FINAL RESULTS EUGENE, Ore. – Within the first few bars of “O Canada,” the national anthem of our neighbors to the north, Brianne Theisen-Eaton could no longer contain her emotions, and tears of joy came flowing down her cheeks. It was her golden moment. Just two hours earlier, Theisen-Eaton had won her first gold medal (Read More… )

If you remember last indoor season, female high jumpers weren’t able to overcome the two-meter mark before a major. The same happened in the year of 2001. That winter, Sydney Olympic Games bronze medallist and European Indoor Champion Kajsa Bergqvist of Sweden came to WIC in Lisbon cleared 1.99m for the  World Lead in Stockholm (Read More… )

1. Will the hometown crowd help Matthew Centrowitz win his first gold medal? Centro won bronze and silver in the 2011 and 2013 World Outdoor Championships, and there could be no better setting to win his first world gold than Portland, where he has lived and trained for the past four years. A capacity crowd (Read More… )

Coach Randy Huntington is perhaps best known as the coach of Mike Powell, Willie Banks, Sheila Hudson, and other elite horizontal jumpers. For the past two years, Huntington has coached top Chinese jumpers and sprinters at a training center in Beijing. His athletes include Bin Dong, who has the world-leading mark of 17.41m (57-1½) and (Read More… )

Organizers of the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 gave masters runners a chance to shine on the big stage during the Saturday morning session. They took full advantage of the opportunity, bringing the large crowd to its collective feet with two outstanding 800 meter races. The women aged 55-and-up were up first and current (Read More… )