Rich Sands
Editor and Writer at Freelance
Editor/writer, covering pop culture, sci-fi, TV, comics, Olympic sports, track and field, etc.
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3 weeks ago |
trackandfieldnews.com | Rich Sands |Sieg Lindstrom
SHE ONLY RACED three times this winter, in two meets, but the quality of Jane Hedengren’s indoor season far surpassed the quantity. After producing the second-fastest 3200/2M of all-time (at altitude, no less), Hedengren (Timpview, Provo, Utah) lit up the Nike Indoor Nationals at NYC’s Armory with prep records in the mile and 5000. Indoor track isn’t an official sport in the Beehive State, so Hedengren headed to Idaho to open her mini-season at the Simplot Games in Pocatello on February 22.
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1 month ago |
trackandfieldnews.com | Rich Sands |Sieg Lindstrom
AMERICAN MARATHONING suddenly has a new — and unlikely — contender. In only his second time running the distance, unheralded Matt Richtman pulled off a shocking performance on March 16 to become the first American man to win the Los Angeles Marathon since Paul Pilkington in 1994. The Montana State grad broke away from the field in the 16th mile and went on to win in an eye-opening 2:07:57.
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1 month ago |
trackandfieldnews.com | Rich Sands |Sieg Lindstrom
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, March 13–16 — The motto for the boys’ competition at the Nike Indoor Nationals might as well have been “don’t mess with Texas” as Lone Star State athletes had the most dominant performances of the weekend at the Armory. Tate Taylor (Harlan, San Antonio, Texas) broke the national record in the 200 on the final day. Charging hard off the final curve, he powered home in 20.46 to improve on the 20.62 set by Jaylen Slade in ’21.
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1 month ago |
trackandfieldnews.com | Rich Sands |Sieg Lindstrom
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, March 13–16 — NXN cross country champ Jane Hedengren (Timpview, Provo, Utah) continued her remarkable senior-year campaign with mind-boggling High School Records in the mile and 5000 at the Nike Indoor Nationals at NYC’s Armory. On the opening day, the BYU-bound Hedengren clocked 15:13.36 to destroy both the indoor (15:28.90) and absolute (15:25.27) 5000 records set last year by Elizabeth Leachman.
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1 month ago |
trackandfieldnews.com | Rich Sands |Sieg Lindstrom
ON HIS WAY to his first World Championships in August 2023, Freddie Crittenden was filled with both pride and anxiety. Making the team at age 29 was a hard-earned high point in his career as a hurdler, but the financially precarious life of a professional track & field athlete was weighing on the Syracuse grad.
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