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Team USA wins 25 medals at World Championships DAEGU, South Korea ‰ÛÓ Team USA closed out the 13th IAAF World Outdoor Track and Field Championships adding two more gold medals to its collection, while Allyson Felix and Bernard Lagat achieved milestones as multi-time medalists Sunday night. Team USA led the …

Merritt wins 400m silver at World Championships DEAGU, South Korea – LaShawn Merritt became just the fourth athlete to earn three career medals in the men‰Ûªs 400-meter dash after earning a silver medal in the finals at the 13th IAAF World Championships Tuesday night. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Angelo Taylor …

Team USA named for Jr. Pan Am Championships INDIANAPOLIS — Seventy-nine young athletes have been selected to represent the United States at the 2011 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships July 22-24 in Miramar, Fla. Athletes were selected after competing at the U.S. Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships June 23-25 …

MYRTLE BEACH S.C. – Forty young athletes have been selected to represent the United States at the IAAF World Youth Championships July 6-10 in Lille, France. Athletes were selected after competing in the World Youth Track & Field Trials in Myrtle Beach, S.C. June 28-29. Youth athletes must be born …

INDIANAPOLIS – Masters athlete and noted jazz musician Nolan Shaheed has been named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the Week after he broke his own world record in the M60 800 meter race in 2:08.56 Saturday in Los Angeles. Running at the Tommie “Tiny” Lister Classic, Shaheed lined-up next …

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ‰ÛÓ Two-time Olympic medalist Bernard Lagat was the victor in his highly-anticipated Nike Men’s 3,000 meter race against 2008 Olympian Galen Rupp at the 2011 USA Indoor Track & Field Championships presented by BMW in Albuquerque, N.M. The third and final event of the USA Track & Field …

BOSTON ‰ÛÓRussell Brown and Phoebe Wright aren’t yet household names in U.S. middle-distance circles, but they may well be after Brown won the New Balance men’s mile and Wright took the women’s 800 Saturday night at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix.  Competing in the most anticipated race of the …

WEEK IN REVIEW — JANUARY 17-23 (From USATF Statistician Glen McMicken)   MILLROSE HEADLINERS SHOW WELL IN TUNE-UPS  Reigning world indoor and outdoor shot put champion Christian Cantwell, who has said he will undergo shoulder surgery after the Millrose Games, opened his brief 2011 indoor season with a world-leading win …

Rudisha and Langat Recognized for Records, Consistency, Medals   NEW YORK (December 31) — Race Results Weekly, the wire service of distance running, announced today that Kenyans David Rudisha and Nancy Jebet Langat had been selected the Race Results Weekly 2010 Runners of the Year.  RRW, the world’s most comprehensive …

USATF Athletes Advisory Committee elects leadership USA Track & Field‰Ûªs Athletes Advisory Committee elected its officers and event leaders earlier this week at the 2010 USATF Annual Meeting at the Virginia Beach Convention Center in Virginia Beach, Va.  Individuals elected to two-year terms include: USATF Athletes Advisory Committee Officers   …