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Quick Results
Editor: The post Boston Marathon calendar looked light but, in fact, numerous competitions produced many notable results. See below for performances by Brittany Brown, Athing Mu, Katelyn Tuohy, Robyn Stevens and more.
Brittany Brown runs a windy 10.66: Brown, best known for her unexpected silver medal in the 200m at the 2019 World Championships, ran an eye-popping, wind-aided 10.66 100m (3.2 m/s) to win the 100m at the Michael Johnson Invitational on Saturday. Gabby Thomas finished second (10.80) and Tamara Clark third (10.81). After the race, Thomas tried to drum up some attention for Brown, who has only 3,248 followers on Instagram as I write this. Brown ran a personal best 10.99 at the beginning of the month, but her latest time makes her the seventh-fastest “all conditions” (ignoring wind readings) 100m runner of all time. (Results | More weekend sprint highlights)
Athing Mu runs her first 800m since August: Also at the Michael Johnson Invitational, hosted by Baylor, Mu ran 2:02.07 to win the 800m by more than three seconds. The meet wasn’t televised, so I don’t know how it played out.
Another freshman record for Sadie Engelhardt: California’s Engelhardt ran 9:50.69 for 3200m and lowered her own freshman class national record. Shortly after, she split 57.2 on a 4x400m relay.
Katelyn Tuohy’s 5,000m leads the NCAA: On Friday night at the Virginia Challenge, NC State’s Tuohy ran 15:14.61 to win the 5,000m over Michigan State’s Jenna Magness (15:26.21) and Johns Hopkins’ Ella Baran (15:49.09, No. 2 all-time DIII). Tuohy’s time makes her the eighth-fastest of all time in the NCAA. At the same meet, Michaela Meyer won the 1500m in 4:11.03, and Virginia freshman Mia Barnett finished a close second in an NCAA-leading 4:11.32.
Wins for Angel Piccirillo, Aneta Konieczek at Oregon Relays: Vanessa Fraser led the Oregon Relays 1500m with one lap to go, but she was outkicked by a trio of runners led by Angel Piccirillo, now running for the Oregon Track Club, who won in 4:13.45 (finish video). It looked like Oregon’s Aneta Konieczek was going to win the steeplechase until Oregon State’s Grace Fetherstonhaugh fought back coming off the last barrier and Konieczek barely held her off, 9:44.72 to 9:44.76 (finish video).
Alabama’s Amaris Tyynismaa returns: It was good to see Alabama’s Amaris Tyynismaa run 16:04.54 to win the 5,000m at the Crimson Tide Invitational. After her big breakthrough year last year, including a third-place finish at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, she did not race for six months, from the end of October until a few weeks ago.
Eilish McColgan runs 14:45 5K: In an event set up by Asics, designed to showcase the new METASPEED+ shoes, McColgan had the biggest run of the day, winning the 5K in a British record of 14:45. (It helps to have fast athletes in your shoes.) Kenya’s Vicoty Chepngeno won the 10K in 31:39, and Ethiopia’s Yeshi Kalayu Chekole won the half marathon in 1:07:30. I haven’t seen full results yet but Makenna Myler apparently ran 32:39 in the 10K.
Courtney Dauwalter wins MIUT: Dauwalter won the Madeira Island Ultra-Trail race, a 115K with 23,000 feet of climbing, in 14:40:35. Dauwalter had a close race with France’s Audrey Tanguy early on but ultimately won by 94 minutes. (Results)
Jazmine Lowther wins Canyons 100K: Canada’s Lowther took one second (!) off the course record at the Canyons by UTMB 100K, winning in 10:01:54. She led from the beginning, but behind her, there was a closer competition, with Leah Yingling (10:24:51) and Aroa Sio (10:27:42) going 2–3 to grab the two remaining golden tickets to the Western States 100. (Results)
Kalie Demerjian wins USATF 100K title: The MadCity Ultras hosted Saturday’s USATF 100K Championships and Demerjian won in 7:56:21, earning a spot on the U.S. team for the IAU 100K World Championships in August. Megan Canfield, 61, finished fourth overall in 10:30:43 and set an age-group world record for 50 miles en route. Ildi Gaal made a last-minute trip to the race to celebrate finishing PT school and won the 50K in 3:28:37. (Results)
Robyn Stevens sets an American record: Stevens racewalked 35K in 2:49:29 (that’s 7:47/mile!) in Dudince, Slovakia, to set a pending American record.
More Results:
- Kenya’s Vibian Chepkurui won the Vienna City Marathon in a course record 2:20:59, four seconds ahead of countrywoman Ruth Chebitok.
- Kenya’s Maurine Chepkemoi won the Enschede Marathon in 2:21:10.
- Dolphine Nyaboke Omare of Kenya won Japan’s Gifu Half Marathon in 1:08:13, and Sinead Diver of Australia (1:09:00) was second.
- Dom Scott won the South African 5,000m title in 15:28.10, and Caster Semenya (15:31.50) finished second.
- McKale Montgomery won the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon in 2:41:06. And her training partner won the men’s race.
- Sydney Devore won the Glass City Marathon in 2:41:26.
- Camille Herron was hoping to run 100 miles in 12 hours at the Centurion Running 100, but she stopped around 70 miles. She still broke a handful of masters records along the way.
- The USATF Masters 10K Championships took place on Sunday. Jessica Smith, 41, ran 36:01 and was the overall masters winner.
