Stanford's Ky Robinson used a sick 1:56 final 800 to lead a 1-2 finish in the 10k -- Stanford's fourth in the last 26 years.
Archived Homepage For June 08, 2023
Archived Homepage For June 08, 2023
Colin Sahlman's freshman campaign has come to an end and there was some drama in the men's 800.
- Day 1 post-race videos here.
- More Day 1 Discussion:
- Unofficial Men's NCAA T&F Championships Discussion Thread
- Stanford!!! Ky Robinson and Charles Hicks go 1-2 at the NCAA 10,000 championship
- Dylan Jacobs GOES HOME DEVASTATED
- 2023 NCAA Men's 10,000 Championship
- 9.89 and 5 sub 10s at NCAAs - It was harder to make the NCAA men's 100m finals tonight than Worlds last year
- Colin Sahlman’s freshman season is over
- Will Sumner 1:46.00 /
- Tuohy Press Conference
- Sam Ellis DQ in 800m Semis
- 9:12 steeple in NCAA finals?!
- Heard a rumor that Blanks is transferring to NAU, is that true?
- NCAAs is so much more entertaining than USA Championships
- A 4 minute mile equals 3:56.8 with superspikes
On The Boards
On The Boards
Non-NCAA News
- Friday's Paris DL is INCREDIBLE (3-5 pm ET): The Greatest Women's 5000 Ever? + Ingebrigtsen & El Bakkali WR Attempts Plus Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone will run her first DL in 2019.
- World Champion Noah Lyles Opens Up on What Usain Bolt Told Him During Their Embrace in Jamaica "This moment felt really special! Usain Bolt told me to keep bringing my personality to the sport, and I told him. I GOT HIM!!"
- 2005 5000 World champ Ben Limo annoints World Jr xc champ Ishmael Kipkurui as future world beater “This boy…I remember saying that he is the one to reclaim Kenya’s gold in the 5000m. He needs to be mentored so he can develop mental strength. I remember he was having trouble with training and I talked to him before the World Cross Country championships in Bathhurst, Australia. When he won gold, he came back and said I was right about him,” Limo said.
- Fast Running recap of day 1 of World mountain and trail champs
- Grayson Murphy Climbs To Third At World Mountain and Trail Running Championships Grayson Murphy earned a bronze medal in the Vertical Uphill race, highlighting the United States team efforts on day one of the 2023 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Innsbruck-Stubai, Austria.
- AW: Austria Andrea Mayr wins gold on home turf in the uphill-only women’s race at this week’s World Champs as Patrick Kipngeno claims men’s title
- Octogenarian Ultramarathon Runner Inspires with Unyielding Perseverance
NCAA Previews
NCAA Previews
Only one woman has ever done the 1500/5000 double at NCAAs, and never on the same day. Can Tuohy do it to cap an epic 2023 season?
- Coach Carl Lewis Gets NY Times Features: Lewis Hopes to Lead ‘Speed City’ to a National Title Lewis, the American track and field legend, is now head coach of the sport at the University of Houston and he told the team in August he expects to win NCAA or they should “find something else to do.” Lewis isn't ruling it out for this year even though they didn't win the AAC.
We can't wait for the 800 final.
Could Henry Rono's meet record go down? Can Jacobs repeat?
Washington's Joe Waskom & Luke Houser have won NCAA titles but is Nathan Green the Husky with the best chance to win in Austin?
NCAA Polls
NCAA Polls
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This Week's Podcast
18-year-old sensation Niels Laros who if American would almost half the 800 and 5k records joins us as our guest.
Distance News
- African 800m Champ Jarinter Mwasya And World U20 3000m Silver Medalist Zena Jemutai Among 20 Kenyans Suspended By ADAK Mwasya tested positive for several substances including EPO. 9.94 second sprinter Samuel Imeta was also suspended after testing positive for anabolic steroids.
- Sifan Hassan Vs Eilish McColgan Over 5000m At The London DL In July
- San Francisco Women, Ages 13 to 63, Break 100x1 Mile Relay World Record The 100 legs averaged 5:35 for an overall time of 9:18:32. They broke the previous record of 9:23:39 set 24-years-ago by the Canadian Women's Milers Club. Former Harvard XC runner Gillian Meeks had the fastest split with 4:53.
- Caster Semenya Putting Out A Memoir Called "The Race To Be Myself" This October
Other News
- Shawnti Jackson Will Clash With Mia Brahe-Pedersen At Brooks PR On June 14 Jackson just set the prep record with 10.89 while Brahe-Pedersen has run 11-flat. *Full Brooks PR Entries
- British Sprinter Happy To Consider Herself An Olympic Hopeful Again After Not Being Able To Stand For More Than 20 Seconds Without "Agonizing Pain" Earlier This Year
- Budapest World Champs Organizers Give Thousands Of Free Tickets To Schools
More NCAA Coverage
- DyeStat: 10 Men's Storylines To Follow At NCAA Champs Tennessee’s Dylan Jacobs leads list of athletes trying to become the first man to win the 5/10 double since Edward Cheserek in 2016. The men's 4x400 could be historically fast.
