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TFS News Briefs: 4/02/08

Posted April 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Track & Field, Olympics

Team USA Secret Weapons Revealed
Cooling vests used by Deena Kastor and Meb Keflezighi at the 2004 Olympics gave them the edge in the heat of the Athens marathons. What are USOC’s scientists doing now to prepare US athletes for Beijing? This Washington Post article reveals a Manhattan Project-like effort.
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Transitional Year For Oregon Track Team
An article in Eugene’s Register Guard provides a good overview of the current states of the University of Oregon’s track team Ducks’ coach Vin Lananna said, “we’re looking at this year as a very interesting gap. We have a spectacularly young team, and how we do depends on their learning curve … but honestly, we need to be focusing our attention on 2010 when the NCAAs are here [in Eugene, OR]. That’s when we need to be firing on all cylinders, and we’ve got two years to get it right.”
Read more at: [The Register-Guard]

Warehouse No. 812 May Spawn Olympians
An article in Northern California’s Modesto Bee profiles Tri-Valley Athletics who train in Warehouse No. 812 located in an old Navy warehouse at the Port of Stockton. Athletes include two-time Olympian Suzy Powell, pole vaulter Tye Harvey and his wife Three-time Olympian Amy Acuff.
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Richards, Walker and Jeter win at World Athletics Final

Posted September 24th, 2007 at 8:30 AM by Martin Kennedy

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

Sanya Richards closed out her European season in style Sunday, winning the women’s 400 in the second and final day of competition at the IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart, Germany.

Richards continued in her impressive string of world-leading wins in the women’s 400. Coming off world leaders in the last three Golden League meets, Richards dropped another WL on Sunday with her time of 49.27, tying her winning time from Berlin last Sunday. Novlene Williams of Jamaica was second in 50.12; American Mary Wineberg was seventh in 50.73.

World champion Brad Walker continued his excellence in the men’s pole vault. As the only person in the field to clear 5.91m/19-5.75, Walker topped the rest of the field by 5 cm. American Jeff Hartwig placed sixth in the field with 5.70m/18-8.25.

World Outdoor bronze medalist Carmelita Jeter posted her second big win of the season, taking the women’s 100 in 11.10, with Osaka 200m gold medalist Allyson Felix second in 11.15 and World Outdoor 100m silver medalist Lauryn Williams fifth in 11.31. Jeter also won the 100 in Berlin last Sunday.
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World’s best to compete at 33rd Nike Prefontaine Classic

Posted June 7th, 2007 at 7:00 AM by Martin Kennedy

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

Many of the world’s finest track and field athletes, including Jeremy Wariner, Allen Johnson, Asafa Powell, Michelle Perry, Bryan Clay, Reese Hoffa, Walter Davis, Maria Mutola, Bernard Lagat, Kenenisa Bekele and Liu Xiang, among many others, will compete Sunday at the 2007 Nike Prefontaine Classic at historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.

The fourth event of USA Track & Field’s 2007 Outdoor Visa Championship Series, the Nike Prefontaine Classic will be televised live on NBC, Sunday, June 10, from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Lagat, Webb to continue rivalry in Bowerman Mile

As always, the headline event of the Nike Prefontaine Classic is the Bowerman Mile, which this year features nine runners with lifetime mile bests under 4-minutes. The Hayward Field and Prefontaine Classic record of 3 minutes 49.92 seconds set six years ago by Hicham El Guerrouj could be in jeopardy.
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Moore steals the show at Modesto Relays

Posted May 8th, 2007 at 4:31 PM by Jamal Walker

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

Hurdler Anwar Moore posted a career best performance and the fastest time in the world this year Saturday at the 66th Coca-Cola Modesto Relays in Modesto, Calif.

A 28-year-old graduate of St. Augustine College, Moore won the race in 13.12 seconds, which betters the previous fastest time in the world this year by world record holder Xiang Lui of China, who clocked 13.14 earlier Saturday at the Osaka Grand Prix. Moore’s previous career best time of 13.23 was set at Modesto in 2005.
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USATF Teleconference Q&A with Shalane Flanagan

Posted April 21st, 2007 at 2:29 PM by David Monti

Section: News & Results

USATF hosted a teleconference with Shalane Flanagan, the American record holder for 5000m outdoors (14:44.80) and 3000m indoors (8:33.25), yesterday. Here are excerpts:

Q: Tell us about your race.

A: Like Suzy, I had been training pretty hard, and to have it translate into a race is pretty nice. Before the race, my coach said I was capable of running anywhere from 14:35 to 15 flat. We knew that if the weather was good, we had a chance, but it is very early in the season. To have it all work out was pretty nice. I thought I was going to be real close [to the record], and I usually feel I thrive off of competition. So to run fast by myself was great.

Q: What do you think your time would be comparable to if you had the Ethiopians there to pull you around the track?

A: I like to think that by the end of the summer when I’m running with some of the top women, I’ll be able to run about 10 seconds faster. That effort felt very comfortable until the last 1,000.
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Shalane Flanagan named Athlete of the Week by USATF

Posted April 17th, 2007 at 8:00 PM by Martha Jones

Section: News & Results

Shalane Flanagan has been named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the Week after setting an American Record in the women’s 5,000 meters Friday at the 2007 Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif.

A 2004 Olympian and the 2005 USA Outdoor 5,000m champion, Flanagan won the women’s 5,000m in 14 minutes 44.80 seconds, bettering the previous U.S. record of 14:45.35 set by Regina Jacobs in Sacramento, Calif., on July 21, 2000. Earlier this year in February, Flanagan was victorious in the 3,000 meters at the AT&T USA Indoor Championships in Boston after setting the U.S. Indoor record at that distance of 8:33.25 on January 27.

Another notable performance over the weekend came from two-time Olympian Suzy Powell, who bettered the women’s U.S. discus throw record Saturday at the inaugural Maui “Big Wind” Discus Challenge in Wailuku, Hawaii, presented by Ironwood Throwers. Powell won the event on her fifth throw of the competition that sailed 67.67 meters/222 feet, which surpasses the 21-year old U.S. women’s record of 66.10m/216-10 set by Carol Cady in 1986.
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