What a track and field meet. Jakob Ingebrigtsen ran 3:27.95 as 8 men went sub 3:30 including Yared Nuguse in an American record time* of 3:29.02. In the men's 5000m, Yomif Kejelcha and Jacob Kiplimo both ran 12:41.73 with Kejelcha getting the win.
Archived Homepage For June 16, 2023
Archived Homepage For June 16, 2023
WA recap of meet. Race videos further down. Plus Our live reaction show is here. *Full Results
Seb Coe wasn't in Oslo, he was in Budapest racing kids to promote Worlds - buy your tickets now Seriously, accommodations are way cheaper than Eugene and who doesn't want a vacation to Central Europe? This is the first time Central Europe has hosted.
Oslo MB Talk
- Oslo Diamond League 2023 Live Thread
- 3:27.95 will be Jakob's LIFETIME best Remember when two week ago, a poster said he wasn't improving. Since then he's set a 2-mile WR and 1500 pb.
- Yared 3:29.0 vs Lagat 3:27.4 - WHICH ONE IS THE AMERICAN RECORD? *Nuguse ran the AR in our book today and World Athletic's book but not USATF's. What a joke.
- The GOOSE takes US 1500m Record!
- What an amazing race 12:41.73 DEAD HEAT?! between Kejelcha and Kiplimo Was that the greatest non-championship 5000 ever?
- OAC is flying-WTF is going on?
- Narve Nordås 3:36 to 3:29 in 1 year
- How does Jakob break the WR in the 1500m...
- Hicham El Guerrouj congratulates Jakob on 3:27 on Twitter
- Josh Kerr goes home DEFEATED
On The Boards
On The Boards
Oslo Race Videos
Oslo Race Videos
High School Nationals Preview
New Balance and Nike High School Nationals are this weekend and we preview five storylines to watch.
DyeStat: 10 Storylines to Follow at New Balance Nationals Outdoor 2023
The Latest JG Feature
What links Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the NAU cross country team, and Sebastian Coe? Double threshold training, which is having a moment in 2023. Note, most of this article is behind our SC paywall for 72 hours (until Saturday).
Brooks PR
Only the Lithuanian Lukas Verzbicas has run faster while a US HSer (8:29.46). Birnbaum's future Oregon teammate Connor Burns also ran 8:34. Watch the final lap above. Sophomore Jane Hedengren of Provo, Utah, won the girls mile in a meet record of 4:35.69, Shawnti Jackson won the girls 100m in 11.00 as an 8th grade boy ran 1:54 for 800.
*Utah's Jane Hedengren only goal before her 4:34 mile to was to give it her all
*2023 BROOKS PR Invite today - Official Discussion Thread
*SIMEON MF BIRNBAUM!!!!
*Aaron Sahlman DFL
*Brooks JR PR Boys Mile; who you got?
Sprint News
- Harvey Glance- NCAA champ, former 100m WR holder, Olympic gold medallist and top coach - has died at age 66 He died doing what he loved as he was found unresponsive at the track by his starr pupil, Kirani James.
*MB: RIP Harvey Glance - Glance died at 66 after having heart attack at practice, found unresponsive by Kirani James - Recommended Read Auburn pays tribute to Harvey Glance - "The greatest sprinter in Auburn history and the university's first Black head coach in any sport" A great read.
- Afer 27 years, South Carolina coach Curtis Frye has retired
- Prior to Oslo, Andre de Grasse's coach wasn't worried about his sub-par times
- MB: Britton Wilson Goes Pro & Signs with HSI She doesn't have a shoe sponsor yet.
- 'I'm only human' - Marcell Jacobs pens emotional statement on instagram as he withdraws from European Team Championships
- Bol headlines Dutch team for the European Athletics Team Championships
- Fred Kerly will race Noah Lyles at 200m in NYC next weekend Lots of others will be there as well including Michael Norman, Aleia Hobbs, Gabby Thomas, Christian Coleman, etc.
- NY Times: What is eclampsia which killed Torri Bowie? Eclampsia is when a pregnant woman develops seizures as a result of severe hypertension.
