AN AMERICAN DREAM COMES TRUE. 🇺🇸🥇
@itskerrii
delivers on the talent and the hype at long last, executing a flawless race out of lane 9 to win the
#WABudapest23
women’s 100m final in 10.65.
@sherickajacko
🥈 in 10.72,
@realshellyannfp
🥉 in 10.77.
Richardson is now tied for
RIP to the man who changed the high jump forever – Dick Fosbury.
He became a legend at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games when he unveiled his revolutionary “Fosbury Flop” to win high jump gold and clear an Olympic record height.
News ⤵️
A bit of an uncomfortable moment in the mixed zone as 200m world champion
@sherickajacko
is asked whether she questions Florence Griffith-Joyner’s world record in the event. She doesn’t want to go there.
Three of the seven fastest women in history in the same race.
🥇
@itskerrii
10.65 🇺🇸
🥈
@sherickajacko
10.72 🇯🇲
🥉
@realshellyannfp
10.77 🇯🇲
This is Richardson’s first career global medal, Jackson’s 14th, and SAFP’s 24th ‼️
Somebody check on Ben Thomas 💝
@cole_hocker
’s coach since his freshman year at Oregon was in the stands for his star pupil’s Olympic 1500m victory. Talk about a moment to remember. 🥲
TEAM USA GETS IT DONE 🇺🇸
The U.S. women make it a sprint sweep over Jamaica with a 41.03 4x100m championship record. Tamari Davis to TeeTee Terry to Gabby Thomas to Sha’Carri Richardson is the magic combo.
What a week for
@itskerrii
as she gets her 2nd gold & 3rd medal.
🗣️ “I can do something like this again. I heard that
@GoSydGo
got kicked out of Brussels, so if she wants to race maybe a 400m we’ll do an extra event, maybe we’ll fix that.”
With one 400mH world record holder already taken down,
@mondohoss600
is ready to take on the next one 👀
Sad and shocking news out of Kenya.
Marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum has died at 24 years old after a car accident along the Eldoret-Kaptagat road, according to a report from The Standard newspaper. Multiple journalists in Kenya have also reported the news.
“This was
🗣️ “I want my own shoe. I want my own trainer. I’m dead serious. I want a sneaker, ain’t no money in spikes. There’s money in sneakers. Even Michael Johnson didn’t have his own sneaker. I feel like for how many medals we bring back, for the notoriety we get, the fact that that
MONDO DUPLANTIS’ WALKOUT BEFORE THE 100M ACCOMPANIED BY SHA’CARRI RICHARDSON, RENAUD LAVILLENIE, VERNON NORWOOD, LETSILE TEBOGO AND FRED KERLEY 🇸🇪
🎥 WATCH LIVE:
THE AMERICAN DREAM 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
10 years ago,
@KelatiWeini
came to the United States to seek asylum from her native Eritrea.
Now, she’s the Olympic Trials 10,000m champion and will be representing Team USA in Paris. What a story.
ON A WHOLE NEW LEVEL 🤯
The women’s world record in the marathon skips the 2:13s and 2:12s as Ethiopian Tigist Assefa runs an incredible 2:11:53 at the 2023 Berlin Marathon to knock 131 seconds off the prior record.
The 2016 Olympian over 800m has clearly found her event,
“I’m not worried about the world anymore.
I’ve seen the world be my friend; I’ve seen the world turn on me. But at the end of the day, I’ve always been with me and God’s always been with me.
It’s my time to do it for myself and the people who feel like me, the people who
AFRICA TO THE OLYMPICS! 🌍
Nigeria, Ghana and Liberia’s best sprinters celebrate at the World Relays after all qualifying for the Paris Olympics in the 4x100m relay.
🇳🇬 🇬🇭 🇱🇷
This is why we love track.
IS THIS REAL LIFE 🤯🤯🤯
Jakob Ingebrigtsen doesn’t just break Daniel Komen’s 28-year-old world record in the 3000m, he SHATTERS it, running 7:17.55 to become the first athlete in history under 7:20 in the event.
That’s 58.34 400m pace for 7.5 laps straight.
This guy knows how to deliver when it counts. 💰
@fkerley99
’s huge bet on himself pays off, as he lands back on the Olympic podium with a bronze medal in 9.81, his fastest time of 2024.
Kerley now has won silver 🥈, gold 🥇, and bronze 🥉 over the last four global
🗓️ Clear your calendar for November 13th.
JUST ANNOUNCED: Season 2 of SPRINT will premiere on
@netflix
this fall and follows the top sprinters in the world all throughout the 2024 outdoor season including Olympic Trials and the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
The athletes featured in
IT’S A HUGE UPSET IN THE WOMEN’S 4x100!!!
Team USA edges a star-studded Jamaican squad 41.14 to 41.18, anchored by everyone’s fave
@TeeTeeTerry_
. Crowd goes absolutely wild.
MY GOD! QUINCY WILSON! 44.20!
U18 400 METER WORLD RECORD! HIGH SCHOOL RECORD!
