The Collegiate 800m Record Goes Down

MB: Michael Saruni Runs 1:43.25 To Break Donavan Brazier’s NCAA 800m Record At Arizona’s Desert Heat Classic Saruni ran over a second PR to break Brazier’s 1:43.55 mark from 2016.
*Post-Race Video Interview With Saruni

Penn Relays News *Schedule, Results *TV & Streaming

Day3: Team USA Dominates USA Vs. The World At The Penn Relays As Raevyn Rogers Anchored The Sprint Medley Team To A New WR Rogers split 50.48 to bring the team home in 1:35.20, breaking the previous record of 1:35.59. Team USA also got a win in the men’s 4 x 100, where the Justin Gatlin-led team ran 38.39 and the men’s 4 x 400, women’s 4 x 400 and men’s SMR. Jamaica won the women’s 4 x 100.

• University Of Houston Has A Huge Penn Relays, Taking The Men’s 4 X 100 And 4 X 400 They won the 4 x 400 thanks to a 43.38 anchor leg from Kahmari Montgomery. His split was the fastest in Penn Relays history.
• Jamaica’s Calabar HS Dominates, Sweeping The Boys 4 X 100, 4 X 400 And 4 X 800 Included meet records in the 4 x 400 (3:03.79) and 4 x 800 (7:26.09).
• Philly.com: Villanova Concludes A Banner Penn Relays With Five Championships The Villanova men got the 4 x mile win in 16:23 to add to the DMR title while the women took the 4 x 800 in 8:19 to complete their sweep of all three distance relays for the second straight year.
  *Villanova Men’s 4 X Mile Recap
• Philly.com: US Women Set WR In Sprint Medley, Dominate USA Vs. The World Relays Raevyn Rogers: “Although you’re on U.S. ground, [the Jamaican fans] still make it seem like it’s their territory.”
• Johnny Gregorek Makes Successful Penn Relays Return With 3:54.94 Olympic Development Mile Win It was the 3rd-fastest mile in Penn Relays history. In the women’s mile, Charlene Lipsey won in 4:31.19 as Ajee Wilson was 3rd (4:35.75).
• Post-Race Video Interview With Justin Gatlin

Day 2:

• Day 2 Penn Recap By Philly.com: Inspired By Women’s Team’s Dominance, Villanova Men Win Distance Medley Relay At Penn Relays The ‘Nova men hadn’t won the men’s DMR since 2011. The Villanova women and Nicole Hutchinson continued to roll in the women’s 4 x 1,500.
  *Villanova Women’s 4 X 1,500 Win Recap
• MB: Isaiah Harris gets stick down by nearly 4 seconds, guy in leads runs 1:48 but Harris wins thanks to 1:44.74 The MB poster thinks it’s one of the best relay carries in Penn Relays history.
  *Penn State Article
• MB: Casey Comber gives Nova upset win in men’s DMR He went from from 3rd to 1st, Notre Dame 2nd, Princeton third.
• Recommended Read: Former Irish 3-Time Olympian Eamonn Coghlan Looks Back At When He Ran His First Sub-4 Mile At The Penn Relays It wasn’t his “official” first since it was anchor leg for the Villanova DMR.

Day 1:

• MB: Anna Rohrer is back…. Wins Penn Relays 10k in her 1st race in 10 months
• Villanova Women’s DMR Wins DMR Yet Again That’s 6 out of 7 thanks to a dominant 1,200 leg by Nicole Hutchinson.
  
• HS DMR Saratoga Springs’s Kelsey Chmiel (4:49.22) Comes From 12 Seconds Down To Win
• Recommended Read N.J.’s 47 Greatest Performances Of All Time At The Penn Relays From Marty Liquori to Carl Lewis to King Ches, they have you covered.
• Justin Gatlin, Fred Kerley And Raevyn Rogers Are All In US Relay Pool For Penn
• Leroy Burrell Is Back At Penn Relays With His Fleet Houston Cougars Burrell, the former 100 WR holder, says one of his career highlights came at Penn. Did you know Burrell won a PA state title by himself in HS?
• Nesta Carter Headlines Announced Jamaica Team For Penn Relays

More On Semenya And IAAF Testosterone Rule

• Caster Semenya Stays Quiet After IAAF Hyperandrogenism Rule Announcement Semenya tweeted a quote saying, “How beautiful it is to stay silent when someone expects you to be enraged.”
• Recommended Watch: Ross Tucker Analyzes The IAAF’s New Hyperandrogenism Policy With Regard To Caster Semenya Tucker believes there needs to be regulations that “protect the boundary” between men’s and women’s sports, but doesn’t think the science is strong enough to hold up in court and predicts that the IAAF regulations won’t stand up to a legal challenge from Semenya or someone else.
• Dutee Chand Has Offered Caster Semenya Her Legal Team It was Chand’s legal challenge against the IAAF’s original hyperandrogenism rules that got us to where we are today when CAS suspended the IAAF regulations.
• Deadspin: “The Only Point Of Track’s Dumb New Testosterone Rules Is To Make It Illegal To Be Caster Semenya” Whatever your take on the IAAF’s new regulations, there is no way they are as dumb as this headline.
• Seb Coe Says New Testosterone Rules Could Be Extended To Other Events
• Q&A With IAAF Doctor Stephane Berman On New Testosterone Rules Apparently the new IAAF rules won’t necessarily apply to smaller level competitions so Caster Semenya could hypothetically still compete at SA Nationals without hormone treatment.

