Quote Of The Day
– Almaz Ayana talking after running 14:14.32 to win at the Shanghai Diamond League meet and become the third-fastest 5,000m runner of all time. Now she wants to break Tirunesh Dibaba‘s 14:11.15 world record. Our recap on Ayana’s race is here.
The Week That Was – Our Weekly Recap
WTWNCAA Winners And Losers, The SEC Flexes Its Muscle, Lots Of Fabulous Freshmen, And Mary Cain Isn't The Only One Struggling
Last week was an incredible week for track and field fans. We break it all down for you. Along the way, we wonder if we've found Colorado and America's next women's steeple star (Erin Clark), tell someone to break up Dave Smith's mid-d squad at Oklahoma State, hand out bad news to Galen Rupp fans, marvel at America's yearly high hurdle sensations and wonder when the Hoka One One meet will be completed.
Upcoming Action: Pre Is Next Weekend
Jenny Simpson, Shannon Rowbury and Alexa Efraimson – But Not Mary Cain – Will Race in Women’s 1500 at 2015 Pre- Absolutely Stacked Field Set For 2015 Prefontaine Classic 5,000: Six Sub-13:00 Men Including Galen Rupp And Bernard Lagat Top Africans include Yenew Alamirew, Edwin Soi, Isiah Koech and Lawi Lalang. American Ryan Hill is also in the field.
*MB: “Absolutely Stacked” Pre 5000m is Incredibly Weak
*MB: Rupp will NOT break 13 at the Pre 5k… Bank on it - June 20: Wilson Kipsang Will Clash With His Training Partner Geoffrey Ronoh At The June 20th Mattoni Olomouc Half MarathonLast year Ronoh got a huge upset win over Kipsang and Dennis Kimetto, winning by 8 seconds in a race he was supposed to be just the pacer. Mary Keitany leads the women’s field.
- July 5: 2:04:48 Ethiopian Berhanu Shiferaw Tolcha Leads Field For The Gold Coast Marathon In Australia He’ll face defending champ Silas Limo, 2013 winner Yuki Kawauchi, and seven other sub-2:10 men. Women have four sub-2:30 runners, led by Ukraine’s Olena Shurhno (2:23:32). Olympic silver medalist Isabella Ochichi is also in the field.
LRCIf you missed it, our coverage for Doha DL (Farahgets beaten in 3000m, Justin Gatlinruns 9.74) and Hoka One One Mid-D Classic are farther down the page.
Shanghai DL *Full Results
LRC Full Results
Women’s 5k LRC Wow: Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana Runs Third-Fastest Women’s 5,000 In History – 14:14.32 Talk about a stunner. Ayana was sensational.
*MB: Almaz Ayana…. WOW!
Men’s 1,500 LRC Silas Kiplagat Wins Shanghai 1,500 As Ben Blankenship Comes Up Just .19 Short The American closed faster than the winner and got an outdoor PR.
*MB: Ben Blankenship: What’s his story?
- Blessing Okagbare (10.98) And Aleksandr Menkov (8.27m) Top Loaded Fields In Shanghai
- Mutaz Barshim (2.38m) Beats Bogdan Bondarenko In Shanghai In First Clash Of 2015
- IAAF Recap Of Distance Action: Ayana Steals The Show In Shanghai
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Disappointing 5th Place “… of course, it’s not the end of the world. It’s not the first time I’m losing.”
- Jesse Squire: “Five things we learned on the Diamond League’s opening weekend” “No one is holding back this year” and “the Diamond League website is still awful.”
- China Bids Emotional Farewell To Liu Xiang In Shanghai
- Rundown Of US Performances From Shanghai DL
- MB: Official 2015 Shanghai IAAF Diamond League Discussion Thread
Japan / UK Weekend Results
Japan:World Bronze Medalist Paul Tanui Runs 27:08 10,000 World Lead At Japanese Regional Corporate Track Champs- Kenya’s James Rungara Wins Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon In 62:21 Beating Michael Githae (62:27) And Martin Mathathi (62:40) Aussie Ben St. Lawrence was 8th (63:41). Eunice Kirwa won the women’s race in 69:37. *Yuki Kawauchi Was Back in 24th (66:16)
- Enock Omwamba Runs 3:35.69 National Collegiate Record To Get 4th Straight Kanto Region University Champs 1500 Title
*More Meet Highlights - UK: Jessica Ennis Is Well Off Her Best At Loughborough International, Finishing 3rd In The LJ And 6th In The Javelin She revealed that she’s been struggling with an Achilles injury and she and her coach are worried it could hurt her chances of get the qualifying standard for Rio 2016.
