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First U.S. double win since 2000; more than 4,700 finishers at 31st edition By Jim Gerweck, Running USA wire   NEW YORK – (September 24, 2011) – For almost every athlete participating in the Fifth Avenue Mile, the race serves as a celebratory conclusion to a long competitive season. For …

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 …

American record and three gold medals highlight historic night DAEGU, South Korea – It was a night made for milestones for Team USA  at the 13th IAAF World Outdoor Track and Field Championships Thursday night. During a 32-minute span, LaShinda Demus set an American Record in the women’s 400m hurdles, …

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 …

Desiree Davila has been named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the Week after she came within two seconds of winning the 115th Boston Marathon on Monday.  Davila ran in sixth place for much of the first half of the race, as New Zealand’s Kim Smith ran ahead to a …

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 …

Britain‰Ûªs Best, Farah, Coming to Boston  Ethiopian Dejen Gebremeskel to Challenge BOSTON (Jan. 20) ‰ÛÒ Mo Farah, the British Olympic Association‰Ûªs track and field athlete of 2010, is set to come ashore in Boston for the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix on February 5th, organizers announced today. Farah, the reigning …

NEW BALANCE NAMED TITLE SPONSOR OF NEW BALANCE INDOOR GRAND PRIX ‰ÛÏBoston Indoor Games‰Û Receives a New Title Sponsor and a New Name BOSTON (Jan. 11) ‰ÛÒ Organizers announced today that the Boston Indoor Games will return to Boston‰Ûªs Reggie Lewis Track & Athletics Center on Saturday, February 5th.  Well, …

Page numero uno of the 4-page Track section in the July/August issue of NER. The Pre Classic in Eugene Oregon on June 7 opened with field events 15 minutes before going live for two hours on NBC and, as they say, there’s nothing like being there‰ÛÓespecially when ‘there’ is hallowed …