PA/USATF Elite
► RR 2016 Silicon Valley Turkey Trot Videos
Elite Women’s Race
Features 13 year old Grace Ping who ran 16:36, which broke Jordan Hasey’s mark as a world’s best for a 13 year old girl
Elite Men’s Race
Features Drew Hunter and overall winner, Morgan Pearson
Over the years the Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot elite men have accumulated the third highest number of “quality performances” of any 5K race in the world according to the Association of Road Racing Statisticians. The Turkey Trot’s elite women have accumulated the 11th highest number of quality performances. Click here for rankings.
► RR PA’s Malcolm Richards first American at Berlin Marathon
Back on April 9th, Malcolm Richards set the Men’s World Record for the rarely contested indoor Marathon by running 2:21:56 at the Armory Track & Field Center in NYC. Yesterday he added to his Marathon bona fides by being the first American at the Berlin Marathon. Richards took advantage of the super fast Berlin course to set a PR time of 2:15:10 – he was 15th overall.
The race wa won by the great, and now fully healthy, Kenenisa Bekele in the second fastest time in history, 2:03:03. Bekele just missed Dennis Kimetto’s WR of 2:02:57, set on the same course in 2014, but easily broke Haile Gebrselassie’s Ethiopian national record of 2:03:59.
► PA Board of Athletics Annual Meeting – Tues., 20 Sept-7:30pm at Foster City Rec Center.
All Membership is welcome to our Board of Athletics Annual Meeting, Tuesday, 20 Sept from 7:30-10:00pm at the Foster City Recreation Center.
Click here for agenda, proposed 2017 annual budget, and strtegic plan update
► ELITE Shannon Rowbury sets American 5,000m Record in Brussels
More below!
photo by Image of Sport (photo from 1500m Diamond League win in Zurich last week)