*Ennis Might Pull Out Of Hypo-Meeting In Götzis Later This Month - England Wins Loughborough International Meet Over GB & Norther Ireland; CJ Ujah Wins 100 In 10.04
- Recap Of British Milers’ Club Grand Prix
Rojo And LetsRun Get Mention In WSJ Article On The Four-Minute High-School Mile They look back 50 years ago when Jim Ryun went sub-4 in an all high school race and contrast it to Matthew Maton doing it in a pro/college race now. *Discuss
Sunday In SF:Neighbors, City Brace For Bad Behavior At Bay To Breakers One local said, “I dread it. I know it’s just one day a year. But it’s just a bunch of drunks. One whole day of belligerent drunks. It’s like a big frat party now.”
RIP: Former 800 WR Holder Nina Otkalenko, 86 She set multiple records, the fastest of which was 2:05.0 in 1955.
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#OpeningDay – 2015 Diamond League Season Opened In Doha *Full Results*TV / Streaming
LRC Ethiopian Hagos Gebrhiwet Takes Down Mo Farah In Doha 3,000 (updated) Reigning world youth and junior champ Yomif Kejelcha dared to take the lead from Farah late, and while he faded, Farah was defeated.
Rest Of The Meet:LRC 2015 Doha Recap: Track And Field’s Opening Day Amazes – The Rabbit Wins The Steeple, Dawit Sayeum Wins Her First DL Race, Ayanleh Souleiman Dominates, Justin Gatlin PRs + Two Triple Jumpers Over 18.00m The action in Doha was fantastic. It had a little of everything. A rabbit won the steeple, an 18-year-old the women’s 1,500 and some amazing sprint/field action. Should we do our first-ever field event black page for the triple jump?
- Profile On Cuban TJer Pedro Pablo Pichardo, Who Was Also A Boxer In His Younger Years After going 18.06m, Pichardo thinks he can get the WR of 18.29m by Jonathan Edwards from 1995.
- World TJ Champ Teddy Tamgho Will Likely Miss Out On Defending His Title In 2015 After Rupturing His Achilles He is getting surgery in Qatar.
- Pichardo Vs. Taylor Clash In Doha Is Greatest Triple Jump Competition Ever
- Jasmin Stowers Shows She’s The Real Deal In Doha (12.45 DL Record) The NCAA runner-up for LSU last year set a DL record in her first DL race.
- Doha 200m Winner Felix (21.98) Flies To Best Tine Since Olympic Triumph
- UK Headline:Mo Farah Fails To Live Up To Top Billing In Doha
- 32-Year-Old Bershawn Jackson Breaks MR In Doha 400H Jackson: “People doubted me last year … I have been in the circuit for many years, but do not forget that I started competing when I was 19 and I still have a lot to give.”
- Justin Gatlin Isn’t Bitter Towards Tyson Gay About Having To Give Up 4 X 100 Olympic Medal “[Tyson] has apologised for his actions and asked for public forgiveness. So now it’s time to move on from that.”
- Gatlin: “That was for him (Bolt). … I know I had to go out and make a statement tonight.”
- Rundown Of USA Performances In Doha
Doha On The Message Board:
Gatlin Making Waves
Justin Gatlin Flies Home Claiming Beijing World Challenge Meet Organizers Don’t Want Him “They didn’t have any respect for me so they said: ‘You better leave,’ and they kicked me out.” *Discuss- Opinion Piece From The Guardian: “Justin Gatlin gets faster with age but trust fails to keep pace.” Gatlin has become a very controversial figure and many wondering, “How can he do this clean?”
