NEW YORK, January 31, 2012 – Morgan Uceny, Track & Field News’ top-ranked women’s 1500m runner in the world, will headline a stellar field of runners in the 800-meter run at the 105th Millrose Games February 11 at the Armory’s New Balance Track & Field Center. Uceny will compete against 2011 U.S. Indoor 800m champion Phoebe Wright; World Championships finalist... 

GLASGOW — Great Britain sprinters Jeanette Kwakye and Mark Lewis-Francis won the short sprints at the Aviva International Match, while Mo Farah ended the meet in in style with a stadium record. Farah Record Run World 5000m champion Farah, preparing for the London Olympics later this year, opted for speed at Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall when he stepped down in distance and held off Augustine... 

Asafa Powell opened his 2012 season with an impressive win after taking the men’s 50m dash at the US Open at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. Fellow Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown blasted to 6.08 seconds to win the women’s 50m dash as well on the night. Powell, using the indoor season to gear up for the Olympic Games in London later this summer, ran 5.64 second for first place,... 

NEW YORK, January 25, 2012 – American record holder and Olympic Bronze medal winner David Oliver will be one of eight standout 60m Hurdles participants in the 105th Millrose Games, February 11 at the Armory. Oliver owns the American record in the 110m Hurdles and captured the Bronze in the 110m in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Last February he turned in his personal best in... 

NEW YORK, January 23, 2012 – Not one, not two, but three U.S. National records could fall during the men’s 5,000m event in the 105th Millrose Games, February 11 at the Armory’s New Balance Track & Field Center. Millrose Games meet director Ray Flynn announced today the completion of a super 5,000m field that includes eight-time Wanamaker Mile winner and record holder... 

KINGSTON — Jamaican sprint ace Usain Bolt has signed up to race over the 100 meters at the Golden Gala in Rome again, organizers confirmed on Thursday. This season, the meeting, which is part of the Samsung Diamond League series, is set for Thursday 31 May at Rome’s Olympic Stadium. Bolt, who clocked 9.91 seconds to beat countryman Asafa Powell (9.93) last year has decided to penciled... 

The 2012 U.S. Open Track and Field meeting has announced the list of competitors for the men’s and women’s events. Men’s Events  50 meters: Trell Kimmons (USA), Kimmari Roach (JAM), Asafa Powell (JAM), Justin Gatlin (USA), Daniel Bailey (ANT), Nesta Carter (JAM) 600 yards: Bershawn Jackson (USA), Renny Quow (TRI), Greg Nixon (USA), Tabarie Henry (UVI) Mile: Bernard Lagat (USA),... 

Mo Farah has been advised to concentrate on just one event at the London Olympic Games. The Great Britain star, who won the gold medal over the 5,000 metres at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, last summer, is planning to do an Olympic Game 5,000m and 10,000m double in London this summer. However, British track icon Mike McLeod, who won a silver at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, and is... 

NEW YORK, January 17, 2012 – Jenn Suhr, the world’s No. 1 ranked pole vaulter, is entered in the Millrose Games’ Fred Schmertz Women’s Pole Vault event February 11 at the Armory’s New Balance Track & Field Center, announced today by the Armory Foundation. Suhr is one of five women in this year’s field who have cleared 15 feet. “I’m looking... 

BOSTON (Jan 17) – Distance star Galen Rupp and high hurdler David Oliver, both American Record-Holders, have confirmed their participation in the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix on February 4th, organizers announced today. Galen Rupp, from Portland, OR, had one of the best annual campaigns ever by American distance runner in 2011. Beginning with an American Record indoors at 5000m with a...