The 100th Millrose Games on February 2 included a ceremony honoring meet director emeritus Howard Schmertz (center) upon his induction into the meet's Hall of Fame and saluting fellow Hall of Famers Mary Decker Slaney, Eamonn Coghlan, and dozens of others. |
The meet included the NYRR Fastest Kid in New York competition, a 50-meter dash. Aleah Stewart (left) won the girls race in 8.64...
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...while Jordan Vidal was the boys race winner in 7.86. Race entrants qualified based on their performances at the NYRR Foundation Youth Track & Field Jamboree January 14. |
At Milrose, the high school races are often asexciting as the professionals. Here Danielle Tauro, Chanelle Price and Cory McGee lead the Girls Mile. |
Tauro won (a tightly contested race) in 4:52.81. |
McGee took second (4:53.90) and Price third (4:53.99) |
The Boys High School Mile was fiercely contested by some of the best male high school distance runners in the country. |
After biding his time early on, Jason Weller of Boyertown Area High School in Pennsylvania surged in the final 100 meters to claim the victory in 4:15.81.
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Kyle Soloff (left) of Morris Hills High School (NJ) was the runner-up in 4:17.99, followed by Steve Murdock of Shenendehowa High School (NY) in third place (4:18.14). |
The NYRR Women's 3000-Meter Run, the longest distance race of the evening, featured a star-studded field. |
Ethiopian superstar Tirunesh Dibaba followed the pacesetter's fast early pace but was closely followed by American Sara Hall, winner of the 2006 Continental Airlines Fifth Avenue Mile. |
Dibaba, who set a world indoor 5000-meter record in Boston on January 27, took control in the final laps and won going away in 8:46.58.
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Hall, a member of Team Running USA in Mammoth Lakes, California, ran 9:01.22 to finish second, then collapse after crossing the line. |
Hall's Team Running USA teammate Jen Rhines placed third in 9:02.91. |
Dibaba, shown here lapping another runner, established a meet record with her win. |
The Wanamaker Mile, the meet's marquee event, saw Craig Mottram of Australia challenge four-time winner and defending champ Bernard Lagat of the United States. |
Though Mottram led for much of the second half of the race, Lagat surged wide to pass him during the final lap. |
Lagat claimed his fifth Wanamaker Mile title in 3:54.26, a world-leading time for 2007. Mottram placed second in 3:54.81. |
American star Alan Webb, who had won the New Balance Games Mile in on January 20, was a disappointing fourth in 4:04.86. |
Ivan Heshko of the Ukraine was fifth in 4:08.45. |
Lagat, shown here after the race with his son, Miika, is within two victories of tying Eamonn Coghlan's record seven Wanamaker Mile titles. |
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