Fast times and a nice crowd.
- MB: Official Kip Keino Classic Thread
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Pulled Out Of Kip Keino Classic With Knee Injury She immediately flew to Milan to get specialized treatment from her doctor there.
Archived Homepage For May 15, 2023
Archived Homepage For May 15, 2023
Kip Keino Classic
On The Boards
On The Boards
It's Power-5 Conference Weekend
It's Power-5 Conference Weekend
SEC
Britton Wilson ran 49.13 in the 400, LSU ran 37.90 in the 4 x 100, Florida ran 2:57.76 in the 4 x 400 and Jaydon Hibbert triple jumped 17.87.
- MB: B. Wilson 49.13CR, 53.28 400H, LSU Mens 4x100m 37.90 WOW
- DyeStat Recap: Arkansas Sweeps SEC Men's And Women's Titles Highlighted By Jaydon Hibbert And Britton Wilson Collegiate Records Jaydon Hibbert's 17.87m in the triple jump was also a world U20 record.
- MB: Britton Wilson 49.40 CR already in the heats at SECs! It's BrittonMANIA BABY! She's tied for #5 in US history.
- MB: The Return of Valbymania this Saturday Parker Valby edged Chelangat by 0.04.
- MB: Parker Valby is going to smoke Katelyn Tuohy in the NCAA 5000
- MB: Is Cade Flatt a flash in the pan? He ran 1:50.85 - not too far off his SB - but didn't make the final.
- MB: Matthew Boling 10.36 does not make final in SEC championship - goes home devastated
- Friday SEC Recap: Britton Wilson Lowers NCAA 400m Record, LSU's Alia Armstrong Runs All-Conditions Best 100H Armstrong ran a wind-aided 12.31 in her prelim.
- MB: SEC Outdoor Championships thread
ACC
A ton of ACC teams had a shot for the team title heading into the 4 x 400.
Pac-12
- Washington Men win 1st Pac 12 track title, Oregon women win
- Washington Men and Women Both Lead Heading Into Sunday's Final Day At Pac-12 Champs
- MB: Article on why Pac-12s are being held at Mt. SAC. The real juicy bits, however, are about Jerry.
- MB: Oregon men at Pac-12s: 1 in 8, 1 in 15, 4 in 5k, 0 in 10k - Mass redshirt?
All NCAA
- NAU Men And Women Sweep Big Sky Champs Nico Young won the 5000 in 13:59 and finished 2nd in the 1500m (3:49.95) behind Colin Sahlman (3:49.18). Sahlman also won the 800m (1:50.79).
- MB: Big Sky Outdoor Championship thread
- USTFCCCA Weekend Recap: Collegiate Stars Alter Record Book At Conference Championships
Sprint Stuff
- NY Times: "Tori Bowie’s Hometown Celebrates Her Life Amid Mystery of Her Death" The article says that a program at Bowie's funeral services said she was "preceded in death" by her daughter Ariana Bowie. Bowie had been pregnant, but it's unclear whether she carried to term. No official cause of death for Bowie has been released yet.
- Olympic 100m Champ Lamont Marcell Jacobs Says He's Inspired By Rivalry With Fred Kerley
*MB: Fred Kerley vs Lamont Marcell Jacobs trash talk/beef - Kerley asks Diamond League for 1 v 1 race!!! - New York Post: "World's Sexiest Athlete Alicia Schmidt Is Ready For Her New Challenge"
Upcoming Action
- Solid Fields Announced For Next Weekend's Los Angeles Grand Prix Timothy Cheruiyot vs Cole Hocker and Cooper Teare in the 1500m, Jake Wightman vs Bryce Hoppel and Clayton Murphy in the 800m. Sha'Carri Richardson vs Aleia Hobbs in the 100m, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone in the 400m, Gabby Thomas (200m), Christian Coleman (100m), Erriyon Knighton (200m) and more.
- Noah Lyles And Fred Kerley To Clash Over 200m At The NYC Grand Prix On June 24 Aleia Hobbs and Gabby Thomas lead the women's sprints.
