day 3 MBoard Talk
- Official 2022 NCAA Outdoors Day 3 - Men's Finals - Discussion Thread
- Hot (dumb) take - Nico Young will never win an NCAA individual title
- OLIN HACKER IS THE SAME AGE AS CONNOR MANTZ
- I didn’t like the Washington team tactics
- JONATHAN JONES is 🐐
- Crazy Stat: All of the men's mid-d /distance events at 2022 NCAAs were won by men who had never scored at NCAA outdoors before
- Meanwhile in Wisconsin, the Hacker legacy lives on
- Enough with the Joe F. sit & kick tactics
- Men's NCAA 800m > Jakob
Japan National Champs
- Nozomi Tanaka Wins 5000 In 15:05.61 On Final Day Of Japan Champs To Complete Impressive Triple Tanaka also won the 1500m and was second in the 800m. Another cool story was javelin thrower Roderick Genki Dean overcoming years of injury setbacks to win his first national title since 2012.
- Yuno Yamanaka Leads Greatest Women's Steeple In Japanese History She won in a meet record 9:38.19 as relative unknown Yuzu Nishide was 2nd in 9:38.95. Third was 9:39.27 and collegiate record holder Reimi Yoshimura 4th (9:39.86). They all put themselves 2-5 on the Japan all-time list. NR holder Ryuji Miura won the men's race in 8:14.47.
- Caster Semenya Finishes 6th In African Champs 5000m, Way Short Of The World Qualifying Time She ran 16:03.24 in the race won by Kenya's Beatrice Chebet in 15:00.82.
- Abdul Hakim Sani Brown Back With 100m National Title In 10.08 Kazuto Iizawa took the 1500m in 3:42.82. Arisa Kimishima ran Japanese #4 all-time to win the women's 100m in 11.36.
- Kenya's Ferdinand Omanyala Out Of Contention For African Champs 200m Title After Failing To Qualify For The Semi-Final He was only 3rd in his heat in 21.01.
- Nigeria Grabs Gold In Women's 4x100m Relay (44.45) And Discus
African Champs
- African Champs Saturday Recap: Olympic Bronze Medalist Hugues Fabrice Zango Defends His TJ Title With 17.34m (Wind-Aided) Ethiopia's Hailemariyham Amare Tegegn won the steeple in 8:27.38.
- Kenya's Caroline Nyaga Wins African Champs 10,000m In 32:12.61
- Caster Semenya Finishes 6th In African Champs 5000m, Way Short Of The World Qualifying Time She ran 16:03.24 in the race won by Kenya's Beatrice Chebet in 15:00.82.
- Kenya's Ferdinand Omanyala Out Of Contention For African Champs 200m Title After Failing To Qualify For The Semi-Final He was only 3rd in his heat in 21.01.
- Nigeria Grabs Gold In Women's 4x100m Relay (44.45) And Discus
International Field Eventer News
- Crazy Story: Poland's Three-Time Olympic Hammer Champion Anita Wlodarczyk Will Need Surgery After "Single-Handedly Apprehending" A Thief Who Broke Into Her Car She posted on Twitter, "I single-handedly apprehended the thief and handed him over to the police. Unfortunately I paid for it with a muscle injury. Surgery on Monday."
- Olympic High Jump Champ Mariya Lasitskene Calls For IOC To Lift Sanctions On Russian Athletes She said, "Your decision did not stop the war but gave birth to a new one" and lamented that out of the last seven years, she's been unable to compete internationally for four of them. She also added, "My main colleagues in the high jump sector are Ukrainian girls. And I still don't know what to say to them or how to look into their eyes. They and their friends and relatives are experiencing what no one human being should ever have to feel."
- Jamaican Triple Jumper Sabina Allen Gets 4-Year Drug Ban The arbitrator in her case said that the supplement she provided for review showed “signs of probable manipulation – not contamination through the manufacturing process."
- Ukraine's Artur Felfner Scares European Under-20 Javelin Record With 84.32m In Slovakia The record is 84.69m.
M800
M1500
MSteeple
M5k
M100
M200
M110h
M4x4
Washington’s Haley Herberg tried to make things interesting by grabbing a 26+ second lead early but Chelangat ended up running the final 6 laps solo en route to her first NCAA track title.
*MB: Official 2022 NCAA Outdoors Women's Discussion Thread - 5k is LOADED. Is it Tuohy's time to shine?
The favorites all advanced in the distance races as Julien Alfred and Abby Steiner ran very fast and Camryn Rogers and Adelaide Aquilla broke NCAA records in the hammer and shot put respectively. Plus we break down the 800, 1500 and steeple semis.
