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Matt Tegenkamp and Amy Yoder Begley won the respective men's and women's titles Sunday at the USA 5 km Championships in Providence, R.I. Tegenkamp, the U.S. champion at 5,000 meters on the track won his first U.S. road title in 13:57, as Begley, the 2009 USA 10,000 meter champion on the track and USA 15 km champion ran 15:27 to add the 5 km title ...

Dobriskey, Rowbury, Lagat, Lomong, Tegenkamp, and Wurth-Thomas Will Run Fifth Avenue Mile Why, it's just like a mini-Grand Prix track meet transplanted to 20 blocks of expensive real estate in New York.

'Super-Competitive' Kara Goucher Is Ready for Medal Quest in Berlin "I've been super-competitive my whole life," notes Goucher, who is among the favorites in Sunday's World Championships women's marathon.

Abel Kirui and Vivian Cheruiyot won World Championship distance titles for Kenya on the eighth day of competition in the German capital on Saturday.

For Immediate Release Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2009 IAAF World Athletics Championships Day 5 Team USA morning quotes Jen Rhines , Women's 5,000 meters I felt really good out there.

No American woman has ever finished higher than seventh in the 5,000-meter race at the World Championships of Track and Field.

Kara Goucher, Shalane Flanagan, Jenny Barringer, Maggie Vessey and Christin Wurth-Thomas will lead the U.S. women's distance runners at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Aug.

The way the US Embassy originally reckoned it, she wouldn't get her visa until September.

The way the US Embassy originally reckoned it, she wouldn't get her visa until September.

Meb Keflezighi and Magdalena Lewy Boulet Headline USA 7 Mile in Iowa The Quad-Cities Times Bix 7 in Davenport on Saturday is serving as the USA 7 Mile Championships.

'I Just Made the World Championship Team,' Exclaims Julie Culley The matter of who competes for the U.S. in Berlin in August was not entirely settled by who finished in the top three at the USATF Championships in Eugene.

Matt Tegenkamp's 13:07.97 second place performance at tonight's KBC Night of Athletics meeting in Heusden, Belgium, solidified the American 5000m team for next month's IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin.

Lauren Fleshman Eludes 'The Grey Cloud Following Me Everywhere' The former Stanford star was a 2006 USATF 5000-meter champion and a stunning winner at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York in 2008.

Matt Tegenkamp and Kara Goucher Are USATF 5000-Meter Champions The men's 5000-meter race at the USATF Championships in Eugene on Friday was loaded with talent, a panoply of lead changes, and a very brisk last two laps, and when it was over, athletes coached by Jerry Schumacher and based in Oregon has swept the top three spots.

Kara Goucher successfully defended her 5000 meter national title from 2008 Friday evening, running 15:20.94 as part of her preparation for the World Championships marathon in August.

Carmelita Jeter outleaned Muna Lee at the finish line to win the women's 100 meters by one-thousandth of a second at the USA Outdoor Track and Field championships at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field last night.

Kara Goucher says she will run the marathon at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin this summer, but on Friday she was the best women's 5,000-meter runner at Hayward Field.

I profiled Matt Tegenkamp for this morning's Oregonian, and the story highlights the state's growing importance in the world of U.S. running.

For Immediate Release Friday, June 19, 2009 Barringer/Willard and Goucher/Flanagan to do battle at Championships INDIANAPOLIS - Rivalries lead the way in the women's distance events as Jenny Barringer will face Anna Willard in the 1,500m and 3,000m steeplechase, and Shalane Flanagan will go toe-to-toe with Kara Goucher in the women's 5,000 and ...

May 28, 2009 For Immediate Release RECORDS MAY FALL IN PRE CLASSIC DISTANCES Eugene, Oregon--How good have the distance races been in the 35-year history of the Prefontaine Classic? Good enough that the fastest times ever run on American soil in two of the three endurance races in this year's Pre Classic were recorded in prior editions of the meet.