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Tadese Tola Breaks Healthy Kidney 10K Record
Posted May 16th, 2009 at 11:49 AM by Adam Jacobs
Section: News & Results, Road Racing
Tadese Tola of Ethiopia won the New York Road Runners Healthy Kidney 10K on Saturday, May 16, in recording breaking time (27:48), besting second-place finisher Patrick Makau and third-place finisher Boaz Cheboiywo, both of Kenya.
Tola earned $7500 for the victory and an additional $20,000 bonus for shattering the previous Central Park course record of 28:08, set by American distance runner Dathan Ritzenhein at the 2007 Healthy Kidney 10k.
Stay tuned for more coverage later today…
Barringer Gets NCAA 3000m Record at Indoor Champs
Posted March 15th, 2009 at 12:18 PM by Bob Ramsak
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, College
Jenny Barringer smashed the USA collegiate record in the 3000m on Saturday as the NCAA Indoor Championships concluded in College Station, Tex., but Sally Kipyego failed to bag her record tenth NCAA title.
Dominating the 15-lap race, the University of Colorado senior clocked 8:42.03 to break the 8:48.77 collegiate standard set by Kipyego at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games last month. Her performance made the 2008 Olympic steeplechase finalist the fourth-fastest performer of the year with the fifth-fastest run. Moreover, she is now the fifth-fastest American ever over the distance.
“I wanted to run for time, get something out there that would stay around for awhile,” said Barringer, who now holds four collegiate records. Earlier this season, she ran 4:25.91 for the mile and 15:01.70 at 5000m. At the Olympics in Beijing last year, she clocked 9:22.26 in the 3000m steeplechase, which is also a USA record.
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Defar Clocks 9:06.26 World Best For Two Miles In Prague
Posted February 27th, 2009 at 12:04 PM by Bob Ramsak
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
Meseret Defar capped her short but sterling indoor campaign with a 9:06.26 world best to highlight a thoroughly entertaining inaugural edition of the aptly named Meeting of World Record Holders meet in the Czech capital tonight (26).
“My goal was to get three world records this season,” said Defar, who eight days ago broke the world indoor mark in the 5000m with a 14:24.37 run in Stockholm. “I only missed one, so that’s not bad.”
But her assault on her own 9:10.50 standard in the rarely run event set just over a year ago in Boston didn’t come easily. Frustrated behind pacesetter Ksenia Agafonova for the first mile, Defar had a lot of ground to make up after reaching midway in just under 4:38. Urged on by her husband who was shouting out splits in Amharic from trackside, Defar managed to up the tempo to cover the final mile in under 4:29.
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Defar Captures 5000m World Indoor Record in Stockholm
Posted February 18th, 2009 at 6:19 PM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
Meseret Defar, who lost her 5000m world record to Tirunesh Dibaba last summer, evened the score tonight at the GE Galan meeting at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, clocking a new world indoor record of 14:24.37. That eclipsed Dibaba’s 14:27.42 from the Reebok Boston Indoor Games in January, 2007.
Defar, 25, the reigning world 5000m champion, now holds both the world 3000m (8:23.72) and 5000m indoor records, and has also run the world’s best ever time for two miles indoors (9:10.50). The two-mile mark is not recognized by the IAAF as a world record distance.
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American and Collegiate Records for Rupp at Tyson Invitational
Posted February 15th, 2009 at 12:04 PM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
The University of Oregon’s Galen Rupp set an American and collegiate indoor record at last night’s Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark., covering 5000m in 13:18.12. Rupp, a senior and the reigning NCAA cross country champion, finished second to Ethiopia’s Bekana Daba (13:17.89) and Liberty University’s Samuel Chelanga (13:19.79). Chelanga, a Kenyan, was also defeated by Rupp at last November’s NCAA Cross Country Championships.
Rupp’s time beat one of America’s most venerable indoor records, the 13:20.55 run by Doug Padilla on the wooden, 145m track in Madison Square Garden at the 1982 Millrose Games.
