Mile News Tagged Nick Symmonds


Horses & Human Runners Are Not so Different

May 03, 2018

"It’s such an intense pain. It starts in your gut and then fans out to your extremities. Your quads, your shoulders. By the end, it just feels like your whole body is on fire.” - Alan Webb

By Tim Layden, Sports Illustrated

LOUISVILLE – There will come a moment, early Saturday evening in the...

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Work, rest and play: Nick Symmonds

October 24, 2014

Mile repeats least favorite workout, but "I need to run these sessions to be able to run three great rounds of the 800m."

By Steve Landells for the IAAF

U.S. 800m star Nick Symmonds is the latest athlete to answer our work, rest and play questions.

The world 800m silver medalist talks...

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Life Outside the Oval Office: The Track Less Traveled

October 01, 2014

I imagined people laughing at me and asking how I could be so good at the Mile in PE class, but so bad at cross country running. - Nick Symmonds

Talent, a sporting idol, or pushy parents could all be reasons for someone to take up track and field. Not for 2013 World 800m silver medalist Nick...

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EXCLUSIVE: Nick Symmonds’ track & field manifesto

October 11, 2013

"Put on the key events that everybody wants to see: like the men’s 100m, women’s 100m and the Mile."

From SPIKES Magazine

Few current athletes are as keen to stick their head above the parapet as 2013 world 800m silver medalist Nick Symmonds. The U.S. middle-distance star tells SPIKES his big...

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Nick Symmonds Sees More Miles in His Future

September 25, 2013

2013 World Championships 800m silver medalist to test 1500 and Mile distances in 2014

By Chris Lotsbom, Race Results Weekly

Nick Symmonds was satisfied with his 4:00.1, 17th place performance at last Sunday's NYRR Fifth Avenue Mile presented by Nissan. When notified of his time shortly after...

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World Championships Medalists Lead Fields for NYRR Fifth Avenue Mile

September 12, 2013

Men’s and women’s fields will also include Olympians Bernard Lagat, Leo Manzano, Evan Jager, Shannon Rowbury and Morgan Uceny; Open prize purse $30,000 with $5000 for each race champion at 33rd edition

From NYRR

NEW YORK -- More than 15 Olympians and World Championships contestants will...

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U.S. Teen Cain Qualifies for Worlds 1500m Final

August 13, 2013

"When I grow up I want to be Mary Cain." -  Nick Symmonds, newly minted 800m silver medalist; women's 1500m final, Thursday, August 15

By Karen Rosen, Special for USA TODAY

MOSCOW –The future of U.S. middle-distance running is 17-years-old, uses words like "gosh" and "geez" and yet is so race...

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Running (and chatting) a magic Mile with Manzano

August 07, 2013

In America, "When they ask you how fast you run, it’s always about how fast you run the Mile rather than the 1500.”

By Alex Mills, Athletics Weekly

When most people think of the Mile, names such as Seb Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram are sure to spring to mind. The name Leo Manzano is perhaps...

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Cory Leslie Wins Glenn Cunningham Mile

April 21, 2013

By Christopher Graber, The Morning Journal

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Cory Leslie, a 2008 Perkins graduate, was selected as one of 12 elite distance runners in the U.S. to compete in the Glenn Cunningham Mile at the 86th Kansas Relays on Saturday, April 20.

His father and high school distance coach...

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Competitive Mile Field to Collide at Kansas Relays

April 11, 2012

2010 and 2011 Relays champions Peter van der Westuizen and Will Leer return for another shot at sub-4-minute mile at Memorial Stadium 

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Eight of the nation’s top milers have agreed to race in the prestigious Glenn Cunningham Mile at the 2012 Kansas Relays it was announced by KU...

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