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2021 NCAA Outdoords - Day 4 Women
In 1991, Laurie Henes won the NCAA 5,000m title for NC State in Eugene. Now the Wolfpack coach, Henes guided her daughter Elly to win the same race 30 years later.
Meyer, a grad transfer from Delaware, entered the year with a 2:03.40 PR. Today, she ran 2:00.28 to claim the national title in her first NCAA appearance.
Entering the NCAA meet, Anna Camp was only the third-best 1,500 runner on BYU’s roster. But today she was the best in the NCAA, taking down NCAA mile champ Sage Hurta of Colorado in a PR of 4:08.53.
Before April, Mahala Norris had never competed in the steeplechase. Before Thursday, she'd never competed at NCAA outdoors and had a 9:44.10 PR. Now her PR is 9:31.79 and she's the NCAA champ.
Mu ran 49.57 in the individual 400 and a 48.85 split on the relay to anchor Texas A&M to the win in a CR of 3:22.34. Sturgis’ 100 (a windy 10.74) was the fastest in NCAA history. USC won the team title.
Outside NCAA Coverage
Petros Kyprianou, who guided Georgia to 2 NCAA titles is leaving Georgia, Georgia hires Caryl Smith Gilbert away from USC Exactly 2 months ago, a message board poster insisted that Petros was leaving and that's true. Gilbert leaves USC a day after winning the title and became the 1st woman to lead a men's team at UGA.
More MB Talk.
Watch All NCAA Women's Distance Races (Cued To The Final 400)
WSteeple
W800
W1500
W5k
W10k
Men's NCAA Outdoors - Day 3
How impressive are these numbers? 3:35.35 (#5 all-time NCAA) with an epic negative split (1:48.87 final 800, 52.23 final 400, 25.9 final 200).
Teare got more than just his first NCAA individual crown. He also picked up the Olympic standard and broke Bill McChesney's legendary Oregon school record from 1982.
Noted front runners Isaiah Jewet and Brandon Miller were rewarded for boldly taking the 800 out in 50.9 and the rest of the field while well beaten ended up running fast as well as 8 of 9 guys set new PBs.
Oklahoma State junior Ryan Smeeton went down on the final barrier and Chemadi was your champion.
There were also fast times for LSU freshman Sean Burrell in the 400 hurdles (world U20 record of 47.85) and Florida’s Joseph Fahnbulleh, who came from way back to deny LSU’s Terrance Laird a 100, 200, 4x100 sweep by running 19.91. In the field, LSU star JuVaughn Harrison completed the HJ/LJ double and Arizona State's Turner Washington completed the shot/discus double.
NCAA MB Talk
- (Un)Official 2021 NCAA T&F Championships Day 3 Thread
- Cole MF Hocker. 52.23 last lap. 3:35.35 FTW over Nuguse!!!
- COPPER MF TEAR
- Will Teare break McChesney's 5000m school record?
- BYU needs new shorts?
- Fahnbulleh strides 1
- When is hocker going to get olympic standard?
- Cole Hocker -- finally actually DONE???
- Calling it now: Alec Basten comes from nowhere to win NCAA steeple
- Georgia has screwed up Matt Boling's mechanics
- Bolling; what do you think...400 meters?
Watch All NCAA Men's Distance Races (Cued To The Final 400)
Men's 800
Men's 1500
Men's Steeple
Men's 5000
Men's 10k
On The Boards
Non-NCAA Distance Results
She won over Violah Cheptoo (31:39), Bernard Lagat's younger sister. Molly Seidel was 5th in 32:13.
*MB: Sara Hall - 31:33 10k in Central Park FTW
*MB: Congrats to Sara Hall on her season ending victory today.
- GB's Oliver Dustin Takes Almost Two Seconds Off His 800m PB To Run A World-Leading 1:43.82 In Nice Morgan McDonald ran 13:13.67 to win a close 5000m race by .02 while Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw beat out GB's Eilish McColgan 4:53.77 to 14:55.79. Ethiopia's Netsanet Desta won the women’s 800m in 2:00.86. Steeple wins went to France’s Mehdi Belhadj (8:17.04) and Kenya’s Fancy Cherono (9:27.30).
