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Scottish distance runner Stewart dies aged 81
Scottish distance runner Stewart dies aged 81

BBC News

time3 days ago

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Scottish distance runner Stewart dies aged 81

Scottish distance runner Lachie Stewart has died aged won 10,000m gold for Scotland at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and represented Great Britain at the 1972 Munich Joseph Laughlin Stewart in Alexandria in 1943, he worked as a dental was inducted to Scottish Athletics' hall of fame in 2018 and the organisation said: "Everyone at scottishathletics and within our community sends our thoughts at this sad time to Lachie's family and his many friends across the sport."In 2020, at age 77, he had the lower half of his leg amputated after complications with diabetes."I had an ulcer between my second and third toe and it didn't seem to heal too well," he told BBC Scotland at the time."It quickly went from that to the doctor saying I can either live with the pain, which was unbelievable, or we can amputate below the knee. I said to him right away to just take the bottom of the leg off because I just couldn't stand the pain."Sport makes you more determined. I don't have any hang-ups about losing the leg."

‘The Front Runner' Review: Steve Prefontaine, Racing Through Life
‘The Front Runner' Review: Steve Prefontaine, Racing Through Life

Wall Street Journal

time6 days ago

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‘The Front Runner' Review: Steve Prefontaine, Racing Through Life

Track and field shimmers with names that transcend the sport—Jesse Owens, Florence Griffith Joyner, Usain Bolt. But perhaps no name carries the power and poignancy of Steve Prefontaine, the gritty, charismatic distance runner from Oregon whose life ended in a car crash in 1975. Only 24 at the time, he was already a celebrity—a brash media star whose career presaged the commercial-endorsement boom for sports figures, a rebel who decried the exploitation of amateur athletes, a leg-churning whippet whose desperate exertions thrilled the roaring crowds. By conventional standards, Prefontaine would not be considered among the greats; he holds no world records and won no Olympic medals. But scrutiny of his life, in books and film, highlights how unconventional he was—a point reinforced in Brendan O'Meara's well-crafted 'The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine.' Sidestepping the deification of his subject, Mr. O'Meara humanizes Prefontaine in his vexing contradictions, buoyant spirit and brutal competitiveness.

CCAL Track notes: Downey's Leach wins 3,200-meter title, new meet records set
CCAL Track notes: Downey's Leach wins 3,200-meter title, new meet records set

Yahoo

time07-05-2025

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CCAL Track notes: Downey's Leach wins 3,200-meter title, new meet records set