More From The Weekend
- MB: Alan Webb 56th in Abu Dhabi Tri – 59 finished
Mosinet Geremew (28:16) And Mamitu Daska (31:57) Win $21,000 At Bangalore’s TCS World 10K Lots of big names were entered given the huge prize money, including Emily Chebet, Feyisa Lelisa, Micah Kogo and Japhet Korir.- Alex Korio Olotptip (29:20) And Angela Tanui (33:34) Win $25,000 At Okpekpe Road 10K In Nigeria The times were slow in the hot weather, but the competition was fierce with big money on the line. Ethiopia’s Leul Gebresilase lost by 2 seconds in the men’s race, costing him $10,000 in prize money. *IAAF Recap
- After Her Astonishing 14:14 In Shanghai, Alamaz Ayana Wants To Get Tirunesh Dibaba’s 14:11 5,000 WR “I didn’t know I was so close to the world record. I was looking at running about 14:20 …”
- Athletics Weekly Weekend Round-Up GB’s World Indoor 60m champ Richard Kilty set a a 100 PR with 10.08 in Italy.
- Joe Morris Won The 100 / 200 At The Portland Twilight Meet On Saturday In 10.37 And 21.10
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Power 5 Conference Meets – Full Results: SEC, ACC, Big 12, Big 10, PAC-12 + IC4A/ECAC*All Results
PAC-12: Oregon Men And Women Sweep PAC-12 Championships Over USC The men won with a comfortable margin, but for the women it came down to the 4 x 400 and they ended up beating USC by only 3 points. *PAC-12 Meet Report- On The Boards: He’s back!!!!! king Ches takes down Eric Jenkins at Pac 12s in 5k – Shelby Houlihan runs 4:11.06 Pac 12 meet record – Elise Cranny runs 4:14.05 for 4th, Annie Leblanc 4:15.67 for 5thHoulihan also won the 5,000. –Will Bill McChesney’s Oregon 5,000 record make it through the season? – Oregon true frosh Raevyn Rogers runs 2:01.62 at Pac 12s!!
- USC’s Andre De Grasse Gets 100/200 Double Running 9.97 And 20.05
- Ken Goe: “Not much interest in the Pac-12 Championships in SoCal.”
- SEC:For The Third Time In Program History, Arkansas Women Complete SEC Triple Crown They beat Texas A&M by 23.5 points.
- Gator Men Claim Fifth SEC Outdoor Title Behind Six Individual Titles Runner-up Arkansas finished 35.5 points behind.
- Results LSU’s Julian Parker won the 800 in 1:46.17 over Brandon McBride (1:46.53). Arkansas went 1-2 in the 5,000 as Kemoy Campbell beat Stanley Kebenei by less than a second in 13:52. Dominique Scott won the 1,500/5,000 double. *Meet Home
- Fast 400s At SECs As Deon Lendore Wins In 44.88
- Arkansas’ Sandi Morris Gets PV Collegiate Record With 15 Feet, 5 3/4 Inches Morris: “I just starting screaming. A scream that I wanted to let out for so long.” Demi Payne just set the record last weekend.
- Big 10: Leah O’Connor’s Triple Win Leads Michigan State Women To Big 10 Title She won the 1,500 (4:14), steeple (9:51) and 5000 (16:03).
*MB: Leah O’Connor Three BigTen Titles - Illinois Men Win Big 10 Title For First Time Since 1994 Brannon Kidder took the 800 in 1:47.56.
- Leah O’Connor Wins 4th Straight Big 10 Steeplechase Title In 9:51*Meet Home
- MB:Big ten 1500 and 4×400
- MB:2015 Big Ten Track and Field Championships Discussion Thread
- Big 12: Texas Longhorns Sweep Big 12 ChampionshipsTrayvon Bromell won the 100 in a wind-aided 9.91 as the top 3 broke the 10-second barrier. Edward Kemboi won the 800 in 1:48.42. Kirubel Erassa beat Craig Luts in the 10,000 (28:50) and 5,000.
- Kansas’ Michael Stigler Wins 4th Consecutive Big 12 Outdoor 400H Title
- MB:4:05 wins Big 12 1500 *Meet Home
- ACC: Florida State Men, Clemson Women Claim 2015 ACC TitlesNatoya Goule won the 800 in 2:01.32, Colleen Quigley won the 1,500 in 4:14.06. Justyn Knight took the men’s 1,500 in 3:47.85. *Results*Meet Home
- MB: Freshman Justyn Knight does it again – ACC 1,500m champion
- IC4A/ECAC: Full Results In the steeple, Elinor Purrier won in 9:53.53 over Emily Ritter (9:55.15). LIU Brooklyn men and George Mason women won the team titles.
