DULUTH, Minn. - (June 16, 2012) - 2012 Olympic Marathon team members Abdi Abdirahman (Tucson, Ariz.) and Kara Goucher (Portland, Ore.) lived up to their pre-race favorite status, taking the respective men's and women's titles at Saturday's USA Half Marathon Championships in Duluth, Minnesota. Abdirahman, 35, scored his … [Read more...]
Kiplagat Wins NYRR Mini 10K
June 10, 2012 By
NEW YORK - (June 9, 2012) - On a day when the NYRR New York Mini 10K celebrated 40 years of being the first, and often the best, women-only race in the world, Kenya's Edna Kiplagat used some nostalgia of her own to pull away from Aheza Kiros of Ethiopia for a victory under cloudy and somewhat muggy conditions in … [Read more...]
Didrikson, Johnson, O’Brien named to IAAF Hall
June 7, 2012 By
Olympic champions and record holders Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson, Michael Johnson and Dan O'Brien are the latest American track and field legends to be included among the 24 inaugural members of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) Hall of Fame. … [Read more...]
Hartle named Athlete of the Week
May 24, 2012 By
INDIANAPOLIS - Nick Hartle has been named USA Track and Field’s Athlete of the Week after winning the 400m, 800m, 1600m and 3200m Friday and Saturday at the 4A Nevada High School State Championships. … [Read more...]
Bak, Goucher Win Inaugural Portland Half
May 21, 2012 By
PORTLAND, Ore. - May 20, 2012 - At the first ever Rock 'n' Roll Portland Half Marathon, it was an Oregon sweep Sunday as two in-state residents took home titles. Ryan Bak of Bend and U.S. marathon star and Olympian Kara Goucher, who trains locally with the Oregon Track Club, each prevailed in dramatically different … [Read more...]
Miller, Kampf take mile titles
May 18, 2012 By
MINNEAPOLIS - Craig Miller (Madison, Wis.) and Heather Kampf (Minneapolis, Minn.) took the respective men’s and women’s titles at the USA 1 Mile Road Championships Thursday evening in Minneapolis, Minnesota. … [Read more...]
Stellar Masters Field for Freihofers 2012
May 16, 2012 By
Defending Freihofer’s Run for Women champion Lisa Harvey is set to headline another strong masters field at the 34th annual Freihofer’s Run for Women 5K on Saturday, June 2nd in Albany, New York … [Read more...]
Bawcom Smashes US Record
May 15, 2012 By
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - May 12, 2012 - Janet Bawcom (Rome, Ga.) ran a pending U.S. Record of 1 hour, 24 minutes, 36 seconds in winning the women's crown Saturday at the USA 25K Championships. The old mark - 1:24:43 - was set here in 1986 by running legend Joan Benoit Samuelson. For the men, Joseph Chirlee (Colorado … [Read more...]
Daniele Meucci takes Healthy Kidney
May 14, 2012 By
NEW YORK - May 12, 2012 - At the start of the UAE Healthy Kidney 10K on Saturday morning, the buzz was all about the 2012 U.S. Men's Olympic Marathon team of Meb Keflezighi, Ryan Hall and Abdi Abdirahman, who would be competing in the same race for the first and probably only time between January's U.S. Olympic … [Read more...]
Barron, Melville top US finishers at Walking Cup
May 14, 2012 By
Trevor Barron and Miranda Melville led Team USA as competition in the 25th edition of the World Race Walking Cup concluded Sunday in Saransk, Russia. Competition began Saturday with the junior men’s and women’s 10 km races and the men’s 20 km race and finished Sunday with the women’s 20 km race and men’s 50 km race. … [Read more...]