THE SUMMER OF
@QuincyWilson5
CONTINUES!
🔜 NEXT STOP: PARIS OLYMPICS 🇫🇷
WATCH LIVE:
Flying to the finish 🪿🪽
Yared Nuguse claims his first outdoor global medal with an Olympic bronze in the 1500m, running a lifetime best of 3:27.80 in the final.
Nuguse’s 1-3 finish with Cole Hocker is the first time two American men have medaled in this event since 1912. 🤯
Shoot for the moon and land in the stars ✨
Kenneth Rooks 🇺🇸 runs a 9-second lifetime best of 8:06.41 to claim Olympic silver in the steeplechase, his first medal at any major championship.
Rooks is now only the 3rd American man to medal in this event at the Olympics since
Best championships yet for
@ItsGabrielleT
🥈
After missing last year’s Worlds with an injury, Thomas picks up her second global medal in the 200m, this time silver.
Grant Holloway the 🐐
With his Olympic gold medal,
@Flaamingoo_
has now won the last three straight global titles in the 110m hurdles.
His trophy shelf:
Olympics 🥇🥈
Worlds 🥇🥇🥇
World Indoors 🥇🥇
Diamond League 🥇
🗣️ “What can we even say? Femke Bol is a once in a lifetime talent. Someone so special. She has it not just in her legs, her arms, but she has it in her heart and in her head. No words for that amazing woman.”
Once in a lifetime talent. 🙌
Dutch sprinters Eugene Omalla and
Appreciation post for
@annaahalll
👏
8 months after knee surgery, the U.S. champ gets a season’s best 6,615 points in the Olympic heptathlon to finish 5th in the world.
Her first place 2:04.39 in the 800m brought the next six women behind her to lifetime bests. 😱
🗣️ “I’m not a free human being these days. I’m a superstar in my country — which I don’t like, because I can’t even go to the mall and get something for myself. I have to send somebody to do it.
Letsile Tebogo: Superstar 🌟😅
After the
#BrusselsDL
200m, Tebogo shares that he’s
On Saturday, 98-year-old Betty Lindberg ran the
@ATLtrackclub
's Publix Atlanta 5K in 59 minutes and 6 seconds!
She won her age group at the USATF Masters 5K Championships 👏
🗣 "I dedicate this world record to all the mothers...This is what I've shown them. Everything is possible."
Faith Kipyegon after breaking the women's 1500m world record in 3:49.11
Race recap + interview ⤵️
Devastating and heartbreaking news for the track and field community.
3x Olympic medalist, 2x World championship gold medalist and 2011 NCAA champion Tori Bowie has died at 32 years old.
American hero 🪿🇺🇸
Yared Nuguse claims the American Record in the mile outdoors to match his indoor record with an astounding 3:43.97 at the
@nikepreclassic
Bowerman mile.
Nuguse’s time takes nearly 3 full seconds off Alan Webb’s previous record of 3.46.91 set in 2007.
🗣️ “I have a pretty big engine. I used to run cross country. I put a lot of mileage in, a lot of stuff like that. So when I dropped down to an 800, 1500 runner before, and then I dropped down to the 400 and worked on foot speed and a lot of jumps, I always had the strength.”
You
THE GREATEST. OF. ALL. TIME. 👑
As if there was any doubt,
@GoSydGo
extends her unprecedented run of dominance over the 400m hurdles with her second Olympic gold and sixth world record in the event.
Lowers her own world record from 50.65 to 50.37, and now owns the top three
🗣️“Sometimes [Dalilah Muhammad] doesn’t get enough recognition for what she’s done for this event and this sport. She’s the epitome of a professional… My career wouldn’t be the same without her.”
@AnnaCockrell48
talks about the impact that Dalilah Muhammad has had on her career
Here’s the big reveal…
After all these months, the briefcase has contained
@LylesNoah
’s uniform and all five pieces of Exodia YuGi-Yoh cards.
“When a player has all five pieces of Exodia in their hand, they win the Duel.”
BREAKING NEWS:
@LylesNoah
informs us that he will be making his walk-in to Hayward Field today with
@SnoopDogg
and will reveal what has been in the briefcase that he's been carrying all season.
🤯🤯🤯🤯
A truly mind-blowing performance by Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa to DESTROY the women’s marathon world record by more than two minutes with her 2:11:53 victory at the Berlin Marathon.
KEY STATS
• Assefa has now made major jumps in all three of her career marathons:
THE OLYMPICS WE ALL WANTED 🥉🥉
After years of near misses in stacked races,
@Phresh_Fish
will head back to the United States with his first two Olympic medals after finishing third in the 5000m one week after his bronze medal performance in the 10,000m.
After leaving his
Sydney McLaughlin Levrone is the greatest. of. all. time.
For the FIFTH time in her career,
@GoSydGo
resets the world record in the 400m hurdles, lowering her 50.68 from 2022 to 50.65 at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
Her margin of victory was 1.99 seconds. Her time is faster than
🗣️“It’s my second post-collegiate race, and my first Olympic Trials. I’m super proud of myself and I know I gave it my all. My legs are dead.”
