Track And Field

World Champions McLaughlin-Levrone and Jackson set for 60m dash at New Balance Indoor Grand Prix on Feb. 4 Pair of world championships stepping down in distance for 28th-annual event Boston, Mass. (Jan. 24, 2023) – Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Shericka Jackson, the reigning world champions in the 400m hurdles and 200m, …

SCOTSMAN GOURLEY TAKES TOP PRIZE AT KALAKAUA MERRIE MILEBy Rich Sands, @sands(c) 2022 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved   HONOLULU (10-Dec) — Neil Gourley used a strong closing sprint to win a unique battle of the sexes race in the Kalakaua Merrie Mile here this morning. In warm, but …

Alda Cossi, Viki Bok, Mary Cass and Lauren Leslie. Photo courtesy of John Barbour       It was only a matter of time until serial trivia follower and Liberty AC ace Alda Cossi hit paydirt with NER’s Trivia quiz every issue. Aldi’s gotten the previous two issue’s questions correct, …

INGEBRIGTSEN, MU WIN FINAL DISTANCE GOLD MEDALS AT WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS     By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2022 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved     EUGENE (24-Jul) — On the tenth and final day of the 18th World Athletics Championships here at Hayward Field, Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway …

MU HOLDS OFF WILSON TO RETAIN USATF 800M TITLE By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2022 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved     EUGENE (26-Jun) — In one of the most anticipated match-ups at these USATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships here at Hayward Field, two-time Olympic gold medalist Athing …

SCHWEIZER, KLECKER TAKE USA 10,000M TITLES IN CLOSE RACES     By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2022 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved (28-May)     The men’s podium finishers from the 2022 USATF 10,000m Championships (left to right): Joe Klecker (1st), Grant Fisher (2nd), Sean McGorty (3rd) (photo via …

GREGOREK, RODENFELS CAPTURE B.A.A. INVITATIONAL MILE TITLES     By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2022 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved     BOSTON (16-Apr) — Two athletes with strong Boston ties won today’s 12th annual B.A.A. Invitational Mile held on the streets of Back Bay this morning.  Johnny Gregorek, …

SPANIARDS SHINE AT NEW BALANCE INDOOR GRAND PRIX     By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2022 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved     STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (06-Feb) — Distance athletes from Spain were in the spotlight at today’s 27th New Balance Indoor Grand Prix at the Ocean Breeze Track …

SURPRISING RODENFELS HAS GONE FROM NCAA D-III CHAMPION TO WORLD LEADERBy David Monti, @d9monti(c) 2022 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved  Annie Rodenfels in Boston in the fall of 2021 (photo by Collin Woodruff, @apertureangles; used with permission) (03-Feb) — When Annie Rodenfels left Centre College in Danville, Ky., in …

Is the Quad at UMass/Amherst overflowing with revelers? Are the cows mooing in Montgomery, VT? Should be.   Two-thirds of the women’s Olympic 1500 team are New Englanders, members of Team New Balance Boston and graduates of UMass/Amherst and UNH.     In 94-degree heat, VT’s Elle Purrier St. Pierre …