Quote Of The Day
– European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen explaining how, in the wake of recent drug scandals, he’s ordered a task force to examine the credibility of all the European records.
- WHO THE HECK runs 100,000 miles????
- Want to work for Alan Webb?
- The average weight of a man in American over age 20 is 195lbs.
- Who wants to see Mikey Brannigan Make the Olympic Team?
- Do a lot of guys find it intimidating when a woman runs 50, 60+ miles a week?
- Nike releases some details - Breaking2 marathon course *will* be record-certified, but the race itself will not be record-eligible
- Ryan Vail thinks beef jerky is the perfect food for runners - Nutritionists, what do you think?
“If Matt Centrowitz writes a book, you buy it and read it.”
LRC Legendary Athlete, Father and Coach Matt Centrowitz Just Published An Autobiography – We Suggest You Read ItAn autobiography by a man who failed every single class in middle school and was in trouble with the law but went on to set an American record in the 5k, make two Olympic teams and raise a son who broke America’s 108-year Olympic drought in the men’s 1500 has a lot of potential. Add in the fact that he roomed with Bruce Jenner and skipped school to hang out with Steve Prefontaine on the day he died and you’ve got a must read. Purchase Like Father, Like Son: My Story on Running, Coaching and Parenting now and be a part of the 1st-ever LetsRun.com Virtual Book Tour in one month.
Olympic News
LA City Council Officially Approves 20204 Olympic Bid This means the city can legally host the Games and means they agree to cover any financial shortfalls.- Tokyo 2020 Budget For 2017 Reduced By 27% Was the plan here to start with a budget so ridiculously high that the final number (no matter how high) wouldn’t look as bad?
- Budapest City Council Formally Endorses 2024 Olympic Bid However, there is still a push from some for a referendum which could stop the bid.
- Historic Scoreboard From The “Miracle On Ice” Hockey Game From The 1980 Lake Placid Olympics Is Finally Coming Down It is being replaced with a modern video board and will light up one last time on February 6th.
Sub-2 News
- Nike Reverses Course – Breaking2 Marathon Course *Will* Be Record-Certified, But The Race Itself Will Not Be Record-Eligible
- Nike sub-2 Team’s Scientific Breakthrough So Far Consists Of Handing The Runners GPS Watches And A HR Monitor And Monitoring Them From Afar
Other News We Found Interesting
- Three Years Ago, Elaine Thompson Was An Also-Ran, But She Listened To Her Coach And Now She’s A Double Olympic Champ
*MB: Three years ago, Elaine Thompson’s PRs were 23.73 & 11.41, now she’s the double Olympic champ at 10.70/21.66 - Should The Diamond League Feature Decathletes Doing “Triathlons” – 3 Events Per Event?TomFitzSimons, brother of 1:48 HSer Chris, definitely thinks so.
*Podcast With FitzSimons And Martin Bingisser About Putting The Multis In The DL - Japanese Have Built A New Indoor Track As Part Of 2020 Preparations
It’s only 60m long, however. - Olympian Bridget Franek Hired By Akron Track And Field Coaching Staff
News Of Note
RIP Former NYRR President and NYC Marathon Race Director Allan Steinfeld Has Died At 70- Fascinating Read:Might Kenenisa Bekele Have Been Tripped On Purpose In Dubai?Pat Butcher wonders as some in Bekele’s Oromo tribe are unhappy with him as he’s a supporter of the govt.
Liberty Unveils Incredible New $30 Million Indoor Facility In addition to there being a hydraulic bank, there also is an 8-lane warmup track.
*MB:Anyone been to Liberty’s new indoor track? Is it the best in the USA?- New USATF President Vin Lananna Writes Letter To USATF Family – “We have work to do – not all of it easy.”
- 2017 Comrades Course Will Be Slightly Shorter Than Normal Due To Construction
- Alan Abrahamson Tells Trump Protesters Like Bruce Springsteen To Calm Down And Put Things In Perspective – And Support The Olympics “There’s a great argument to be made, amid the populist movements in our world that have produced Brexit and the election of Mr. Trump, that – now more than ever – the world needs the message of the Olympics.”
- U.S. Triathlon Deaths Halved After Three-Year Spike More than 10 people were dying per year but now it’s down to about 5.