Previous NYC Mini 10k News
The 50th New York Mini this weekend is loaded and the stars of the sport today and the women who first ran it 50 years ago reflect on this historic race.
Rome Diamond League
- MB: Official 2022 Rome DL Live Discussion Thread (2-4 pm ET - Thursday). Live Reaction Show 4:01 pm ET. We'll be breaking the meet down right after it lives.
- MB: Athing Mu DESTROYS Rome Diamond League field. 1:57.01 WL
- MB: Lamecha Girma is MAGNIFICENT. 7:59.23 in Rome. 3rd straight sub-9.
- MB: Nicholas Kimeli 12:46.63 in Rome!!! 8 guys break 13:00.
If you missed the meet, you can watch the best races here.
Jacobs threw down the hammer the final 400m to upset pre-race favorite Abdihamid Nur. Recap, results, analysis, post-race videos.
The NCAA 1500/mile record curse lives on. The last nine men to break the NCAA 1500 or mile record have all failed to win that event at NCAAs in that season. Kipsang wasn't the only 1500 stud to go home early as 3:34 man Anass Essayi of South Carolina also was eliminated. The other favorites looked good including 800 world leader Moad Zahafi.
Final Two Laps of 10,000 (or whole race)
Random But Interesting
- $4000 in gear stolen including a Superloo port-a-loo stolen from New Zealand marathon What a shi**y development.
- Hyuga Endo crushes 5000 field at Japanese Nationals to secure spot in Eugene - National Championships Day One Highlights The 13:10 guy won by 8 seconds in 13:22.
- Nike's is latest company to pull services from China due to China's laws - Nike's Run Club App has reached the end of the road in China China greatly restricts you collecting date on people and transporting it overseas o Amazon, Nike, Linked In, etc are shutting things down.
The Latests from the African Champs
- Ferdinand Omanyala edges Akani Simbine for gold at African champs as both run 9.93 (+4.5) It was Kenya's 1st gold in the event in 32 years. Watch the race above.
- Tobi Amusan wins 100h gold in 12.57w
Recommended Reads
- 2022 World Championships Marathon Qualifiers By Country and By Sex, And What It Says About Gender Equality in Japan "Among global top 25 economic powers where elite marathoning is a significant thing, Japan is the only country without parity in the sport between women and men. The men outnumber the women 2.5 to 1. Why?"
- Q&A with 1:46 HSer Will Sumner who reveals his goal isn't the 800 HS NR but to rather to make the US U-20 team We sure hope he races Cade Flatt at 800 somewhere.
- Jenny Simpson tells NBC she won't run USA this year The "U.S.’ most decorated female miler in history, will not compete at the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships for the first time since 2006" but didn't offer any more than that.
Sprint News of Note
- Sydney McLaughlin to run 100h and 400 at USATF New York Grand Prix w Watch it live on NBC from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday.
- Elaine Thompson-Herah explains how shoulder injury hurts her sprinting "I opened my season at Mt. SAC and I got a rotator (cuff) injury so I was in and out of practice. You need your arms to run and every time I race I have discomfort in it, but I have to race, I have to see where I am at.”
- Things are getting ugly in Namibia as agent announces Christine Mboma & Beatrice Masilingi have a new coach, but the old coach says that he's still coaching Mboma Coach Henk Botha said the agent is trying to get rid of him as he called the agent out for being corrupt.
- Team Nigeria isn't sure why Divine Oduduru hasn't been training with national team “First, we are yet to know why Oduduru decided to restrict himself to personal training in Sapele, Delta State since the Tokyo Olympics."
- British Rio 4 x 400 medallist Anyika Onuora: 'I was sexually assaulted and racially abused - all while competing for my country' "The front of (our) house became a no-go zone, due to the front window being shattered most nights by bricks."
Afriican & Oceania Champs
- Mogos Tiumay wins African champs 10,000 at compatriot and Chimdese Debele nabs silver On Sunday, they duo had finished 11th (27:53) and 10th (27:46) in the Ethiopian 10,000 Trials.
- Simbine (10.09) and Omanyala (10.07) cruise into clash in 100m final at African Championships
- World Athletics Oceania Championships Day 1 Recap - Zoe Hobbs sets women's 100 Oceania record of 11.09 New Zealand’s Sam Tanner won the 1500m in 3:42.56. Craig Motram-coached Claudia Hollingsworth won the women's race in 4:12.33.