“The crowd was great,” Rupp told the Oregon sports information department. “Everyone got into it. Awesome atmosphere.”
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Bolt Amazes with 9.69 100m World Record in Beijing
Posted August 16th, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Bob Ramsak
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics
Underscoring the world record performance that thrust him into the sprint spotlight late last spring, Usain Bolt did himself even one better in Beijing, cruising to a 9.69 world record to demolish the field in the final of the men’s 100 meters on the second day of action at the National Stadium.
“My aim was just to be the Olympic champion,” said Bolt, who lowered the 9.72 mark he set in New York City on May 31. “I wasn’t thinking about a world record.”
With a performance that defied the imagination, Bolt’s assessment seemed to be quite on target. Clearly ahead of Trinidad’s Richard Thompson 40 meters into the race, he then forged onward to build a lead so massive that some 75 meters into the race, he began to look side to side, dropping his arms and gesturing as if to ask, ‘Where is everybody?’
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5.03m World Pole Vault Record by Isinbayeva in Rome
Posted July 11th, 2008 at 5:39 PM by Bob Ramsak
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
In her first competition of the season, Yelena Isinbayeva broke her own world record in the pole vault clearing 5.03m (16.50 ft) at the Golden Gala AF Golden League meet in Rome.
Her mark, made on her second attempt, added two centimeters to the mark she set at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki.
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Jordan Hasay Breaks High School Record and Qualifies for 1500m Finals
Posted July 5th, 2008 at 1:28 AM by Stephanie Lowe
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics
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Records continue to fall at The U.S. Olympic Trials. Jordan Hasay, 16, just ran 4:14.50 in the semifinal round of the women’s 1500 meters to break the national high school record.
Shannon Rowbury won the first heat in 4:11.75. She and Tiffany McWilliams (4:12.80) moved up front after the first lap. At 800 meters, McWilliams was in the lead in 2:16. She led through the bell lap, but was passed by Rowbury and Amy Mortimer (4:12.89) in the end.
There were two high schoolers in the second heat, Hasay and Christine Babcock (4:20.00). Babcock got out fast with Erin Donohue (4:13.01), but could not maintain the speed past the first lap. Christine Wurth-Thomas (4:12.66) took the lead at 500 meters. Wurth-Thomas, Donohue, Lindsey Gallo (4:12.54) and Morgan Uceny (4:13.61) went through 800 meters in 2:17.68 and finished in the same order. The real action was going on behind the top four women when Hasay moved from near the back of the pack to a fifth-place finish and new high school record.
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Willard Breaks American Record in Women’s Steeplchase Final
Posted July 4th, 2008 at 1:47 AM by Stephanie Lowe
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics
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Fireworks lit the night sky as Anna Willard shattered the American record in the Olympic Trials 3000m Steeplechase. She ran the race in 9:27.59. Lindsey Anderson (9:30.75) and Jenny Barringer (9:33.11) will join her in Beijing.
Going into the race, Willard and Barringer both wanted the record. Willard tried at the American Milers Club meet in Indianapolis and Barringer came close at the NCAA DI Championships, but neither succeeded. This was the day to do it. Barringer was in front until the last 800 meters.
“I wanted to go out and set the stage for an American record,” she said.
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Tyson Gay Sets New 100m American Record
Posted June 28th, 2008 at 10:04 PM by Jay Hicks
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics
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After nearly missing the finals, Tyson Gay set a new American record of 9.77 in the men’s quarterfinal heat. Gay potentially could have set a new world record had he not slowed down the final meters.
In the race, Gay set the new American record, Hayward Field Record, and the Olympic Trials Record of 9.79 previously held by Maurice Greene.
The quarterfinal heats saw six times under 10-seconds. Travis Padgett ran the fastest time ever by a collegiate. It was also the first time sub 10-seconds for Darvis Patton while winning his heat.
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