North Rockland HS of New York sophomore Katelyn Tuohy breaks the national high school record in the girls’ mile at the 2018 New Balance Nationals on June 17th in Greensboro, North Carolina!
Shalane Flanagan Makes a Winning Run in New York
The 36-year-old is the first American woman in 40 years to win the New York City Marathon
Until Flanagan methodically dismantled the overwhelming favorite, three-time defending champion Mary Keitany of Kenya over the final Manhattan miles, breaking into a grin and then tears as she crossed the finish-line tape in 2 hours, 26 minutes and 53 seconds—no broken leg required.
Flanagan was raised by two former elite runners in Marblehead, Mass., where trips to watch the Boston Marathon were a regular childhood ritual. Her own elite career has spanned more than a decade, since winning back to back NCAA cross country titles for UNC Chapel Hill in 2002 and 2003, the silver medal in the 10,000 meters at the 2008 Olympics, and a seven-year marathoning career with a personal best of 2:21:14 in 2014 in Berlin.
.. her 6th place finish at the Rio Olympics
d ‘I missed my nap for this’: 101-year-old sprinter breaks 100-meter dash record
Meet 101-year-old Julia “Hurricane” Hawkins, who on Saturday became the oldest female athlete to ever compete in the USA Track and Field Outdoors Masters Championships. Not only that, but by running the 100 meters in 40.12 seconds, she shaved more than six seconds off the current certified world record for women aged 100 or older.
.. “I’m always outside and the phone always rings, and I come running in is how I knew I could run,” she told The Post last month.