- DyeStat: 10 Women's Storylines To Follow At NCAA Champs Britton Wilson tries to become the first to win the 400m/400H double while Katelyn Tuohy will try to win the 1500m and 5000m finals less than two hours apart.
- T&F News' NCAA Men’s Rankings Have Arkansas Over Georgia By 20 Points They have Florida and Texas Tech ranked 3-4.
- Texas Women The Dominant Favorites In T&F News' NCAA Rankings They have Florida, Arkansas and Texas A&M a distant 2-4.
- 7 Must-Watch Semifinal Heats At NCAAs A men's 800m and 1500m heat make the list.
- The Register Guard: Five Questions Facing The Oregon Ducks At NCAAs Can the Oregon women get on the podium for the first time since they won in 2017? T&F News has them ranked 5th.
- NCAA.com Ranks All 20 Bowerman Watchlist Athletes Ahead Of NCAAs They have Britton Wilson at #1. Decathlete Kyle Garland is the first man at #5.
- The Bowerman Men's Pre-NCAA Watch List Three distance runners make the list: OSU's Fouad Messaoudi, Tennessee's Dylan Jacobs and Montana State's Duncan Hamilton.
- The Bowerman Women's Pre-NCAA Watch List Katelyn Tuohy is the lone distance runner on the list.
More Recent Results
- Bydgoszcz Recap: Erriyon Knighton Breaks Meeting Record With 19.95 200m Win US's Brooke Andersen moved to #3 all-time in the hammer with 80.17m; US's Rudy Winkler won the men's hammer with 80.88m. Tom Walsh won the shot put with 22.22m and US's Alaysha Johnson took the 100H in a MR 12.41. In distance action, Kenya’s Edinah Jebitok won the mile in 4:22.85 and Ben Pattison won the men's 800m in 1:45.80.
- MB: 14 year old British athlete Evan Grime runs 3:54 for 1500m
- MB: Norway's Narve Gilje Norda wins deep 3000 in Bergen, 7:43.94. Drags 7 sub 7:50, 14 sub 8:00.
- MB: Salwa Eid Naser Is Back (49.78 in Huelva).
- Joseph Karanja (1:01:49) And Mao Ichiyama (1:11:38) Win Sendai International Half Marathon In Japan
- Camille Herron Breaks Men's Course Record At Texas Trail Festival Marathon (3:49:47)
- Poland’s Natalia Kaczmarek Wins 400m In 50.02 At Janusz Kusocinski Memorial
Olympic News
- Olympic Host City Marseille Joins Group Of French Cities Protesting Against IOC Sponsor Airbnb They complain that Airbnb is driving up property prices and forcing locals to leave their areas.
- Mascot Firm Executives Get Suspended Sentence In Tokyo 2020 Bribery Scandal
- AP: Future Of Olympic Boxing Body On Agenda At IOC Meeting On Wednesday The IOC stripped the International Boxing Association of recognition in 2019 over a number of issues. The sport is currently being overseen by the IOC.
What a Week
Faither Kipyegon became the first woman under 3:50 for 1500m, Shawnti Jackson went super-fast, so did Addy Wiley, Noah Lyles met Usain Bolt and 3 Americans went sub 12:57 and 4 high schoolers sub 4 and we barely mention them.
RIP
- Legendary US Sprinter Jim Hines Dies At 76; He Was The First Man To Break The 10-Second Barrier In The 100m Hines won 100m Olympic gold in 1968 and broke the 10-second barrier in the same year at US Championships. Hines’ WR lasted 15 years, the longest for a men’s 100m world record in the fully automatic era. After retiring from track, he played in the NFL as a receiver for the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs. *USATF *NY Times
Music City Track Carnival
Wiley, who shocked the track world by last summer by deciding to attend an NAIA school instead of Colorado, shocked a field of professionals thanks to a 61.33 last lap. Full race video embedded.
She beat a field of pros (including last year's NCAA champ Melissa Jefferson) to break Briana Williams' 10.94 prep record from 2019.
Portland Track Festival Day 2
Hocker's 55.14 final 400 was more than a second better than everyone else as he went from 12th to 2nd on the last lap.
FBK Games In Hengelo
(link fixed) Mondo Duplantis set a PV meet record at 6.11m (he missed his three attempts at a new WR of 6.23m) and Femke Bol won the 400m in 50.11. Grant Holloway won the 110H in 13.03 over Devon Allen (13.12) and Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh the HJ in 2.00m.
