2016 Prefontaine Classic - Eugene Diamond League Track and Field

May 27, 2016 to May 28, 2016

Hayward Field, Eugene, OR

Highlights

Jenny Simpson And Shannon Rowbury Will Lead American Charge Against Sifan Hassan And Faith Kipyegon In This Year's Pre Classic 1500

The deep field also includes Brenda Martinez, world indoor bronze medalist Gudaf Tsegay and former world champ Hellen Obiri.

Stacked Field Set For Pre Classic 5000: Americans Ben True, Ryan Hill, Bernard Lagat Face Top Africans Geoffrey Kamworor, Yomif Kejelcha, Hagos Gebrhiwet And Caleb Ndiku

Stacked 800 Set For Pre Classic With World Indoor Champ Boris Berian Taking On Nijel Amos, Mo Aman And Amel Tuka

Amazing Field Set For Pre Classic Bowerman Mile: Asbel Kiprop Faces Matt Centrowitz, Taoufik Makhloufi, Ayanleh Souleiman And Drew Hunter

On The Boards

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Genzebe Dibaba To Battle American Record Holder Molly Huddle In Totally Stacked Women's 5,000 At 2016 Pre Classic Next Weekend

Full Results for 2016 Prefontaine Classic

Exclusive: Alan Webb's Historic 3:53.43 HS Mile Record Could Be Broken On Saturday - Drew Hunter's Coach Talks About Hunter's Plan For The Bowerman Mile And The Rest Of The Season

Friday Results 2016 Prefontaine Classic

Friday Night at Pre: Mo Farah Survives a Scare in the 10,000m, Mom Power from Alysia Montaño and Hellen Obiri

Boris Berian (1:44.20) Front-Runs His Way to Victory at Pre, Becomes Third* American Man to Win Diamond League 800

Ruth Jebet Wins the Greatest Women’s Steeple Ever Run, Emma Coburn Gets American Record 9:10.76

2016 Prefontaine Classic: Asbel Kiprop Wins an Underwhelming Bowerman Mile, Mo Ahmed Goes for It in the Men's 5K and Keni Harrison Gives the World Record a Scare

Post Race Video Interviews from 2016 Prefontaine Classic

RRW: Asbel Kiprop Snags Fourth Bowerman Mile Win at Pre Classic

More Threads

Bekele's in the Pre 10k!!

LRC Exclusive: Drew Hunter's coach thinks Hunter might be able to break Alan Webb's historic 3:53.43 HS mile record

Official Pre Friday Night LIVE Thread

Webb is a terrible announcer

Bet You Didn't Know This: The Guy Leading Farah with 80 Meters to Go Lost to Lagat (and 5 others) at Payton Jordan

3:57 is not even close to 3:53 (But go Drew!)

Two high school sub-4:00 miles today...and the reaction is "meh"

Who were your biggest winners and losers at Pre?

Bowerman Mile Pacers Should Be Shot!!!!

Is Hassan Mead a lock for Rio?

Andrew Wheating Facebook status

Centro vs Kiprop

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Photo: Take A Look At Marquis Dendy's Nasty Ankle Sprain

With how bad the photo looks, he's lucky it was just a sprain.

MB Centro vs Kiprop

MB Andrew Wheating Facebook status

Athletics Illustrated:

Athletics Illustrated: Mo Ahmed's 13:01 Canadian Record At Pre Finally Brings Him Out Of Cam Levins' Shadow

Christopher Kelsall writes that despite similar credentials, Levins has always garnered more attention in the Canadian media. But then Ahmed took the lead with a lap to go at Pre and caused a "social media flutter".

Jamaica-gleaner:

Asafa Powell Blames Poor Starting Gun On His Loss To Justin Gatlin At Pre

Powell complained that he could not hear the starter's gun and reportedly Tyson Gay and Mike Rodgers also complained.

ESPN.com:

AP: Justin Gatlin Runs 9.88 To Smoke Asafa Powell (9.94) And Tyson Gay (9.98)

Gatlin joked about Keni Harrison "stealing his thunder".

USATF:

USATF's Pre American Highlights

Registerguard:

LaShawn Merritt On Racing Kirani James: “I hear about the number of times we have lined up and who has won and I could care less about that. It is about getting to the big races and showing up at the big races.”

For those counting, James has as 12-7 record against Merritt.

Registerguard:

Triple Jumper Will Claye Caused A Scene During The Women's Steeple As He Celebrated A Jump By Sprinting Onto The Track

The women "did not appear to be affected" though Coburn called it "frustrating".

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Register Guard: Former Duck English Gardner Rolls To Victory In 100m With 10.81

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Register-Guard Pre Mile Recaps

Austin Tamagno on running 4:01: “With 100 to go, I just locked up,” he said. “I don’t know, I guess I really didn’t have it. It’s still a good time. I’ll take it.

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