Parker Valby might’ve finished fourth place in the 5,000m today, but her Olympic dreams are far from over. Her new PB of 14:51.44
ZACH PANNING APPRECIATION POST 👏
The
@HansonsDistProj
warrior kept his foot on the gas for the meat of the race clicking off sub-4:50 miles. It wasn’t enough to make the team but Panning finished in 6th running 2:10:50 and earned the respect of American distance running fans
LEGEND IN THE MAKING.
Kelvin Kiptum takes 34 seconds off the world record in the 2023
@ChiMarathon
, winning the race in 2:00:35 with a 59:47 second half and a 3:27 margin of victory.
A truly epic performance from the greatest talent in the history of the marathon.
GABBY IS THAT GIRL 💁♀️
🥉 in Tokyo ➡️ 🥈 in Budapest ➡️ 🥇 in Paris.
The incredible
@itsgabbyt
gets her third global medal and first gold in 21.83, adding to an impressive resume that also includes a Harvard diploma and master’s degree.
One of the brightest stars in the
HISTORY. MADE.
@gosydgo
resets the world record in the 400m hurdles YET AGAIN with a 50.65 victory at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
No other woman in history has run under 51 seconds. McLaughlin-Levrone has now done it twice.
She dragged the field to historically fast times,
DANG…this photo by Johnny Zhang (jzsnapz on Instagram)
@Flaamingoo_
is in another league
This is his 7.29 in the 60m hurdles semifinal to tie his own world record. Look at everyone else!
#WorldIndoorChamps
HE’S GOT THAT DAWG IN HIM 😤
You can’t ever count
@QuincyHall400
out with medals on the line, as the American makes the most of his first Olympic appearance to claim gold in the 400m in 43.40, making him the fourth fastest athlete in history in the event.
Molly’s back‼️‼️
@ByGollyMolly12
finishes her first marathon in two years with a PB, running 2:23:07 for 8th place in the 2023
@ChiMarathon
.
The Olympic medalist gets a huge confidence booster headed into the 2024 Trials.
Once again, it is American history in Boston 🇺🇸🏆🏃♂️💨
Bowerman Track Club’s Grant Fisher runs 12:53.73 to break the US Indoor 5000m record!
The previous record was 13:01.26 by Galen Rupp from 2014.
Anna Hawk-rell👀
@AnnaCockrell48
takes home Olympic silver in the 400m hurdles after reeling in Femke Bol on the home straight, running a PB of 51.87!
Cockrell becomes the 4️⃣th woman in history to break the 52 second barrier.
He’s got the talent. He’s got the tactics. And now he’s got the gold.
@cole_hocker
is the 2024 Olympic 1500m champion, dethroning both the reigning Olympic and World champions in the process to claim his first global medal at age 23.
Hocker is now
#7
on the 1500m all-time
Katelyn Tuohy can now add “NCAA 1 mile record holder” to a resume that includes an NCAA XC title, an NCAA 5000m title, and 6x All-American.
She’s still only 20 years old.
👏 Santa Clara Men’s Cross Country team headshot roundup.
An annual CITIUS MAG tradition like no other.
If facial hair is the key to running fast, the men of
@SCUXCTF
just became the heavy favorites for NCAAs. 👨🏻
🗣️ “No sponsor, I’m just out here. I work at Walmart at the deli down in North Carolina.”
Dylan Beard after running a personal best of 7.44s to win the
@MillroseGames
60m hurdles. Beard shares about balancing training and his job, why he continued to pursue his dreams after
The cold never bothered her anyway 🤗
@GoSydGo
gets her second win of the weekend with a 22.40 run in the exhibition 200m on a nippy evening in Brussels, winning by 0.61 seconds.
HISTORY MADE‼️
@parker_valby
of
@GatorsTF
becomes the first woman EVER to break 15 minutes in the 5000m while an NCAA athlete. Her 14:56.11 at BU betters both the indoor and outdoor bests to set a new collegiate record.
AMERICA, MEET QUINCY WILSON 😱
@QuincyWilson5
runs the fastest 400m EVER by a high school boy in the first heat of the U.S. Olympic Trials, his heat-winning 44.66 bettering Darrell Robinson’s 42-year-old all-time mark of 44.69.
The 16-year-old Wilson also hit the Olympic
HISTORY!! Juliette Whittaker becomes the second high schooler ever to run sub-2, winning the
@trialsmiles
Track Night 800m in 1:59.80 with a big kick. Incredible 🤯🤯🤯
CAN’T STOP GREATNESS 👑
@athiiing
makes the most of her
@nikepreclassic
weekend with a HUGE 1:54.97 American record and a hard-fought win over rival
@keelyhodgkinson
.
This women’s 800m is gonna be the best event of Paris 2024!!
ON TOP OF THE WORLD 🥇
Two days before her son’s first birthday, Elle St. Pierre has the race of her career, outkicking 2x World champion Gudaf Tsegay to win the
@wicglasgow24
3000m in a new American record of 8:20.87.