We recap the week in running
Pre-NCAA News
Half a dozen collegiate records are under threat as young stars Micah Williams, Joseph Fahnbulleh, Trey Cunningham, Julien Alfred, and Favour Ofili hit the track in Eugene. *Full NCAA Coverage
Sprint Stuff
- Sydney McLaughlin Running Hurdles Double (400H/100H) At The USATF NYC Grand Prix On Sunday
- Good Read: Interesting Interview With Fred Kerley Where He Explains That He Was In Great Shape For The 400m In 2020, But Switched To The 100/200 At The Last Minute In 2021 Due To Injury He also says he's "the biggest 400m runner of all time" (he's 6' 3") and reveals that he's never lifted weights before, but started lifting "a little" this year.
- Jarrion Lawson Out For The Season After Getting Knee Surgery For Ruptured Patellar Tendon
- Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Roger Kingdom Inducted Into USOPC Hall Of Fame Kingdom won 110H gold at the 1984 LA and 1988 Seoul Games.
- Eilish McColgan Says A Family Member Told Her At The End Of College It Was Time To "Wise Up And Get A Job"
McColgan says she made a deal with herself that if she didn't make the London 2012 Olympics, she'd get a job (she made it in the steeplechase). She also shares an interesting story about how she got her first sponsorship from a local jam company. - Kate Grace Gives Tips On Recovering From Long COVID One of her recommendations is to use a heart rate monitor to prevent overexertion and keep from worrying about pace on runs.
- The Late Agnes Tirop Has Her 30:01 Women's Only 10k World Record Ratified By World Athletics She died just a month after setting the record. They also ratified Senbere Teferi's 14:29 women's only 5k record.
After finishing runner-up twice at NCAA indoors, Tuohy has run 4:06 and 15:14 to lead the NCAA this year. Plus can Courtney Wayment end her terrific NCAA career with a steeple title?
No NCAA women's indoor mile champ has gone on to win the 1500 outdoors in the same year since 2010 but Colorado's Micaela DeGenero will be tough to beat after closing in sub-60 to win Pac-12s.
- TFN's NCAA Women’s Predictions — Texas is in the driver's seat Plus individual predictions for all events.
Nur will be looking for his 3rd NCAA title in the 10k while Young is chasing his first against a strong 5k field.
A Moroccan has never won an NCAA distance title but two Moroccans have a legit shot this year as Moad Zahafi (1:43.69) and Anass Essayi (3:34.58) have gaudy pbs, but can they match the racing chops of indoor champs Brandon Miller & Mario Garcia Romo?
More NCAA Coverage
- DyeStat Preview: 10 Men's Storylines To Follow At NCAA Champs Texas is the team favorite. NAU leads the distances with Abdihamid Nur in the 10,000m and Nico Young in the 5000m. Texas Tech's Moad Zahafi is the world leader in the 800m.
- DyeStat Preview: 10 Women's Storylines To Follow At NCAA Champs Favour Ofili vs Abby Steiner in the sprints. Katelyn Tuohy in the 5000m as North Carolina becomes the first women's program in NCAA history to have five athletes qualify in one event. Look out for another crazy race and collegiate record in the 4x400.
- Ken Goe: Oregon Ducks Not Expected To Contend For Team Trophies This could be the first time since 2007 that Oregon doesn't have a team in the top-10.
- Bowerman Men's Watch List Update Abdihamid Nur, Eliud Kipsang and Moad Zahafi are the distance runners on the list.
- Bowerman Women's Watchlist Update Courtney Wayment is the lone distance runner to make the 10-name list.
Other News
- World Athletics Profile: World Indoor HJ Bronze Medalist Hamish Kerr Wants To Put New Zealand On The Map As A Jumps Nation
- AP: Russians And Belarusians Out Of World Championships Barring Unexpected End To War A World Athletics official said they would be sticking with the ban they imposed when Russia invaded Ukraine.
- Wales Names 22-Strong Commonwealth Games Team
More Recent Results
- World Athletics Silesia Recap: Ethiopia’s Diribe Welteji Beats Out GB's Jemma Reekie In The 800m (1:58.28 To 1:58.44) Jasmine Camacho-Quinn won the 100H in 12.43. Tom Walsh (22.31m) beat Joe Kovacs in the SP. Poland's Natalia Kaczmarek over Allyson Felix in the 400m (50.40 to 50.71). Poland got hammer wins from Olympic champions Wojciech Nowicki (81.58m) and Anita Włodarczyk (75.76m).
*Poland's Ewa Swoboda Opens Her Season With 11.08 100m Win - AW Weekly Round-Up: Lesotho’s Namakoe Nkhasi (61:01) And Ethiopia’s Ftaw Zeray Bezabeh (66:57) Win The Nelson Mandela Bay Half-Marathon In Jamaica, former world under-20 champ Briana Williams won her heat in a wind-aided 10.91 and the final with a legal 10.97.
