They were called the USATF Golden Games.
They were called part of the Mt SAC Relays.
Whatever its name, it was the best T&F meet since the 2019 Doha World Championships!
(It WAS part of Mt SAC, so the following includes many Mt SAC Meet Records!!)
Rai Benjamin reduced the World Leader in the 400H from 48.6 to 47.13!
But he had some company in a guy unheard from recently--Kyron McMaster!
Benjamin gets the Meet Record, while McMaster's 47.50 is a PR by 0.04 seconds, and improves his British Virgin Islands National Record!
He's 18th A-T World!
Alison Dos Santos was fast also--47.68!
It's Brazil's NR, but he misses the World list by 0.02 seconds!!
Sha'Carri Richardson is being hailed as a "lock" for Gold in Tokyo, and her performance here gave that idea a lot of weight!
Her heat was merely 10.74, which crushed the Mt SAC MR!!
She ran "only" 10.77 in the final, but note she ran against a wind of 1.3!!!
Experts said it was worth at least a 10.69!
Still a good time, 11.08 took 2nd (Javianne Oliver), while Morolake Akinosun also ran 11.08, but in a heat!
Oh yes, Oliver ran 10.97 in her heat!!
It wasn't a MR, but Darrell Hill threw the Shot Put 73-3.50.
Josh Owatunde PR'ed in 2nd with 71-1.50!
He missed the US list by less than 2 inches!
Chris Nilsen got a World Leader and a Mt SAC MR with his PV of 19-4.75!
Elle Purrier is by far the fastest cow milking person in the world!!
Her 3:58.36 makes her 6th A-T US, and is the Meet Record!
Gabby Dubus-Stafford was over 2 seconds behind, most of it gained by Purrier in the final straightaway!
Her time was 4:00.69!
Close to the Canadian was Shannon Osika's 4:00.73!
This makes her 12th A-T US!!
In my Combined Events for the 1500 & 5000, Purrier's 3:58.36 and 14:58.12 adds to 18:56.48.
This makes her 8th A-T US!
The Women's 800 ('s) were great!
The "B" race (!!) saw Kate Grace beat Brenda Martinez, 1:59.72 to 1:59.87!
But what would the "A" race bring?
This!
A British and Canadian foursome took the first 4 spots!
Jemma Reekie's PR of 1:58.27 is the Mt SAC Meet Record!
Laura Muir was 2nd in 1:58.46.
Third went to Canadian Melissa Bishop-Nriagu in 1:58.62.
Fourth was Brit Adelle Tracey, her new PR being 1:59.50!
Raevyn Rogers followed in 1:59.66.
Then Heather McLean matched first race winner Grace's time!
Sinclaire Johnson broke 2 for the first time with 1:59.91.
And just missing was Allie Wilson with 2:00.01!
Wow!
Courtney Frerichs also got a Meet Record, winning the 3000SC in 9:27.70--call it a rust buster or a tempo run for her!!
Leah Falland ran 9:28.72 in 2nd, with Marisa Howard 3rd in 9:29.65!
She's now 15th A-T US!
Grayson Murphy finished 5th, but her 9:33.79 makes her 23rd A-T US!
And that gives Val Constien the caboose position on my US list with her 9:35.73!
The Women's Hurdles races both saw good races and fast times!
Shamier Little broke open the World Lead in the 400H with her 53.65!
It's also the MR, but 2nd placer Gianna Woodruff also made news!
Her 54.70 gives her Panama's National Record!
Kendra Harrison took care of business (and Tobi Amusan & Company) in the 100H with her 12.48!
Cindy Sember (formerly Ofili) PR'ed in 12.53.
Amusan was 3rd in 12.61, a time which Dewynne Charleton matched in 4th!
Charleton's is the National Record of the Bahamas!
Then came "rookie" High Hurdler Syd the Kid McLaughlin!
She's been PR'ing all year, but her 12.65 here really whacked it down--by 0.22 seconds!
Her 12.65 and 52.20 adds to 64:85, expanding her leads in my Combined Events lists for the World and US!!
Kat Stefanidi also got a Mt SAC MR (Ho hum!) with her PV of 15-9!
Katie Nageotte and Olivia Gruver both cleared 15-5, with Nageotte getting 2nd!
Let's run down the rest of what I have by event group, including the remainder of what happened at Mt SAC!
100-200-400
Some marks from the Pure Athletics Elite meet I missed last post are the 20.55 in the 200 by LaShawn Merritt!