Distance News
- NN running releases documentary "Inside the Training" where Addy Ruiter, Patrick Sang, Joshua Cheptegei, Eliud Kipchoge and Letesenbet Gidey talk about their training
- MB: Steeplechase WR holder Beatrice Chepkoech's place in history is secure as she also paced Gidey and Kipyegon to 5000 WRs
- Laurie Henes promoted to Director of Track and Field/XC at NC State after 31 years "Laurie is an elite coach, an elite recruiter and an elite leader," said Director of Athletics Boo Corrigan. "In other words, she's a star."
- Kelvin Kiptum, Brigid Kosgei and Geoffrey Kamworor won't run marathon at Worlds this year We see little need to even hold the marathon at Worlds.
Assorted Distance News
- Kenyan President Gives Faith Kipyegon $36,000 And A New House For Breaking The 1500m And 5000m World Records The house is worth $43,000.
*MB: Kenyan President William Ruto Hosts Faith Kipyegon & Other Athletes for Breakfast - Ethiopia Selects Its Marathon Squad For Worlds Leading the team are Tamirat Tola and Gotytom Gebreslase who each won marathon gold at Eugene 2022 Worlds.
- Another Race Wants To Give Men More Prize Money Than Women - Grandma's Marathon Announces Nonbinary Division $500 to the "winner" who will certainly be a biological male.
- AIU Gives Bahrain Marathoner El-Hassan El-Abbassi 4-Year Doping Ban El-Abbassi tested positive after finishing 25th at the Tokyo Olympic marathon. The AIU also suspended Jamaican sprinter Christopher Taylor for failing to submit a sample.
- World Athletics Ratifies Lamecha Girma's 7:23.81 Indoor 3000m WR
How Many High School "National Championships" Do We Need?
- Nike Outdoor Nationals Free Live Stream Meet is starts Thursday @3PM ET at Hayward Field. *Live Results *Schedule *Start Lists
- New Balance Nationals Outdoor Free Live Stream Starts Thursday at 3PM ET at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. *Live Results *Schedule
- Over 3,500 Athletes Entered For Adidas Outdoor Nationals Starting Friday In North Carolina *Live Results *Schedule
Recent Results
- Paavo Nurmi Games Recap: France’s Benjamin Robert Wins 800m In 1:44.40 Over Clayton Murphy (1:44.91) Slovenia’s Anita Horvat won the women’s 800m in 1:58.73 while the throws were the highlight of the meet with Jakub Vadlejch getting the javelin world lead with 89.51m.
- Ireland's Sarah Healy Wins Paavo Nurmi Games 1500m In 4:03.85
- 14-Year-Old Brit Shaikira King Runs 2:04.47 For 800m She finished 4th place in the British Miler's Club meet won by Isabelle Boffey in 2:01.66.
- Margaret Akidor Wins Nittai Time Trials 5000m In 14:48 Amos Bett ran the top men's time with 13:16.
- California Ultrarunner Jack Kuenzle Breaks FKT (Fastest Known Time) At Mt. Denali, The Highest Peak In North America He went from base to summit and back in 10 hours, 14 minutes, beating the previous time by more than an hour.
- Sweden's Daniel Stahl Throws 70.93m Discus At The Sollentuna GP
Week That Was
We break down an amazing week and tell Katelyn Tuohy and Britton Wilson why they shouldn't feel too bad about not winning NCAAs and we tell Will Sumner how special his run was.
RIP: Tori Bowie Update
Bowie was 8 months pregnant and undergoing labor at the time of her death. Officials said possible complications included respiratory distress and eclampsia (when a person develops seizures during pregnancy).
Comrades Marathon
Steyn, the South African marathon record holder, now holds the up and down course records. The first 3 men were all faster than the old record.
- 25 Runners Were Disqualified From Comrades Marathon For Submitting False Qualifying Times To Gain Entry Some runners had other people run their qualifying times (bib mules) or just lied and submitted a fake time.
