Canadian short track speedskater Kim Boutin set a world record in the 500 meters and Kristen Santos set a U.S. record at 1,000m at the first World Cup stop of the season over the weekend at Utah Olympic Oval.
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Boutin became the first woman to complete short track’s shortest distance in less than 42 seconds, racing to a time of 41.936 seconds in the quarterfinals. She went on to win the event along with the 1,500m.
The previous record of 42.335 seconds, posted in 2016 by Britain’s Elise Christie, also was set at the facility outside Salt Lake City.
Santos also set her record in the quarterfinals with a time of 1:28.485, breaking the 2016 record of Olympic medalist Katherine Reutter. She did not advance past the semifinals and wound up finishing third in the B final.
The only other U.S. skater to reach a B final was Corinne Stoddard in the 1,500m, though the mixed relay team of Santos, Maame Biney, Aaron Tran and Thomas Hong beat Canada to take fourth.
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Former Olympic 100m hurdles champion Dawn Harper Nelson says she will make a comeback after one year of retirement.
Harper Nelson won Olympic gold in 2008, overtaking Lolo Jones after her U.S. teammate clipped a hurdle near the end of the race. She also won Olympic silver in 2012, barely losing to Australia’s Sally Pearson in a thrilling final in which she set her personal best of 12.37 seconds.
In world championship finals, Harper Nelson took bronze in 2011 and took silver in 2017, again losing a close finish to Pearson in London’s Olympic Stadium.
Harper Nelson announced early in the 2018 season that she would retire at the end of the year. She knew she was pregnant for the last three races of the year and gave birth to her first child April 10.
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But she had doubts all along about leaving the track.
“I wondered, would I miss it?” Harper Nelson told NBC Olympic Talk’s Nick Zaccardi. “Would I still want to do it? Then throughout my pregnancy, I still obviously had that pull. I trained during the whole nine months, but it was for two reasons. One was, it was literally the best I would feel all day, just with the changes in my body and stuff I was going through. The next one was if you just so happen to want to run, you cannot take nine months off. That’s just not an option. So I trained.”
She has remained available for drug testing through the year and talked about post-pregnancy competition with two-time Olympic shot put champion Valerie Adams of New Zealand, who was pregnant with her second child while Harper Nelson was pregnant.
But Harper Nelson was discouraged early on in her post-pregnancy training.
“That initial burst of speed to get off the line, it just was lacking,” Harper Nelson said. “I really had a moment where I sat down and kind of cried. I was thinking, do you ever really get that back? Is it possible? You’ve seen other ladies — Nia (Ali), Allyson (Felix), Shelly-Ann (Fraser-Pryce), at world championships, they ran great. But you always find that moment, but is it different for me? Will my body not be the body that wants to come back? We slowly just gradually did things, resistance, mini plyos and gradually got myself back.”
She got encouragement, though, in speaking with her medical advisors: “My physio, he said, ‘Dawn, this is pretty much the best your body has felt in a long time because you allowed your body to rest.'”
Her husband, Alonzo Nelson, will be her coach while she trains on her high school track in East St. Louis, Ill.
Her comeback is likely only for one year: “I really do feel like this would probably be it because we want more kids.”
The competition in the 100m hurdles has only gotten stronger over the years. Harper Nelson’s fastest time of 2018 was 12.75 seconds, trailing 21 hurdlers internationally and seven U.S. athletes. Even when she took silver in the 2017 world championships, her season’s best of 12.63 seconds trailed six U.S. hurdlers. Kendra Harrison set the world record of 12.20 seconds in 2016.
Harper Nelson says she’s up for the challenge.
“In the 100m hurdles, we hold the definition of the hardest team to make,” Harper Nelson said. “From 2008 to now, it’s been different ladies that have lined up. The constant has been me and Sally [Pearson]. No one gives you anything. Everyone is out here hungry. It’s literally been the life that I’ve lived for the 12 years of my career. … All I’ve known is you put up or shut up. So I’m definitely OK with that. I really don’t want it any other way.”
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The last full year of marathons before the 2020 Olympics saw not only Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge‘s successful bid to break the two-hour mark under controlled conditions but also a women’s world record and four of the fastest men’s times ever.
Brigid Kosgei of Kenya took more than a minute off Paula Radcliffe‘s 16-year-old record, winning the Chicago Marathon in 2:14:01.
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Kipchoge still holds the world record of 2:01:39, set in the 2018 Berlin Marathon 14 months ago. But Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia came within two seconds of that mark in this year’s Berlin race, and Kipchoge himself won the London Marathon with the third-fastest time in history (2:02:37).