Less than six weeks after winning the London Marathon, Hassan closed in 60.86 to put almost 10 seconds on Kenya's World XC 4th placer Grace Loibach Nawowuna over the final lap.
Portland Track Festival
High school record holder Rudy Chapa had actually sent Gorze his high school singlet from 1976 to wear while he attempted the record, but Gorze fell well short of Chapa's 28:32.7. Gorze was on pace through halfway, but suffered through a coughing fit which saw him run an 82-second lap. He finished 9th in the race won by On Running's Athanas Kioko in 27:29. In other action, Colleen Quigley (9:32) and US Army's Bernie Keter (8:22) won the steeplechases and Weynshet Ansa Weldestadisk (32:40) won the women's 10,000m.
Racers GP And More Weekend Action
- Noah Lyles, Shericka Jackson And Wayde Van Niekerk Impress At Racers Grand Prix In Jamaica Lyles ran a world-leading 200m of 19.67, Jackson won the100m in 10.78 while Van Niekerk won his 400m in 44.21. Other winners included world champ/WR holder Tobi Amusan in the 100H (12.57) and Christian Coleman in the 100m (10.03).
*Video: Usain Bolt Gives Noah Lyles A Congratulatory Hug After His 200m Win
- Sophia Rodriguez Breaks World U14 5000m Record (16:22.30) The previous mark was 16:24.28 from 2004.
- Italy's European Yemaneberhan Crippa (28:08.83) And Germany’s Alina Reh (32:29.81) 10,000m Cup Titles Crippa ran a 55-second last lap to just hold off Israel’s Tadesse Getahon (28:09.48)
Florence DL
Florence DL
The greatest female 1500m runner of all-time is now the fastest. International viewers click this link for a race video.
13 men broke 13:00 in the 5000 including all three Americans but would you believe Grant Fisher was only the 5th guy from the Americas in the race?
MB Talk:
Japan National Champs Highlights
- MB: Japanese Champs. 5000. Kazuya Shiojiri 13:19.85 drags 6 sub 13:25.00, 8 sub 13:30.00, 17 sub 13:40.00, 24 sub 14:00.00
*Day 1 Recap - Day 2: Kazuki Kawamura Wins 1500m In 3:38.45
- Day 3: Mariko Morimoto Breaks 24-Year-Old Women's Triple Jump NR With 14.16m
- Day 4: Shunsuke Izumiya Breaks Japan 110H National Record With 13.04
Music City
Lightfoot had only broken the six meter barrier once in his career, but had a big PB here to break Sam Kendricks' 6.06m American record from 2019. Lightfoot also moves to #3 on the world all-time list behind Mondo Duplantis and Sergey Bubka.
NCAA News
- USA Today: An Early Bell And Mass Confusion. What Went Wrong In The Men's 5000m At NCAA DII Champs The bell was rung a lap early, meaning runners gave a last lap kick on what was actually the penultimate lap. This had a significant impact on a visually impaired Adam State runner who didn't realize what was happening and went from 3rd to 18th place after it took him 2:53 to start running again and finish the last lap.
- MB: Portland State fires coach after costing steepler chance to make nationals
*Previous: The Oregonian: How Portland State's Coach David Hepburn Cost Jordan MacIntosh A Chance To Make NCAAs - 2016 Olympic 4x400 Gold Medalist Arman Hall Joins Arizona State Coaching Staff
- NCAA Startlists Released
- List Of All The NCAA DII, NCAA DIII & NAIA Records Broken This Season
Sprint Stuff
- Andre De Grasse, Noah Lyles And Others Speak Out Against Decision To DQ High School Sprinter For Celebrating Victory Brody Buffington's team was DQ'd after winning the Maryland 4x200 state championship because he raised one finger in celebration at the finish line. Lyles said, "That's so stupid. Why do we keep hindering ourselves as a sport?"
- Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone Appears On Top Chef In Paris Alongside Other Olympic Hopefuls
- Injury And Fatigue Forces Jamaica's Oblique Seville And Ackeem Blake Out Of Racers Grand Prix 100m They are Jamaica's two fastest men so far this season.
Hoka Festival Of Miles
For the first time ever, four US high schoolers broke four in the same race and the first black US high schooler has now gone sub-4. Watch the race above.
- MB: Can Burns or Birnbaum break Webb's 3:53 high school mile record? Official Festival of Miles Discussion Thread
- MB: LOL you kids today talking about Breaking Webbs 3:53 LOL
- MB: Who allowed Aaron Sahlman to run Hoka?
Jonathan Gault's latest feature
Chemusto began 2023 with a 4:14 1500m pb but is down to 4:01 after using a 59.8 last lap to win in Nairobi on May 13.
World Athletics Gets It Right
Starting at the 2023 Worlds, the 1500, 5k, and steeple will only use automatic qualifiers. We love the change but wish they'd gone farther and included the 800.
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.
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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
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