Animal Running News
- Athletics Weekly: Two Legs Beat Four At Man Vs Horse Marathon In Wales Daniel Connolly won by about 10 minutes to become just the fourth man to beat the horses in the 42-year history of the race.
- Runner Hospitalized After Being Attacked By Herd Of Cattle On Colorado Trail Someone called 911 after they saw the jogger on the ground surrounded by 15 to 20 cows. The cows were likely being protective of the calves they have with them.
- Minneapolis Animal Shelter Starts Running "Club" To Help Dogs Stay Active While They Wait For Adoption
Upcoming: Oslo DL On Thursday
- World Athletics Preview: Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Karsten Warholm, Yulimar Rojas And Mondo Duplantis Ready To Go In Oslo On Thursday Ingebrigtsen faces Timothy Cheruiyot and Mohamed Katir and a potential stab at Hicham El Guerrouj's WR? The men's 5000m has Jacob Kiplimo, Paul Chelimo, Yomif Kejelcha, Samuel Tefera and Guatemala’s Luis Grijalva.
*MB: It's on: Jakob vs Yared vs Cheruiyot vs Katir vs Kerr vs Hoare in Oslo 1500!
- Kenya’s Olympic Silver Medalist Ferguson Rotich Vs Clayton Murphy In The Paavo Nurmi Games 800m On Tuesday In the women's race 2019 world champ Halimah Nakaayi faces Australia's Catriona Bisset and GB's Jemma Reekie.
Post-NCAA News
- What Happened To Britton Wilson At NCAAs? Wilson tried to become the first to win the 400/400H double at NCAAs, but the short 25-minute window between the events proved to much for her. She said, “It stings, it hurts a little, but I’m glad I just got out there and tried my best. Sometimes it just doesn't work out the way you planned. I gave what I could.”
- DyeStat Chooses Their Top-10 Women's Performances From NCAAs With victories in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m, Texas' Julien Alfred tops their list. Maia Ramsden's 1500m win and Parker Valby's 5000m win only got honorable mentions.
- DyeStat Picks Their Top-6 Men's Performances Of NCAAs First on their list is Will Sumner's 1:44.26 negative split 800m win.
- List Of 2023 DI All-Americans
High School News
- Angelina Napoleon Lowers National 2000m Steeple Record To 6:18 At NY State Meet She beat out #2 on the prep all-time list Karrie Baloga by 2.9 seconds and moved to #2 on the US all-time list behind pro Stephanie Garcia. Napoleon also won the 800m in 2:03.97 and competed in the HJ and 4x800.
- High School Star Ali Ince Looking To 3-Peat In The 800m At Brooks PR On Wednesday Ince is a very versatile athlete with Illinois state titles from 400m to 1600m and plays basketball in the winter. At Brooks, she won the 800m in 2:03.98 in 2021 and 2:04.14 in 2022.
Michaela Rose (1:59.83) and Parker Valby (15:30.57) front-ran their way to NCAA titles while Markezich came from behind on a hot, muggy night in Austin.
Katelyn Tuohy ran boldly but paid the price as Harvard's Maia Ramsden pulled the huge upset.
- More Saturday Talk: Update: TUOHY SCRATCHES 5000
- Olivia markevich Wins steeple
- TUOHY ???? Women’s 1500m final
- KATELYN TUOHY Goes Home DEVASTATED!!!
- Britney Wilson goes home devastated!
- Tuohy about to run this 1500m ON PURE HATE
- Can KT Tuohy frontrun her way to a 1500 Championship? And then Double back for a 5k Title?
- Can we give Harvard some credit?
Saturday Morning
Senbere Teferi outdueled Hellen Obiri to run the fastest road 10,000m on US soil. Emily Sisson was 4th and Keira D'Amato 5th.
Messageboard Talk
Talk about sensational. The true freshman dominated by going 53.12, 51.15.
For the third straight NCAA championship, a Washington Husky won the men’s 1500/mile. And, just like last year’s outdoor championship and this year’s indoor championship, tonight’s winner was a first-time champion.
