Wow. The US distance community is buzzing about this result as most people had no idea the 2019 world champ was racing today. And in the process, he beat Shane Streich by 2.5 second and former NCAA champ Will Sumner by 5.10 seconds.
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*MB: Donny braz is back baby! Brazier 1:44.7.
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World champ Shericka Jackson took the women's 200m in 22.53 and world U20 champ Tina Clayton the 100m in 10.98. In the 110H, Olympic bronze medalist Rasheed Broadbell beat out US's Trey Cunningham, 13.06 to 13.08.
Chebet ran 14:03.69 to move to #2 on the world all-time list while Bromell ran a world-leading 9.84, his fastest 100m time in three years. Plus Josette Andrews ran 14:25.37 to move to #3 on the all-time US women's 5,000 list. Azeddine Habz won the 1500 in 3:29.72 as 5 broke 3:31 (NRs for Germany, Sweden), Ireland's Sarah Healy won her 1st DL 1500 in 3:59.17 after the Ethiopians ran like idiots yet again, Quincy Hall won in a photo finish in 44.22, & more. Watch our post-meet reaction show here or join the Supporters Club to get it as a podcast. *Full Rome Results *WA Recap.
*Ireland's Sarah Healy thrilled to have won her 1st DL race "I know I’m good at hard, fast races, but races like this were more where I struggled so I’m really, really happy to win – it’s really cool.” In the men's 1500, Cathal Doyle moved to #2 in Irish history at 3:32.15 but that only placed him 14th.
Obiri covered the up-and-down back half of the race in a blistering 15:09 and won $10,000 in prize money.
*LRC: Post-race interviews with Obiri, Kelati, Popehn, Roe, Vestri.
And that was with a 67.04 last lap. Her 1500 split of 4:04.68 was just 0.06 off Mary Cain's HS record of 4:04.62. Christina Aragon narrowly won the pro women's mile in 4:29.38 over Krissy Gear's 4:29.43
*MB: Jane Hedengen: G.OA.T high school track season deserves BLACK PAGE
*MB: HOKA Festival of Miles 2025
*MB: Hoka Festival of Miles Underwhelming
The field includes marathon stars Hellen Obiri and Sharon Lokedi and Gotytom Gebreslase as well as US Olympians Weini Kelati, Emily Sisson, Emily Infeld, and Dakotah Popehn. Watch the race live in the player above or on demand.
Khalid Khannouchi's 2:05:38 has stood since 2002. We break down why the time is right for Mantz to attack the AR and why he chose Chicago over Valencia.
Clip on Nico Young at link. For full podcast click here.
No. But they might be #2. Ethiopia has to be #1 even though they haven't medalled in the event since 2019. But Fisher, Young, Hocker Teare, Blanks, Nur, Wolfe, Jacobs, Kincaid, Beadlescomb, etc. is an impressive group.
MacLean, who improved incredibly from 4:19 to 3:58 under Mark Coogan, was extremely grateful for her time on the team. Team NB Boston will be without 3 Olympic 1500 runners this summer as 1500m Olympian Emily Mackay also recently left and Elle St. Pierre just gave birth.
The news comes as a surprise as Mackay excelled while training with the group, improving from 4:08 to 3:55 and making the Olympic team in 2024.
Team NB Boston is hopeful Valby can rejoin the team at altitude camp and run USAs.
Men's standard lowered from 2:18 from 2024 while women's standard stayed the same.
GST's successful run in Philly came to a close Jefferson-Wooden (10.73) and Bednarek (9.86) both ran PBs/world leaders in the 100 while Young (8:01.03) won his GST debut in the 3,000 thanks to a 25.61 last 200 after Grant Fisher scratched. Josh Kerr (3:34.44) and won the 1500 for the men while Diribe Welteji (1:58.94) completed the 1500/800 double for the women.
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Marco Arop and Kenny Bednarek totally BOSSED their fields as Arop won with a negative split 1:43.38 and Bednarek won by 0.55 in 19.95.Jamal Brit pulled off a big upset in the 110h with a 13.06 win. In the women's 200, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden upset Gabby Thomas, 21.99 to 22.10. Other winners included Paulino (49.12), Welteji (3:58.04) and Agnes Ngetich (8:43.61).
Koech equaled the meet record to win ahead of Kenya’s Nicholas Kebenei (1:43.75). South Africa's Zakithi Nene highlighted the sprints with a big PB and world-lead of 43.74 (#16 on the all-time list). Botswana's Lilian Odira took the women's 800m in 1:58.31 as the top-3 broke 1:59. Other distance winners included Uganda’s Sarah Chelangat (w5000m - 15:03), Ethiopia’s Amare Hailemariyam (m5000m - 13:34), Abel Kipsang (m1500m - 3:35.09).
