– The time and place of the Great North Run Half Marathon’s one millionth finisher, 51-year-old Tracey Cramond. The UK race is the first in history to break the million finishers barrier. As there were 3,421 people behind Cramond, the race is now up to 1,003,421 total finishers.
Farah Denies “Fix” After Close Finish With Sometimes Training Partner Kigen Kigen and Farah have the same manager and train together in Kenya. Kigen was the unofficial rabbit, but both denied that Kigen let Farah win.
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Farah: “To clock 60 minutes exactly is slightly frustrating though!” … “Mike and I had chat with about 800m to go and he said for me to go but I couldn’t really drop him.”
IAAF Profile: “Allyson Felix Rises From The Ashes” Felix overcame a torn hamstring from 2013 Worlds and a slow early season start to run a 22.02-second world-leading victory in the Brussels 200.
LRC Justin Gatlin Runs 9.77/19.71 To Pull Off Greatest Single-Day 100/200 Double In History Justin Gatlin had the fastest 100-200 same-day double ever as he crushed the competition in Brussels. *Video Of Both Races
LRC Taoufik Makhloufi AND Silas Kiplagat Celebrate Early As Makhloufi Wins DL Finale, Does He Silence His Critics?Kiprop, Kiplagat and Souleiman all had $40,000 reasons to win this one but Makhloufi was your winner. Galen Rupp PRed and was in the the thick of it with 200m to go, but didn’t have the wheels the last 200m.
The Rest of The Meet:A Spectacular High Jump, Jenny Simpson Wins Grudge Match Over Rowbury, Moves To #2 All-Time In US At 3,000 A WR almost fell in the HJ. Doper Mary Slaney‘s record lives to see another day. We recap all the events for you here.
Simon Bairu Announces His Retirement From Competitive Running He leaves the sport as one of Canada’s all-time bests, holding their 10,000m NR (27:23) and with a 13th place showing at World XC.
Daniel Komen To Auction Off The Shoes He Wore When He Set His 3,000m World Record In 1996 The auction will take place in Atlanta. Komen is raising money for the conservation of water towers in Kenya.
After Breakthrough Year, New Zealand’s Up-And-Coming Shot Putter Tom Walsh Officially Committed To Being A Pro Athlete Walsh says, “If you told me I’d be in this position at the start of the year, I’d have said you were bat-shit crazy.” He also talks about hanging out with the Americans on the circuit and playing fantasy football.
Oct 12. Full Chicago Marathon Elite Field Announced, Kenenisa Bekele Won’t Have It Easy – Eliud Kipchoge Headlines List Of Challengers Kipchoge, a 12:46 5ker who famously beat Bekele for the 2003 world title at 5,000, has run three marathons, none slower than 2:05:30. Sub-2:20 women Rita Jeptoo and Florence Kiplagat lead the women’s field.
Next Week: American Stars Jenny Simpson, Mary Cain And Matthew Centrowitz To Headline NYRR Fifth Avenue Mile On Saturday, September 13 There actually are a couple of Kenyans as well this year. *Flipagram: Meet The 5th Ave. Pros
LRC Evan Jager’s 8:04.71 Breaks American Steeplechase Record As Jairus Birech Gets First Sub-8:00 Of Year It was a tremendous race to end the Diamond League season.
Discuss: Jagerrrrr 8.04.71 – New Steeplechase American Record!!!
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