Robinson became the first man to sweep the 5k/10k at NCAAs since Edward Cheserek in 2016.
The battle between Rooks and Montana State's Duncan Hamilton turned into no contest over the last lap. *Video
Outside NCAA Links
- DyeStat: Julien Alfred Leads Texas Women To First NCAA Title In 18 Years Alfred ran a wind-aided 10.72/21.73 to take the 100m/200m double as well as a leg on Texas' winning 4x100. Her 200m time was the fastest in NCAA history in all-conditions and Texas ended up dominating the meet with 83 points to Florida's 51.
- Texas' Rhasidat Adeleke Gets Upset Victory In NCAA 400m In Irish National Record Of 49.20 She beat out pre-race favorite, Arkansas' Britton Wilson, who ran 49.64 for 2nd. Adeleke's time puts her #2 NCAA all-time, only behind Wilson's 49.13.
- Florida's Jasmine Moore Breaks NCAA Triple Jump Record With 14.78m
- The Oregonian: Oregon’s Jorinde Van Klinken Wins Discus To Lead Ducks Women To 4th Place At NCAA Champs
- USTFCCCA's NCAA Champs Highlights
World Champs News
- Interesting Read: World Athletics Looks Back At Some "Unusual Moments And Oddities" At Past World Champs At the 1983 World Champs, Ireland’s Eamonn Coghlan started celebrating his victory even though he still running in second place with over 100m to go. If Coghlan was a Maryland high schooler today, he definitely would have been DQ'd.
- Thousands Of People Will Get To Go To Worlds For Free As Part Of Budapest's "Goodwill Partnership" People such as children in foster care, people with disabilities and families struggling financially will get tickets to Worlds for free.
Other Results
- World Mountain and TraUSA’s Grayson Murphy and Uganda’s Leonard Chemutai Win Mountain Classic Race On Final Day Of World Mountain And Trail Running Championships Kenya took both the men's and women's team victories.
- Philippines’ Ernest John Obiena Joins The 6-Meter Club With 6.00m Pole Vault Victory At Bergen Jump Challenge In Norway He beat US’s KC Lightfoot on countback.
- AW International Round-Up: GB's Darryl Neita Runs 22.23 To Win In Bydgoszcz, Poland
First 15 minutes is for everyone. Supporters Club members get the full thing.
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Lamecha Girma capped the Paris Diamond League with an impressive 7:52.11 world record on an night that saw 3 world records (see below). We break that down and the other non world record highlights including Sydney McLaughlin-Lavrone getting beat at 400, Keely Hodgkinson getting a PB and Noah Lyles a big 100 win.
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Faith Kipyegon is no longer just a legendary 1500m runner, now she's the 5000m world record holder.
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Jakob's run is one of the greatest men's times on the books as he obliterated Daniel Komen's world record.
The unheralded Utah Valley runner, who had never scored at NCAAs before and had her scholarship stripped at Arizona when she said she was scared to compete during Covid-19, made it look easy the final 3 laps.
Rose looked fantastic but Tuohy may have some competition in the 1500 final as Sophie O'Sullivan & Billah Jepkirui impressed.
- Texas's Leo Neugebauer NCAA and German decathlon record of 8836 is day 2 highlight and sends shockwaves through sport
- Julia Fixsen (4.45) captures national crown in women's pole vault
- Texas' Ackelia Smith (6.88) wins gold in long jump on last jump
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. *Race video
Colin Sahlman's freshman campaign has come to an end and there was some drama in the men's 800.
- DyeStat.com Day 1 Field Recap South Alabama's Kyle Rademeyer pulled off an upset win the in PV; an Arkansas Duo went 1-2 in the lg; Jordan Geist edged out Turner Washington for SP win; Tzuriel Pedigo won his 2nd javelin Title; Harvard's Kenneth Ikeji won the hammer.
Day 1 MB Talk
- Day 1 post-race interviews can be found here.
- 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 WIth little fanfare, Cole Beck became the fastest white American in history at 9.97.
- 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
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:
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.
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
