2018 Pre Classic *Full Results *TV & Streaming *34 LRC Interviews

LRC 17-Year-Old Jakob Ingebrigtsen Runs 3:52 Mile at Prefontaine Classic, And Oh Yeah Timothy Cheruiyot Wins in 3:49 The final pro race at the original Hayward Field will long be remembered as 17-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen topped Alan Webb‘s legendary 3:53 from high school with a 3:52.28 clocking.
*LRC Post-Race Interviews Interviews include past and current HS stars Drew Hunter and Brodey Hasty.

LRC 2018 Pre Women’s Distance Recap: Shelby Houlihan Runs Massive 4+ Sec PB To Shock The World, Caster Semenya and Genzebe Dibaba Continue To Roll The final Prefontaine Classic at the original Hayward Field didn’t disappoint in terms of the women’s distance events the women’s 800, 1500 and 5000 all produced world-leading times.

LRC The Rest of The Meet: Noah Lyles Runs 19.69, Ryan Crouser and Jenn Suhr Break Meet Records, and A New Steeple Star Arrives? Ronnie Baker also impressed by beating Christian Coleman (windy 9.78 to 9.84), Shaunae Miller-Uibo crushed the 400 (49.52), and Mutaz Essa Barshim (2.36) kept winning in the high jump.

Pre Classic Previews And Inside Scoop

LRC The Inside Scoop From Pre: Centro’s Thoughts On Kiprop, Jager Reveals New Racing Tactics, The Kenyans Want The Bowerman Mile To Be A 3:46 Race, And Did Nick Willis Know Kiprop Was Dirty? Plus lots of good stuff from Mutaz Essa Barshim and Christian Coleman.

LRC Previews: 

• LRC 2018 Bowerman Mile Preview: Centro Gets A Real Test As The World’s Best Milers Come To Eugene Oh baby we can’t wait for this race. 1) Who wins? 2) How will the Americans do? 3) Can Jakob Ingebrigsten at 17 run faster than Alan Webb did at Pre at age 18 (3:53.43)?
• LRC 2018 Pre Classic Saturday Preview: Christian Coleman & Noah Lyles Lead A Cavalcade Of Stars In The Last Pro Meet At Hayward Field Plus can Evan Jager win at Pre for the first time ever and might the men’s steeple produce the first sub-8 in US history?
• Listen On Demand LRC Special 2018 Pre Classic Preview Podcast How will Edward Cheserek‘s return to Hayward Field go? Who wins the stacked ____ (fill in the distance event)? Who has a brighter future? Noah Lyles or Christian Coleman? Plus a little Caster Semenya and Drew Hunter talk and discussion of Matt Centrowitz Sr.‘s thoughts on doping.
• Eugene Register-Guard‘s Prefontaine Classic Event-By-Event Preview
• Jeff Hollobaugh: 8 Pre Classic Events To Watch … And Then Some
• IAAF Preview Of Pre The women’s 400 will feature the 3 of the top 4 from Worlds.

More Pre News

• Recommended Read Wonderful Profile Of Francine Niyonsaba – Mark Rowland Calls The Woman Whom Her Oregon Track Club Teammates Affectionately Call The “Princess Of Burundi” One Of The “Toughest Athletes Mentally I’ve Ever Coached” Ken Goe‘s article reveals Niyonsaba got malaria while training with the OTC in South Africa this winter but somehow still managed to win world indoors. The OTC refused comment on the new hyperandrogenism rules.

• 20-Year-Old Wycliffe Kinyamal Is Ready For His 1st Race On US Soil He wants to lower his PR so low that it is “scary” to any potential challengers.

• Justin Gatlin Pulls Out Of Pre With Hamstring Injury It was also announced that Christian Coleman will no longer do the 100/200 double, but just the 100.
• Ken Goe: “What if you held a meet and nobody outside the stadium noticed?” Goe laments that this weekend’s Pre Classic won’t get more attention and points out that there are no track athletes on ESPN’s annual list of the 100 most famous athletes in sports.
• MB: Kyle Merber drops out of pre mile field
• International Mile Full Field Released – It Includes HSer Brodey Hasty + Drew Hunter
• World Champ Bowie To Clash With Olympic Champion Thompson + Schippers & Ahoure In 100 At Pre
• LRC Ajee Wilson Hasn’t Thought Much About New IAAF Hyperandrogenism Regulations But Is “Glad” Caster Semenya Can Still Race For Now If the IAAF’s new hyperandrogenism rules stick, Ajee Wilson may be the biggest beneficiary but that’s not something she’s thrilled about. “I definitely know that I enjoy racing with them. I’m glad that they’re allowed to race still.”