- Los Angeles 2024 Chairman Casey Wasserman Admits Awarding Two Olympics Together Is “An Interesting Concept”
The New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Is Saturday In Boston *Start Lists / Schedule *Meet Home
Women’s 3K:Shannon Rowbury Takes On A Great Field With Sifan Hassan, Olympic Silver Medalist Hellen Obiri And Dawit Seyaum- Sydney McLaughlin Added To Team With Jenny Simpson, Emma Coburn And Brenda Martinez For A DMR World Record Attempt The 10:42.57 record was set in 2015 by a team that also included Martinez.
- DJ Principe Leads Junior Mile Field At NBIGP Fresh off his 4:00.97 against the pros, Principe will be back up against high school competition this Saturday.
Latest Russian Doping News
Russian Athletics Fed. President Dmitry Shlyakhtin Says They Will Check Claims From Latest ARD Documentary What is there to check? There is video of a banned coach working with athletes. Those athletes should now be banned as well.- Shlyakhtin Vows To Take “Very Tough Measures” On Coaches Who Dope Athletes We’ll believe it when we see it.
- Russian Coach Sergey Epishin Threatens Lawsuit Against Russian Whistleblower Andrey Dmitriev
- World 110H Hurdle Champ Sergey Shubenkov Expects A Ruling From IAAF Soon His His Neutral Athlete Application Shubenkov and 10 other Russians including two-time world champ HJer Maria Kuchina have appliced to compete internationally as neutral athletes.
- International Paralympic Committee President Reveals That Russia Could Remain Banned For The 2018 Winter Olympics
Track Action: New Balance Games *Results *All NCAA Results
RRW Ajee Wilson Runs 1:25.23 For 600 (#2 All-Time US) As Drew Hunter Wins Mile And HSer D.J. Principe Almost Breaks 4:00 Hunter won the mile in 3:58.92 as Principe finished 3rd (4:00.97). Kate Van Buskirk won the women’s mile in 4:30.14.
*Video:Interview With Principe Principe threw up post-race and had to cut the interview short to sit down.
*Video Q&A With Drew Hunter
*MB: High Schooler DJ Principe Runs 4:00.97
*Organizer Release: Drew Hunter Wins in Professional Indoor Debut; Wilson Soars to 2nd Best American Ever in 600m
- Sammy Watson Breaks 600m High School Indoor National Record In 1:28.67 She won the race by 9 seconds to break the previous mark by .11.
- Molly Seidel Opens Season With 4:44 Mile Win At Notre Dame Invy Erin Finn won the 3,000 in 9:07. *Results
- 4 X 4 Olympic Silver Medalist Javon Francis Gets 800m Win In 1:54.08 In Jamaica
- Florida’s Grant Holloway Joins Ashton Eaton As Only Athlete To Jump 8.05m And Run Under 7.75 In The 60H Indoors
UTEP Freshman Emmanuel Korir Sets World Indoor 600m Record With 1:14.97 He took .15 off the previous record from 1999. *Discuss
International Distance News
Mo Farah:“I dream of making Britain my home again – but only after I’ve had one last shot at the marathon.” Farah says he’ll have one more year on the track for London Worlds and then focus more on the road.- Faith Kipyegon’s Coach Says She Could Do The 1,500/5,000 Double In 2020 And Thinks Her Talent Could Extend All The Way To The Marathon The Olympic 1,500 champ is a believer in the benefit of running cross-country and will try to make the Kenyan squad for World XC.
- Vivian Cheruiyot Wins Kenyan 2016 Sports Personality Of The Year Award Cheruiyot won the overall award while Eliud Kipchoge was the sportsman of the year.
- Vivian Cheruiyot Hopes To Emulate Eliud Kipchoge’s As She Transitions From Track To Road A track-to-road switch like Kipchoge’s is setting the bar high, but Cheruiyot says she gets confidence from her 67:54 half marathon debut last year.
- Runner Tribe’s Len Johnson: “Kenenisa Bekele Leaves Us Wondering As Marathon Humbles On Of Its Most Prestigious Challengers” Johnson writes, “Say what you like about Kenenisa Bekele, but the man … is never boring.”
- New Zealand’s Olympic 800 Runner Angie Petty Now Being Coached By Danny Mackey She hasn’t decided yet if she’s moving to Seattle permanently, but will be visiting this spring.
- Edna Kiplagat Wants To Prove Herself In Boston So She Can Get A Chance To Go For A Third World Marathon Title At London 2017
Indoor Track’s Opening Day Is Saturday *Watch Live On NBCSN From 4-6 ET
LRC Clayton Murphy Is Stepping into Paul Chelimo’s Lion’s Den, Centro is Still Motivated, Why Jenny Simpson Rarely Runs Indoors & the Pros’ Super Bowl Picks – Notes from the 2017 NBIGP Track fans it’s officially time to get excited. The pro US season starts Saturday.
