by Bob Griffiths | Apr 30, 2015 | USATF
DES MOINES, Iowa – More than 800 athletes will converge on Des Moines in hopes of earning a coveted spot on Team USA for the upcoming World Outdoor Championships this week as competition begins Thursday at the 2013 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships...
by Bob Griffiths | Apr 30, 2015 | USATF
Fans stood to their feet. Muffled noises turned to silence. All eyes were fixed on the 6-foot senior from the University of Arizona standing alone in the infield. She knew what to do. This was not her first pressure packed moment. The 22-year-old high-jumper stood...
by Bob Griffiths | Apr 30, 2015 | USATF
On Wednesday the USA Track & Field Alumni Association launched a pair of efforts to help the victims of the Boston Marathon explosions in the form of a 4x100m Relay for Boston event at the upcoming USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships and a donations page...
by Bob Griffiths | Apr 30, 2015 | USATF
INDIANAPOLIS – Justin Gatlin (Orlando, Fla.) put on a thrilling show as he beat two-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt by one hundredth of a second at the Rome Golden Gala, the fifth stop of the 2013 Diamond League series. Click to read original...
by Bob Griffiths | Apr 30, 2015 | USATF
Brian Sternberg, who set the world record multiple times in the men’s pole vault during the 1963 season before suffering an injury that left his paralyzed the majority of his life, died May 23 just one month short of his 70th birthday. Sternberg had been hospitalized...
