Track And Field News
Discuss (29 comments)October 2, 2007
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The Hansons-Brooks Distance Project A modern American training camp On November 3, the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project out of Rochester Hills, MI, will field one out of every 10 men at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Men’s Marathon in New York City. That’s 13 qualifiers sponsored by two brothers, Keith and Kevin Hanson, who own four running stores in suburban Detroit. “Before anything else we were fans,†says Keith, the older Hanson brother, sitting outside one of the four Hansons Running Shops. “We started when, like many Americans, we were frustrated with where American development of distance running was at the time.†|
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Track Town Halls Start Wednesday at Hayward OR - Sep 30, 2007 EUGENE - Last spring, the University of Oregon Track and Field program hosted monthly town hall meetings to discuss and promote all the track and field. |
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World Marathon Points The top five men and women finishers at the Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago, New York, World Championships and Olympic Marathons will earn points in a $1 million, two-year series to crown the World Marathon Majors champion. The men's and women's champions will both win $500,000. |
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Soft and Hard Records in Track & Field I love manipulating statistics, so its no surprise that my two favorite sports are track & field and baseball. Now that the 2007 track & field season is over, I thought it would be interesting to try and determine which world records are soft (easy to break) and which are hard (either not so easy to break or impossible to break. |
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No Decision In Ceplak EPO Case, Hearing To Continue LJUBLJANA, Slovenia – The doping hearing of Slovenia’s Olympic 800m bronze medallist Jolanda Ceplak will be extended after the national athletics federation was unable to reach a decision at the runner’s hearing. |
Track and Field: Ole Miss Sprinter Found Shot To Death
Mississippi sprinter Rodney Lydale Lockhart was found shot to death Saturday at his apartment near the Ole Miss campus.
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KATE O'NEIL - Podcast Interview on making her 26.2 mile debut at Sunday’s Chi In the interview, Kate talks about her mental and physical preparation for Chicago, plans to run in next April’s U.S. Olympic Women’s Marathon Trails in Boston, and why she chose Chicago over other fall marathons (i.e. - New York) for her debut. Download the podcast to hear Kate discuss these topics, as well as, how Deena Kastor and the other members of Team Running USA in Mammoth Lakes, CA have helped with her approach to the marathon, her views on the role of pacesetters, how cheering fans have confused her with her twin sister Lisa when they ran together at Yale, and much more! |
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TFS Podcast: SARA HALL - 5th Ave Mile, Olympics, parenthood, faith & her new dog In the interview Sara talks about the Fifth Avenue Mile, racing in Europe, bouncing back from the disappointment of missing the U.S. World Championship team by less than a Podtrac Playersecond and being inspired by Ryan’s breakthrough year. Download the podcast to hear Sara discuss these topics, as well as, her NCAA career, how the recent birth of Dathan Ritzenhein’s first child has affected her own thoughts of parenthood and plans to adopt a child, the newest addition to the Hall family (a miniature Siberian Husky named Kyla), the importance of faith in her life & career, and much more! |
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Great North Run-good post-race video interview with Kara Goucher BBC-More on the upset by Kara Goucher. |
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Dathan Ritzenhein becomes a dad September 28 at 1:14 p.m. PST Ritzenhein's wife, Kalin, gave birth to a daughter, Addison Lee Ann Ritzenhein. |
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John Guarino Hired as EMU Women's Assistant Track Coach Eastern Michigan women's track and field coach Sue Parks has announced the hiring of John Guarino as assistant track and field coach. |
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26 Tips For Running Your Best 26.2 With a month to go before a marathon, you enter the most critical phase of training. Here is everything you need to know. |
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Kara Goucher becomes fastest American over half-marathon distance with a 1:06:57 Might be old news to some people, but WOW! Is K. Goucher have a great year or what???? Paula Radcliffe came second in her first competitive outing in 21 months in the Great North Run, finishing behind American Kara Goucher. |
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Running the Fifth Avenue Mile still matters A look at the history of the 5th ave. mile, and where it is headed. |
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Bumbalough Leads Hoya Men to Colonial Inter-Regional Challenge Title Red-shirt sophomore Andrew Bumbalough (Brentwood, Tenn./Brentwood Academy) picked up his first collegiate individual cross country title on Saturday, leading the Georgetown men's cross country team to the team crown at the Colonial Inter-Regional Challenge. The women's squad placed second, behind the runner-up finish by red-shirt junior Melissa Grelli (Cupertino, Calif./Presentation). |
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One good Korir (Jacob) defeats another (Wesley) at the Greater Louisville XC Cla Kenyans finish 1-2 at the Greater Louisville XC Classic. |
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Reuters: Russia's Kanaikin breaks world record in 20km walk MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Vladimir Kanaikin set the world record in the men's 20 km race walk at the Grand Prix final in Saransk on Saturday. |
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Former IWU Professor Sets State Track and Field Records - WJBC News Former IWU Professor Sets State Track and Field Records WJBC News, IL - Former professor at Illinois Wesleyan University has broken several several state records in track and field, just days after he turned ninety. |
John Guarino Hired as EMU Women's Assistant Track Coach - EMU Eagles
Eastern Michigan womens track and field coach Sue Parks has announced the hiring of John Guarino as assistant track and field coach.
