Clinger ran 1:12:15 to Klecker's 1:12:31 and Bor's 1:12:52. Carrie Ellwood won the women's race by over a minute in 1:22:26.
World Relays Are This Weekend In China
- Mixed 4x100 Relay Makes Debut and US Drops Baton South Africa and Japan both ran a world-leading 37.84 to top the list of men's 4x100 qualifiers while Spain set a 42.18 national record to lead the women's 4x100. Team USA men (37.86) and women (42.86) each won their heat as well. In the mixed 4x100, Canada had the fastest time with 40.90 while Team USA fumbled the woman to man baton exchange and failed to qualify for the final, finishing with 1:05.77.
- US Wins Heats in Women's and Mixed 4x4s, but the Men Don't Make the Final The US men finished third in their heat behind France and KENYA and now will have to finish top-three in the loser's round tomorrow to secure a spot for Worlds.
- Enter To Win A Signed Baton From World Relays
On The Boards
On The Boards
Oregon Twilight
- Shelby Houlihan Runs 4:05.78 To Win Oregon Twilight 1500m Over Gabija Galvydyté (4:05.89), Karissa Schweizer (4:06.01), and Eleanor Fulton (4:06.66) Oregon sophomore Simeon Birnbaum won the men's 1500m in 3:37.02 ahead of Kieran Tuntivate (3:37.37) and Thomas Ratcliffe (3:37.58).
*MB: Oregon Twilight Meet: Houlihan versus Schweizer @ One thousand five hundred meters
Kerley 9.87
- Fred Kerley Runs Wind-Aided 9.87 (+2.9) In His First Meet Since His Arrest He ran that in that in the semis at the Franson Last Chance meet in California after a 9.95 (+2.3) in the prelim. Final is on Saturday. While that sounds fast, it's only equal to a 10.00 with no wind.
*MB: A week after being arrested, Fred Kerley run 9.95w (+2.3) and 9.87w (+2.9)
Meet America's Latest Female Teen Prodigy
Get to know Blair Bartlett - the tennis player who took down Addy Ritzenhein and the Penn Relays 3k record “At the end of her freshman year, everyone (the media) is interviewing her, and at the end, she walks over to me and says, “I need you to make some harder workouts,” said her coach Derrhyl Duncan, author of a new book titled, "Coach's Playbook: A Guide for Inspiring Great Athletes and Greater People."
World Relays Previews
- BBC: Many top sprint stars - Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Wayde van Niekerk, Shericka Jackson, Kenny Bednarek - are ready for World Athletics Relays The top 14 teams in each of the men's and women's 4x100m and 4x400m, as well as the 4x400m relay, will secure their place for September. Brits can watch it on the BBC.
- Preview:
Track's Latest GimmickThe Mixed 4x100 Makes Its Debut Jamaica's squad has Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Yohan Blake. The US 4x100 relay pool includes Olympic 200m silver medalist Kenny Bednarek. - Preview: Olympic Rematch And Redemption In The Men's 4x100 Can Team USA get the baton around the track this time after being DQ'd in Paris?
- WRE Guangzhou 25 preview: all to play for in mixed 4x400m
- WRE Guangzhou 25 preview: rivalries renewed in men’s 4x400m
- Olympic 200m Champ Letsile Tebogo And Two Others Withdraw From Botswana World Relays Team On X, people are saying they withdrew as the Botswana govt never paid them for their Olympic silver.
- Nigeria withdraws after runners don't get visas
- Preview: USA Ready To Defend Their Honor In Women's 4x400 Team USA will be without their big names like Gabby Thomas and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and instead are lead by sub-50 women Kendall Ellis and Lynna Irby-Jackson.
- Andre De Grasse talks to the CBC about Canada's goals for World Relays
- Kenyan team of 22 is ready
More news of note
- LRC Kenyan Olympic 1500m finalist Brian Komen to make 2025 debut at Rabat Diamond League on May 25 Komen's agent tells LRC that the 3:28 man Komen took some time to rehab a hamstring injury after a breakout 2024 season.
- High Quality 1,500s loom large at Friday's Oregon Twilight Sean McGorty, Kieran Tuntivate and Thomas Ratcliffe along with Oregon's Simeon Birnbaum and Evan Dorenkamp are in the men's race while Karissa Schweizer & Shelby Houlihan headline the women's.
- RW goes full hyperbole and says Bowerman Mile will be race of summer and asks will Bowerman be greatest mile ever? We don't see how the race will be bigger than the actual World Champs 1500 final.
- Dream hurdle matchup - Warholm, Benjamin, dos Santos - will happen twice in four days in June They'll race over the 300mh distance on June 12 in Oslo and then over the classic 400m in Stockholm on June 15.
- Gout Gout admits Noah Lyles has two-word nickname for him - "Little Bro"
- New coach Joanna Hayes went all in on USC-UCLA dual and was rewarded with 2 wins Meanwhile, the USC men are favored to win NCAAs.
Two Recommended Reads
- Recommended Read Tate Taylor just won the greatest HS 100m ever run in 9.92 and what's crazy is he wasn't even the favorite going in All eyes were on Brayden Williams as he'd run a windy 9.82 two weeks before. Track and Field News has a nice feature on the CRAZY 6A 100m final in Texas where you had to run 10.18 to place 5th.
*MB: Tate Taylor (Northside Harlan, TX) new 100M HSR 9.92 (1.1) at TX State Meet. Also 20.14 in 200m.
