Keira D'Amato broke the long-standing US women’s marathon record, while Kenya’s Vicoty Chepngeno set a North American all-comers’ half marathon record to move to 11th on the world all-time list and Sara Hall broke the US half marathon record on a busy morning of road race action in Houston on Sunday (16).
Calgary-born Rory Linkletter crossed the finish line eighth in 61 minutes eight seconds on Sunday in Houston to set a Canadian half-marathon record and eclipse Jeff Schiebler's 61:28 performance from Jan. 15, 1999 in Tokyo.
Elsewhere, Bryce Deadmon sped to a 45.68 victory in the 400m, another world lead.
Tyra Gittens, who also competes for Texas A&M, won the long with a 6.62m leap to break the national indoor record for Trinidad & Tobago. The 22-year-old, who also hold the national record in the heptathlon, won the high jump with 1.83m.
Lightfoot tops 5.94m in Lubbock
KC Lightfoot topped an early-season world lead of 5.94m at the Corky Classic in Lubbock, Texas, on Saturday (17) to break the US collegiate indoor record in the pole vault.
Making his 2021 debut, the 21-year-old sailed over the height on his first attempt before closing out the competition with three attempts at 6.00m. Lightfoot, a member of the US squad at the 2019 World Championships, entered the year with personal bests of 5.83m indoors and 5.82m outdoors.