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Lead Stories: Friday, September 5, 2008

Masters Track’s New Online Hall of Fame & Museum

Posted February 12th, 2008 at 1:46 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Masters

David Pain, founder of masters trackKen Stone over at Masters Track Blog is involved in a fascinating new project. It’s provided as a service by the USATF Masters T&F Committee and it’s billed as an online Masters Track Museum. Here’s what they envision for the site:
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Quote of the Day: 1/16/08

Posted January 16th, 2008 at 7:00 AM by Jeanie Rebb

Section: Motivation, Famous Quotes

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower


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Kenyan woman makes history at IAAF World Championships

Posted August 28th, 2007 at 2:47 PM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Special Features, Live Race Coverage

It was at the second IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 1987 when Kenya first put a man on the top step of the podium at 800m in either a world championships or an Olympic Games. Tonight, 20 years later, a Kenyan woman has finally duplicated that feat, joining legends Billy Konchellah, Paul Ruto, Paul Ereng and William Tanui as world or Olympic 800m champions.

Janeth Jepkosgei, the Commonwealth Games champion who ran the fastest-ever time in a world championships semi-final on Sunday, saved more than enough for tonight’s final, leading wire-to-wire in 1:56.04, a new Kenyan record.

“I’m so happy about it,” said Jepkosgei who is from the village of Kapsabet but now lives in Eldoret. “I was not really expecting it.”
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