*Great News Track Fans - Tate Taylor won't be playing football in the future “I don’t even play football,” he said with a laugh. “I’m too fragile.” - Recommended Read #2 As a judge weighs NCAA deal, thousands of college athletes remain in legal limbo This is an EXCELLENT article if you want to try to understand the NCAA vs. House case which may not go through.
*MB: If you want to understand what's going on in NCAA (NCAA vs House), but haven't been following it, READ THIS ARTICLE NOW - Speaking of teen phenoms 17-yr old World Jr steeple champ Edmund Serem is pleased with back to back 8:08s in China, now eyes sub-8 mark He was 4th in Xiamen and 2nd in China. ANd officially he only turned 17 in December. He ran 8:15 last year.
It's Time To Move On
Murphy, who turned 30 in February, ran his 1:42.93 pb on the biggest stage of all - the Rio Olympics. He made a very nice retirement video which you can watch above.
- Jamaica's Brianna Lyston (LSU) ends NCAA career early, turns pro Before going to LSU, she was already the World U20 200m champ. At LSU, she won the 2024 NCAA 60m title and was runnerup in the 100m, running 7.03 and 10.91
Random News That Passed Our Human Vetting Process
- Remembering when the now defunct Bolton Marathon was the biggest race in Europe - even bigger than London It had a good run from 1981 to 1988.
- Good for them: On is going to pay AIU to do extra drug testing of its athletes
- Kenyans and Indians keep on doping 5 from Kenya and 9 from India were banned in April.
- Abel Teffra and Tinoda Matsatsa talk to Dyestat
- As a kid, Jadin O’Brien felt for 5 years like she possessed and going to die, it turns out she had Strep and now she's a multi-time NCAA champ for Notre Dame in the multi This is a wild story. A voice speaking to a grandfather via a stained glass window, Covid, and PANDAS - Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections.
Doping News
In January of 2021, the former world champ told a drug tester he needed to go get his passport in his car and then he sped off. His ban wasn't formally confirmed by CAS until February of this year. The AIU lists his ban as having ended in February but WADA tells us Aman could have technically competed during the last 4 years so his ban still got 3+ years to go even though the AIU database says it ended in February.
- MB: Breaking: Former 800m world champ just finished up a secret 4-year drug ban
- *Previous: LRC Former World 800m Champion Just Finished Up SECRET 4-Year Ban For Evading A Drug Test
- MB: Indian arrested for distributing PEDs in Iten, Kenya
- Elite Athletes Warned To Avoid One-Night Stands OVer The Risk Of Failing Drug Tests There have been multiple instances of athletes being cleared after proving that their positive test came from kissing someone who used a recreational drug.
- MB: Kenyan 2:07 Marathoner Brian Kipsang Gets Two-Year Doping Ban
- Spanish Marathon Champion Hamid Ben Daoud (2:06/60:41 PBs) Gets 4-Year Doping Ban From CAS Ben Dauud as well as 2:08 Spanish marathoner Abdelaziz Merzougui were caught by the biological passport system, but the Spanish anti-doping system delayed their cases for years before CAS stepped in to issue the bans.
Non-Distance News
- Akini Simbine, who finally medalled for the 1st time indoors, isn't letting his two DL wins get to his head - "Being the man to beat isn't something I think about." And to think he was known as the "nearly-man" after 3 4th place finishes prior to this year.
*South Africa's Akani Simbine recently broke Usain Bolt's record for most consecutive years with a sub-10 100m Simbine is the world leader with 9.90, making it 11 straight years that he's gone sub-10 which broke Bolt's record of 10 consecutive seasons. - Fred Kerley Issues Statement On His Admits There Was A "Physical Altercation" He claims he was arrested for refusing to speak to the cops without a lawyer present.
*MB: Cause of Fred Kerley's arrest: Refusing to speak with police - World Athletics Profile On GB's World Indoor 60m Champ Jeremiah Azu Azu talks about life as a pro sprinter/new dad as his son was born just days before he won European indoor gold this year.
- Allyson Felix And Phil Knight Among Among This Year's USOPC Hall Of Fame Class
- Discus WR Holder Mykolas Alekna Threw The Tenth 70+ Meter Throw Of His Career With 71.29m In California Over The Weekend
- Mixed 4x100 Among Three Events That Will Be Added To The 2026 European Champs In Birmingham Suck a gimmick.
Upcoming Action
- MB: Grant Fisher, Jake Wightman, Niels Laros, Hobbs Kessler added to 2025 Bowerman mile - No Kerr - We already knew Jakob, Hocker and Nuguse were racing.
- Women's steeple next week in Doha will be great - Olympic champ Winfred Yavi vs bronze bedalist Faith Cherotich
*SAFP will be there as well - Hellen Obiri Vs Defending Champion Gotytom Gebreslase Set For Great Manchester Run 10k On May 18 In the men's race, Tokyo Olympic 10,000m champ Selemon Barega takes on last year's winner Vincent Ngetich.
- Entries Announced For Track Fest On May 24 Entries include 2022 world champ Jake Wightman in the 1500m, Olympic silver medalist Kenneth Rooks in the men's steeple and Krissy Gear vs Courtney Wayment in the women's steeple.
- Olympic Champ Winfred Yavi And Bronze Medalist Faith Cherotich Will Renew Their Rivalry In Doha DL Steeplechase On May 16
- Aussies Brett Robinson (59:57) And Andy Buchanan (60:28) Lead Field For Peppers Silo Half Marathon In Australia On June 1 Stewart McSweyn is in the associated 10k race.