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The Truth Behind “Hey There Delilah†The white T’s song, “Hey There Delilah†was inspired by Delilah DiCrescenzo, a columbia university graduate, and steeplechase runner training for the 2008 Olympic trials. |
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New Men's XC Rankings NEW ORLEANS - By taking Wisconsin at Saturday's Bill Dellinger Invitational, Oregon claimed the top ranking in the latest men's cross country poll, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association announced today. The Ducks received nine first-place votes in this week's poll, enabling them to jump from ninth to first in one week. Colorado and Wisconsin are tied for second in this week's poll. Colorado, the defending NCAA men's champion, claimed three first-place votes. Wisconsin, last week's No. 1 team, earned one first-place vote. Rounding out the top 10 are Oklahoma State, Iona, Stanford, Notre Dame, Alabama, Arkansas and North Carolina State. Oregon won the Dellinger men's title with 54 points, finishing ahead of Wisconsin (73), Alabama (111), Portland (137), UCLA (147) and UTEP (148). Wisconsin's Matt Withrow won the individual title in 23 minutes 20 seconds. Oregon's Shadrack Kiptoo-Biwott was second. |
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New Women's XC rankins NEW ORLEANS - On the first big weekend of the collegiate cross country season, Stanford held its ground as the top-ranked team, but there was considerable reshuffling in the Cardinal's wake. Colorado moved up one spot into second in the Division I women's poll released today by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Two-time defending NCAA champion Stanford received 10 first-place votes while Colorado claimed the remaining three first-place votes. Third-ranked Oregon improved 21 spots from last week's poll following Saturday's victory at the Bill Dellinger Invitational in Springfield, Ore. The Ducks were one of several teams to use invitational victories as a springboard to higher rankings. |
World's fastest sham
The 100-meter dash is the oldest competition in sports. At the first Olympics, in 776 B.C., the only event was the "stade," a sprint over flat ground. The modern version of the race looks pretty similar to the ancient one: eight men sprinting, arms jackknifing, knees kicking the sky. There's no strategy, no team tactics. It's a drag race from the gun to the tape, a test of raw power and acceleration. The 100-meter record holder can call himself the World's Fastest Man and strut to victory platforms as the living embodiment of Mercury.
Haile: ‘I can run 2:03, but I believe one day two hours will be broken’
Haile Gebrselassie, new WR holder, says that he can run 2:03 and the 2 hour barrier can be broken...eventually.
Fastest Marathon ever on Canadian Soil
John Kelai ran 2:09.30 in Toronto to run the fastest marathon ever on Canadian soil.
