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1 week ago | 
trackandfieldnews.com | E. Garry Hill
I’M BA-ACK! For the first time since my “retirement” in the March 2023 edition, here’s some editorialized babbling from me, wearing my Editor Emeritus hat. The big action in the last month came in one of my favorite events, the discus, as platter-friendly Ramona, Oklahoma, produced a pair of men’s World Records and a women’s American Record and a women’s Collegiate Record. Not everyone thought it was great stuff.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
trackandfieldnews.com | E. Garry Hill
WITH THE PARIS GOLD (Tara Davis-Woodhall) and silver (Malaika Mihambo) medalists missing — not to mention the 5, 7 & 8 Olympic finishers — the long jump was decidedly shy on star power. The competition itself played out in rather perfunctory fashion, with only a single performer able to broach the 22-foot barrier. Larissa Iapichino took the lead in the first round at 22-2½ (6.77). It was a mark nobody else would be able to match.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
trackandfieldnews.com | E. Garry Hill
CHASE JACKSON and Sarah Mitton were formcharted for 1–2 in Paris, but both bombed out horribly, the American not making the final and the Canadian ending up 12th. They somewhat made up for it here with Mitton leading a 1–2. Kiwi Maddie Wesche took the early lead with a first-round 64-5¾ (19.65). That held up until round 3, when Olympic champ Yemisi Ogunleye improved to 64-8½ (19.72). But Mitton came to life to close that sequence with a 66-5¼(20.25).
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
trackandfieldnews.com | E. Garry Hill
BUT FOR THE SAKE of 2 tiny centimeters Leonardo Fabbri would have become just the fourth member of shot putting’s 23-meter club. As it was he had to be content with 22.98 (75-4¾). And his first DL Trophy. “I know I’m capable of getting that 23m,” he said, “so that’s why I’m a little bit upset with the distance.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
trackandfieldnews.com | E. Garry Hill
WITH OLY GOLD medalist Roje Stona not having accumulated enough DL qualifying points during the regular season the discus projected as a battle between his Paris podium mates, Mykolas Alekna and Matt Denny. And that’s exactly how it played out. Throwing last in the 7-man order, as it would turn out, Denny settled the battle for supremacy in the first round with an Aussie Record 229-6 (69.96), just missing the event’s landmark 70-meter barrier.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
trackandfieldnews.com | E. Garry Hill
THIS PROJECT began as a simple pamphlet compiled by T&FN Editor Emeritus E. Garry Hill, listing the top 6 finishers of the NCAA Championships from its inception in 1921 through the meet of 1981. The ’81 meet was the last one that was men-only and was also the last with just 6 places scored. In the years since, the project has grown and grown, with thousands of bits of missing data slowly being filled in (yay Google!).
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
trackandfieldnews.com | E. Garry Hill
THINGS WENT TOPSY-TURVY in the qualifying round. Favored defending champ Brooke Andersen — the yearly list leader at 263-0 (80.17) — looked somewhat listless in fouling twice, then reaching only 222-2 (67.72) to end up a non-advancing No. 25 on the day.
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Jul 9, 2023 | 
trackandfieldnews.com | E. Garry Hill
DOZENS OF THROWS came and went and they all had one thing in common: they weren’t as far as Capers Williamson’s best of the day. Until things played out about as dramatically as they could have, with a last-chance win by Curtis Thompson. The favored Thompson was first in the throwing order and stuck his spear at a nothing-to-write-home-about 242-1 (73.78). Williamson, seeded No. 3 on our formchart, opened up with a modest 245-6 (74.83) as the sixth thrower of the day. That put him in the lead.
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Jul 7, 2023 | 
trackandfieldnews.com | E. Garry Hill
NOT SINCE 2015 had Keturah Orji failed to win this meet, and NCAA champ Jasmine Moore had been accorded the favorite’s role, but neither of them emerged as the champion. Instead, Tori Franklin never trailed at the end of any round as she finally got an outdoor crown to go with her 3 undercover wins. The 30-year-old Michigan State alum was the last of the field of 16 to enter the fray. Orji, No. 9 in the jumping order, was in the lead, having spanned 46-11¾ (14.32). Franklin matched that.
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May 3, 2023 | 
trackandfieldnews.com | E. Garry Hill
WHERE’S THE SHAKING-IN-MY-SPIKES emoticon when I need it? 😳 I jest… Sorta. The blank page I’m about to fill will mark my first scribblings in this space as just T&FN’s third Editor ever. Huge shoes to fill. For jangling nerves right up there with the first time I raced a mile. My time that day: 5:09. Just looked it up. I’d have sworn it was faster. 4:55 in the next meet. 10:10 in the 2M to wrap up that first, HS soph, season. Wasn’t a star. Had a little bit of talent. Fell in LOVE with this sport.