Other News
- Front Office Sports speaks to Ross Tucker, Wouter Hoogkamer, Shalaya Kipp, Steve Magness & Alex Hutchinson, about whether Nike’s sub-4 “moonshot” with running star Faith Kipyegon is realistic—or a gimmick.
- Over One Million People Apply For Entry To The 2026 London Marathon The 1,133,813 applicants beats the world record of 840,318 that applied for the 2025 London Marathon.
*The BBC Asks If The UK Is Experiencing A Running Boom - IOC Replaces US Swimmer Gary Hall Jr.'s Olympic Medals Which Were Lost In LA Wildfires Hall Jr. said, "Never before have 10 Olympic medals been replaced, probably because no one has lost 10 medals before."
- Bydgoszcz, Poland Will Host The 2027 European U20 And U23 Championships
Girma Update
"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%."
NCAA News
- No Changes To Men's Top-3 Teams, USC Stays On Top In Latest NCAA Rankings Texas A&M and Tennessee are ranked 2-3 and Nebraska moved up to #4.
- Georgia Women Remain #1, Texas A&M Move Up To #2 In Updated NCAA Rankings USC and Arkansas are ranked 3-4.
- Minnesota's Angelos Mantzouranis Threw 78.61m For The Hammer Over The Weekend (#3 On The NCAA All-Time List) It was the best throw by a collegian since 2002.
- Event-By-Event Top-10 NCAA Marks Of The Week (April 29-May 5
Grand Slam Track Miami
Bednarek ran a world-leading 19.84 to make it 4-for-4 in GST races in 2025. Fisher, Bednarek, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Alison dos Santos, and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden have all titles at each Slam.
- Official Grand Slam Track Miami Day 3 Discussion Thread
- SML has raced way more this year than Femke
- Trey Cunningham 10.17 100 at Grand Slam Miami - faster than Holloway's PB
- Trey Cunningham 10.17 - wouldn’t medal at Texas State Champs
- Cause of Fred Kerley's arrest: Refusing to speak with police
- Is Elise Cranny even world class
- If you staggered the second race based on the results of the first, you would solve GST's two biggest problems.
The Miami meet came to an end and the following race winners all picked up $100k for series wins as well - Kenny Bednarek 19.84 (+0.2), Grant Fisher 13:40.32, Alison Dos Santos 44.53, Trey Cunningham 10.17, SML (49.69) and Marileidy Paulino 22.30. In the women's 800, Mary Moraa won in 1:59.51 but didn't win the series as was the case in the 3k where Hirut Meshesha won in 8:22.72.
College Results: The NCAA All-Time Lists Take A Beating
The time is second fastest collegiate 1500m ever. In the women's 5000m, Grace Hartman ran a solo effort 14:58.11 (#4 on the NCAA all-time list). *Results
- LSU's Michaela Rose Runs 1:58.12 (#2 On NCAA All-Time 800m List) At LSU Invy
- Washington's Amanda Moll Breaks NCAA Outdoor Pole Vault Record With 4.76m At The Desert Heat Classic She broke the record that was just set in March by DII athlete Brynn King by 1cm, although Moll's indoor record of 4.91m is still better.
- UCLA Sweeps USC In Annual Dual For First Time In 12 Years The UCLA men beat #1 ranked USC by just one point while the women beat #2 USC 92 to 71 for their first dual meet win since 2013.
- Stanford Women, Cal Men Win Big Meet Dual *Results
*MB: LEX YOUNG STEEPLECHASE DEBUT
USATF 5k Champs And Other Distance Action
Hacker won a close race over Casey Clinger (13:33.04) while Andrews won handily ahead of Bailey Hertenstein (15:15) and Courtney Frerichs (15:17). *Results
- NAU's Cael Grotenhuis (28:24.36), Minnesota Distance Elite's Cailie Logue Hughes (32:21) Win At Inaugural Save The 10,000 With Des And Kara Grotenhuis won by 25 seconds and Logue Hughes beat Katie Izzo by 9 seconds.
- Ethiopians Lemi Berhanu Hayle (2:05:14) And Bertukan Welde Sura (2:20:55) Win At The Prague Marathon
- Ethiopian Tilahun Nigussie (2:13:37) And Kenya's Millicent Kibet (2:38:30) Win Belfast Marathon
- Kenya's Paul Machoka And GB's Scout Adkin Win Mountain Running World Cup Opener In Romani
In case Gout Gout is getting a little cocky
Taylor is only in 11th grade. What a talent. And he's just 3 months older (9/26/07) than Gout Gout (12/29/07). By the way, two 9th graders ran 10.17 and 10.18 in the same race. *100m Video *DyeStat Recap
Grand Slam Track #2 (Miami)
In the mid-d events, Marco Arop won the 800 in 1:43.69 and Josh Kerr has never been more thrilled to finish 5th and win $100k. Freweyni Hailu won the 1500 in 4:06.96. In the sprints, Kenny Bednarek won the 100m in a windy 9.79 (+2.4), Jacory Patterson ran a world-leading 43.98 to win the 400m out of lane 8, Trey Cunningham won the 110h in 13.00, Gabby Thomas won the 200 in 21.95 (+1.1) and SML won the 400h in 52.07. Updated with race videos.