LRC 2017 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Preview: Two Loaded 3,000s, Matthew Centrowitz In The Mile And A World Record Attempt In The Women’s DMR The pro track season begins in earnest on Saturday with the 2017 NBIGP – the US’s lone IAAF World Indoor Tour stop. The men’s 3k (Paul Chelimo, Clayton Murphy, Eric Jenkins, Dejen Gebremeskel) and women’s 3k (Shannon Rowbury, Hellen Obiri, Sifan Hassan) both look fantastic, but there’s a lot of exciting other action – Duane Solomon vs. Donavan Brazier in the 600, a battle between the last two Olympic champs in the women’s PV and Emma Coburn, Sydney McLaughlin, Brenda Martinez and Jenny Simpson are teaming up to attack the DMR WR.
IAAF Preview:Olympic Champ Ekaterini Stefanidi Vs Jenn Suhr In The Pole Vault In the sprints, young stars Noah Lyles and Candace Hill are in the 300s.
Russian Whistleblower Yulia Stepanova Will Race In The 800 Don’t expect too much from her as she only ran 2:10 earlier this month in her first race back from injury.
Distance Pros Speak
Q&A With Kara Goucher Who At 38-Years-Old Is Still Setting Some Big Running Goals Goucher says she wants to run a flat/fast marathon, make on more world track team and start increasing her distance to move up to ultra racing.- Abbey D’Agostino: How To Recover From A Devastating Injury Like A Pro D’Agostino gives some advice on how to deal with the physical and mental aspects of being injured.
- Carrie Tollefson Podcast Q&A With Ryan Hall Hall talks about how his life has changed since retiring from pro running and becoming a father of four.
- Q&A:Mo Farah Is A Nominee For The 2017 Laureus World Sportsman Of The Year Award Farah says the moment he will most remember from Rio was tripping in the 10K and the feeling of being “shattered – physically and emotionally” afterwards.
America Has A New Distance Star
LRC America Has A New Distance Star: Olympic 10,000m Silver Medalist Sally Kipyego Now A Citizen The Olympic silver medalist at 10,000m in 2012 has a 5,000m pb faster than any American and was 2nd at the NYC Marathon this last year.
More US Distance News
- Ryan Vail Looking To Make 6th World Cross Team – “I would say I’m close to 100% in terms of my best fitness at the moment.” He’s also looking for a beef jerky sponsorship.
*MB: Ryan Vail thinks beef jerky is the perfect food for runners – Nutritionists, what do you think? 
Mikey Brannigan Says He Studied Matthew Centrowitz’s Gold Medal Run Extensively Before His Own Paralympic Win He watched Centro’s win 100 times and thought to himself, “Run like Matt did. Run like Matt did.”- Meet New Jersey’s Gary Rosenberg, Who Has Broken 5:00 In The Mile For 30 Straight Years
Usain Bolt’s Triple Triple Technically No Longer Exists
Usain Bolt Stripped Of 2008 4 X 100 Gold Aafter Nesta Carter Tests Positive For Methylhexaneamine In case you are wondering, it’s a nasal decongestant that acts as a stimulant.
- Carter Weighing Legal Options After IOC Disqualification Carter has 21 days to appeal to CAS.
- IAAF To Retest Carter’s Samples From Other Events
- Former SEC Track Stars Richard Thompson (LSU) And Aaron Armstrong (Florida) Will Get Gold Medals After Usain Bolt Stripped
- Reaction: Telegraph: Usain Bolt’s Personal Standing Remains Unmatched Even If Verbal Rhythm Of His Inimitable Feat Has Been Disturbed
- Eurosport: “Unlike the doping sample of Nesta Carter, Usain Bolt’s legacy is untainted.”
- People On Twitter Are Very Angry With Nesta Carter
More Bolt News
- Usain Bolt Finishes Picking His Team For 1st-Ever Nitro Athletics Competition It’s full of Jamaican stars, Olympic champs and young Australians. Americans Kerron Clement and Jarrion Lawson make the cut. “Of course I’m going to bring my fellow Jamaicans, they were the first to be picked,” said Bolt.
Bolt Picks “The Next Craig Mottram,” Matthew Ramsden, For His Team The 19-year-old ran 3:42 and 14:01 at age 18.
Women In The News
- Yelena Isinbayeva Isn’t Happy With The Informants In The Newest German ARD Documentary “Why don’t the informants contact investigating authorities instead of filming material on a hidden camera and then selling it? Why don’t they go to the Ministry of Sports or anti-doping agency to declare the violations?”