Sprint Stuff

• Recommended Read: DyeStat: The Rise Of Noah Lyles And The Mom Who Helped Make It Happen Researching the steps to a pro track career, scrounging money so Lyles could travel to big meets as a high schooler, helping manage his career and his finances, and flying to Florida to do Lyles rehab walks with him, Keisha Caine-Lyles is definitely an Olympic quality mom.
• GB Sprinter Zharnel Hughes Remembers The “Most Treasured Memory” Of His Career Racing Usain Bolt At The New York DL In 2015 Hughes was a surprise challenge for Bolt who only beat him with a dip at the line by .03. Hughes says his mother still has a huge portrait of that finish line photo on the wall in her house.
• Olympic 400m Champ Wayde Van Niekerk Targeting July Return Van Niekerk is flying to Doha for “intensive rehabilitation” as he continues to make his way back from the knee injury he sustained during a charity rugby game.
• 2008 Olympic 100m Silver Medalist Kerron Stewart Got Emotional After Running Her Final Race In Jamaica This Past Weekend The 34-year-old finished second to double Olympic champ Elaine Thompson at the Jamaica Invy before announcing she was retiring at the end of the season.
• Jamaican High Schooler Christopher Taylor Motivated After Beating LaShawn Merritt Over 200m At The Jamaica Invy Taylor: “I was entered against the big boys and I came out victorious. It is just motivation for me going into World Juniors.”
• Jumps: World Indoor Triple Jump Silver Medalist Almir Dos Santos Talks About How He Made The Transition From High Jumper To Horizontal Jumper In 2016

Upcoming Road Action

• Sunday: World Half Marathon Champ Netsanet Gudeta Leads Field For TCS World 10k Bengaluru In India Gudeta will face world 10,000 bronze medalist Agnes Tirop and world half bronze medalist Pauline Kamulu.
• June 9: Mary Keitany Vs. Molly Huddle Headlines New York Mini 10k They also face Desi Linden, Betsy Saina, Aliphine Tuliamuk and Boston runner-up Sarah Sellers.
• June 16: NAZ Elite’s Olympic Trials 6th Placer Kellyn Taylor Running Grandma’s Marathon Taylor says she’s looking forward to using the fitness she built up before DNFing in the tough conditions in Boston.

NCAA D1 Regionals Are This Weekend & D2 & 3 Nationals *D1 Results *D1 Info *D2 Info *DIII Info

• Meet Lisa Gunnarsson – Virginia Tech’s Freshman Pole Vault Prodigy The Swede, the best youth pole vaulter in history (who has lived in 5 countries and fluently speaks 3 languages), finds track and field way easier than gymnastics, which she quit at age 12.
• Trackalerts Wonders If Michael Norman, Nathon Allen And Akeem Bloomfield Might All Go Sub-44 At NCAAs If they do it would be amazing as only one collegian has ever broken 44.00 in an NCAA meet and only twice has someone run a 43 and finished third in any 400.
• What Did It Take To Qualify For NCAA Prelims? 2018 was the best year ever for the men’s steeple in the West (8:57.98) and women’s 800 in the East (2:07.96) and women’s 10k in the West (34:47). 800 on up only.

More Distance News

• Recommended Read: Profile On Shanghai 800 Winner Wycliffe Kinyamal Kisasy, Who Plans To “Run Under 1:43 This Year” Interestingly, Kisasy started track and field in the high jump (PR around 2.00m) and actually started running to help his jumping.
• MB: Desiree Linden Kissed By Taylor Swift Live On Billboard Music Awards
  *Tweet From Chris Chavez With Video
• RR: The Guardian Obituary For GB Runner Bruce Tulloh Who Famously Won The 1962 European 5000 Title Barefoot Tulloh, a sub-4 barefoot miler, had a very interesting running career as he broke the record for running across the United States by 8 days, taking 65 to complete the journey and spent time living with the Tarhumara Indians (made famous by the book, Born to Run).
• MB: Boston Runner-Up Sara Sellers Now Sponsored By Altra
• MB: High Schooler Brodey Hasty To Run International Mile @ Pre Classic This will be Hasty’s first outdoor mile, but he ran 4:00.05 indoor at Millrose.
• Haile Gebrselassie Helps Inaugurate The World Health Organization’s “Walk The Talk Health For All Challenge” In Geneva
• Video: Mo Farah Leads Manchester Bombing Anniversary Moment Of Silence Tribute
• Caster Semenya: “I love myself and don’t care what people think of me.” “What I think of is the love that I get from my family, the love that I get from my friends, the love that I get from my nation.”
• MB: Seattle runners. Cougar attack (fatality) in Washington: Same trail as the course used for downhill marathons?