*MB: unkown 20 Year Old Brit Oliver Dustin 1:43.82 for 800 - Peter Bol Highlights Oceania Invitational With 1:44.62 (Fastest Time By An Australian On Home Soil)
Pro-Distance News
- After Running 2:02:37 At The Milano Marathon Last Month, Kenya's Titus Ekiru Wants To Run Under 2-Hours At Either The Chicago Or London Marathons "I've been working hard in training to improve on the weak aspects of my performance. So far, so good; I believe that running under two hours is possible with the way my training has worked out so far."
- MB: Allie Ostrander Posts About Struggling With An Eating Disorder She said she has admitted herself to a partial hospitalization program for eating disorder recovery.
- MB: Tinman Elite keeps their name After the Tinman Elite fired coach Tom “Tinman” Schwartz, there was debate over what would happen with the team name.
Non-Distance Action
- Su Bingtian Runs 9.98 To Win China's Tokyo Olympic Trials 100m
- Two-Time World Shot Put Champ Gong Lijiao Throws World-Leading 20.31m Shot Put To Win Chinese Championships Wang Chunyu won the women's 800m by almost six seconds with 1:59.42.
- Swiss Sprinter Mujinga Kambundji Highlights Geneva Meet With 11.07 Win In The 100m
RIP
- RIP Italian Middle Distance Great Paola Pigni, 75 Pigni set world records at 1500m and the mile, won an Olympic bronze in 1972 and two world XC titles.
- India's 1952 Olympic Marathoner Surat Singh Mathur Dies At Age-90 From COVID-19
- Scottish 1996 Olympic Marathoner Karen Nicolson Dies At Age 63 She had a 2:33:16 PB and placed 4th at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
Olympic Trials News
- Runner's World: Can These Veterans Make Another Olympic Team? Jenny Simpson, Matt Centrowitz, Lopez Lomong and Kim Conley will all be trying to make their third or fourth Games.
- A List Of Olympic And World Champions Not Entered In The US Olympic Trials Reigning 400H Olympic champ Kerron Clement and reining world 100H champ Nia Ali are among the big names not entered.
- NY Times: An Unexpected Path To The Olympic Track And Field Trials A quick inside look at the two former collegiate runners behind the Trials of Miles Racing series which helped many athletes hit their OT qualifying time during COVID lockdowns.
Non-Elite Race News
- China Filing Criminal Charges And Sanctioning 27 Officials Involved With The Recent Deadly Ultramarathon An investigation found that the incident where 21 runners died occurred due to poor quality and unprofessional management.
- Parkrun 5ks Starting Back Up At More Than 500 Locations In The UK On June 26th The free 5k races were originally supposed to start back up on June 5th, but were delayed after only a third of landowners gave permission.
Olympic News
- Olympic Organizers Estimate That They'll Have 225,000 Fans Per Day At Tokyo 2020 Venues This is assuming they end up allowing spectators.
- IOC Says Vaccination Rate Among Tokyo 2020 Bound Athletes Is Above 80%
- Brisbane, Australia Set To Be Awarded 2032 Olympics Next Month
- Obviously Not Happening: Japan's Opposition Leader Calls For IOC President Thomas Bach And Other VIPs To Be Barred From The Tokyo 2020 Games He argued that only athletes, referees and support staff should be allowed to attend.
The Florence DL Was Amazing
The women's 1500 and men's 5000 both lived up to the hype and were incredible as an amazing week of distance running continued tonight in Florence.
Women's 1500 Race Video
Men's 5000 Race Video
Day 2 NCAAs
Cardama Baez finished 2nd in the 2019 NCAA 10k in heartbreaking fashion, but earned redemption after two years of waiting, breaking NCAA XC champ Mercy Chelangat of Alabama over the final lap.
