25-year-old Galen Rupp shattered the American record for 10,000 meters by running 26:48.00 on Friday night in Brussels, eclipsing the 26:59.60 that Chris Solinsky set last year on May 1st. In getting the AR, Rupp finished third in the race, which was won by Kenenisa Bekele in a 2011 world-leading time of 26:43.16. - letsrun.com . Training partner and 5K world champ Mo Farah has been saying all along Rupp is in this kind of shape (Farah ran 26:46 in June at the Prefontaine classic). Video...Read Full Story
Galen Rupp and Amy Begley each repeated as national champions at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The majority of Thursday's events were for the junior outdoor championships, so the men's and women's 10,000 races took center stage. Rupp won his second straight national outdoor title on Thursday night, winning in 28 minutes, 59.29 seconds. Begley beat hometown favorite Lisa Koll with a big kick about 500 meters from the finish and won in 32:06.45. Erica McLain won the triple jump...Read Full Story
BOSTON (Reuters) - American Bernard Lagat made a blistering kick to crush the U.S. record in his first indoor 5,000 meters, finishing in 13:11.50 at the 15th Boston Indoor Games Saturday. Ethiopia's double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba was 20 seconds off the world record in the women's 5,000m but her 14:44.53 was easily the year's fastest. Olympic 1,500m silver medalist Nick Willis of New Zealand launched his comeback from 2009 surgery with the fastest mile of 2010, 3:55.26, to pip...Read Full Story
With a smile and a wave — not to mention a win — Galen Rupp bid goodbye to college and started a new chapter in his career. Rupp easily won the 10,000 meters on the track at Hayward Field at the U.S. championships, his last race representing the University of Oregon. On Saturday, Rupp plans to interview agents, and then he'll likely ponder endorsement deals while preparing for the world championships in Berlin in August. And he will continue on his quest to chip away at Kenya's domination of...Read Full Story
Galen Rupp won from in front Saturday at the USA Track & Field Classic in Fayetteville, Ark. In fact, he was virtually by himself for most of the way while setting the U.S. record in the indoor two mile, finishing in 8 minutes 9.72 seconds to ...
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Galen Rupp, center, smiles as he responds to a question during a news conference of runners participating in the Indoor Grand Prix athletics meet in Boston, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. , Mo Farah, the current 5000-meter world hampion smiles, left, as ...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Jillian Camarena-Williams and Galen Rupp set American records as five world-leading marks -- including one in each round of the women's 60 meters -- were posted at Saturday's USA Track & Field Classic. The third stop of USATF's 2012 ...
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EUGENE, Ore. -- Abdi Abdirahman, Galen Rupp and Jorge Torres have qualified for the U.S. Olympic team in the men's 10,000 meters. Abdirahman, the U.S. champion who finished seventh at worlds last year, finished in 27 minutes, 41.89 seconds Friday ...