Pre Classic: Galen Rupp breaks his own 10,000m AR, results from IAAF Results Service

Galen Rupp ran the fastest 10,000 meters in the world last night, running 26:44:36 and breaking the AR. Rupp finally took the lead with 800 meters to go, and dropped a 59, then a 58 second last lap. His final mile of 4:06 showed the thousands of fans on the first night of the Prefontaine Classic that Galen Rupp is fit and ready to race.

Galen Rupp’s next race will be the 5,000 meters in Oslo, Norway.

Rupp running 26:48.00 in Brussels in 2011, photo by PhotoRun.net

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Men’ results

800 Metres – Men Race 1

1 Kinyor , Job Koech KEN 1:44.70

2 Greer , Elijah USA 1:45.30

3 Sowinski , Erik USA 1:45.64

4 Vazquez , Wesley PUR 1:45.73

5 Mohammed , Mukhtar GBR 1:46.74

6 Jock , Charles USA 1:46.84

7 Rutt , Michael USA 1:47.25

8 Rimmer , Michael GBR 1:49.55

9 Mulder , Tyler USA 1:51.07

Abda , Harun USA DNF

10,000 Metres – Men

1 Rupp , Galen USA 26:44.36

2 Tanui , Paul Kipngetich KEN 26:49.41

3 Karoki , Bidan KEN 26:52.36

4 Sambu , Stephen KEN 26:54.61

5 Bett , Emmanuel Kipkemei KEN 27:21.61

6 Kipkemoi , Kenneth Kiprop KEN 27:30.94

7 Elabbassi , El Hassan MAR 27:32.96

8 Medhin , Teklemariam ERI 27:38.83

9 Nebebew , Birhan ETH 27:42.89

10 Toroitich , Timothy UGA 27:43.27

11 Kifle , Goitom ERI 27:43.30

12 Tahri , Bouabdellah FRA 27:57.52

13 Chelanga , Samuel KEN 27:59.74

14 Korir , Leonard KEN 28:01.85

15 Too , Wilson Kiprono KEN 28:03.21

Braun , Aaron USA DNF

Demelash , Yigrem ETH DNF

Kigen , Mike Kipruto KEN DNF

St.Lawrence , Ben AUS DNF

Wolde , Dawit ETH DNF

Gala , Mumin DJI DNS

Shot Put – Men

Pts

1 Hoffa , Reese USA 21.64 4

2 Kovacs , Joe USA 21.46 2

3 Cantwell , Christian USA 21.38 1

4 Roberts , Kurt USA 20.71

5 Majewski , Tomasz POL 20.59

6 Walsh , Tomas NZL 20.51

7 Lauro , GermÃ¡n ARG 20.09

8 PrÃ¡Å¡il , Ladislav &n
bsp; CZE 18.92

Women’ results

Long Jump – Women

Pts Wind

1 Å panovic , Ivana SRB 6.88 4 +1.5

2 Klishina , Darya RUS 6.88 2 +0.6

3 Lesueur , Ã‰loyse FRA 6.87 1 +1.0

4 Reese , Brittney USA 6.86 +1.6

5 Bowie , Tori USA 6.82 +0.7

6 Proctor , Shara GBR 6.60 +2.3

7 DeLoach Soukup , Janay USA 6.41 +1.5

Discus Throw – Women

Pts

1 Perkovic , Sandra CRO 69.32 4

2 Craft , Shanice GER 65.38 2

3 Lewis-Smallwood , Gia USA 64.98 1

4 MÃ¼ller , Nadine GER 64.37

6 Fischer , Julia GER 63.55

8 Glanc , Zaneta POL 60.33

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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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