Downey High distance runner and defending Central California Athletic League 3,200-meter champion Zoe Leach knows each race is equal parts physical and mental. 'Of course the physical aspect goes into it, but also so much of it is telling yourself that you just can't give up when it gets hard,' the senior said. 'You just have to get used to the pain.' On Friday at the CCAL Championships, the Saint Mary's College signee was at the top of her game, taking home her second straight league title in the 3,200m run. Once the gun went off, she got out early, extending at least a 40-meter lead by lap two of the eight-lap race. She was dominant in the longest race of the day, coming out with a wire-to-wire win in 11 minutes, 8.82 seconds, nearly a whole 10 seconds faster than her winning time in the same event at last season's CCAL Championships (11:18.69). She said the fast start was part of her plan, touching on the mental aspect of distance running. 'For the past couple of years, every single race, I'll get out really hard,' she said. 'I feel like people know I'm gonna do it now, but it works sometimes. My whole strategy is that if I run fast enough that nobody wants to go with me in the beginning, they're not going to be able to catch me at the end.' Downey's Zoe Leach won the 3200 meter race with a time of 11:08.82 during the Central California Athletic League track and field championships at Turlock High School in Turlock, Friday, May 2, 2025. Leach set her 3,200m PR earlier this season, running a 10:53.47 in a 12th-place finish at the Arcadia Invitational. She also has set personal bests in the 800 (2:24.93) and 1,600 (5:05.73) this season. After finishing third in the 3,200 at the CCAL Championships as a sophomore, she has won it in back-to-back years. She has also won two cross country league titles. 'It feels amazing,' Leach said of winning. 'I've never been someone that winning races is all I run for, but it did feel good to win four league championships. Leach won by a comfortable margin, but going into the race, victory was not guaranteed. Pitman junior Avery Carlson and Turlock freshman Ellison Williams each had better PRs than Leach. Leach and Williams each set new meet records. Leach's 11:08.82 is now the best mark for a CCAL Championships and Williams' 11:13.84 is second. 'I'm so thankful to have these girls in the league that are running so fast, faster than me,' Leach said. 'It really gives me a reason to push myself.' She improved her 3,200m time from 11:53.02 as a sophomore to 11:06.49 as a junior, something she said even she wasn't expecting. After a breakthrough junior season, Leach was on college radars. She said Saint Mary's was one of the first schools to reach out to her. '(Junior year) was the first time I realized I could run in college,' she said. 'Saint Mary's reached out and it was kind of surreal because I didn't know that was an option for me. It wasn't my top choice for a while but I visited the campus and the girls were so sweet and the campus was so beautiful. It just really feels like a place where I belong.' Before she runs for the Gaels, Leach will finish out the high school postseason. She is looking to repeat as a Division II champion at the divisional meet at Vista del Lago High School. She hopes to compete in the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters, where she finished seventh in 2024, and eventually the state meet. Downey high jumper wins competitive final Torriano Moore is Downey's only varsity high jumper. He picked up track and field as a sophomore in high school and has improved every year. He saved his best performance for Friday, winning his first high jump event of the year to take home a league title. CCAL has three meets before the championships. Moore finished second in the high jump at CCAL meet 2 and came in fourth at meet 3, but everything clicked for him Friday. He set a personal record, jumping 6-feet-4. 'I pray before and I drink water,' said Moore, who was still shocked at his high jump performance, 'and then I just go.' Moore battled with a number of Turlock jumpers, but in the end, Cash Burton was his final challenger. Both cleared the 6-foot-4 mark and could not clear 6-foot-6. Moore took home the CCAL title because he had fewer scratches during the competition. The Downey senior also competed in the 110 and 300 hurdles, finishing third in both, and helped Downey to a title in the 4x400 relay. He will compete next season at Yuba College in Marysville. Pitman thrower went from no interest to CCAL champion Saveena Gadri started high school with no interest in doing sports, especially track and field. At first, she thought it was only running, and that was something she said she wasn't going to do. 'Coach King came up to me and told me I should come and try it,' Gadri recalled. 'I didn't want to do any sports because I thought it was going to be too much with school.' When she started last season as a sophomore, she was not good, she admitted. Her first ever throw was 17' 8.25' and she did not clear 34', but she did improve. Last season alone, she went from throwing just under 18' to a season record 33' 6.5'. This year, the improvement has continued. She has won every CCAL meet, including taking the league title with a 34' 1' shot put throw. She also finished second in the discus at the CCAL Championships, throwing a personal record 97' 4'. She hasn't thrown anything less than 32' this season in shot put, and earlier this year set a personal record of 37' 5' at the Hughson Vintage Invitational. She also has top 10 finishes at the prestigious Mt. SAC Relays and the Sacramento Meet of Champions. 'Coming into this year, I was like if I hit 35', I'd be happy and when I came out this season, the first throw I did was a 33'.' Enochs sprinter overcomes illness to win 100m In a 100-meter dash filled with personal bests, Enochs' Eric Myles took home the league title with a PR of 10.81 seconds. Myles said he was sick all week and missed four days of school leading up to the competition but he showed up and said he would give it his all. He didn't have any high expectations for the race, but was happy when he ran the fastest time of the three-heat event. 