- AAC: UConn Men Win AAC Title *Results
- SMU Repeats As American Athletic Conference Outdoor Champions
- Colorado State Sweeps Mountain West Titles
- Liberty Sweeps Men’s & Women’s Big South Titles
US Track Action
Alexa Efraimson Runs 2:01.13 At Portland Twilight Meet
*Full Results Luc Bruchet won the men’s 3,000 in 7:57 as University of Victoria’s Thomas Riva won the 1,500 in 3:39.96.- Abbey D’Agostino Wins New Balance Twilight Meet 1,500 In 4:13 4:13.91. Former NCAA champ Emily Lipari was 3rd (4:21.21). Chris O’Hare won the men’s race in 3:44.17.
More Non-DL Results
- South Africa’s Anaso Jobodwana Wins 200 At Cayman Invitational In A WL Of 20.06 Anguilla sprinter Zharnell Hughes was 2nd in a PR of 20.15. Jamaican Olympic bronze medalist Hansle Parchment won the 110m hurdles in 13.49.
- Amazing:Blind Pole Vaulter Charlotte Brown Gets 3rd Place At Texas High School State Meet With 11-6 “It took me three years to get on the podium, and I finally did it. … If I could send a message to anybody, it’s not about pole vaulting and it’s not about track. It’s about finding something that makes you happy despite whatever obstacles are in your way.”
- Kenyans Alex Oloitiptip Korio (28:35) Angela Tanui (32:41) Win Okpekpe 10K In Nigeria
- World Champions Pawel Fajdek and David Storl Highlight At Hallesche Werfertage Throws Meet In Germany Less than 24 hours after winning in Doha, Storl actually threw farther to win the SP here. Fajdek took the hammer and Olympic champ Robert Harting‘s younger brother Christoph won the discus in a big PR.
- MileSplit High School Weekend Rundown
Assembled And Designed In America
LRC Exclusive The Inside Story Of How American Ryan Bolton Helped Caroline Rotich Conquer The 2015 Boston Marathon He may have made the Olympics in the triathlon, but Ryan Bolton is a runner. In HS, Bolton dreamed of Running for the Buffaloes before going to Wyoming and nearly beating Meb Keflezighi at NCAA XC. Now he’s found his calling as a coach who just guided the unheralded Caroline Rotich to a stunning victory at Boston Marathon last month.
Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Likely To Appeal Over Death Sentence Over Location Of The Trial The judge refused to have the trial moved out of Boston. *Judge Expected To Set Date For Tsarnaev Sentencing Hearing The jury already gave their verdict, but now the judge has to “formally sentence him to death.”
Mostly US Road Action
Isaac Mukandi Mwangi And Jane Kibii Are Winners Of The 2015 Bay To Breakers 12KFernando Cabada was 10th, Nick Arciniaga 11th. On the women’s side, Rachel Ward was the top American. *Results
*Crazy Photos From BTB 2015- Luke Puskedra Wins Rock ‘N’ Roll Portland Half Marathon In 65:10
- Megan Hogan Wins Airbnb Brooklyn Half In 1:13:33 Ethiopian Negash Abebe Duki won the men’s race in 1:05:01 over Cam Marantz (1:05:05).
- Not US – Latvia: Ethiopians Haile Tolosssa (2:12:29) And Meseret Eshetu (2:37:04) Win Lattelecom Riga Marathon
Sunday In The UK
After “Coming Of Age” 2014, Lynsey Sharp Will Captain Team GB In The Loughborough International Meet Sharp talks about how last year she was advised by doctors not to run at all as she had an open wound from ankle surgery which ended up staying open for a year.- Jessica Ennis Will Continue Her Comeback, Competing In Loughborough LJ And Javelin On Sunday
The Search For A Better Running Shoe
LRCThe Most Popular Running Shoe On LetsRun.com Is … Not Made Anymore … The Nike Pegasus+ 30Thousands of you filled out our detailed running shoe survey in the fall and more of you ran in the Nike Pegasus+30 than any other shoe. Only problem is all of you need to find a new shoe, help us out below:
LRCThe Improved LRC Running Shoe Survey Is Back – Three Minutes To A Better Running ShoeThe running shoe buying process sucks and we want to improve it with data. We took your reviews from the fall, made a running shoe beta site, and have improved our survey to ask you what shoe your previously ran in. We now need more reviews from you on the latest shoes.
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