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Gouchers in Gossip Section of NY Post Famous columnist, Liz Smith writes about Paris Hilton, Bill Clinton, and the Gouchers? |
Discuss (1 comments)October 1, 2007
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Gebrselassie sets marathon record in Berlin BERLIN, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie shattered a marathon world record on Sunday in Berlin that had been set four years ago by his great rival Paul Tergat of Kenya. Gebrselassie was clocked in an official time of two hours, four minutes and 26 seconds, eclipsing the previous mark of 2:04.55 his friend Tergat set on the same flat and fast Berlin course in 2003. |
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New Regional XC Rankings NEW ORLEANS - After the first big competition weekend in the 2007 cross country season, several teams have started to solidify their rankings while three teams took over as their regions new No. 1. Duke, Minnesota, and Michigan State have moved into the top spots in their respective regions as the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association announced the Division I women's cross country regional rankings today. |
Track Town Halls Start Wednesday at Hayward
Last spring, the University of Oregon Track and Field program hosted monthly town hall meetings to discuss and promote all the track and field happenings in Eugene. These meetings will resume next week on Wednesday, October 3 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Bowerman Building, 1580 E. 15th Ave. on the northwest corner of Hayward Field. The public is welcomed
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Men's Cross Country Grabs Gold at Griak Invitational FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. - Lopez Lomong and David McNeill led the Lumberjacks to a first place finish at the Roy Griak Invitational on Saturday, edging the Arizona State Sundevils by four points in the men’s Division 1 competition. |
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12th-Ranked Irish Men Beat Out Ranked Foes The 12th-ranked Notre Dame men's cross country team found success with returnees and freshman running together as they took the team title at the 52nd Notre Dame Invitational, beating out ninth-ranked North Carolina State Friday afternoon at the nine-hole Notre Dame Golf Course. The Irish have now won their first three meets of the 2007 season with today's victory. |
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Bill Dellinger Invitational Race Recaps & Quotes Race Reviews, quotes, and results. |
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Notre Dame Invite: Florida State Cross Country Women Take Third, Men Take Fifth In the first major race of the season, Florida State dominated competition at the Notre Dame Invitational as the No. 12-ranked women finished the 5k race in third with 141 points and the No. 24-ranked men took fifth in the 8k with 147 points. Sophomore All-America Susan Kuijken crossed the line first in the women's run. |
Akron to host 2008 USA Women's USA 8 km Championship
INDIANAPOLIS - The women's Long Distance Running Committee of USA Track & Field (USATF) has announced that Akron, Ohio, has been selected to host the 2008 USA Women's 8 km Championship. The championship will be held as part of the Road Runner Akron.
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Gay Wins Gold In 100-Meters Race At Super Track And Field Meet - AHN Tyson Gay, battling fatigue from his busy track and field season this year wanted to win Sunday's meet to prove that his win in Osaka was no fluke. |
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Radcliffe's return derailed by debutante Goucher Tyneside, UK - It was meant to be a comeback show for Paula Radcliffe but Kara Goucher gatecrashed the party on Tyneside this morning as the American delivered a decisive blow to the British world Marathon record holder to win the Great North Run half marathon in north east England in 66:57. |
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Reigning champions to defend World Road Running titles in Udine The reigning World Road Running champions Zersenay Tadesse of Eritrea and Lornah Kiplagat of the Netherlands are on the entry list for the 2nd IAAF World Road Running Championships which take place in Udine, Italy on Sunday 14 October. |
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Alan Webb back on record-setting path A recap of Webb's record-setting year. |
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Powell injured again in Japan YOKOHAMA, Japan - World 100m record holder Asafa Powell limped out of a 200m race at the Yokohama track and field meet with a leg injury Sunday, ending two straight seasons with disappointment in Japan. |
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Jackson leads 49ers to fourth consecutive title at George Mason Invitational Tallying her fourth consecutive individual title of the season, junior Aja Jackson paced the Charlotte women's cross country team to its fourth consecutive team title Saturday morning at the George Mason Invitational. Sophomore Chase Eckard led the men's team, coming in fifth overall for a matching fifth-place team finish. |
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AP Sports: Robles shows up Liu Xiang at home in Shanghai SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Cuba's Dayron Robles showed up world record holder Liu Xiang in the Chinese hurdler's hometown Friday, snatching the 110 meters gold in 13.01 seconds. |
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Young and Old Run Hard on the Avenue Alan Webb, 24 the worlds fastest miler this year, won the mens professional and Douma-Hussar, 30, won the womens pro race. |
Rebel Sprinter Died From Gun Shot Wound ...
Mississippi sprinter Rodney Lydale Lockhart died from one gun shot to the front of his head, Lafayette County Coroner Lonnie Weaver said Sunday.
Triathlon: ITU Announces 2008 BG Triathlon World Cup Series Calendar
The 2008 BG Triathlon World Cup series calendar was released by the International Triathlon Union (ITU)on 27-Sept.
Depew girls take top spot at WNY Officials Invitational - Cheektowaga Times
Depew girls take top spot at WNY Officials InvitationalCheektowaga Times, USA - 2 hours agoThe Depew girls cross country team started its season on the right foot at last weekend's Western New York Track and Field and Cross Country Officials Association Invitational ...