In the 1500, six women broke 4:10, while 11 of the 12 finalists in the women's steeple ran PBs, leading to a major rewriting of the all-time NCAA list.
Field Events
- Cal's Camryn Rogers has an incredible day in hammer - betters her old PB 4 times and breaks collegiate hammer record twice Her best mark was 75.52.
- Tara Davis wins tight LJ to complete indoor/outdoor LJ sweep with 6.70 win Texas A&M's Tyra Gittens gave her a scare in round 6 at 6.68.
- Lisa Gunnarsson (14' 5.25', 4.40m) completes the indoor / outdoor sweep in the pole vault for LSU but rest of team struggles
- Ohio State's Adelaide Aquilla takes lead in 5th round, retakes it in 6th round to win women's shot put
- Georgia's Marie-Therese Obst (59.69m 195-10) wins javelin at 2021 NCAA Outdoors
- Georgia's Karel Tilga (8,261) wins decathlon
NCAA Prediction Contest
Ready, set, pick. First event closes Friday at 4pm eastern.
Non-NCAA News
Kerr was the guest on the LRC podcast this week.
- Q&A With Former Harvard Sprinter Gabby Thomas, Who Is thiving in Austin Under Tonja Buford-Bailey, During the pandemic she started a masters in public health and epidimeology. Have you watched her incredible 4 x 400 split in college?
- Josh Kerr to BBC: "I think we're all gunning for Mo Farah's record of 3:28." Kerr was the guest on the LRC podcast this week.
- USATF Put Entry Deadline for USAs as Last Weekend But Lets Qualifying Times from This Weekend Count and It's Causing Problems As a result, Gonzaga's James Mwaura who ran 27:47 but wasn't entered by Pat Tyson isn't into the Trials but guys who did enter ahead of time but are slower are in.
- Sapporo's Covid-19 Rate Is 43% Higher Than That of Tokyo
Outside NCAA Coverage
- BYU’s Conner Mantz: "I might have started the sprint a little too early and it cost me a win today."
- NCAA Track Fans and Coaches React to the New Hayward Field
- Branson Ellis Wins Stephen F Austin's 1st Men's NCAA Title in Pole Vault
- USA Today's 5 Stories to Follow at 2021 NCAA Outdoors
- LSU Men Had a Great Day 1 with 2 NCAA Titles JuVaughn Harrison won back-to-back LJ titles as teammate Tzuriel Pedigo went from 7th to 1st in the last round of the javelin.
Day 1 NCAAs
For the second time in five years, an Englishman from Tulsa has won the NCAA 10,000 title. Imagine running 27:50 and not even scoring. In other finals, LSU's JuVaugh Harrison won the lj (8.27), LSU's Tzuriel Pedigo won the javelin (76.98), Arizona State's Turner Washington won the shot (21.1), Stephen F Austin's Branson Ellis won the PV (5.70) as Florida's Thomas Mardal won the hammer (76.74).
Day 1 NCAAs
NCAA steeple leader Fitsum Seyoum of Virginia Tech went home was NCAA 800 leader Isaiah Jewett and freshman phenom Brandon Miller of Texas A&M needed time qualifiers to make the final.
Day 1 MB Talk
- MB: Official 2021 NCAA T&F Championships Day 1 Thread
- MB: PATRICK MF DEVER DROPS THE HAMMER, MANTZ GOES HOME DEVASTATED
- MB: To all of you who have been saying the super spikes don't work, did you see that? 10 guys just broke the NCAA meet record. LOL.
- MB: 19-year old Charles Hicks 7th in 27:47 - how would Nico have done? Is that a WR for a 19-yr old non African?
- MB: Average age of 10,000 runners at NCAA?
- MB: Fair or Foul? Reed Brown DQd in 1500 at NCAAs (video)
- MB: New Oregon stadium
- MB: NCAA 1500m Final Isaac Basten will be top 3
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