'I think this was just a sign that if I'm running this while I'm sick and not 100% at my best, I feel like I can run a lot faster when I'm actually 100%,' he said. From the left, Downey's Carson Lamb (10.96), Joseph Ramirez (10.97), Enochs' Eric Myles (10.81) and Jeremiah Raven (11.58) run the 100 meter race during the Central California Athletic League track and field championships at Turlock High School in Turlock, Friday, May 2, 2025. Myles finished first with a time of 10.81. Downey's Carson Lamb came in second with a personal best time of 10.96 seconds. David Magana of Modesto, Todd McKinney of Enochs, Pitman's Francisco Villanueva and Turlock's Edgar Silva all finished fifth through eighth and recorded PRs. Downey's 4x100 boys chasing records The Downey High 4x100 team has won every CCAL meet along with the Stanislaus County Championships and County Clash. It finished fourth among some of the best high school teams in Northern California at the Stanford Invitational and competed in the ultracompetitive Mt. SAC Relays. On Friday, the quartet of Carson Lamb, Antwain Harper, Marcus Cruz and Joseph Ramirez completed the CCAL sweep, taking the league title in 42.65 seconds. The runners are happy with the CCAL titles and want to make a deep playoff run, but they are also chasing a school record. The 2022 team set the leading mark, a 42.51 at Sac-Joaquin Section Masters, which was good for a third-place finish. 'We're all pretty hungry for it,' Ramirez said. 'Throughout the week, we're working hard, making sure we all can get faster little by little and increase those times.' The four have come close, and will have divisionals, SJS Masters and possibly the state meet to become the top relay team in Downey history. Modesto two-sport athlete wins boys shot put Lucky Dam didn't even live in California his sophomore year and now he's a CCAL champion. While now he is a star on the football field and first team all-CCAL running back for Modesto High, Vanntheesouk 'Lucky' Dam started high school in Tennessee, where he played soccer. He picked up track his junior year and started as a sprinter and hurdler. Then his coach suggested he try shot put. He has improved drastically over just two years. His first personal record was 37 feet, and Friday he took home a league title and set a PR of 45' 5'. Modesto's Vanntheesouk Dam recored a personal record and first place with a throw of 45'-05' during the Central California Athletic League track and field championships at Turlock High School in Turlock, Friday, May 2, 2025. 'I could feel the potential,' Dam said. 'And coach Pedretti is always telling me I can do so much more than what I think.' Dam also threw discus at the CCAL Championships, finishing sixth, but the shot put is where he has shined all year. He set personal bests three times this year, finishing off with his best of the season at the league title meet. He has two other teammates, Fernando Fernandez and Edwin Gomez, who each finished inside the top 10 at Friday's meet, too. Gomez set a PR as well, throwing 37' 11'. 'Coach always says iron sharpens iron,' Dam said. 'So I PR, it motivates them, they PR, it motivates me. We're able to push each other and it's amazing. CCAL Championship meet records set Friday Personal records and league titles are the goals for many CCAL athletes but some even surpass that mark. Here are the athletes who set CCAL Championships meet records at Friday's competition: Boys 4x800 8:42.16 — Zayn Hamilton, Logan Petty, Theodore Santos, Larson Wejmar (Turlock) Girls 300m Hurdles 46.30 — Zoe Lamur (Turlock) Girls 3,200m 11:08.82 — Zoe Leach (Downey) 11:13.84 — Ellison Williams (Turlock) Boys Long Jump 21' 3.5' — Cash Burton (Turlock) Turlock's Cash Burton won the long jump competition in the Central California Athletic League track and field championships at Turlock High School in Turlock, Friday, May 2, 2025. Burton's wing jump was 21'-03.50'. Boys High Jump 6' 4' — Torriano Moore (Downey) 6' 4' — Cash Burton (Turlock) Boys Triple Jump 44' 4.5' — Cash Burton (Turlock) Girls Pole Vault 11' 9' — Brooke Schumacher (Turlock) 10' 7' — Emma Trevor (Turlock) 10' 7' — Alexa Sandoval (Turlock) Girls Shot Put 34' 1' — Saveena Gadri (Pitman) OTHER TRACK NOTES ▪ Turlock senior Angel Trefry Bet George won the 100m sprint in a season record 12.52 seconds. She also finished second and PR'd in the 200m (26.04) and helped the Bulldogs to the girls 4x100 championship along with Alexa Sandoval, Serene Klair and Kealani Solis-Coelho (49.17) ▪ Pitman junior Avery Carlson won the 1,600m (5:05.08) and finished third in the 3,200m (11:52.39) ▪ Pitman freshman Emily Martinez won the girls 100m hurdles with a personal record 16.61 seconds ▪ Downey senior Carson Lamb won the 200m sprint in a personal best 21.90 seconds ▪ Pitman junior Jonathan Williams (49.52) and Turlock junior Ricardo Lacerda (50.18) finished first and second in the boys 400m run and recorded personal bests ▪ Enochs junior Gabriel Penwell finished second in the boys 1,600m run and set a personal best time (4:43.34) ▪ Pitman junior finished first and set personal records in the 110m and 300m hurdles. He finished in 15.06 and 40.78 seconds, respectively ▪ In the 300m hurdles, Gregori's Jasyiah Roberts (42.03) and Downey's Jackson Whiteaker (43.26) each set personal records ▪ Gregori's Marcus Sims was the only Modesto discus thrower to finish in the top five. He posted a personal record 133' 6' ▪ Turlock senior Cash Burton competed in the long jump, high jump and triple jump. He finished first in the long jump and triple jump and second in the high jump. He set a new triple jump PR of 44' 4.5' ▪ The top three runners in the girls 200m all set PRs: First place Alexa Sandoval (Turlock, 25.95), second place Angel Trefry Bet George (Turlock, 26.04) and third place Serena Rodriguez (Enochs, 26.70) ▪ Gregori freshman Elise Rojas (1:00.33) and Enochs senior Kaytlynn Nice (1:02.80) ran personal bests in the girls 400m. They finished second and fourth, respectively ▪ Pitman junior Nayeli Mattison set a PR in the girls 800m (2:25.21) ▪ Pitman freshman Emily Martinez won the girls 100m hurdles with a personal best time (16.61). Gretchen Nass (Turlock), Juliane Ramirez (Pitman), Isabel Fuentes (Pitman), Holland DeLay (Pitman), Kaya Shelton-Carleo (Downey) and Adaline Walsh (Turlock) all finished in the top 10 and set PR's ▪ Brooke Schumacher of Turlock won the girls pole vault with a PR of 11' 9' ▪ Enochs sophomore Rylie Bethke finished second in the long jump with a personal best 16' 5'. She also won the triple jump title ▪ Turlock senior Zoe Lamur finished first in the girls 400m, girls 300m hurdles and girls long jump

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