Two Top-20 Finishers Lead Cougar Men to Seventh Place at Griak
The Washington State men's cross country team was led to a seventh place finish by Seniors Andrew Jones and Alex Grant at the Roy Griak Invitational in Minneapolis Minnesota. Jones finished 13th and Grant crossed the line just a few spots back in 16th.
Cross Country Runs Past Four Ranked Teams In Oregon
Matched up against some of the top competition in the nation, Washington's men's and women's cross country teams knocked off several ranked teams at the Bill Dellinger Invitational.
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Reuters: American miler Webb back on record-setting path NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alan Webb, 24, who this summer put himself back on the record-setting path he first blazed as a high school middle distance runner, hopes lessons he has learned will lift him to success on a grander scale. |
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Old folks do it as well Webb and Douma-Hussar were relative pups on a day in which 4,500 runners competed, including two men in their 90s, and men and women in their 80s. |
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Pease Leads Hoosiers at Roy Griak Invitational Roy Griak Women's Jack Johnson Gold Race Results in PDF FormatDownload Free Acrobat ReaderSophomore Sarah Pease led the Indiana women's cross country team to a 19th place finish with 510 points in the women's Jack Johnson gold 6K race at the 22nd Annual Roy Griak Invitational, hosted by the University of Minnesota at the Les Bolstad Golf Course in Minneapolis, Minn., on Saturday, Sept. 29. |
Cross Country women finish eighth, men 14th at Notre Dame Invite
The Southern Illinois University cross country women finished eighth and the men 14th at the Notre Dame Invitational on Friday.
Discuss (5 comments)September 30, 2007Bill Dellinger Invitational Results
The No. 3 Duck men and No. 24 women swept the team titles in the second annual Bill Dellinger Invitational, hosted by the Springfield Country Club.
Marathon world record broken
talks about Gebrselassie and talk he had with Tergat after breaking his record
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Kara Goucher beats Paula Redcliffe to win the Great North Half Marathon In Kara's first half marathon she beat the world record holder in her return from materity leave to run the fastest ever half marathon in US women's road running history. Unfortunately, the time didn't count as an American Record because of the downhill nature of the course. Great job Kara...You have what it takes to hang with the best and beat them. You're coach has done wonderful work with you. Quinn. |
Discuss (2 comments)September 29, 2007
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Gay, Clement, Thomas, Tikhon, Lededeva plus Powell and Richards to compete in Yo 29 September 2007 - Yokhama, Japan - The 2007 Super-Meet will be held tomorrow, Sunday 30 September, and five Osaka World Championship gold medallists expected to compete in Yokhama's annual meeting: Tyson Gay (USA) at 100m and 200m, Kerron Clement (USA) at 400m Hurdles, Donald Thomas (BAH) at High Jump, Ivan Tikhon (BLR) at Hammer Throw, and Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS) at women's Long Jump |
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Robles rolls on, Spearmon shocks Gay – Shanghai report Shanghai, China - Two men's World champions were upset in their marquee events at Friday's (28) Shanghai Super Grand Prix, held at the Shanghai University Town Stadium. In the meantime, the seven defending World champions entered on the women's side all won their events convincingly. |
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Top teams dot Dellinger field - The Register-Guard For Jerry Schumacher, head coach of the top-ranked Wisconsin men's cross country team, there was no hesitation. When UO director of track and field Vin Lananna placed a call to see if the Badgers might be interested in competing in the second annual Bill Dellinger Invitational at the Springfield Country Club on Saturday, he jumped at the opportunity. |
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Manhattan Avenue Is Next Test for Webb Alan Webb loved the question. “How was my summer?†he said. “Good, very good. It has been a career year, with a lot of improvement. I dropped my 1,500 and mile times by two seconds and my 800 time by three seconds. If someone had told me beforehand that I was going to run that fast, I would have been happy.†|
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Gay & Powell 'kept apart in 100m' Gay competes in the 100m in Shanghai on Friday, while Powell runs in the 200m. Powell, 24, said: "I wanted to run the 100m but I wasn't allowed to. I don't know why, you should ask my manager." |
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Asafa Powell just set the world record in the 100 meters. Big whoop. - Slate The 100-meter dash is the oldest competition in sports. At the first Olympics, in 776 B.C., the only event was the "stade," a sprint over flat ground. The modern version of the race looks pretty similar to the ancient one: eight men sprinting, arms jackknifing, knees kicking the sky. There's no strategy, no team tactics. It's a drag race from the gun to the tape, a test of raw power and acceleration. The 100-meter record holder can call himself the World's Fastest Man and strut to victory platforms as the living embodiment of Mercury. |
World champions Gay and Liu beaten in Shanghai
Wallace Spearmon upset rusty speed king Tyson Gay in the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix Friday while superstar hurdler Liu Xiang also crashed to defeat, fading to third behind Cuba's Dayron Robles.
