The Oregon Ducks won every distance event they competed in, and Cole Hocker was the star, but it was a team effort as they got help from Micah Williams to dominate NCAA Indoors, to give Robert Johnson his 4th title in 7 championships.
Archived Homepage For March 14, 2021
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The Arkansas women got their fourth straight NCAA track/xc title thanks to a total team effort. BYU's Courtney Wayment completed the DMR/3000 double, former teen star Aaliyah Miller and Sage Hurta got their first NCAA titles.
On The Boards
On The Boards
Hocker Double
Athing Mu Fastest Indoor 400 Ever
Men's 800 Decided by .01
Men's 200: Matthew Boling?
Japan Road Results
Matsuda was disappointed with the performance though as she was shooting for the 2:20:29 women's only NR. Post-race she was crying and apologizing on-camera for not having run faster.
More Weekend Track Action
- World Athletics Recap: Aussie 5000m Titles Decided At Sydney Track Classic Matthew Ramsden took the men's race in 13:29.99 with a 56-second last lap to beat Brett Robinson (13:31.97) while the women's race was won by Canada’s Andrea Seccafien (15:25.62) over Aussie Jenny Blundell (15:25.84). Nina Kennedy set a NR of 4.82m in the PV, Linden Hall won the 800m in 2:01.27 and there was also high praise for the comeback of discus thrower Dani Stevens who won with 63.36m.
- GB's Miguel Francis Highlights Jamaican Meet With 20.50 Victory In The 200m Zharnel Hughes won the 100m in 10.13. Yohan Blake won his heat in 10.20 (third overall). Double Olympic champ Elaine Thompson Herah opened her season in the 400m (56.26 for second in her heat).
- NCAA DII Indoor Champs Day 3 Recap: Ashland Men And Grand Valley State Women Win Team Titles *Day 2 *Day 1
More NCAA Coverage
Harrison produced the best single day high jump and long jump double ever with 2.30m (HJ) and 8.45m (#8 all-time LJ) victories. After winning the pentathlon on day one, Tyra Gittens doubled back on day 2 to take the HJ in 1.90m. Turner Washington threw 21.36m to dominate the men's shot put.
- Tara Davis Takes NCAA LJ With World-Leading 6.93m After already winning the pentathlon and HJ, Tyra Gittens competed again to finish 3rd. Lisa Gunnarson won the PV with 4.56m.
- Georgia’s Karel Tilga And Kyle Garland Are The First To Ever Go 1-2 For A Team In The NCAA Heptathlon Tilga won with 6264 points, #2 on the NCAA all-time list.
- Louisville’s Makenli Forrest Wins Women’s Weight On Her Final Throw Of The Night
- Register Guard: Oregon Ducks Kick Off NCAAs With DMR Title
- RRW: Wesley Kiptoo, Joyce Kimeli Win NCAA 5000m Titles
Doping Stuff
- Distance Runner Florence Jepkosgei Chepsoi Becomes the First Kenyan Athlete To Be Convicted Of A Doping Offense In Criminal Court She was sentenced to one year of community service after she was found guilty of presenting false documents and lying to the Kenyan anti-doping agency at a hearing.
MB: Kenyan doper becomes first to be convicted by criminal court - Russia Remain Hosts Of 2022 International Shooting Sport Federation World Championships Despite CAS Ruling The CAS ruling said that Russia couldn't host any major events during its ban, but there is a loophole if moving the event is "legally or practically impossible."
- The International Testing Agency (ITA) Says It's Leading The Most Extensive Pre-Games Anti-Doping Program Ever
Boycotts, Vaccines And Other Olympic News
- IOC President Thomas Bach Believes Boycotting Beijing Winter Olympics Would Achieve Nothing “We can only repeat and give advice to learn from history – a boycott of the Olympic Games has never achieved anything ...The athletes would be the ones who are suffering."
- USOPC President Susanne Lyons Says There Will Be No Boycott of Beijing 2022 Over China's Human Rights Issues Lyons: "While we would never want to minimize what is happening from a human rights perspective in China, we do not support an athlete boycott."
- Japan Will Not Take Part In China Vaccine Offer China's vaccines haven't been approved for use in Japan.
- IOC Clarifies Olympic Vaccine Offer Only Open To Countries Who Have Approved Chinese Vaccines
- IOC Approves Olympic Agenda 2020+5 Strategic Plan At Virtual Session The plan for Thomas Bach's last 4-years as president covers areas such as growing esports, athlete representation, human rights and gender equality.
NCAAs Day 1
- Multi was on day 1: Tyra Gittens is sensational, breaks NCAA pentathlon record with 4,746 to kickstart A&M's title run Her 6-4 (1.93m) HJ would easily win the individual HJ.
