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Join us for one (or more) of these great upcoming trips. www.trackandfieldnews.com/tours Track & Field News Tours 2570 W El Camino Real, Suite 220 Mountain View, CA 94040 [email protected] Phone 650/948-8188 • Fax 650/948-9445 TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 73, No. 1 January 2020 From The Editor — The Decade’s World Records Revisited . 4 Who Was Pictured On The Decade’s Covers? . 6 A Year-By-Year Look Back At The Decade Of The Teens . 8 David Rudisha Leads The Decade’s Top 10 Men . 11 Anita Włodarczyk Heads The Decade’s Top 10 World Women . 12 Christian Taylor Atop The Decade’s Top 10 U .S . Men . 13 Brittney Reese Is No. 1 Among The Decade’s Top 10 U.S. Women . 14 Overall Decade Miscellany For The Teens . 16 The Decade’s Top 10 Men By Event . 18 The Decade’s Top 10 Women By Event . 21 The Decade’s Top 10 Collegiate Men . 24 The Decade’s Top 10 Collegiate Women . 25 The Decade’s Top 10 High School Boys . 26 The Decade’s Top 10 High School Girls . 27 New Balance GP — Women’s Long Races Sparkle . 28 Sander Invitational — Fine Putting By Jessica Ramsey . 29 Collegiate 300 Record For Jacory Patterson . 30 A Tough Cookie Sticks In There For 5K American Collegiate Record . 31 High School Season Opens With 3 National Records . 32 Precocious Tamari Davis Ties HSR In The 60 . 33 USATF XC Titles To Rotich & Rogers . 34 Off-Track Racing Roundup For January . 35 Professor Marathon Looks At The Olympic Trials . 36 Olympic Trials Preview — Women’s 800 Dominated By Big 2 . 38 Ajee’ Wilson Is Ready For The Olympic Year . 41 Raevyn Rogers Looks Forward To A Hayward Field Return . 42 Ce’Aira Brown Working On Strength & Speed . 43 Olivia Baker Aiming For Her First Sub-2:00 . 44 A Mixed Ruling On Super-Shoes . 45 TRACK SHORTS . 46 ON YOUR MARKS . 48 STATUS QUO . 49 LAST LAP . 51 FOR THE RECORD . 53 LANDMARKS . 53 CALENDAR . 54 • cover photos of David Rudisha by Claus Andersen / Anita Włodarczyk by Victor Sailer/Photo Run • Track & Field News January 2020 — 3 FROM THE EDITOR — The Decade’s World Records Revisited by E. Garry Hill IT WOULD BE GREAT if track & field could sell itself on competition Patrick Makau 2:03:38 alone, but the coin of the realm has long been World Records and the Berlin, Germany, September 25—Germans may not have set many relative infrequency of those in recent years has helped consign our WRs of late, but the capital city’s 26-mile route did. Makau, a 26-year-old sport to secondary status in the sporting pantheon. Having said that, Kenyan, beat the previous WR holder, Haile Gebrselassie, in the process the Teens provided many new highs. Let’s recap the absolute standards, of getting his. “By the time I had dropped Haile, then I tried to break chronologically, set in mainstream events (i.e., OG/WC contested, plus the the World Record,” he said. “When you are running by yourself it is a mile, but not including mixed-sex 4×4) from 2010 through 2019. Fittingly, very nice moment because you can control the pace and you don’t have the only two recordsetters from the first year both went on to become any pressure.” our Athlete Of The Decade winners. 2012: Ashton Eaton 9039 2010: Anita Włodarczyk 256-11 (78.30) Eugene, Oregon, June 22-23—The local favorite added 13 points to Bydgoszcz, Poland, June 06—On her third throw the 24-year-old the decathlon WR despite fighting first-day rain. “Everybody loves life Pole added almost a foot to the hammer WR she had set at the previous and I think that’s why we love the decathlon,” he said. “It seems like a summer’s World Championships . whole life—even though I’m just 24.” David Rudisha 1:41.09 Rudisha 1:40.91 Berlin, Germany, August 22—The Athlete Of The Year to be stopped London, England, August 09—In what we selected as our Men’s Per- Wilson Kipketer’s 1:41.11 just 2 days shy of its 13th birthday. Rudisha ran formance Of The Decade, Rudisha got his third WR, splitting 49.28/51.63. his halves in 49.1 and 52.0. “I feel there is still some room to improve my “It was the most extraordinary piece of running I have probably ever time but I have no hurry, you know,” the 21-year-old Kenyan said. He seen,” said former WR holder Seb Coe. Your editor had the honor of being hurried nonetheless, as it turned out on the PA for the race and almost a decade later I still get the proverbial chills thinking about a consummate display of front-running. Rudisha 1:41.01 Rieti, Italy, August 27—Not afraid of a heavy workload, Rudisha had Yelena Lashmanova 1:25:02 gone from Berlin to the first DL Final (August 25) and won that title in London, August 11—Just 20, the young Russian upset favored Olga 1:43.50. Two days later it was on to what we called Rieti’s “perplexingly Kaniskina with a strong second half. Unfortunately, like Sokolova before fast” track. He went out in 48.9, 0.2 faster than in Berlin and finished off her, a doping DQ was in her future. with a 52.1. “I felt strong in both runs,” he said. United States 40.82 2011: Vera Sokolova 1:25:08 London, August 11—The American foursome of Tianna Bartoletta, Sochi, Russia, February 26—Walking in the national walking cham- A l lys o n Fe l i x, Bi a nc a K n ig ht & C a r me l it a Je t e r de s t r oye d Ea s t G e r m a ny ’s pionships, Sokolova covered 20K in 1:25:08. She would go on to earn a ancient standard, set in ’85. Admitted Jeter, “I did look over at the clock, doping suspension 4 years later. and as I’m running I’m looking over at the clock and I’m seeing this time that’s like 37, 38, 39, and then in my heart I said, ‘We just did it!’” Betty Heidler 260-7 (79.42) Ha l le, G e r m a ny, M ay 21—W ło d a r c z yk ’s h a m me r s t a nd a rd l a s t e d le s s Jamaica 36.84 than a year as Heidler, 27, became the first German to set a WR in more London, August 11—The climactic event of the Games featured the than two decades. “I hadn’t thought about the World Record beforehand,” same Caribbean quartet as Daegu, with Bolt blowing away from U.S. she said. “I flirted with the idea a bit about the German Record, but I anchor Ryan Bailey . Blake told reporters, “We dropped from space like can’t believe I’ve gone close to the magic barrier of 80m.” Mr. Bean. We are not human. I am from Mars. What I mean is we are not normal,” he clarified. “36.84 is not normal. We are flying.” Bolt, rolling Jamaica 37.04 his eyes, added, “I said to Yohan, ‘You need to stop talking like that. Daegu, South Korea, September 04—Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, & Somebody’s going to put you in a straitjacket one day.’” Yohan Blake handled the first three legs as Usain Bolt got some measure of payback for his infamous false start in the 100 with yet another WR.