- Official Grand Slam Track Miami Day 2 Discussion Thread
- YARED MF NUGUSE runs 1:44 defeating both Kerr and Hocker in the 800m
- Why no threads on Josh Kerr demolishing Hocker and Nuguse?
- Jakob is BEYOND Cooked for the 1500m this season. NUGUSE/KERR/HOCKER 1:44.77-1:45.13. He will never win another 1500 Title Again
- Josh Kerr : “its not about how fit you are, its about how ready to race you are”
- Hull not the same athlete in 2025
- Fred Kerley involved in fight at Grand Slam Track hotel, cops called
- Who will actually lead a 1500 final anymore?
Shanghai Diamond League
Tinch was sensational. In mid-d and distance action, Aregawi (12:50.45) won the 5000, Abrham Sime won the steeple in 8:07.92, and Tsige Duguma won the women's 800 in 1:56.64 as Australia's Sarah Billings shocked with a 1:57.83. Akani Simbine came from behind to edge Kishane Thompson in the 100, 9.98 to 9.99. Other winners included Mondo (6.11), Warholm (47.28) & Chris Bailey (44.17).
- Official Shanghai Diamond League (actually it's in Shaoxing) Discussion Thread
- LRC: Post-Meet Youtube Show Join the Supporters Club to get it deliver to you as a podcast.
GST Day 1
Russell's 12.17 moves her to #2 on the world all-time list while runner-up Tia Jones (12.19) is now #3. Ireland's Andrew Coscoran took down Grant Fisher in a tactical 3,000, 8:17.56 to 8:17.60. *Results & Race Videos
Fast Road Racing In Tokyo
- Kenya’s Caroline Nyaga Moves To #3 On World All-Time List With 14:19 Victory At Asics Tokyo : Speed Race Uganda’s Harbert Kibet won the men's 5k in 13:11. 10k wins went to Ethiopia’s Jemal Yimer (27:10) and Uganda’s Joy Cheptoyek (30:22).
- Italy’s Olympic Silver Medalist Nadia Battocletti Breaks European 5k Record With 14:32 2nd Place Finish At Tokyo Speed Race
- MB: Asics Speed Race result
NCAA/HS News
- Oregon's Diana Cherotich Runs 15:23 To Win 5000m At OSU High Performance Meet It puts the Kenyan #4 on Oregon's all-time list, although she already had a 15:01 PB when she signed with Oregon in March.
- HSer Emmry Ross Dominates Track Nigh NYC 800m With 2:02.30 In the boys mile, Corbin Coombs was trying to become the 26th sub-4 US high schooler, but missed with 4:01.84
- USTFCCCA: Collegiate Throwers Have Been Leaving Their Mark On The Outdoor Record Book This Season
Fred Kerley Drama At GST
Johnson, a 2024 Olympian in the 100m hurdles, told Broward County police that Kerley struck her in the face, causing her nose to bleed. Kerley's girlfriend says that's not what happened. She sayd Johnson's girlfriend actually hit Johnson when fighting with Kerley.
- Previous: Two-time Olympic 100m Medalist Fred Kerley Arrested at Meet Hotel Ahead of Grand Slam Track Miami Grand Slam Track said Kerley, who was arrested in a separate incident in January, will not compete in this weekend's event
More Weekend Previews
- As GST gets ready for its US debut, the NY Times gives it a feature: Michael Johnson wants Grand Slam Track to transform his sport, to ‘pour fuel’ on track’s fire It's good the league is getting some publicity and that MJ isn't afraid to admit they have made some mistakes and that Kingston was a difficult market to crack.
*MB: Truth or fiction: GST say they sold 27,514 tickets in Kingston over the 3 days & more than doubled every new and emerging sport - WA Shanghai preview: Warholm, Duplantis and Mahuchikh ready to strike again
Why Did They Skip GST?
GST's doubling requirement proved to be an issue for Hall, who has not raced a 200m since 2016, so he has withdrawn from the series and will race in the Diamond League this summer instead.
Sprint News
- Recommended Read: Meet Gout Gout's grey haired, female, 60-year-old coach Di Sheppard who shares her secret: "I’m a little bit old school I’m afraid, I don’t have any airs and graces about me. I am pretty dogmatic, so when you’re here in front of me, you need to train.” Wayde van Niekerk rose to the top under Anna "Tannie Ans" Botha and now it looks like Gout Gout's has a chance to do the same under Di Sheppard.
- A re-engergized Femke Bol said she was training harder than normal indoors as she wasn't competing "Actually, my coach had me train harder than usual, because when you do competition, you train a bit less”.
- PUMA signs its 1st NIL deal with a HSer - Elise Cooper of McDonough School in MD An Olympic Trials qualifier last year in the women's 200 meters, Cooper broke the indoor high school record in the 300 meters when she ran 36.30 at the CIRCUIT: Philly indoors this year. She has a 52.33 400 pb and is headed to Texas.
- Andre de Grasse is excited for GST debut this weekend under new coach Mike Holloway
Distance News
- Nike apologizes for controversial "Never again" London Marathon ad The ad greatly offended a number of Jews as the phrase is most known in relation to the Holocaust.
- One we missed: Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei (27:53) returned to the 10k over the weekend and won $26,000 at the TCS World 10k Bengaluru He won by 2 seconds as compatriot Sarah Chelangat (31:07) won the women's title.
- Keely H is planning on racing London DL on July 19th
- The Save the 10,000 With Des and Kara is this weekend at Mt. Sac - Jessica Warner-Judd leads entries We applaud Des & Kara for trying to save the 10,000 and offering a $25,000 in prize money. 3-time major marathon winner Atsede Bayisa is also in the field but the full fields are out and they aren't good at all, particularly for the men.