Also a measly 10.78 by Elaine Thompson-Herah!
Cravon Gillespie took the Mt SAC 100 in 9.96 over the 9.99 of Isaiah Young!
(BTW, all times are legal, unless I specify they're windy!)
Noah Lyles got another Mt SAC Meet Record with his 200 in 19.90!
Kenny Bednarek competed well, ending in 19.94!
In another 200 race at the USATF meet, Erriyon Knighton took 0.01 seconds off his HS PRO Record (& Soph Class HS PRO Record) by winning his section in 20.30!
Michael Norman made an appearance, cruising a 44.40 to win the 400 over Michael Cherry's 44.86!
Tons of speculation over what Super Veteran Allyson Felix would run ended with her wind-aided 22.26 (2.1 wind) behind Gabby Thomas's 22.12!
If that had been legal, she wouldn't have come close to Merlene Ottey's Age 35 record of 21.93!!
The MEAC had a double winner in the 100 and 200, with NC A&T's Javonte Harding running 10.21 and 20.21.
Not bad for one of the "minor" Conferences!
Also at MEAC, we saw Randolph Ross speed 44.60 to win the one lapper!
Some odd distances were run at a German meet!
Pavel Maslak took the 150 in 15.74, while his 33.25 in the 300 matched the winner's mark!
A fish out of water was one Malaika Mihambo, who also took on the 150 and 300 in the Women's races!
Her times were pretty good for a 23+ foot Long Jumper!
She ran 17.44 and 37.47!
Christin Hering ran the 600 there in 1:26.61.
Finally, in a HS race, Conner Washington turned a 200 in 20.39, making him 14th A-T HS!!
800, 1500, 5000, 10000, Marathon
First, a small correction!
The West Coast Relays were in Clovis, not Fresno!
Marco Arop ran an 800 in 1:44.76.
In a separate meet, Bryce Hoppel's 800 took 1:45.43.
But Hoppel improved to 1:44.94, his negative splits being an impressive 53.6 and 51.3, at Mt SAC!
Also at Mt SAC, Ollie Hoare won a quick 1500 in 3:33.19!
He beat out Justyn Knight's 3:33.41 in the final straight!
Evan Jager ran over half of the 3000SC, but apparently was just pacing eventual winner Sean McGorty, not intending to finish!!
He did his job well, as McGorty's first ever Steeple beat out Jager's initial SC (from 2012), running 8:20.77!
Daniel Michalski followed in 8:21.25.
Obdi Ali was 3rd in 8:22.67!
Hicham Buchicha took over the World Lead in the 3000SC with his 8:15.88!
Mason Ferlic cruised a 5000 at Mt SAC in 13:24.34!
The Women's race went to Julie Anne-Staehli's 15:02.34.
Laura Galvan, who PR'ed recently in 15:11 plus, took another 9 seconds off that, her 15:02.48 being Mexico's new NR!
Back in the pack came the venerable Molly Huddle, jogging 15:23.24.
But then followed Maggie Montoya.
Everyone knows her story by now.
She was working at the pharmacy when the shooter started his massacre in Boulder!
She was interviewed later by Anderson Cooper for 10 minutes, a truly heartrending 10 minutes!
She took time out to recover--or try to!
The Mt SAC 5000 gave us beautiful proof that the strong and the courageous can overcome life's most tragic moments, as she ended her first race back with a time of 15:25.81, a more than 10 second PR!!
Welcome back, Maggie!!
A great Men's 1500 race took place in the Oregon Twilight meet!
A bit of an upset, as Yared Nuguse of Notre Dame edged out the speedy Duck duo of Cooper Teare and Cole Hocker!
Nuguse ran 3:35.96, making him 7th A-T Collegiate!
(BTW, as a reminder, I have completely separate lists for INdoor and OUTdoor, so if these places on lists are different than what T&FN says, it's because they do NOT separate the seasons, with their "absolute" lists!!)
Teare's 3:35.97 makes him 8th A-T Collegiate!
Hocker's 3:36.47 makes him 15th A-T Collegiate!
The Women's race was won by Whittni Orton in a non-PR time of 4:10.09!
A Portugal meet saw a few fast 10K's!
Rhonex Kipruto won the Men's race in 27:11.01.
But in the Women's race, Gudef Tsegay ran the fastest debut track 10000 ever!
Her 29:39.42 makes her 6th A-T World.
On my Combined Events list for the 3000, 5000, and 10000, Tsegay's 8:25.13, 14:46.22, and 29:39.42 adds to 52:50.77.
