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Archived Homepage For May 11, 2023
Archived Homepage For May 11, 2023
Flash Sale!
America's newest track star?!
Cordell Tinch of DII Pittsburg State had the performance of the week as he also long jumped 8.24m (+3.2) and cleared 2.18m in the HJ at his conference meet.
On The Boards
On The Boards
More Recent Results
- Ethiopians Jemal Yimer (33:58) And Yeshi Kalayu (38:49) Win Bloomsday Run 12k Yimer beat just missed the CR by 7-seconds as he beat out US's Teshome Mekonen by 20-seconds while Kalayu won a close race with CR holder Cynthia Limo by 2-seconds. Keira D'Amato was 4th in 39:42. *Results
- Tara Davis-Woodhall Set Long Jump World Lead With 7.07m At The Arkansas Twilight
- Olympic 5000m 7th Placer Nadia Battocletti Wins Italian 10,000m Champs In 33:06. Pietro Riva won the men's race in 28:21. Nils Voigt (28:03) and Domenika Mayer (32:14) won German 10,000m titles while Ramazan Ozdemir (28:33) and Fatma Karasu (32:51) won in Turkey.
Big Win For The Anti-Doping Movement
- Rodchenkov Act Gets Its First Guilty Plea With Texas Doctor Who Provided Drugs To Banned Nigerian Sprinter Blessing Okagbare USADA head Travis Tygart said without the law, this doctor would have escaped punishment because they didn't fall under any sports' jurisdiction.
Congrats SAFP!
It was the sixth time she had been nominated, but the first time she had won. She beat out several other finalists including Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. Soccer player Lionel Messi was the men's award winner.
Upcoming
- Sha’Carri Richardson Is In Kenya For Sunday's Kip Keino Classic Upon arriving at the Kenya airport Richardson declined an interview and "shielded her face with her arms" so she couldn't be photographed.
- Fred Kerley Vs Marcell Jacobs Vs Trayvon Bromell Set For Florence DL 100m On June 2
Pre-Conference Champs NCAA Rankings
- Arkansas Men Pass Texas Tech To Take #1 Spot In Latest NCAA Rankings Florida and Alabama are ranked 3-4.
- No Changes To Top-15 Women's Teams; Texas Still At #1 Florida, Arkansas and Oregon are 2-4.
High School News
- Two Team Brawl Breaks Out At End Of Florida Regional Meet Apparently there was some trash talking after the 4x400 and a 15+ minute fight broke out between many athletes from two teams (multiple athletes had minor injuries, at least one with a concussion). Both teams have been disqualified completely from the meet, which means none of them will go to the Florida state meet, including athletes who weren't involved in the fighting.
- Mia Brahe-Pedersen Runs Historic 11.08/22.61 Double Against The Boys In Oregon She won the 100m, putting herself #3 on the all-time list behind Briana Williams (10.94) and Candace Hill (10.98). Then it started hailing before the 200m, but she still ran the #7 all-time mark and finished 3rd behind two boys.
- Benne Anderson Runs 8:41.50 For 3200 In Michigan, Leading Four Sub-9 He's now #4 on the Michigan all-time list behind Hobbs Kessler, Grant Fisher and Dathan Ritzenhein.
- Jamaican High Schooler Alana Reid Runs 11.01 To Win East Coast International Showcase In Maryland It's the second fastest time of her career behind her 10.92 Jamaican junior record.
- MB: Two 16 year old Norwegian boys run 8:01.78 and 8:10.07 for 3000. New Norge Boy Monsters!
- Nyckoles Harbor Wins 100m Showdown With Brody Buffington, 10.28 To 10.29
NCAA News
- Harvard Sweeps Men's And Women's Heps (Ivy League) Titles The women completed the triple crown (XC, indoor, outdoor) while the men won their first outdoor title since 1983. *Results
- DII Athlete Cordell Tinch Runs Wind Aided 12.97 (+3.0) To Win The 110H At His Conference Championships Tinch's time was the second-fastest ever in collegiate history under all conditions. He also won conference titles in the LJ (wind-aided 8.47m) and the HJ (2.18m).
