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Emelia Gorecka

Emelia Gorecka

March 23, 2018

The 2018 Carlsbad 5000 Is Sunday

The women's race has GB's Emelia Gorecka (15:07 PB) and the men are lead by Swedish 1500 NR holder Kalle Berglund and Denmark 7-time national champ Nick Jensen.
May 05, 2014

2014 Payton Jordan Women's 5,000: Sifan Hassan Goes Sub-15 To Win As Katie Mackey Runs 15:04 And Aisling Cuffe Is The 3rd Fastest Collegiate All-Time

The women's 5,000 at the 2014 Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational was won by the Netherlands' Sifan Hassan (formerly of Ethiopia) in a world-leading time of 14:59.23. Sweden's Meraf Bahta (formerly of Eritrea) was second in a national record of 14:59.49. Leading the Americans was Brooks Beasts' Katie Mackey in 15:04.74, just beating out Boulder Track Club's Laura Thweatt (15:04.98). GB 20-year-old Emelia Gorecka was 5th in 15:07.45 as Stanford's Aisling Cuffe set a new school record and put herself 3rd on the all-time NCAA list with a 15:11.13.

December 08, 2013

Spain's Alemayehu Bezabeh And France's Sophie Duarte Claim European Cross-Country Titles

GB's Gemma Steel was 2nd woman while  Ireland's two-time reigning champion Fionnuala Britton was only 4th. Spain won the men's team competition while Great Britain won for the women. In the Under-23 race, Iona's NCAA 3rd placer Kate Avery was 4th. Oklahoma State's Tom Farrell was 12th in the men's senior race.