Colorado Runner

With her 9:25.28 personal best performance at last Saturday’s Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Ore., University of Colorado redshirt senior Emma Coburn joined an elite club. Her mark made her America’s fourth-fastest steeplechaser ever –just the fifth to break 9:30– and cemented her status as the favorite to win the USA Olympic Trials on the same Hayward Field track later this month. “My PR prior to this was only 9:37,” a delighted Coburn told reporters after her race. She continued: “To run 9:25, I was really pleased with that. I felt really relaxed the whole time, too, so I’m confident that [...]

Four newly crowned IAAF World Championships medalists, including 1500m champion Jenny Simpson, will compete in the 31st Fifth Avenue Mile on Saturday, Sept., 24, the New York Road Runners reported here yesterday. Simpson, 25, who lives in Monument, Colo., and trains in nearby Colorado Springs under coach Juli Benson, will be making her Fifth Avenue debut and will be running her first race in the United States since winning gold in a brilliant stretch run at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, Korea. Her race on Fifth Avenue will close her summer track season, she said. “After winning a World [...]

It was a night made for milestones for Team USA  at the 13th IAAF World Outdoor Track and Field Championships Thursday night. During a 32-minute span, LaShinda Demus set an American Record in the women’s 400m hurdles, Jesse Williams ended a 20-year drought by Team USA in the high jump by winning gold, and Colorado’s own Jenny Simpson won the first American gold medal in the women’s 1,500m since 1983. Williams, the world leader at 2.37m/7-9.5, became the first American to medal in the high jump since Charles Austin and teammate Hollis Conway collected gold and bronze medals at the [...]

LUBBOCK, Texas – It’s now 23 of 24… and the dynasty marches on. For the ninth straight year, the Colorado men and women captured both team titles at the Big 12 Cross Country Championships, held Friday morning at Rawls Golf Course on the campus of Texas Tech University. The CU men have now won all 12 titles and the women have won 11 of 12, with the teams sharing the podium for the ninth straight year. All 23 titles have come under coach Mark Wetmore, who is in his 13th year leading the Colorado cross country and track and field [...]