- 12 NCAA Records That Are On Notice This Season Mondo Duplantis' 6.00m outdoor pole vault record is on the list as Princeton's Sondre Guttormsen has already jumped that high indoor.
- Event-By-Event Top-10 NCAA Marks Of The Week
The Track Fest & adidas Atlanta City Games Were Saturday
The Track Fest & adidas Atlanta City Games Were Saturday
Tuohy ran an NCAA outdoor record of 15:03.12 but Jenny Simpson has run faster indoors. Yared Nuguse won the 800 in 1:46.30.
That's the #3 time in history and after the race fireworks exploded (literally - check out the embedded video) while Grant Holloway (13.01) and Aleia Hobbs (10.93) also ran fast. Plus there were two road miles and 600s with Bryce Hoppel (1:17.13) and Ajee Wilson (1:27.00).
Road News
- Alexander Mutiso Munyao (2:05:09) And Ethiopia's Workenesh Edesa (2:20:42) Win Prague Marathon Two American men finished in the top-10, Abbabiya Simbassa in 7th (2:10:34) and Elkanah Kibet in 9th (2:10:43).
*MB: 2 Americans run 2:10 in Prague - Good Read: Hellen Obiri Talks About Her Move From The Track To The Marathon And Moving Her Family From Kenya To The US So She Could Train Under Dathan Ritzenhein Talking about why she wanted to be coached by Ritz she said, "When switching to the road, I felt I needed a coach on the ground with me in training. On track you can train without a coach present and do well, but with the marathon sometimes you need a coach to watch what you are doing."
- Plan Revealed To Further Restrict Non-Japanese Athletes Running National High School Ekiden Rules were first put in place limiting what legs international students could run on ekiden teams because they were having too much of an impact on the race.
Track and field's opening day entertained as no one shined brighter than Sha'Carri Richardson.
Girma (7:26) ran away from Selemon Barega & Berihu Aregawi while disaster struck for Emma Coburn & Val Constien in the steeple.
Heartbreaking Tori Bowie Update
- Tori Bowie Was Reportedly Seven Or Eight Months Pregnant When Found Dead Neighbors reported that Bowie's life was "erratic and unhealthy" but that she seemed to have gotten much better lately. One neighbor said, "Having a baby seemed like it had made her happier. That's what makes it so sad – we are talking about two lost lives."
- Tori Bowie's Sister Hints At Mental Health Struggles Bowie's sister posted, "People who pretend to be happy have some of the saddest souls and people who do not try to convince the world that they are happy have the most genuine souls, because they are content with just being them for them and nobody else."
More Track Action - Deep 5000m In Japan
- Richard Etir Runs World Leading 13:00.17 To Win Golden Games 5000m Over 10 Mile WR Holder Benard Koech (13:00.38) It was a very deep race with 5th place in 13:02.74. Judy Jepngetich won the women's race in 15:06.52. Kazuya Shiojiri (27:46) and Rika Kaseda (31:49) won the 10,000s.
*MB: Japanese B heat 5k winner 13:00 5k
- Oregon Twilight Highlights: Oregon State's Kaylee Mitchell Wins 1500m In 4:14.76 Courtney Frerichs was 6th in 4:18. Oregon redshirt Elliott Cook won the men's race in 3:39.52. *Results
More Doha Coverage
- Irish Trio Gets Off To Slow Start In Doha Thomas Barr, Mark English and Sarah Lavin didn't have the best days at the DL opener.
- World Athletics Recap
- Slovenia's World Champ Kristjan Ceh Throws 70.89m MR To Win Doha Discus
Sad News
Bowie won three Olympic medals at the 2016 Rio Games (100m silver, 200m bronze and 4x100m gold) and was the 2017 World champ in the 100m and 4x100m. Her management company shared the news of her passing, tweeting, “We’ve lost a client, dear friend, daughter and sister. Tori was a champion…a beacon of light that shined so bright!”
