FROM THE EDITOR — So What’s Up With T&FN?
YOU PROBABLY NOTICED that this issue of your favorite track & field magazine is labeled as March/April, rather than just… Read More
March-April 2020
LAST LAP — March
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
FAQ — What Has C19 Done To Our Sport?
IT WAS FORESHADOWING of the worst kind. The day after the Olympic torch was lit in Olympia, the Greek authorities… Read More
Focus On The U.S. Men’s Pole Vault Scene
THIS SURGE WON’T STOP. That’s our guess and the men of the U.S. vault corps have signaled it’s also their… Read More
Focus On The U.S. Women’s Long Jump Scene
THE LONG JUMP is a fickle event for U.S. women. Unlike certain other disciplines where Team USA is awash in… Read More
Kenyattia Hackworth Is Up To Standard
2019 wasn’t a banner year for Kenyattia Hackworth. The Kentucky alum, who placed 7th in the ’16 Olympic Trials, only… Read More
ON YOUR MARKS — March
MICHIGAN’S NEW INDOOR track facility is being set up as an overflow hospital to deal with COVID-19 cases… The Athletes… Read More
Sam Kendricks Finds Ways To Beat The Best
As he surveys the current vault landscape from his position as 2-time reigning world champion and No. 1 World Ranker… Read More
TRACK SHORTS — March
A SELECTIVE SAMPLING of major-player reactions to the postponement of Tokyo to ’21. Mondo Duplantis, pole vault WR holder “It’s… Read More
Tianna Bartoletta Ready For Long Jumps Again
THE REINVENTION OF Tianna Bartoletta continues. The reigning Olympic long jump champ has hit some rough patches in the last… Read More
Chris Nilsen Doing “Caveman Stuff” For Training
Chris Nilsen is by no stretch an average vaulter. The South Dakota senior is the reigning NCAA champion, the slayer… Read More
STATUS QUO — March
HERE’S THE LATEST in the aches, pains & eligibility departments: British 13:06.21 performer Andrew Butchart recently had surgery on his… Read More
LANDMARKS — March
Appointed: Jakob Larsen, 50 By the IAAF as its new Director Of Competition & Events. Larsen spent the last 12… Read More
FOR THE RECORD — March
Records reported since the February issue. W = World; A = American; J = Junior (U20); ¶ = mark not… Read More
Much-Bemedaled Brittney Reese Still Has Goals To Achieve
ANGERED WITH HER PERFORMANCE at last fall’s World Championships, where she failed to make the long jump final, Brittney Reese… Read More
Jacob Wooten Joins The 19-Foot Club
The dawn of an Olympic year—though now it’s a pre-Games season in hiatus of unknown duration—presented itself as a time… Read More
Andrew Irwin Juggling Vaulting With Farming
The ’20 indoor season went off with the bang of 10 U.S. vaulters flying up to 19ft-plus elevations and past… Read More
New Pro Matt Ludwig Reaching New Heights
In a winter of striking vault performances, first-year pro Matt Ludwig was the man with the mostest in the soaring… Read More
Cole Walsh Key Part Of U.S. Vaulting’s Youth Brigade
As the U.S. men’s vault has metaphorically flown over the moon in the past year—with a record for any calendar… Read More