Other News
- Peter Walsh tribute to be broadcast live on Saturday at 2 pm ET The legendary co-owner of Coogan's was seemingly always upbeat and a huge track fan. We had him as a featured guest the podcast during Covid in 2020. If you want to attend live, it will be held at The Armory.
- Villanova's Marco Langon, Liam Murphy and Marcus O'Sullivan get featured on 6abc in Philadelphia
- UK woman whose husband died from blood cancer completed the London marathon while wearing her wedding dress Laura Coleman-Day has taken on a challenge to run 13 marathons in 12 months as a tribute to her late husband and she wore the dress for the final 3 miles as it was her anniversary.
- Vivian Cheruiyot says she's happy with 5th in London and will retire in 2 years The 2016 Olympic 5000 champ was a last-minute add to the London field.
- New meet records set at Doha Diamond League to get $5000 bonus
Administrative News
- 2025 London Marathon to set record for biggest annual one-day fundraising event The 2025 event has already raised more than £75 million for charities, beating the existing world record of £73.5 million, set at the 2024 TCS London Marathon.
- 2025 NCAA Men’s Formchart #2 — Might USC win for the 1st time since 1976? We don't know how accurate their forecasts are as they don't even have Oregon's 1:42 guy Koitatoi Kidali scoring and only have Abel Teffra at 6th in the mile.
- 2025 NCAA Women’s Formchart #2 —Georgia looks like a 20+ point winner
- The Howard Wood Dakota Relays (high school meet) is celebrating its 100th edition this year Back when the population of Sioux Falls was just 25,000 the event attracted 3,000 in its first year. *More
Random Running News
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- Josh Hoey's Dad Built A Full-Size Track At Their Family Home During The Pandemic Hoey comes from a running family (both his parents ran in college) and his parents used to make him and his brothers go for a mile run around the neighborhood on Sundays after church which Hoey says, was "the most dreaded experience ever."
- BBC Article On British Woman Sophie Powers, Who Went Viral In 2018 For Breast Feeding During Ultra Marathon At the time, most races didn't allow race deferment for pregnant women, meaning Powers ran the 106 mile ultra 3 months after giving birth. Now, partly thanks to Powers' story, many of the world's biggest races offer pregnancy deferral policies.
- Mark Zuckerberg Ran 20:35 For 5k (6:38 Pace) Over The Weekend He finished fourth in the 40-44 age group and 33rd overall out of 1,214 runners.
- Athletics Weekly's Website Gets A Major Facelift Do you remember what the LetsRun homepage used to look like?
- Runner ran London Marathon wearing both the Apple Watch Ultra 2 and Garmin Fenix 8 - Which was better? Garmin got the nod as the Apple HR was totally off for the first few miles.
Valby Update
"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."
The 2026 Ultimate Championships
- 500 Days To Go: World Athletics Announces Info On 2026 Ultimate Championships In Budapest The fields for the $10 million prize money event will be comprised of fields with the 2024 Olympic champions, 2025 world champions, 2026 Diamond League champions and top performers of 2026. 26 athletes have been named so far including Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Cole Hocker.
*MB: World Athletics announces field information about 2026 Ultimate Champs
Upcoming Action
- Full Entry Lists Published For 2025 World Relay Champs In China On May 10-11 Some of the big names entered are Olympic 200m champ Letsile Tebogo, Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce and Shericka Jackson, world 800m champ Mary Moraa and 400m WR holder Wayde van Niekerk.
- Friday-Sunday: Full Fields Announced For Miami GST
- Italy's Olympic 10,000m Silver Medalist Nadia Battocletti Targeting European 5k Record At Tokyo : Speed : Race On Saturday The European record is 14:39 set by the Netherlands' Diane van Es in February. In the men's 10k, France's Etienne Daguinos is shooting for the 26:53 European record.
- Grant Holloway Pulls Out Of May 3rd Shanghai DL This after his shocking last place finish at the Xiamen DL last week.
- Olympic LJ Champ Tara Davis-Woodhall Will Headline 2025 Athlos Event
- Femke Bol Announced For Monaco DL 400 Hurdles On July 11
Week That Was
The Diamond League got underway, Nathan Green and others impressed at Penn, and what about Faith Kipyegon and Krissy Gear?
Sprint Stuff
- Gout Gout Gets $96,000 Sponsorship From Local Businessman The same man already paid him $32,000 to race at the Stawell Gift race earlier this month. There is talk of trying to get a big name international name like Noah Lyles or Sha'Carri Richardson to race it next year.
- Video: 82-Year-Old Runs 16.02 To Win 80+ 100m At Penn Relays
- The Bahamas Opts Out Of World Relay Champs Due To Not Having Enough Available Athletes They had four men available for a 4x100, but couldn't get a fifth.
Women's Distance News
- Des Linden Talks About Her Retirement From Pro Marathoning; Says Supers Shoes "Took Away The Core Meaning Of The Sport" On the decision to retire she said, “Retiring is like having your favorite dog get near the end. It’s hard to know when to make that call and how to do it with dignity, but I wouldn’t ask someone else to come in and tell me when to put my dog down, so I’m not going to ask anyone when I should stop my professional career.”
