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CENTROWITZ NIPS WILLIS IN FAST NYRR WANAMAKER MILE **Centrowitz Becomes Fourth-Fastest Ever Indoors in 3:50.63 By Chris Lotsbom; @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved (Used with permission) NEW YORK (20-Feb) — In a highly anticipated rematch that drew comparisons to the famed Ali-Frazier bout of 1971, the …

FOUR WORLD LEADS IN DISTANCE EVENTS AT NEW BALANCE INDOOR GRAND PRIX By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved (Used with permission) BOSTON (13-Feb) -- Any questions as to whether Meseret Defar is the same athlete now as she was before giving birth to baby …

Shalane Flanagan ‰ÛÏThat was the hardest marathon I‰Ûªve probably run in terms of the last 6 miles being the hardest. I just got done getting an IV. Never had one of those before. Clearly it took its toll on me today and I had to fight to just make the …

Pla c e Bib Na me T ime Diff 1 M7 6 Galen Rupp 02:11:12 2 M1 Meb Keflezighi 02:12:20 +01:08.00 3 M12 Jared Ward 02:13:00 +01:47.24 4 M3 Luke Puskedra 02:14 :12 +02:59.23 5 M15 T yler Pennel 02:14 :57 +03:44.19 6 M10 Matthew Llano 02:15:16 +04:03.4 1 7 …

Pla c e Bib Na me T ime Diff 1 W4 Amy Cragg 02:28:20 2 W2 Desiree Linden 02:28:54 +00:33.23 3 W1 Shalane Flanagan 02:29:19 +00:58.9 3 4 W3 Kara Goucher 02:30:24 +02:03.4 8 5 W17 4 Janet Bawcom 02:31:14 +02:53.24 6 W8 Kellyn T aylor 02:32:50 +04:29.4 5 7 …

RUPP, CRAGG PREVAIL IN HOT USA OLYMPIC TRIALS MARATHON By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved Used with permission LOS ANGELES (12-Feb) — On a day that will be remembered for the harsh wrath of mother nature and its crippling heat, Galen Rupp and Amy …

The exclusive group of 211 men and 246 women who have qualified for the USA Olympic Marathon Trials is actually comprised of smaller, even more exclusive cliques, like “A” qualifiers (27 men and 42 women), sub-2:12 men (9), sub-2:30 women (10), and Olympians (7 men and 16 women).    But …

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Race Result Weekly (Used with permission) NEW YORK (06-Feb) -- Before stepping onto the 200-meter oval for the invitational mile at the Armory Track Invitational here today, high schooler Drew Hunter of Purcellville, Va., had to overcome an unexpected opponent: a badly knotted shoelace. Hunter, 18, who moments later would …