Woman Who Ran Marathons In Tutus To Raise Money For Charity Dies Of Brain Cancer At 38- Stacy Dragila, Who Will Be Inducted Into Sacramento HOF Friday, Reflects Back On Her Career She’s thankful her coach bribed her to pick up the pole vault. “‘If you’ll cut my pentathlon practice in half, I’ll try it.’ It was all about bribery.”
Tatyana McFadden Considers Herself To Be A Runner While the sentiment is nice, we do not. She says, “Being a runner means putting in hard work and learning from your failures.”- South African 11.06 Sprinter Carina Horn Desperately Wants To Break 11.00
Valerie Adams Is Looking For A New Coach As Her Coach Has Decided To Retire
*Podcast On Adams’ Search For A New Coach
More Upcoming Action: Get Psyched For The Wanamaker Mile
Feb. 11: Defending Champion Shannon Rowbury And Olympic Medalist Clayton Murphy To Highlight Wanamaker Mile Fields At The 110th Millrose Games As always, the fields are stacked with American talent with Murphy up against Robby Andrews, Eric Jenkins, Leo Manzano, Drew Hunter while the women’s race includes Kate Grace, Alexa Efraimson, Brenda Martinez, and high schooler Kate Murphy.- Sunday In Kenya:World XC Champ Geoffrey Kamworor And Silver Medalist Bedan Karoki Will Battle It Out At Discovery XC Meet Steepler Jairus Birech is also in the field while World XC champ Agnes Tirop leads women’s race against Florence Kiplagat and Olympic champ Jemimah Sumgong. *2nd Article
- Feb. 4:Olympic Silver Medalist Hellen Obiri And GB’s Laura Muir Will Go Head-To-Head Over 3,000m At The Karlsruhe Indoor Meet
- Jo Pavey Added To Star Studded London Marathon Elite Women’s Field Pavey’s PB is 2:28:24 from her debut in 2011. Now, she hopes to run under 2:36 and finish as the top 2 Brits to earn selection to the 2017 World team.
- Wayde Van Niekerk Will Race For The First Time Since Winning Olympic Gold In Rio At A Low Key Meet In South Africa This Weekend He will run the 200 and possibly the 400 as well.
Post Weekend Track Updates
Keni Harrison Opens Her Season With Quick 7.75 PB In The 60H At The Rod McCravy Invy- Event-By-Event Top 10 NCAA Marks From The WeekendIsaiah Harris dropped a 1:46.65 at the Rod McCravey Memorial Meet.
- Florida Men Strengthen Lead In First Regular Season NCAA Rankings Oregon is ranked a distant 2nd.
- Status Quo Remains In Place In NCAA DI Women’s Rankings Oregon stays ranked #1 with Arkansas and Georgia 2-3.
More XC / Road Results
Ethiopian World Junior Champions Selemon Barega And Beyenu Degefa Win Famous Windmill Course Cinque Mulini XC Race In Italy- IAAF Weekend XC Round-Up: World 5,000m Silver Medalist Senbere Teferi Defeated Olympic Steeple Champ Ruth Jebet To Win Juan Muguerza XC Meet Uganda XC Trials champ Joshua Cheptegei won the men’s race with Olympic steeple champ Conseslus Kipruto in 3rd.
- Kenyans Peter Cheruiyot Kirui (60:56) And Antonina Kwambai (69:49) Win Santa Pola International Half Marathon
- AW Weekly Round-Up:Brit Andy Vernon Wins CrossCup De La Province De Liege In Belgium
- Jess Judd And Dewi Griffiths Win UK Cardiff XC Challenge
2016 Was A Record Year For Us In Terms Of Traffic – Thanks For Visiting
An Inside Look At How LRC Operates How a Ragtag Crew Of Almost Journalists Created Running’s Most Controversial Website Author Charles Bethea embedded himself with us during the US Olympic trials and got a behind-the-scenes look at how we operate. His article in Outside magazine includes some really nice quotes from Tim Layden, “… their best quality is that they don’t give a shit about offending people,” and Nick Willis, “It gave me a ton of inspiration. LetsRun is one of the primary reasons high-quality coaching and training have improved in America.”
*MB: Long Article on Letsrun… in Outside Magazine
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Doping News: Jamaica May Appeal For Bolt’s Gold
Jamaica Considering Appealing Decision To Strip Usain Bolt (And The Rest Of The 4 X 100) Of His 2008 Olympic GoldNesta Carter is also launching his own appeal of his individual sanction.