- The Guardian: "Inside The Dirtiest Race In Olympic History" They talk to Shannon Rowbury and Lisa Dobriskey about the 2012 women's Olympic 1500m where six of the first nine finishers have found to have been doping.
- Paula Radcliffe Interview Talking About Her Start In Running And Ups and Downs Of Her Career The Olympics are the "biggest disappointment" of her career and she says, "I worked so hard for the Olympics, which might have been my downfall. It was devastating. Immediately afterwards, I thought I’d never get over it. But it is just sport. And life puts things in perspective.
NCAA News
- BYU's Lexy Halladay-Lowry Ran 9:18.05 for The Steeple At Payton Jordan Last Weekend The time puts her #5 on the NCAA all-time list. *Results
- No Changes To Top-4 Ranked Men's Teams In Updated NCAA Results UCS is still #1 followed by Texas A&M, Tennessee and Georgia.
- Top-6 Women's Teams Stay The Same In Latest NCAA Rankings Georgia, USC, Texas A&M and Arkansas are ranked 1-4.
- Event-By-Event Top-10 NCAA Marks Of The Week (April 22-28)
More Weekend Results
- MB: US Half Champ Alex Maier WINS Dusseldorf Marathon in 2:08:33 It was a big PB after his 2:11:24 debut in Chicago in October. Kenya's Leah Jeruto won the women's race in 2:25:23.
- South American Championships Recap: Colombia's Martha Araújo Highlights With 6396 Point Heptathlon Victory (#2 In South American History) Her fellow Colombian Carlos Sanmartín won the steeple/5000m double in 8:37/13:54.
- Ethiopia's Dawit Wolde (60:06) And Kenya's Janet Nyiva (67:37) Win Gifu Seiryu Half In Japan
- Adriana Vilagos Improves Her Serbian Record And World Lead With 67.22m Javelin Throw In Croatia
2025 London Marathon
2025 London Marathon
Sawe broke the race open with an unofficial 4:16 for his 20th mile (13:56 from 30-35k), while Jacob Kiplimo finished 2nd in his debut in 2:03:37. Eliud Kipchoge was 6th in 2:05:25.
Despite going 66:40-69:10, Assefa took down the Olympic champ and picked it up late to win a cool $305,000. Joyciline Jepkosgei was 2nd in 2:18:44 with Sifan Hassan, who dropped off just before halfway, 3rd in 2:19:00.
- Official 2025 London Marathon Live Discussion Thread Sawe and Assefa (2:15:50) are your champs.
- Sabastian MF Sawe He used a 4:18 20th mile to take the lead and won by more than a minute
- Sawe's backstory?
- Kipchoge post-London Interview
- Jakob vs triathlete Alex Yee in a marathon: who wins? Yee ran 2:11:08 after going out in 64:19.
- What will sirpoc84 run in London?
- The Trials and Tribulations of Running YouTubers
- London Marathon - YouTubers Getting Destroyed
- Cole MF Gibbens
- Eliud Kipchoge will win the London Marathon He didn't win but ran respectably, finishing 6th in 2:05:25
- Alex Maier WINS Dusseldorf Marathon in 2:08:33
More From London
- Eilish McColgan Sets Scottish Marathon Record With 2:24:25 Marathon Debut In London (8th Place) She broke Steph Twell's 2:26:40 mark from 2019 as well as her mother Liz McColgan's PB of 2:26:52 from 1997.
- Olympic Triathlon Champ Alex Yee On 2:11:08/14th Place Finish In London: "It was probably one of the best experiences of my life if I'm being honest." Asked how the marathon compared to a triathlon, he said: "My legs have never been this sore. Physically they are quite similar but my legs have never felt like this in my whole life. It's a new experience definitely."
- Vivian Cheruiyot Says She Has "Maybe One To Two Years" Left Before Retiring After 5th Place London Finish
- The Telegraph: "London Marathon Shows Flagrant Diregard For Women's Rights And The Law" By Allow Men To Race As Women
- London Marathon Sets Record For Most Finishers With 56,640 The previous record was 55,646 set by NYC in November.
- BBC Sport Extends Broadcast Deal With London Marathon To 2030
Kipyegon opens her season in Xiamen with nearly a WR But...
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?
DL Opener - Xiamen DL
There were A LOT of stars in this one. Also El Bakkali was beaten in the steeple. In the sprints, Grant Holloway was last in the 110h, Simbine killed everyone in the 100m in including Tebogo, bad news for Kipyegon is her 1k pacer is slower than the pace needed for 1609m to break 4 in the mile. *Compiled results
Drake Relays
- Krissy Gear Breaks 50-Year-Old Meet Record To Beat Shelby Houlihan In Drake Relays Mile Gear ran 4:23.69 to win over Houlihan (4:23.84) and Karissa Schweizer (4:25.50). Oregon's Silan Ayyildiz and Mia Barnett finished 4-6, both breaking the 37-year-old collegiate outdoor mile record with 4:25.50 and 4:26.40.
- Quentin Nauman Becomes First High Schooler To Win Distance Triple At Drake Relays Over the span of three days he won the 3200m (8:52), the 800m (1:51) and the 1600m (4:05).
- DyeStat: Oregon State Delivers Iconic Finish In Women's 4x1600 Relay At Drake Oregon State's Ainsley Herron dove at the finish line to get upset win over Notre Dame by .05. The Iowa men set a world lead in the 4x800 with 7:21.88 and Oregon dominated the women's race by 10-seconds with 8:30. Former Notre Dame runner Sophie Novak broke the meet record to win the steeple in 9:28.99.