- MB: Rest In Peace, Tori Bowie
- US's Olympic And World Medalist Calvin Davis Dies At 51 Davis, who won individual and team NCAA titles for Arkansas, won Olympic 400H bronze at the 1996 Atlanta Games after making the team in just the 7th 400h race of his life.
*MB: RIP Calvin Davis, Olympian, Arkansas Razorback 400/400mh - Olympic Long Jump Champ And Multi-Time WR Setter Ralph Boston Passes Away At 83 Boston won Olympic gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics and set the WR six times during his career (including breaking Jesse Owens' 25-year-old WR).
Doping Polls are Baaack!
When track and field fans walk into a bar or go on a run, doping is often the topic of conversation. With that in mind, we want your thoughts on which current track and field stars you think are clean and which you think are dirty.
Marcell Jacobs
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Christian Coleman
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Fred Kerley
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Noah Lyles
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Michael Norman
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Erriyon Knighton
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Grant Holloway
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Karsten Warholm
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Donvan Brazier
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Emmanuel Korir
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen
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Jake Wightman
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Timothy Cheruiyot
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Yared Nuguse
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Soufiane El Bakkali
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Evan Jager
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Lamecha Girma
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Grant Fisher
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Selemon Barega
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Ryan Crouser
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Mondo Duplantis
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Matthew Centrowitz
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Mo Farah
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Galen Rupp
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Coaches
Coaches
Alberto Salazar (coach)
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Jerry Schumacher (coach)
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Dathan Ritzenhein (coach)
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We didn't see this one coming
The Kiwi star, who had expressed his frustration with the amount of doping in the sport in 2016, was banned for 8 years after testing positive for EPO and "providing false documentation in his defence" as Robertson allegedly provided fake documents showing he went to a hospital for a Covid-19 vaccine but got EPO instead.
The Latest LRC Content
Brazier isn't currently running as Jonathan Gault has learned Brazier had to get a follow-up surgery in February (his 3rd surgery in 20 months) following surgery to correct a Haglund's deformity in July 2022.
Doping Polls are Back
One of the worst things about track and field is you're not sure what you're watching is real. We polled you whether you think the world records are dirty or clean.
Woody Speaks
Woody Kincaid is charting his own path in the running world for the first time as a professional. He opens up why he left Bowerman, his desire for American records, and a lot more including Shelby Houlihan.
How do you explain the ridiculous indoor distance times?
Are all the fast times merely a product of supershoes? Or is it something more? We spoke to coaches Dathan Ritzenhein, Jason Vigilante and Dave Smith to figure it out.
Nuguse Dreaming of Olympic Gold
Yared Nuguse surprised the world by getting one American record last weekend. By the time, the winter is over, he may have 3. Nuguse joined the LRC podcast to talk about his dreams, goals, training with the OAC, and his unorthodox start in the sport.
Paywall lifted
Kincaid says BTC coach Jerry Schumacher advised him not to leave the team but Kincaid told him, "Hey, I can do this and I think it's what I have to do."
We Look Back At 2022s Highs Month By Month
2022 was a year that saw Grant Fisher break out, Sydney McLaughlin explode, and Eliud Kipchoge break the WR (again). Here's what else stood out according to Jonathan Gault.
The Year's Not Over: Japensese New Year's Corporate Ekiden Will Be Broadcast at 7pm ET New Year's Eve - Watch It Live/Race Preview
Merry XMAS - Paywall lifted
In a decade, Valencia has gone from afterthought to host of some of the world's fastest races. How did the third-largest city in Spain emerge as a global capital of running? Jonathan Gault journeyed to Spain's Mediterranean coast to find out how.
Your latest American stars share their insights.
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.
Best of Jon Gault
Best of Jon Gault
Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
Take Your Love of LetsRun to the Next Level
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