*USA Today Writer Bashes Bolt And Says You Shouldn’t Feel Sorry He’s Losing His Medal We don’t like this piece as the writer just assumes Bolt knew Carter was taking stimulants. However, there is no evidence supporting that; Bolt wasn’t even in the same training group as Carter.
*Bolt Is Now The Only One Of The Six Sub-9.79 Sprinters To Not Have Been Caught Doping- European Athletics Task Force To Examine The Credibility Of All European Records A slippery slope as EA president Svein Arne Hansen said all records should be “100% believable and credible,” but how do they decide what is believable and what isn’t?
- Russian Jumper Tatyana Lebedeva Gets Life Ban From World Olympians Association Lebedeva resigned from the WOA after being stripped of her 2008 long and triple jump silver medals when her frozen samples tested positive.
News From Africa
- Eliud Kipchoge Is Predicting Big Things For Vivian Cheruiyot In The Marathon – “I expect fireworks in London …” He thinks she’s going to be the best in the world real soon. “I can predict by the end of 2017 the best road runner will be Vivian.”
- Mary Keitany Makes Bold London Marathon Proclamation “It is still too early to talk about winning the event … But I know I will not be ninth.”
- Eunice Sum Blames Her Sub-Par 2016 On Being Psychologically “Down” Due To Allegations Against Her Manager Federico Rosa In reality, she only ran .09 slower than she did when she won Worlds in 2013. We think she was psychologically down from having to compete against three women with internal testicles.
Caster Semenya Is Thrilled To Be The Co-Owner Of Famram Solutions – A Company Making The PrincessD Menstrual Cup Has Semenya ever had a menstrual cycle?- Margaret Wambui Says She’s Trying To Figure Out A Way To Beat Semenya In 2017 “I learnt she was a better runner than me, which has forced me to go back to the drawing board.”
- Felix Sanchez Is Really Enjoying His Time In Nairobi Working With Kenya’s Hurdlers
- Julius Yego Needs A New Javelin Coach As His Old Coach Was Named Finland’s Coach And Is Barred From Working With Foreigners If Nike barred Salazar from working with Farah, would Rupp be a gold medalist?
- Random Fact: Wayde van Niekerk Prefers Fruits To Vegetables He also recommends you don’t respond to direct messages on social media.
News From Europe
Bruno Hortelano And Ruth Beitia Named Spanish Athletes Of The Year By Spanish Athletics Federation Hortelano was a former Ivy League star for Cornell.
*The “Spanish Bullet” Hortelano Is Recovering Nicely From His Car Accident
*Spanish Newspaper On Hortelano / Beitia
European Athletics President Meets With Mayor Of Jerusalem Nir Barkat
Sprints / Throws / Jumps News
- 2-Time Olympic 400H Champ Felix Sanchez Is In Kenya Helping Coach The Hurdlers He thinks Kenya should consistently produce sprint stars as well as distance stars. “There is no reason why they can’t produce greats in sprints consistently.”
- Even Though UF Is #1 In Men’s Track, They Haven’t Had A Guy Win A 60m Race All SeasonMike Holloway says it’s his job to get them running faster: “I’ll get those guys going.”
- Jacko Gill Threw A New PR Of 21.01m Over The Weekend
- Wayde van Niekerk And Caster Semenya Named To Provisional South African Team For World Relays They’ll probably both be in the 4 x 400. We’d love to see Caster on the 4 x 800.
Olympic PV Champ Thiago Braz Now Can’t Walk Down A Brazilian Street Without Being Recognized - 40-Year-Old Kim Collins To Open Season In Czech This Saturday
Assorted Distance News
- Recommended Read:Abbey D’Agostino Update:“D’Agostino Returns To Running With Fresh Outlook” D’Agostino has recovered well from her post-Olympic surgery and is back to running on solid ground and hopes to be ready to race again by USA Champs this summer.
Chinese Website Calls Japanese Women’s Distance Running “Cruel” And “Appalling” After Running The National Women’s Ekiden In A Whiteout Blizzard- Two-Time NXN Champ Casey Clinger Commits To BYU The decision was down to BYU or Oregon, but Clinger felt BYU was the “better fit.”
*MB:Clinger chooses BYU*MileSplit Article - Halie Gebrselassie Gives Investment Tips To His Fellow Athletes “You need to have your own income, otherwise you will be a big loser.”