- Rudy Winkler's Hammer Win Highlights Four Meet Records On Day Two Of Drake Relays
Penn Relays
- MB: Penn Relays Distance Relays are loaded - Official 2025 Penn Relays Discussion Thread
- Nathan Green Anchors Washington To 4xMile Victory At Penn The final leg came down to Green and top NCAA milers Gary Martin, Ethan Strand and Liam Murphy with Green outkicking Murphy/Villanova for the win, 16:24.61 to 16:24.92 in rainy conditions.
*MB: Nathan Green & Washington double up in 4 x mile (16:24.61) - Providence women (16:59.65) dominate 4 x 1500
- Josette Norris' 4:01.76 1500m Meet Record Highlights Three Olympic Development Wins For OAC At Penn George Beamish won the mile in 3:56.85 and Robert Farken the 800m in 1:45.45. Will Sumner won the 600m (1:17.36).
- Philadelphia Inquirer: Olympian Nia Akins Won the Penn Relays 800m on Her Former Stomping Ground The UPenn alum won in 2:00.49 (although the Inquirer said she ran "2 minutes, 49 seconds").
- Georgetown men (7:13.95) win 4 x 800
- UNC women (8:20.24) win 4 x 800
- Hydel Girls Deliver A Penn Relays Record Of 3:30.42 In 4x400 For Jamaica
- Washington (9:25.22) wins its 1st men's DMR comfortably UW's Nathan Green 'only' needed a 3:55.15 to win. Georgetown's NCAA mile champ Abel Teffra had the fastest split (3:55.30) but they were only 6th. Cornell's Pierre Attigobe (3:53.52) had the #2 split to break Rojo's squad's 20-yr-old school record in 7th.
- Margo Appleton splits 4:21.46 to give UVA its 1st DMR win since 1982 in 10:42.16
- Sophomore Blair Bartlett breaks Penn Relays HS 3000 record with 9:13.60 Bartlett absolutely destroyed defending champ Addy Ritzenhein over the final 200, putting nearly 7 seconds on her as she closed in 68.
- Paige Sheppard (4:41.65) leads Union Catholin (NJ) to new Penn Relays HS DMR record of 11:24.5
- Quincy Wilson splits 43.99 as Bullis (3:06.31) breaks US HS NR but loses at Penn Kingston College got the win in 3:05.93. *DyeStat Recap
- UNC teammates Parker Wolfe, Ethan Strand, Colton Sands all run 13:31 at Penn
- Grace Hartman runs 4:07.19 at Penn
More Weekend Results
- Olympic 800m Champ Emmanuel Wanyonyi Runs 3:52.45 To Beat Hobbs Kessler (3:54.34) And Nico Young (3:54.50) At Adizero Road To Records Event In Germany Agnes Ngetich won the 10k in 29:27; she is the first woman to break 30 minutes in a women-only 10k (she already has the overall WR at 28:46). Yomif Kejelcha (12:54) and Medina Eisa (14:48) won the 5ks and Nelly Chepchirchir (4:23) the women's mile (US's Addy Wiley was 3rd in 4:30.90). Th men's 10k was super close with Birhanu Balew winning over Gemechu Dida Diriba and Rodrigue Kwizera (all three men were timed at 26:54).
*MB: Adidas Adizero Road to Records - Saturday, April 26
*MB: Emmanuel Wanyonyi (3:52.45) BOSSES Hobbs Kessler (3:52.34) yet again in the adidas Road Mile. Nico 3:54.50 - Tayvon Kitchen Wins 3200m In 8:33.82 At Nike Jesuit Twilight Relays The time converts to about 8:36.6 for 2 miles (#10 on the all-time prep list). He then paced teammate Josiah Tostenson for 800m of the mile which Tostenson won in 4:00.69. Sophomore Ellery Lincoln won the girls mile in 4:39.37 over Chloe Huyler (4:41.57).
- Anna Cockrell Breaks US 300m Hurdles Record With 38.07 At John McDonnell Invite Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s had the previous record at 38.90 from 2017
World Running Champs Cancelled
After San Diego was dropped, it was impossible to find a replacement on such short notice. The 2026 edition in Copenhagen looks like it will be a banger though with up to 65,000 competitors in the mass participation races.
We Sit Down With Marco Langon
Villanova's 3:33/13:14 man Marco Langon GRABBED our attention at NCAA Indoors when he boldly went for broke and grabbed the lead with a km to go and held it until the bell before fading to 6th. Then he gave an all-time EPIC post-race interview. He also has grabbed the attention of Diadora as he's the 1st track athlete to sign an NIL Deal with the Italian brand whose US headquarters are in Philly.
- MB: Marco Langon signs NIL Deal with Diadora & shares all with LetsRun.com.
- Recommended Read A rival track coach’s friendship helped Villanova’s Marco Langon become a champion As a troubled teen, Langon met rival coach Rob DeFillipis and a mentorship bloomed. "He helped me look at a lot of bright sides,” the star runner says.
2025 Boston
2025 Boston
Mantz took almost three minutes off his pb and just missed the podium, finishing four seconds back of second place. Among Americans, only Ryan Hall (2:04:58) has run a faster marathon than Mantz did in Boston on Monday.
- Connor MF Mantz 2:05 for 4th place!
- We're back baby - 3 Americans at 2:08:00 or faster in Boston
Lokedi turned the tables on Obiri after losing four straight and picked up a cool $200k in the process as the top 3 all broke the old course record of 2:19:59.
