Mu’s 800m record earns her USATF Athlete of the Week honors

INDIANAPOLIS — Ending off a outstanding yr that has included Olympic gold and Olympic Trials and NCAA titles, Athing Mu (Trenton, New Jersey) earned recognition because the twenty fifth USATF Athlete of the Week award winner for 2021. It’s her fourth time to be honored this yr. 

Mu, who received the NCAA 400m title for Texas A&M after which adopted up with victories at 800m on the Olympic Trials and Olympic Video games, bettered her personal American report within the 800m to win the Prefontaine Traditional Diamond League meet at Eugene in 1:55.04, reducing .17 off the report she set in taking gold at Tokyo. 

After a fast early tempo that put her previous the 400m mark in 55.5, Mu led at 600m in 1:24.44, which is the sixth-fastest ever U.S. time at that distance, and he or she completed greater than two seconds forward of her nearest challenger. Her mark, which additionally bettered her personal American U20 report, vaulted her into eighth place on the all-time world performer record and he or she now has the three quickest instances by an American this yr. She is No. 2 on the all-time world U20 performer record. 

Different prime performances from final week:

• Courtney Frerichs bettered her personal American report within the ladies’s 3,000m steeplechase with an 8:57.77 on the Prefontaine Traditional, making her the No. 4 performer on the world all-time record and the primary American to interrupt 9 minutes within the occasion. Frerichs set the previous AR of 9:00.85 in Monaco in 2018.
• Ryan Crouser twice broke the Diamond League report within the males’s shot put on the Prefontaine Traditional, successful with a 23.15m/75-11.5 that ranks because the third greatest throw in historical past behind his successful mark at Tokyo and the world report he set on the Olympic Trials.
• Jordan Grey bettered her personal American report within the ladies’s decathlon with a rating of 8,246 factors at San Mateo, California. Her mark is the second greatest in historical past.
• Noah Lyles received the boys’s 200m on the Prefontaine Traditional in 19.52, the quickest time on this planet this yr and the third-fastest time in U.S. historical past.
• Eric Cole bettered his personal American masters males’s 50-54 ultra-weight pentathlon report with a rating of 5,270 on the USA Nationwide Masters Throws Championships in Seattle.

Now in its twentieth yr, USATF’s Athlete of the Week program is designed to acknowledge excellent performers in any respect ranges of the game. USATF names a brand new honoree every week when there are high-level competitions and options the athlete on USATF.org. Choices are primarily based on prime performances and outcomes from the earlier week. 

2021 Winners: January 21, KC Lightfoot; January 28, Ryan Crouser; February 4, Bryce Hoppel; February 11, Athing Mu; February 18, Elle Purrier; February 25, Jaylen Slade; March 4, Grant Holloway; March 11, Emmanuel Bor; March 18, Tara Davis; March 25, Emily Sisson; April 1, Tara Davis; April 8, Kenny Selmon; April 15, DeAnna Value; April 22, Athing Mu; April 29, Rudy Winkler; Might 6, Trayvon Bromell; Might 13, Sha’Carri Richardson; Might 20, Athing Mu; Might 27, Ryan Crouser; June 3, Maggie Malone; June 10, Trayvon Bromell; June 24, Ryan Crouser; July 1, Sydney McLaughlin; July 21, Maggie Malone; August 25, Athing Mu. 

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To appoint an athlete for USATF Athlete of the Week, please ship an in depth e mail about his/her efficiency to communications@usatf.org.

 

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