She is 8th A-T World there!
(But she'll run a much faster 5000 someday!)
In my C-E for the 5000 & 10000, her times add to 44:25.67.
She's 8th A-T World there also!
In 2nd was a surprising Kalkidan Gezehegne!
If you recall, she holds the Age 18 Record INdoors for the Mile, her 4:24.10 being run in 2010!
And there is SOME talk of a possible miscount of laps for Gezahegne--that she still had a lap to go--but this has NOT be substantiated!!
So for now, Gezahegne's 29:50.77 stands, and makes her suddenly 7th A-T World!!
The Japan National Record in the 3000SC fell to Rijayi Miura (sp??), time of 8:17.46!
Eliud Kipchoge won a marathon in the Netherlands on April 18th!
His time of 2:04:30 is the Age 36 Record!
(The Age 37 Record is Ken Bekele's 2:01:41!! You think Kipchoge can get that next year??)
A bit of HS stuff--
Nico Young's brother Lex Young ran a 3200 in 8:43.71.
Too bad it wasn't over the full Two Miles!
He's just a 10th Grader!!
Mia Barnett won the Women's 3200 in 10:01.18!
Brynn Brown doubled--in the 1600 and 3200--with times of 4:41.29 and 9:58.77!
Finally (in the distances!), we have Hobbs Kessler doubling in the 800 (1:49.67) and 3200 (8:54.42)!
In the latter race, his last 200 was a breezy 25.6!!
No, no, it wasn't wind-aided--I was just trying to sound cool--so to speak!
LJ, TJ, PV, HJ
Still with me??
I didn't want to put out two posts, so this is longer than normal!
In Georgia, Jasmine Moore TJ'ed 46-10!
This makes her 4th A-T Collegiate, and 7th A-T US!
It's also the Frosh Class Record!
Her 22-5 in the LJ and the 46-10 adds to 69-3 for the Combined Events LJ-TJ list!
She's 3rd A-T US here!
Tatiana Marsh was 2nd with 44-8!
Morgann LeLeux PV'ed 15-3.50!
Alina McDonald PV'ed 14-10.
Will Claye TJ'ed 56-3.25!
Kim Williams Triple Jumped 47-11.75 for the Mt SAC Meet Record!
She beat Keturah Orji's 47-2.25!
In Texas, Jeron Robinson HJ'ed 7-6.50!
So did Ushan Perera, but his 7-6.50 gave him Sri Lanka's NR!!
Hughes Zango TJ'ed 57-1.
That was in France.
Yulimar Rojas got the World Lead in the TJ with her 49-8.25!
That was in Spain!
Mutaz Barshim HJ'ed 7-6.50!
That meet ended with him tied with Naoto Tobe (sp??)!
(No jump off??)
In HS news, Conner McClure got the HS Leader in the PV with his 17-3.
SP, DT, JT, HT (and Relays!)
We lead with the best Women's Javelin Throw in at least 10 years!
Maria Andrejczyk hurled the spear out 234-3.
It's the National Record of Poland, and makes her 3rd A-T World!
Second went to Christina Hussong's 218-0, also a good mark for May!
Jillian Shippee had a HT of 225-2.
This makes her 24th A-T Collegiate!
Maggie Malone got a JT of 199-10!
Mason Finley's Discus sailed out 217-10!
Arman Sinencevic's SP of 71-9.50 is the National Record of Serbia!
Kord Ferguson's DT of 209-2 won Gold at the Golden Games!
Maggie Ewen's 63-4.75 beat Danielle Thomas-Dodd's 62-0.50 to win the Mt SAC event!
Gwen Berry won the HT there with 241-10!
But she later threw 246-10!
Ryan Crouser Put the Shot like--well, Ryan Crouser, hitting the ground at 74-5.50!
Felicia Johnson--Haven't heard from her in awhile!!--PR'ed to 63-9.75, making her 11th A-T US!
At the European Throws meet, Johannes Vetter reached 298-11 with the Javelin.
The marks weren't anything to speak of, but Anita Wlodarczyk made her first appearance since 2019 in the HT, taking 2nd with 237-5 behind Countrywoman Malwina Kapron's 238-11.
Bryce Foster matched his earlier 71-1 in the Shot Put!
And in the Relays, I should mention that USC's winning 42.63 and 3:29.72 times are Duel Meet Records!
Those of course were in the USC-UCLA Duel meet!
And that's it, folks!!
See you in a few days with all the Conference Results!
And much more!
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