Dr. John Carlos marches, speaks out on the Jena 6 - SI.com
Dr. John Carlos marches, speaks out on the Jena 6Â - A legend in Track and Field -- he's a world record holder in the 100-yard dash and a member of the US Track and Field Hall of Fame --
Discuss (0 comments)September 28, 2007Kiplagat to defend World Road Running title in Udine
27 September 2007 - Back to full fitness, Lornah Kiplagat will defend her title at the IAAF World Road Running Championships in Udine, Italy on 14 October 2007.
AP Sports: Asafa Powell's 100 meter record of 9.74 seconds ratified by the IAAF
MONTE CARLO, Monaco (AP) - Asafa Powell is now officially the fastest man on Earth.
Stanford Cross Country Set To Host 34th Annual Stanford Invitational
Defending back-to-back national champion and top-ranked Stanford highlights the women's collegiate f.
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As Osaka champions converge on Shanghai, Liu Xiang takes centre stage - Shanghai 27 September 2007 - Shanghai, China - The Shanghai stop on the IAAF's annual Asian tour has become a fully world-class event. On Friday (28) evening the event will have its third annual meeting and Liu Xiang, China's native son and the hope of all of China for 2008 gold, will be there. |
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AP Sports: Webb believes he's learning how to reach his potential NEW YORK (AP) -Alan Webb freaked out. That's how he described his reaction to health problems in 2006, when the middle distance runner endured a frustrating season. In the midst of a far better year, Webb encountered a series of small setbacks heading into the World Championships in Japan last month. |
Osafa and gay kept apart
Gay and Powell wont be running against each other in China today
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You're not really running if you haven't.... We've all had some kind of chronic problem from running. Chin splint, stress fracture... we've all had something. Here are some common jogger/runner injuries and some excercises to help out. |
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2:03:00 for a marathon! Crazy? Just ask Haile Gebrselassie Article interviewing Haile Gebrselassie before the Berlin Marathon this weekend. He dreams of 2rs 3mins. 2:04 would be ok. Not to mention he is puting in 156 miles (250km) a week. |
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12th-Ranked Irish Men Beat Out Ranked Foes NOTRE DAME, Ind. - The 12th-ranked Notre Dame men's cross country team found success with returnees and freshman running together as they took the team title at the 52nd Notre Dame Invitational, beating out ninth-ranked North Carolina State Friday afternoon at the nine-hole Notre Dame Golf Course. The Irish have now won their first three meets of the 2007 season with today's victory. |
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Curtis Breaks Second Consecutive Course Record This Season BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Villanova senior standout Bobby Curtis set a new course record and clinched a first place finish at the 34th Brooks Paul Short Run hosted by Lehigh University on Goodman Campus this afternoon. Curtis, along with his teammates, combined for a total of 44 points to beat out all other competing schools, including No. 26 Syracuse and No. 27 Princeton, who finished second and third respectively, winning back-to-back titles for this race. |
A Brief Chat with Alan Webb
Alan Webb, who will run the Continental Airlines Fifth Avenue Mile on Saturday in New York, is coming off a summer in which he ran a 3:46.91 mile, breaking Steve Scott’s 25-year-old U.S. record of 3:47.69, and set a personal 1500-meter best of 3:30.54 in defeating Frenchman Mehdi Baala in Paris.
Bigger is better, except when it's not - sport choice and body size*
It turns out that there are rules governed by physics to explain why the best distance runners look so different from the best swimmers or rowers and why being big is beneficial for some sports and not others.
Runners pee in bushes at marathon
Crucially, we all saw that film of Paula Radcliffe peeing at the roadside and gasped ‘Arrrgh! I’d have DIED if I’d had to do that!’