GB News
Steve Cram Writes About His Stay In South Africa At The GB Distance Training Camp Cram writes about their long days and says, “A meal out with a dessert every once in a while is their idea of a wild night out here.”- Sprinter James Ellington Back In The UK And Will Have An Operation On His Injuries From His Motorcycle Crash Ellington has a suspected broken leg and pelvis and will need “significant rehabilitation” after the surgery.
- Olympic Long Jumper Jazmin Sawyers Is Also A Talented Musician And Was Picked As A Contestant On The TV Show “The Voice”
*Athletics Weekly Profile On Sawyers She recently switched coaches and is now training under Olympic bronze medalist heptathlete Kelly Sotherton.
*SPIKES:Sawyers Says She Uses Music To “Wind Down” And Make Her Happy “I’m very much the kind of athlete that needs to be happy outside of athletics to be doing well in it.”
A New ARD Report, A New Russian Whistleblower
Latest ARD Doping Report:New Russian Whistleblower Provides Footage Of Banned Coaches Still Working With Athletes And Says “No Changes Really Took Place”(includes video and article) Russian 1,500 runner Andrey Dmitriev thinks 70-80% of Russian athletes are doping. *Discuss
- Russian Athletics Federation President Is “Hopeful” Good News Will Come Out Of Today’s Meeting With The IAAF Given the ARD report that aired last night, he might not want to get his hopes up.
- Banned Russian Distance Runner Anastasiya Bazdyreva Accuses WADA Of Violent Interrogation Tactics She bashes whistleblower Andrey Dmitriev, claiming he “agreed for a piece of silver to make up non-existent stories.”
*MB:Bazdyreva: WADA tried to forcefully lock me in a room, as part of their violent interrogation and strong-arm tactics - Ban The Whole Organization?International Biathlon Union Dismisses Cases Against 22 Russians Named In McLaren Report Not surprising considering it took the threat of athletes boycotting for them to move their 2017 Worlds out of Russia and they still awarded Russia the 2021 championships despite it being against the WADA code.
- Will Never Happen:German Olympic Sports Confederation President Calls For Russia To Be Banned From The 2018 And 2020 Olympic Games The IOC showed their stance by refusing to do the right thing and ban Russia from Rio 2016.
- ARD Video Interview With WADA Director General Olivier Niggli On Whistleblowing In Sports Niggli says WADA has put new policies in place to protect athletes who speak out.
Ryan Hall And Michael Wardian Have Started Their 7-7-7 World Marathon Challenge
Ryan Hall And Michael Wardian Running 7 Marathons On 7 Continents In 7 Days Challenge Wardian wants to get the event record (avg. 3:32 per marathon) while Hall (who has been running 30 miles a week) will run the final leg of the trip in the singlet he wore for his marathon debut (he claims it’s never been washed).- Washington Post Article:Wardian: “I like to do stuff that scares me.”Ryan Hall: “If I finish within an hour of [Wardian] in each marathon, I’d be surprised. However, I guarantee I can bench more than him.”
- Follow Their Progress On The World Marathon Challenge Facebook Page Wardian won the Antarctic leg in 2:54:54 while Hall finished 5th in 3:26:31.
LetsRun.com’s World And US Rankings
*Men’s Marathon:Eliud Kipchoge Caps A Historic Year As World #1 As Breakout Marathon Star Galen Rupp Leads The Americans
*Women’s Marathon: London/Olympic Champ Jemima Sumgong Tops The List; Shalane Flanagan Top American
*Men’s 3,000/5,000:Mo Farah Is #1 Again; Paul Chelimo Tops U.S. List After Shock Silver In Rio
*Women’s 3,000/5,000: Almaz Ayana Is World #1; Shannon Rowbury Or Molly Huddle For U.S. #1?
*Men’s Steeple: Men’s Steeple: Conseslus Kipruto Ascends To #1 After A Year To Remember; Evan Jager (#2) Leads Americans Again
*Women’s Steeple:Ruth Jebet Leads The Way; Olympic Medallist Emma Coburn Tops U.S. List For Third Straight Year
*Men’s 1,500: Olympic Champion Matthew Centrowitz Is Our World #1
*Women’s 1,500:Faith Kipyegon Unseats Genzebe Dibaba As World #1; Jenny Simpson Back On Top Of U.S. Rankings
*Women’s 800:Caster Semenya Is the Clear World #1; Kate Grace Finishes A Shocking Year As U.S. #1
*Men’s 800 David Rudisha Is On Top For 2nd Year In A Row; Olympic Bronze Medalist Clayton Murphy Leads The Americans
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