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The MHSAA 1A State Track & Field Championships, which took place this past Monday at Pearl High School, featured several standouts from As…
PEARL- The Pontotoc High School track team completed another successful season as 13 athletes competed in the Class 5A state meet on Saturday,…
West Union competed at the Class 1A state track and field championships on Monday in Pearl. West Union boys placed 11th with 28 points while t…
Kenyan marathon record-breaker Sabastian Sawe received a hero’s welcome home complete with a water cannon salute for the aircraft he was aboard. Sawe, the first person to break the fabled two-hour barrier in the marathon, was welcomed back to his country Wednesday by his parents and Sports Minister Salim Mvurya, who hailed the runner’s accomplishment at the London Marathon as “a win for Kenya.” Sawe pulled off the feat, which was long considered unthinkable, on Sunday when he won in a time of 1 hour, 59 minutes, 30 seconds. He bettered the previous men’s world record by 65 seconds.
TISHOMINGO- The South Pontotoc track team continues to a historic season, qualifying in 8 events for the Class 4A state meet at Pearl High Sch…
PONTOTOC- The Pontotoc Warrior track team hosted the class 2A and 5A North Half track meet last Tuesday, April 21st.
Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to break the fabled 2-hour barrier in the marathon in a huge moment in sports history. Sawe smashed the men’s world record by 65 seconds in winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds. The second-place finisher, Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia, also dipped under 2 hours by crossing the line in 1:59:41 in his first-ever marathon. Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda broke the previous world-record time, set by Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum in Chicago in 2023, by seven seconds in finishing in 2:00:28.
Area track athletes showed up in numbers at the North Half meets, with several punching their tickets to the state meet across multiple events.
Sabastian Sawe of Kenya became the first person to break the 2-hour barrier in an official marathon on Sunday. The list of other notable milestones in world athletics includes U.S. sprinter Jim Hines becoming the first man to officially break the 10-second barrier in the 100 meters in 1968. The first athlete to break the 20-second mark in the 200 meters race was American runner Tommie Smith in 1968. Czech runner Jarmila Kratochvilova became the first woman to break 48 seconds in the 400 meters in 1983. Britain’s Roger Bannister was the first person to run the mile in under four minutes in 1954.