- MB: Tyra Gittens (Texas A&M) sets NCAA, National Indoor Pentathlon (4746 points) & National High Jump (1.93 m ~6' 4")
- DyeStat.com - 10 Storylines to Follow at NCAA Indoors
NCAA XC Previews
NCAA XC Previews
Every coach LRC says Oklahoma State's course is the hardest they've seen at an NCAA XC meet. Here's what to expect on Monday.
At last, the 2020 NCAA xc championships are almost here (in 2021). Will BYU repeat or will NAU win its 4th title in 5 seasons? And can anyone stop Wesley Kiptoo?
It has been 13+ years since Stanford won an NCAA XC team title, and no Stanford man or woman has ever won the individual title. Look for Ella Donaghu and this year's Cardinal team to change that.
Previous Outside NCAA News
- Cole Hocker enters his first NCAA track championships at age 19 with a 3:50 mile pb Alan Webb was just a 3:53 guy at the same age. Hocker: "I’m really confident in my abilities and my fitness level at this point in the season.
- Ed Eyestone is still shocked by freshman Lucas Bons' 3:55 mile “I thought maybe he could run close to 4:01."
- Georiga coach raves about Matthew Boling prior to his 1st NCAAs: "Matthew is a coach’s dream so far."
- Montana State's Duncan Hamilton Eager For Mile/XC Double
- List of all men and women who might do NCAA indoor/xc double There are only 20 men and 26 women in contention.
- RRW: Indoors Or Cross? NCAA Coaches Make Tough Choices Many coaches had to choose between indoor or XC because they were the same weekend, but they never should have been put in this position in the first place.
- LRC Archives: Why Are NCAA Indoors and NCAA XC Scheduled For the Same Weekend?
- MB: Not making this up: NCAA reschedules the NCAA XC championships for the same weekend as the 2021 NCAA indoors
Pro Distance News
- Marc Scott talks in-depth about his training with the BTC “I wish I could say I did all ‘the little things’ well, but I don’t...If I use NormaTec I think ‘that’s enough’ and I don’t need to bother stretching," says Scott who doesn't reveal if Jerry told him to skip out on Euros to run a time trial.
- Kenyan XC champ Rodger Kwemoi is talking big: "I am confident we will deliver that [10,000] gold medal for Kenya." He recently lost a 5000 race to 18-year old Gideon Rono in where both ran 13:21 at altitude in Nairobi.
- China offers up Covid vaccine for all Olympic and Paralympic athletes across the globe The IOC will also pay for 2 extra vaccines for people in the athlete's countries.
- Japan Running News' Brett Larner remembers 3/11 (Japanese earthquake/tsunami) 10 years later
It's World Athletics Women's Week
- Meet Olympian turned sports photographer Gladys Chai von der Laage: We love the photo she took at 2017 DL final of the men's 5000 (see above).
- Only 15% of journalists at World Champs are women
- World Athletics profiles Sara Hall: Sara Hall, motivated by motherhood and marathons
- Mom and Japanese national record holder in the hurdles, Asuka Terada, hopes to make Japan less sexist in 2021
- Ethiopia's two biggest women's distance stars, Letesenbet Gidey and Gudaf Tsegay, are both from Tigray - the epicenter of Ethiopia's current violence
Week That Was
This week, we welcome two Americans to the sub-15 club, tell you why Matthew Centrowitz is far from done, worry about Jordan Hasay and rave about the greatest 800 phenom ever?
Sprint Stuff
Despite coming back from his devastating ACL injury, van Niekerk still thinks he can break his own 400m WR and dip under 43-seconds.
- T&F News: "Remember, Sydney McLaughlin Is Still Just A Youngster" McLaughlin talks about her decision to switch coaches from former Olympic 100H champ Joanna Hayes to Bobby Kersee's group with Allyson Felix.
800m Stars In The News
Thankfully Hodgkinson is coached by veteran Jenny Meadows who knows what she's talking about as she said, "We would love her to go because you don’t know what’s going to happen in the future.”
- Ajee Wilson's High School Track Named After Her Wilson said, "It’s a huge honor. I literally grew up on that track. I lived maybe a mile or so away.”
Marathon+ News
The record is 3:07:20 set by GB's Aly Dixon in 2019. (That's 6:01 pace for 31.1 miles.)
- Meet The 62-Year-Old Japanese Woman Who Ran A 2:52 Marathon The first woman over 60-years-old to break the 3-hour barrier is planning on going for her own record at this weekend's Nagoya Women's Marathon.
- Olympic Marathon And Race Walk Test Event To Go Ahead On May 5th There will be an elite half-marathon with 80 men and women from Japan and abroad as well as a mass participation 10k.
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American Record Holders
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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.
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‒Athing Mu speaking after NCAA Indoor Champs where she was runner-up in the individual 400m and then ran the fastest indoor 400m ever anchoring Texas A&M's 4x400 to victory with a 49.54 split.