Prefontaine Classic

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Prefontaine Classic
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Start of the 200m during the 2006 edition
DateMay – September
Location Hayward Field
Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
Event type Track and field
World Athletics Cat. GW /DF [1]
Established20 June 1973;51 years ago (1973-06-20)
1975 as Prefontaine Classic
Official site Diamond League Eugene
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Hayward
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Location in the United States
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The Prefontaine Classic is a track and field meet held at Hayward Field on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Organized by the Oregon Track Club, it was previously one of the IAAF Grand Prix events, and is now part of the Diamond League. The meet is one of the few international competitions to host the imperial distances of the Mile run (Bowerman Mile) and 2 Mile run.

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History

The first Prefontaine Classic was held in 1975. The meet had its genesis with the Hayward Restoration Meets of 1973–74. The Hayward Restoration meets were launched to help replace the deteriorated wooden West Grandstands at Hayward Field. It was to become the "Bowerman Classic" in 1975 to honor longtime University of Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman, and was scheduled for June 7. [2] With the unexpected death of University of Oregon distance runner and Olympian Steve Prefontaine in an automobile accident on May 30, the Oregon Track Club changed the name, with Bowerman's approval, on June 1; [3] [4] the first "Pre Classic" was held six days later. [5] Nike has been the primary sponsor since 1978. The 2019 edition moved to Stanford's Cobb Track and Angell Field, Palo Alto, California because of restoration of Hayward Field in anticipation of the IAAF World Athletics Championships in 2021. [6] The 2020 edition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [7]

In 2023, the Prefontaine Classic was held as the Diamond League Final for the first time. [8]

Editions

World records

Over the course of its history, seven world records have been set at the Prefontaine Classic.

World records set at the Prefontaine Classic
YearEventRecordAthleteNationalityRef
1975 220 yard dash 19.92 Don Quarrie Flag of Jamaica.svg Jamaica
1982 5000 m 15:08.26 Mary Decker Slaney Flag of the United States.svg United States
2011 30 km (track)1:26:47.4 Moses Mosop Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya [40] [41]
25 km (track)1:12:25.4+ Moses Mosop Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya [40] [42]
2023 Pole vault 6.23 m Armand Duplantis Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
5000 m 14:00.21 Gudaf Tsegay Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia
2024 10,000 m 28:54.14 Beatrice Chebet Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya [43]

Other notable performances and records

2001: Alan Webb's high school mile record

At the 2001 Prefontaine Classic, Alan Webb competed against elite international runners, in a field that included world record holder Hicham El Guerrouj, and the 2000 Sydney Olympics 1500m bronze medalist Bernard Lagat. [44]

Webb ran 3:53.43 in the Bowerman Mile and broke Jim Ryun's national high school record that had stood for 36 years. This was also the fastest mile by an American in three years.

1993–2008: Maria Mutola in the 800 m

Maria de Lurdes Mutola won 16 consecutive (1993–2008) women's 800 m races at the Pre Classic.

2023: Jakob Ingebrigtsen's mile & 3000m double

In the 2023 Prefontaine Classic & Diamond League Final, on September 16, Norwegian athlete Jakob Ingebrigtsen won the Bowerman Mile, in a time of 3:43.73, with the aid of pacing lights and pacemakers Erik Sowinski & Cameron Myers.

Ingebrigtsen missed Hicham El Guerrouj's mile world record by .60 seconds, still having run the fastest mile in 24 years and the third fastest mile in history at the time.

Ingebrigtsen was closely followed by Yared Nuguse, who finished in an American record time of 3:43.97, breaking Alan Webb's former American mile record of 3:46.91 by almost three full seconds and running the fourth fastest mile in history at the time.

The race closely mimics El Guerrouj's 1999 world record run in Rome, where El Guerrouj won in 3:43.13, but was being closely tracked by Kenyan athlete Noah Ngeny, who came in second place at 3:43.40. El Guerrouj and Ngeny still hold the first and second fastest mile times respectively as of 2023.

These four men (El Guerrouj, Ngeny, Ingebrigtsen, Nuguse) remain the only ones in history to have run a mile under 3:44.00 as of 2023, with the #5 fastest mile of all time being Noureddine Morceli's 1993 time of 3:44.39. [45] [46] [47]

The next day, Ingebrigtsen would go on to win the 3000 m, in a time of 7:23.63, beating Yomif Kejelcha by only one hundredth of a second. At the time, this ranked Kejelcha at #4 all time and Ingebrigtsen at #3 all time, behind Hicham El Guerrouj's 7:23.09 and Daniel Komen's world record of 7:20.67. [48]

Both of Ingebrigtsen's performances stand as Diamond League Records and are the third fastest performances in their respective event as of 2023.

Meeting records

Men

Women

Notes

  1. ↑ by Athletics Weekly source; 3:28.9 by official 1 Mile Run Race Analysis

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