News: Spotakova; Indoor Track Records; New Year's Resolutions; Road Race Drug Testing

Barbora Spotakova ranked number one in the world for women's javelin by Track and Field News HERE.

USATF Minnesota All-Time Indoor Track Records HERE

Some New Year's Resolutions from Ross Tucker of The Science of Sport website HERE.

Road races in UK, aside of the "IAAF Label" events rarely have drug testing HERE.

Rankings: T & F News Rankings: Barbora Špotáková; RT Top Marathon Races and Individuals

Gopher grad  ranked seventh in the world by Track & Field News HERE.

Running Times list of top marathoners and Most Competitive Marathons(World and US) HERE Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon and Grandma's both ranked  among top seven in the US.  Annie Bersagel(2013) and other recent TCM champions Esther Erb(2014), Nick Arciniaga(2013), Fernando Cabada(2008), and Tyler Pennel(2014) among the top ten US marathoners.

News: Špotakova Wins Javelin, Diamond League Title in Her Event; Hudgins/MN Mile; Oz Memorial; Augustana Twilight; HS Results

Gopher grad  Barbora Špotakova saved the best for last.  She won the competition and the Diamond League title in her event by throwing a World Leading distance and meet record of 67.99m/223'.76" at the Van Damme Memorial in Belgium on Friday.

Bring Back the Mile story on Minnesota Mile participant Brandon Hudgins is HERE.

Gopher men and women second in Oz Memorial team races HERE. Results are HERE. Gopher's Ashlie Decker wins individual race HERE. 

Augustana Twilight Invitational men's results are HERE, women HERE.   SW Minnesota State summary is HERE.

Dewey Minneheart Invitational results for boy's HERE, girl's HERE.

Waseca County News report on the Gerry Smith  Invitational is HERE. Boy's results are HERE, girl's HERE.

Špotáková 2nd, Grunewald 11th in Birmingham IAAF Diamond League Meet

Gopher grads Barbora Špotáková and Gabe Grunewald finished second, and eleventh, respectively, in their events at the Sainsberry's Birmingham Grand Prix meet on Sunday.  Špotáková threw the javelin 62.89m/206' 3.98".  Team USA Minnesota's Grunewald ran 9:41.76 for two miles. Javelin results are HERE.  Two mile is HERE.  "Not what I was hoping for in my 1st race over for the 2nd half, but know that there is more to come. Excited for some cool races coming up!" Grunewald wrote on Twitter.

News: Minnesota Senior Games; Emmans; Gabe Grunewald; Špotáková; Team USA Minnesota; Bad Behavior

Very tardy on these results.  Minnesota Senior Games track results from August 2 are HERE. From the road races August 8-9 are HERE. (Scroll down to the bottom of the page for all the 10K and 5K results.)

Another late item.  Wayzata's girls XC coach Dave Emmans was named XC girl's coach of year by the National High School Coaches Association HERE  Emmans is the third Minnesota HS coach to win the award since it began in 2000.  Perham's Jeff Morris won the boy's team award in 2013 and Willmar's Jerry Popp won the girl's award in 2008.

Gabe Grunewald talks about cancer, the past year, and the future HERE.

Gopher grad Barbora Špotáková completes her javelin medal set with a win at the European Championships HERE.

Strib feature on Team USA Minnesota HERE.

Is the DQ of the winner of the Euro men's steeplechase a fair punishment for bad behavior? HERE and HERE.

News: Spotakova, Goucher, World Juniors Sports Science Symposium, Updates...

Gopher grad Barbora Spotakova targets European Championships javelin throw HERE.

Kara Goucher blogs about her recovery from a sacral stress fracture HERE.

International Sports Science Symposium to be held in conjunction with IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene HERE.

Andrw Bumbalough's reaction to USATF report on the 5K DQ controversy at the USATF Indoor Champs HERE.