January 2020
FROM THE EDITOR — The Decade’s World Records Revisited
IT WOULD BE GREAT if track & field could sell itself on competition alone, but the coin of the realm… Read More
LAST LAP — January
HERE’S THIS MONTH’S collection of short takes on generally off-track activities that have gone a long way towards shaping the… Read More
ON YOUR MARKS — January
THE USOPC PUT ITS FOOT DOWN and told Team USA Minnesota that it could no longer use the term “Team… Read More
STATUS QUO — January
HERE’S THE LATEST in the aches, pains & eligibility departments, plus our annual mid-season look at the “Where They Are… Read More
TRACK SHORTS — January
SEEN & HEARD as we launch another Olympic year: EVAN JAGER is hoping to come back from injury and return… Read More
High School Season Opens With 3 National Records
SOME OF THE BIGGEST STARS of the ’19 prep season kicked off their ’20 campaigns with some notable performances. Off… Read More
Brittney Reese Is No. 1 Among The Decade’s Top 10 U.S. Women
4 AMERICAN WOMEN RATED No. 1s in our By-Event World Top 10s. They fill our first 4 slots here, with… Read More
Anita Włodarczyk Heads The Decade’s Top 10 World Women
UNLIKE THE MEN’S SIDE, where the choice was tough, our screening panel was unanimous in picking Anita Włodarczyk as the… Read More
Christian Taylor Atop The Decade’s Top 10 U.S. Men
JUST AS IN THE PREVIOUS DECADE, only 2 Americans made the World Top 10. In this case Christian Taylor (No…. Read More
David Rudisha Leads The Decade’s Top 10 Men
TALK ABOUT TOUGH DECISIONS! The best man of the Teens: was it Usain Bolt or David Rudisha? Our screening panel… Read More
A Mixed Ruling On Super-Shoes
THE PROVERBIAL OTHER SHOE has dropped as WA issued its long-awaited ruling on Nike’s Vaporfly family of shoes (see “The… Read More
The Decade’s Top 10 Women By Event
OUR INTERNATIONAL PANEL of experts, who annually put their heads together for T&FN’s famous World Rankings, this time joined up… Read More
The Decade’s Top 10 Men By Event
OUR INTERNATIONAL PANEL of experts, who annually put their heads together for T&FN’s famous World Rankings, this time joined up… Read More
CALENDAR — January
U.S. Indoor Invitationals February 07–08 Husker Invitational; Lincoln, Nebraska Meyo Invitational; Notre Dame, Indiana Spire Invitational; Geneva, Ohio Thomas Invitational;… Read More
FOR THE RECORD — January
Records broken since the December issue. W = World; A = American; C = Collegiate; J = Junior (U20); Y… Read More
LANDMARKS — January
Died: Vilhjálmur Einarsson, 85 On December 28; in Reykjavík, Iceland. The Dartmouth alum won silver in the triple jump at… Read More
Professor Marathon Looks At The Olympic Trials
FEBRUARY 29, 2020—With America’s best marathoners set for Tokyo selection on Leap Year Day, the Atlanta TC will host a… Read More
A Tough Cookie Sticks In There For 5K American Collegiate Record
WITH MILER CRAIG ENGELS rabbiting the 5000 at the Thomas Terrier Classic, Tyler Day tucked into the pack and went… Read More
A Year-By-Year Look Back At The Decade Of The Teens
ALLOW US TO TICKLE your memory banks with a quick look at some of the important things—mostly off the track—that… Read More