- Karsten Warholm Announced For Oslo DL 400H On June 15 He'll be up against world #2 Khalifah Rosser and US's CJ Allen.
- Polish And International Stars Announced For Janusz Kusocinski Memorial In Poland On June 4 Olympic champ Jasmine Camacho-Quinn vs European champ Pia Skrzyszowska in the 100H.
High School News
- Karrie Baloga Breaks High School And US Under-20 2000m Steeplechase Record With 6:22.86 At The Loucks Games She broke the 6:24.34 record set by Angelina Napoleon last year. Napoleon was actually at the same meet, but in the mile which she won in 4:46.
- Update on Final DQ Outcomes From High School Brawl At Florida Regional Meet Originally both teams involved in the brawl had all their athletes DQ'd (even athletes who weren't at the meet) which meant they would all miss the state meet. But now most have been reinstated except for several proven to be directly involved in the fight.
*MB: Two Team Brawl Breaks Out At End Of Florida Regional - MB: Benne Anderson solos 4:01 (1600m)
Another Ridiculous High School DQ
The two teammates were apparently DQ'd for "aiding a runner," even though they were clearly in the lead going 1-2 in their district 3200m race. Now they won't get to race at the Colorado state meet. Whether you want to blame dumb high school rules or stickler officials, it's a senseless DQ and should be overturned.
Olympic News
- NBCUniversal Will Stream Every Event At Paris 2024 On Peacock All 329 medal events will be shown as well as full-event replays plus the coverage on the NBC television channel.
- Olympic Rings Return To Historic Athens Stadium After An Absence Of 12 Years
- Paris 2024 Olympic Village Menu Revealed; Gourmet Dishes, But No Win/Alcohol
- 1.5 Million Olympic tickets On Sale In New Lottery Round For 2024 Paris Games
- Students Tenants Angry They Are Losing Their Housing To Paris 2024 Workers
Week That Was
Did you realize Brea has taken more than 30 seconds off the South American 5k record this year?
Links We Found Interesting
- MB: Marcell Jacobs and Fred Kerley will now also race in 100 in Rabat - 5 days before they meet again in Florence And Jacobs isn't done as he'll also race the Paris DL 100m vs Noah Lyles on June 9. So Jacobs is commited to run the 100m on May 28 (Rabat), June 2 (Florence), and June 9 (Paris).
- Noah Lyles to race Marcell Jacobs for 1st time in Paris 100m on June 9th
- MB: Mo Ahmed vs Cam Levins in road 10k later this month. Who you got?
- Canadian Track and Field League looks to grow the sport with its second season which starts this weekend Yet another earnest person thinks made up teams like the "Arctics, Huskies, Spitfires and Bears" will save the sport. Memo to organizers, a billionaire tried this in the US a few years back and it didn't work. People like team sports when the team is actually legit.
- Watch out steeplers, world record holder Beatrice Chepkoech says she's finally healthy She ran 9:06 in her season opener in Doha and said she's no longer bothered by either a hamstring injury or a "stress fracture around her left ankle joint."
- Inside Track: Ciara Mageean hopes to regain her 800m national record at Belfast Irish Milers' Meeting at the Mary Peters Track She lost the record at the same meet last year as Louise Shanahan (who is also racing this year) ran 1:59.42. *2:10 marathoner and two-time Olympian Paul Pollock will coach any Northern Irelander hoping to break 3:00 for free
- Shaun Pickering: Former Welsh Olympian and UK Athletics throws coach dies aged 62 His mother was also an Olympian but in the jumps.
This Week's Pod
We broke down all the crazy action from the weekend, pondered how we could get more track fans to attend meets and watch online, and were joined by Sound Running's Jesse Williams to discuss the success of the Track Fest meet.
Not Your Everyday Distance News
- Nijel Amos Says He Plans To Sell His 2012 Olympic Silver Medal; Also Getting A Netflix Documentary Amos says he's racked up $67,000 in legal and travel fees fighting his recent drug ban and needs money. The medal (the first in Botswana's history) apparently already has an offer for $340,000.