- Cathal Dennehy: Stars Of The Future Impress At Irish Schools Track And Field Champs The boys 100m was won in 10.59.
- MB: Suguru Osako is back. 13:30 5k. For 8th place at the Nittai University Time Trials in Japan.
- USA's Chari Hawkins (6243 Points) And Sweden's Marcus Nilsson (8115 Points) Win Spanish Multi-Event Meet/
- AW Weekly UK Round-Up
Week in Running
What a wild week. Rojo breaks it down for you.
NCAA / HS News
- Register Guard: Oregon's "Quad-God" Micah Williams In Hot Pursuit Of 100 Title At NCAA Champs The 9.86 school record holder's nicknames also include "Quad-zilla" and "Quad-father" thanks to his large quad muscles.
- DyeStat: Georgia's Kyle Garland And Arkansas' Ayden Owens-Delerme - Decathletes Born On The Same Day In The Same State Are Now Rivals For A NCAA Title In indoors, the heptathlon came down to the final event, with Owens-Delerme beating out Garland by just 11 points.
- Inaugural Class Of 30 Athletes Inducted INto Then Collegiate Athlete Hall Of Fame Last Night The Register Guard writes, "All together, the 30 inductees accounted for 205 individual titles, 99 world records, and 19 Olympic gold medals during their time as college athletes."
*Full Stream For Induction Ceremony For Inaugural HoF Class
- MileSplit Video Interview With Colin Sahlman Breaking Down His 2022 Season
- Asha Gibson-Smith Resigns As Drake University Head Coach To Pursue Opportunities Outside Athletics
Hengelo Was Monday
Letensebet Gidey (30:44) was the top Ethiopian across the line in 30:45 to punch her ticket to Worlds as former WR holder Almaz Ayana returned to the track for the 1st time since 2019 but didn't make it as she was the 5th Ethiopian (30:48). In other action, Faith Kipyegon won the 800 over world champ Halimah Nakaayi (2:00.36 to 2:00.87), Mondo Duplantis won the PV (6.01), Anderson Peters broke 90m again (90.75), Femke Bol set a meet record in the 400h (53.94), and world champ Peruth Chemutai won the steeple (9:14.00).
- MB: FBK Games Hengelo Official Thread
- MB: Eilish McColgan takes down Letesenbet Giey at FBK Games in Hengelo - 30:19 FTW
- MB: 2022:. Watch out Letesenet Giday & Siffan Hissain, ALMAZ AYANA is back
- MB: Barega wins Ethiopian trials in Hengelo, 26:44 We feel for Yomif Kejelcha who ran 26:49 and didn't make the team.
Stockholm Marathon Blunder
- Kenya's Felix Kirwa Wins Stockholm Marathon Despite Running Extra 1.1K After Being Sent The Wrong Way Twice By Blundering Officials Kirwa was one of three to go the wrong way and lose the lead, but he was still able to come back and win in 2:11:07. However, the mistake cost him getting the 2:10:10 CR. Ethiopia's Tsige Haileslase won the women's race in 2:31:48.
- MB: Stockholm Marathon, 2022, leaders sent off course. How many minutes lost?
- Stockholm Marathon Scandal As Three Leaders Sent The Wrong Way Leaving Them "Unhappy" This article has quotes from race officials, explaining why the mistake occurred.
Looking Ahead To The Rest of the Year
From world record chases to era-defining rivalries, here are the eight stories Jonathan Gault will be following closely throughout the 2022 track season.
Are The Marathon Trials In Trouble?
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?
Ross Tucker Speaks
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.
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American Record Holders
American Record Holders
Keira D'Amato, the new American record holder in the marathon, was joined by Deena Kastor, who held the record for 15 years.
Sisson was the guest on the LetsRun.com Track Talk podcast after she became the first American to go sub 67 in the half marathon on a record-eligible course. Podcast highlights above. Full pod here.
Woody Kincaid joined us after he broke the American record indoors at 5000. He talks above why he left the Bowerman Track Club. Podcast highlights and link to full podcast here.
Coogan's New Balance Boston team had 3 Olympians in 2021 and 2022 could be the biggest year yet for the program with 2 new additions and the TRACK at New Balance coming on March 1st.
Danny Mackey has taken the Brooks Beasts from an unproven club to the Olympic podium in its first decade.
Dathan Ritzenhein is the first of the top pro coaches to sit down and talk about his club heading into the 2022 campaign.
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