by Bob Griffiths | Apr 30, 2015 | USATF
INDIANAPOLIS – The USA Track & Field Foundation today announced that Stephen A. Schwarzman, the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Blackstone, has donated $500,000 to the USATF Foundation. The funding will be used to support world class athletes in track and...
by Bob Griffiths | Apr 30, 2015 | USATF
At the height of her career, Evelyn Ashford set the world standard for women’s sprinting. Whether anyone knew it then, Ashford was ahead of her time.
by Bob Griffiths | Apr 30, 2015 | USATF
Ben True has been named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the Week after leading the USA men’s team to a silver medal at the 40th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland on Sunday.
by Bob Griffiths | Apr 30, 2015 | USATF
LANDOVER, Md. – A trio of world records on the meet’s final day brought the total number of all-time world bests to 10 over the three days of competition as the USA Masters Indoor Track & Field Championships wrapped up Sunday at the Prince George’s Sports &...
by Bob Griffiths | Apr 30, 2015 | USATF
BYDGOSZCZ, Poland–In one of the most surprising performances in recent memory, Team USA, led by the sixth place finish of Ben True (Hanover, N.H.) earned a hard fought team silver medal in the senior men’s 12-kilometer race at the IAAF World Cross Country...
by Bob Griffiths | Apr 30, 2015 | USATF
LANDOVER, MD. – Orville Rogers continued his assault on the record books in bringing his total of world records set up to four while Bruce McBarnette bettered his own world record in the men’s high jump as the USA Masters Indoor Track & Field Championships...