- Cambodian Distance Runner Goes Viral For Finishing 5000m In Torrential Downpour At Southeast Asian Games She finished in 22:54, almost 6-minutes after the winner, but got lots of praise for her perseverance and was given $10,000 by the Cambodia prime minister.
- New Balance Hand Delivered Spikes And Clothes To Emma Coburn In Doha After The Airline Lost Her Bag
Gender News
- French Trans Sprinter Feels "Hounded" Out Of Sport After World Athletics Ban Ends Paris 2024 Goal Halba Diouf is still free to compete against other biological men, but said, "I feel marginalized because they are excluding me from competitions."
- Spanish Women's Race Apologizes For Giving Out Food Processor As A Prize To The Winner Apparently some people complained that it was sexist, but the race said it was donated by a sponsor and would be a good prize for any athlete, man or woman. We wonder if any of the complainers stopped to ask if the real sexism was that men were excluded from the event all-together? Probably not, but maybe they would have complained if a biological man identifying as a woman was excluded.
- What A Joke: Dublin Marathon Joins Trend By Adding Non-Binary Category With Its Own Prize Money
- MB: Trans athlete wins California SS D4 prelims 16/32 races
Negative / Sad High School News
- A Top High School Sprinter In Georgia Has Her Season Ended By A Coach's Disciplinary Action Tyler Lowe (PBs of 11.79 and 23.98) was kept from competing at the Georgia regional meet by her coach because of "lack of effort" in the 4x400 the meet before (a meet where she tripled). She and her parents disagree.
*MB: Georgia High School Track Athlete Banned From State! - 15-Year-Old High School Track Athlete Devon Biggs Killed By Driver After Run A driver who was trying to give her daughter a pacifier in the backseat swerved off the road and hit Biggs.
- Nebraska High School Track Athlete Hunter Palmer Dies After Collapsing At Practice The 18-year-old had set a high jump PR the day before and was signed to play college football next year.
Sprint Stuff
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce: "I am like a gentle assassin. I don’t need to say a lot of things to compete because the drive I have is deep inside." SAFP talks about going for PBs at 36, Tori Bowie and how she had to preserve her family's honor at her son's sports day when her son and husband only finished 3rd and 4th.
- Tori Bowie's Funeral Services Announced For This Saturday
- Sha'Carri Richardson Profile In The NY Post: "I'm happy. I found my peace back on the track and I'm not letting anything or anybody take that anymore."
World Athletics / Admin News
- Youhuu The Sheep Named As 2023 Budapest World Champs Mascot This distinct racka breed of sheep is only found in Hungary.
- World Athletics Renew Ukraine Fund To Help Support Athletes Affected By The War The fund currently has $190,000 available to assist athletes, their immediate family and support personnel
- Multiple Track And Field Facilities In Ukraine Have Been Destroyed By Russian Attacks
- Two More Japanese Businessmen Given Suspended Sentences In Olympic Bribery Scandal
- European Athletics Team Championships Will Feature At The 2023 European Games In Poland
- IOC Donates Its $10.4m Share Of $52m Beijing 2022 Winter Games Surplus To Chinese Olympic Committee
- Museum Of World Athletics Launches Comic Book For World Athletics Kids’ Athletics Day
Rana Reider Case Update
- Sprint Coach Rana Reider Gets 1-Year Probation (Already Served) After SafeSport Concludes Investigation They found he had a "consensual romantic relationship with an adult athlete, which presented a power imbalance," but was not found in violation of any other sexual misconduct claims and is free to continue coaching. World Athletics and the AIU are waiting to see the full report before they make any determinations.
*MB: BREAKING: Rana Reider CLEARED to continue coaching elites moving forward
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.
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.
Flash Sale!
If you want a Burrito Track Club shirt, buy today as we won't be selling them anymore after Wednesday. If we don't sell out, they will bc SC members only. Sorry, we're 100% sold out.
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. *Discuss
- 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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Coaches
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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.
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
LetsRun Classics
LetsRun Classics