*MB: Koech 1:43.3!
LetsRun.com co-founder Robert Johnson tells you who he thinks will win NCAAs before the regional meets are even held. *Men's Picks *Women's Pick
The only good news is the injury isn't a stress fracture - it's being described as inflammation.
Once again, the men's 800 & 1500 will be must-watch tv as two of the hottest Americans from the 2025 indoor season - Josh Hoey and Hobbs Kessler - take on the big boys at Franklin Field. Plus Addy Wiley, Nia Akins, Georgia Hunter Bell, Christian Coleman, Christian Miller, Nico Young, and Graham Blanks make the GST debuts.
Sha’Carri Richardson, Gabby Thomas and Tara Davis-Woodhall will serve as the advisor-owners.
Jonah Koech wasn't even supposed to be in Sunday's 1500. As they approached the bell, he was in 13th out of 17. A lap later, he was the champion. He is just the third American man to win a Diamond League 1500/mile and the first runner sponsored by Under Armour to win a DL race. His 3:37.27 pre-race pb is also the slowest of any man to win a DL 1500/mile.
We recap the running world and are joined by Jonah Koech after his amazing Diamond League win. Show notes here.
Joshua Cheptegei set his 12:35.36 WR at the Monaco DL in 2020 and Gebrhiwet sits #2 on the all-time list after he missed it by just over a second at Oslo last year with 12:36.73.
The USATF LA Grand Prix and USATF Bermuda Games were also cancelled this year. Grand Slam Track is the new big kid on the block in N. America.
For five years, Hoey cylced through coach after coach but barely improved from his 1:47.67 high school 800m pb. Learn why he moved around so often -- and why he never gave up. Part I of JG's 7,000+ word feature.
*MB: Josh Hoey profile by JG
Clayton Murphy was our guest this week and talks about his great career. What were his favorite moments, races? Why did he decide to hang them up?
"He’s still feeling parts of the concussion coming to him when he reaches certain high speeds and levels," said Girma's agent Hussein Makke. "...He’s not normal yet. He’s able to train and he’s put in good workout sessions, but at such a point, a combination of intensity and other things, he feels some dizziness and some things...He's planning to come back and run his race when he’s close to 100%."
"She is on the mend,"said Parker's father and agent, Kyle. "I don’t want to get into [the specifics of the injury] at this point, but she is in good shape...I’ll be able to share more [about racing plans] in the future, we’re just waiting on a few things relative to her health. She’s in a good spot mentally."
On Wednesday, Nike announced that Kenya's Faith Kipyegon will attempt to break four minutes in the mile on June 26 in Paris. Spoiler alert. She's not going to break 4. And it's not going to be particularly close. Did you know the 1k time she ran on Saturday where she just nearly broke the WR is still below sub-4 mile pace?
Taylor Roe broke 15:00 for the 1st time in her career today, racing in the shoes for the 1st time. 5k man Amon Kemboi also loved them. "You kind of feel the bounce only," Kemboi said. "So even though you are tired, you feel just the drive it gives you when your legs are tired."
Bekele and Sound Running's Jesse Williams, meet director for The TEN, explain why the Ethiopian star Telahun Bekele, who is racing GST this weekend, missed the start on Saturday night and how he hit the World Championship standard anyway.
Last week, Houlihan spoke with LetsRun.com for more than an hour with no questions off the table. Houlihan shares which supplements she took at the time of her positive test, why she said she didn't know what nandrolone is, running a 30:31 10k in practice, and her hopes for World Indoors and the rest of 2025.
The US indoor 1500m/3000m champion overhauled his fueling in workouts before the 2024 season. Now he swears by his routine.
In the span of one week in February, runners broke five world indoor records and every American men's middle-distance record from 800m to 5000m. Jonathan Gault spoke to some of America's top athletes and coaches to find the reasons behind all of the fast times.
From novice fans to running diehards, there was something for everyone (except perhaps Brits and Norwegians) to enjoy about one of the greatest middle distance races ever run.
Just before Blanks chases a 5,000m pb and collegiate record in what is likely his final NCAA race at Boston University on Saturday, he told LetsRun about the key session of his 2024 XC season -- one he described as "probably the best workout I've had so far in my career."
Simpson and Centrowitz, who both 1st medalled in 2011 and retired in 2024, leave the sport as two of the faces on the Mt. Rushmore of American 1500m running after piling up a combined eight medals at global championships. And despite not ever finishing in the top 3 on the yearly 1500 list (Simpson's best was 4th, Centro's 9th), they will be remembered as two of the better milers of their generation.
Your latest American stars share their insights.
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.
‒Jonathan Gault writing about Donavan Brazier's 1:44.70 on Saturday night, his 1st race in nearly 3 years.