More NCAA News

• Opponents Of Tearing Down Hayward Field’s East Grandstand Get Support From Eugene City Council The council voted to consider forwarding an application to the Eugene Historic Review Board for Hayward to be considered a city landmark after passionate testimony from many including Kenny Moore and Neta Prefontaine (sister of Steve Prefontaine).
• Questions Arise Over How (If?) The New Hayward Field Will Fit The Promised 17,000 Temporary Seats For 2021 Worlds
• Updated Women’s NCAA Rankings Have A Ton Of Teams Shuffle Positions LSU moved up to #1 with Southern California going from 6th to 2nd and Oregon from 4th to 3rd. Georgia is ranked 4th and Arkansas dropped from 1st to 5th.
• Florida And Texas Tech Remain 1-2 In The Latest Men’s NCAA Rankings Alabama made a big jump from 8th to 3rd.
• Podcast Interview With Georgia Head Coach Petros Kyprianou The USTFCCCA Coach Of The Year talks about the technical side of field events, championship team strategies and strength and conditioning.
• Previous Result: Georgia’s Keturah Orji Jumps #2 All-Time NCAA Mark Of 14.33m In Season Debut The mark is only behind her own NCAA record of 14.53m.
• Previous Result: Chaquinn Cook Breaks Oregon Women’s TJ Record With 13.89m

Distance News

• May 26: Jenny Simpson Vs. Laura Muir, Kate Grace, Shelby Houlihan, Brenda Martinez, Winny Chebet And Dawit Seyaum Set For Pre Classic 1,500
• Mo Farah Says He’ll Skip Euro 2019 Champs To Focus On Doha Worlds This really should go without saying since Farah is done with the track and he’s obviously not going to run the European Champs marathon …World Champs or not.
• Carrie Tollefson Does Podcast Q&A With ZAP Fitness Coach Pete Rea

Galen Rupp Will Race 20 Days After Boston

LRC Galen Rupp Is BAAACK- Will Run Prague Marathon May 6th He’ll take on 2:04:08 guy Sisay Lemma, whom he beat in Chicago last year.
Discuss: Galen Rupp listed on the entry list for Prague Marathon (May 6) + other elites Props to message boarder juddy96 for breaking this news.
*Update: Rupp’s Name Has Vanished From Start List And No Update From His Agent Or Race Organizers

Looking Ahead On The Track

• May 25: Evan Jager Vs. Conseslus Kipruto Matchup Set For Pre Classic The field also has Worlds silver medalist Soufiane El Bakkali, Jarius Birech, Stanley Kebenei, Andy Bayer, Canada’s Matt Hughes, #3 all-time Paul Kipsiele Koech.
• May 4: Christian Taylor, Keni Harrison And Sandra Perkovic Announced For Doha DLTaylor will be up against Cuba’s Pedro Pablo Pichardo.
• May 31: Trio Of Global Medalists Lead By Russian World Champ Markia Lasitskene Set For Rome DL High Jump
• July 21: Andre De Grasse Vs. Christian Coleman Clash Set For London Anniversary Games

2018 Virgin London Marathon *Results & Tracking *Post-Race Videos

LRC Post-Race Interviews From London

LRC Final Crazy 4:22 Opening Mile And 13:48 Opening 5k Can’t Stop Eliud Kipchoge From Winning London In 2:04:17 And Showing He’s Still The Greatest On The Planet A 4:22 opening mile and 13:48 first 5k were way too fast, but they couldn’t stop Eliud Kipchoge from winning London.

LRC Final Vivian Cheruiyot Does It Again, Pulls Off Huge Upset And Wins 2018 London Marathon In 2:18:31 Vivian Cheruiyot stunned the world and Almaz Ayana in Rio in 2016. Today she stunned Tirunesh Dibaba and Mary Keitany and won the 2018 Virgin Money Marathon thanks to a massive 5-minute PR.
LRC With A New Approach, Tactics And London Victory, Vivian Cheruiyot Is Now One Of The Greatest Marathoners In The World This article was pulled from our final women’s recap above.

Non-London Road Results

• Nancy Kiprop (2:24:18) Successfully Defends Her Title At The Vienna City Marathon As Morocco’s Salaheddine Bounasser Gets The Surprise Men’s Win (2:09:29) And the shock of the weekend, world record holder Dennis Kimetto was a DNF. He made it a little over halfway.
• Nicholas Kosimbei (61:12) And Degitu Azmeraw (69:53) Triumph At Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon Just five days after winning the Boston Marathon, Yuki Kawauchi ran 64:35 for 14th.
• Ethiopia’s Mosinet Geremew (61:31) Gets His 4th Straight Victory At The Yangzhous Half Marathon In China Ababel Yeshaneh won the women’s race in 69:06.
• Kenya’s Ezekiel Omullo (2:11:17) And Belarus’ Natassia Ivanova (2:28:03) Take Top Honors At The Warsaw Marathon
• Eliud Kiplagat (2:10:14) Valentine Kipketer (2:30:40) Win Rock ‘N’ Roll Madrid Marathon
• Course Records Fall At The Kyiv Half Marathon As Ethiopia’s Lencho Tesfaye Anbesa (62:56) And Viktoriya Kalyuzhna (73:44) Get The Wins