- Official 2025 Boston Marathon Thread
- Under Armour's Sharon Lokedi Wins Boston And she destroyed the course record.
- Des Linden 2:26:19 – impresses at Boston- Official Appreciation Thread Linden announced before the race this was her last marathon as a pro.
- Jess McClain will finish ahead of Dakotah She did and was the 1st American woman in 6th.
In the process of joining his brother Wesley (2012) as a Boston champion, he also staked a claim to the unofficial title of ‘World’s best marathoner’ as he also convincingly won Chicago in the fall.
*LRC: Americans make history with 3 at 2:08:00 or faster
- Official 2025 Boston Marathon Thread
- RORY MF LINKLETTER 2:07:02 ON BOSTON AND 6TH PLACE AND BEATS CLAYTON YOUNG
- Who TF is Ryan Ford (American, 10th in Boston)?
- LetsRunners how did your Boston go?
Shoe News
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."
Wejo Speaks
Grand Slam Track took a big swing at its launch. It definitely didn't hit a home run, but the Diamond League and Athlos should be paying attention.
The Olympic bronze medallist only broke 70m for the first time 4 days ago and now he's got six throws in a row over 70, all coming at all coming at Throws Town.in Oklahoma - at the same site where the WR was set.
A New Track League With $30 Million Has Launched
A New Track League With $30 Million Has Launched
Grant Fisher ran for 3rd on Sunday and still won $100k while Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone said she's tentatively planning on running the 100/100H in Philadelphia and 200/400 in LA.
- LetsRun Grand Slam Track Podcast: Grand Slam Breakdown: Winners, Losers, Plus Taylor Roe’s Cherry Blossom World Best If you prefer video that is here.
Did you miss the meet? No fear. We have all of the race videos here, plus full results, plus series point totals with prize money. Come back at 10 pm ET as we'll be doing a live video show from Jamaica.
- Grand Slam Track Kingston Day 3 Sunday Thread:
- Where would Jakob have placed in todays 800m?
- Jakob sitting at home in Norway shaking in his boots... Hocker 1:48.02, Nuguse 1:48.16, Kerr 1:50.68
- Grand Slam Men's Long Distance DISGRACE
- Hocker/Kerr stock way down after GST. Not good for their brand.
- Grant Fisher Cowardly Tactics
- Grant Fisher Should be Ashamed of Himself
- Challengers for future GST races.
- Fisher post GST 3k Interview
Day 2 GST
Day 2 GST
Did you miss the action? We have you covered with every race video followed by results and even series winners.
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Emmanuel Wanyonyi has stunned the 1500 boys. Bednarek has completed the double, Naser has run 48.67 and Gabby Thomas has run 49.17 to win 100k. We broke down of the day 2 action for you right when it ended. Watch in the video player.
The fantasy matchup in the men's 1500 (five Paris Olympic medalists across the 800/1500) delivered a thriller as Olympic 800 champ Wanyonyi (3:35.18) used a 51.58 last lap to beat Yared Nuguse, Cole Hocker, and Josh Kerr.
- Official Grand Slam Track Day 2 Thread
- WANYONI TAKES DOWN KERR, HOCKER, NUGUSE AT 1500m
- Gabby Thomas 49.14
- I think Wanyonyi wins the 1500m today
- Josh Kerr looked like a deer on ice in the 1500m
- Grant Fisher Should be Ashamed of Himself
- Jakob skipping GST is masterful. His competitors rack up losses and lose confidence. He sits undefeated this season, confident.
Day 1 GST
Day 1 GST
There were some entertaining races in Kingston, with Grant Fisher winning an extremely tactical 5,000 and Hiltz (1:58.23) holding off Diribe Welteji in the 800. But the big stadium was largely empty on Friday night.
Day 1 race recaps and videos
- MB: Official Grand Slam Track Kingston - Day 1 Live Discussion Thread
- Grant Fisher 14:39 5000! Belive it or not, it may win him $100,000. Was it this biggest win of his career? It was a good day for Nikki Hiltz as well as Hiltz won the 800.
- Could prime centro have won the 5k today?
- Review of Day 1 - Grand Slam Track - What To Make of New Series? The races were pretty good in our book The crowd was disappointing but we were expecting that.
- Grant Fisher Should be Ashamed of Himself
- After Day 1 of Grand Slam Track, It is pretty clear that this league will not succeed.
More From The Ten
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.
Shelby Speaks
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.
Stop Obsessing Over Your Diet
The US indoor 1500m/3000m champion overhauled his fueling in workouts before the 2024 season. Now he swears by his routine.
The Shelby Interview
Houlihan spoke to LetsRun for over an hour and answered a slew of questions about her doping ban, what she thinks happened, and her return to racing. Full talk out for SC members. Everyone else can watch the clip above or wait for wider release. Join the SC today.
Big Doping Story
Jeptanui, a freshman from Kenya, finished 12th at NCAAs in November, but has been provisionally suspended since September. She's currently triple entered in the AAC championships which start today.
The Record Books Are Getting Rewritten In 2025
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.
One More Look at a Legendary Race
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.
Blanks = NCAA XC x 2
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."
Jonathan Gault pays tribute to two legends
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.
World Marathon Majors Soon Will Be Dead....... Unless
Expanding the number of world marathon majors to nine is an absurd idea unless the majors make one simple change that will instantly keep them being compelling, elite sporting events.
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
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