Add the runners-up from those races — Ethiopians Birhanu Legese (Berlin, 2:02:48) and Mosinet Geremew (London, 2:02:55) — and the four fastest times behind Kipchoge’s world record were posted in the past seven months.
The top U.S. runner on the IAAF’s compilation of the year’s best times is Sara Hall, whose time of 2:22:16 in Berlin tied for 33rd on the list. (The IAAF site currently has a glitch listing a U.S. runner higher on the list; the time is incorrect.) Emily Sisson was 49th with her 2:23:08 in London. Sally Kipyego‘s 2:25:10 in Berlin ranks 93rd. (Add times from courses the IAAF considers “irregular” for various reasons, and Kipyego ranks 96th.)
With Galen Rupp out of action while recovering from Achilles surgery, the only U.S. runner among the top 100 was Leonard Korir (tied for 87th, 2:07:56, Amsterdam), but nine of the top 10 U.S. times in the Olympic cycle were posted this year. Only Rupp’s 2:06:07 from Prague in May 2018 ranks higher.
The two next-fastest U.S. men’s times from 2019 were at the Boston Marathon, which the IAAF considers “irregular” because the finish line isn’t near the start line and the overall elevation at the finish line is lower than the start.
The top U.S. women’s times from the Olympic cycle still belong to Jordan Hasay (2:20:57, Chicago 2017) and Amy Cragg (2:21:42, Tokyo 2018), followed by Hall and Sisson.
USA Track and Field will hold its Olympic marathon trials Feb. 29 in Atlanta.
The fastest times of the year (* – on “irregular” course) …
U.S. men
| Name | Time | Race | Result |
| Leonard Korir | 2:07:56 | Amsterdam | 11th |
| Scott Fauble | 2:09:09 | Boston* | 7th |
| Jared Ward | 2:09:25 | Boston* | 8th |
| Jacob Riley | 2:10:36 | Chicago | 9th |
| Jerrell Mock | 2:10:37 | Chicago | 10th |
| Jared Ward | 2:10:45 | New York City | 6th |
| Parker Stinson | 2:10:53 | Chicago | 11th |
| Andrew Bumbalough | 2:10:56 | Chicago | 12th |
| Matt McDonald | 2:11:10 | Chicago | 14th |
| Matt Llano | 2:11:14 | Berlin | 14th |
| Scott Smith | 2:11:34 | Chicago | 15th |
U.S. women
| Name | Time | Race | Result |
| Sara Hall | 2:22:16 | Berlin | 5th |
| Emily Sisson | 2:23:08 | London | 6th |
| Sally Kipyego | 2:25:10 | Berlin | 7th |
| Jordan Hasay | 2:25:20 | Boston* | 3rd |
| Emma Bates | 2:25:27 | Chicago | 4th |
| Kellyn Johnson | 2:26:27 | Prague | 4th |
| Molly Huddle | 2:26:33 | London | 12th |
| Desiree Linden | 2:26:46 | New York City | 6th |
| Aliphine Chepkerker Tuliamuk | 2:26:50 | Rotterdam | 3rd |
| Kellyn Johnson | 2:27:00 | New York City | 7th |
World men
| Name | Time | Race | Result |
| Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) | 2:01:41 | Berlin | 1st |
| Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) | 2:02:37 | London | 1st |
| Birhanu Legese (ETH) | 2:02:48 | Berlin | 2nd |
| Mosinet Geremew (ETH) | 2:02:55 | London | 2nd |
| Mule Washihun (ETH) | 2:03:16 | London | 3rd |
| Getaneh Molla (ETH) | 2:03:34 | Dubai | 1st |
| Sisay Lemma (ETH) | 2:03:36 | Berlin | 3rd |
| Herpasa Negasa (ETH) | 2:03:40 | Dubai | 2nd |
| Marius Kipserem (KEN) | 2:04:11 | Rotterdam | 1st |
| Asefa Mengstu (ETH) | 2:04:24 | Dubai | 3rd |
World women
| Name | Time | Race | Result |
| Brigid Kosgei | 2:14:04 | Chicago | 1st |
| Ruth Chepngetich | 2:17:08 | Dubai | 1st |
| Worknesh Degefa | 2:17:41 | Dubai | 2nd |
| Brigid Kosgei | 2:18:20 | London | 1st |
| Valary Jemeli | 2:19:10 | Frankfurt | 1st |
| Degitu Azimeraw | 2:19:26 | Amsterdam | 1st |
| Lonah Chemtai Salpeter | 2:19:46 | Prague | 1st |
| Tigist Girma | 2:19:52 | Amsterdam | 2nd |
| Vivian J. Cheruiyot | 2:20:14 | London | 2nd |
| Ashtete Bekere | 2:20:14 | Berlin | 1st |
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