A 75-year-old has shattered the ladies’s 75-79 world data within the 1,500m, 5,000m and 10,000m with a sequence of scorching finishes in her debut on the USATF Masters Observe and Subject Nationwide Championships in Greensboro, N.C. Jeannie Rice of Mentor, Ohio, kicked off the trio of jaw-dropping performances together with her 22:41.46 end within the 5,000m on Thursday, crossing the end line practically 4 minutes forward of her closest competitor. Her time beats the 22:53.55 file set by British runner Angela Copson final yr, and slices greater than 4 minutes off the earlier U.S. masters file (26:55.11)
This inspiration Jeannie Rice!! 75 years younger -Broke 3 World Data(pending ratification) Thursday she ran-5000m(22:41)
10000(46:53)Saturday
At the moment she ran the 1500m-in 6:14.88. i must put her image on my refrigerator- the subsequent time i wish to complain. i shut my mouth pic.twitter.com/IH5p9cWudb— Effectivewitness (@Effectivewin) July 23, 2023
Rice adopted up that perfomance together with her record-breaking victory within the 10,000m on Saturday. Rice’s 46:53.07 handily cracked the age group’s 50-minute barrier, taking greater than three minutes off the previous world file (50.00.93) set by Germany’s Melitta Czerwenka-Nage in 2005 and greater than eight minutes off the earlier U.S. file (55:26.70).
Rice’s finale got here Sunday together with her 6:14.88 within the 1,500m, which once more despatched the age group’s world (6:20.93, additionally held by Copson) and U.S. (6:41.88) data tumbling.
All three of Rice’s data are pending ratification.
Along with her record-breaking instances, Rice positioned first in her age group’s 400m last (1:26.68) and 800m last (3:15:22) on the USATF masters championships.
Whereas her ends in latest days have proven Rice is a pressure to be reckoned with on the observe, the runner has lengthy been turning heads together with her success as a street racer. In April, three days after her seventy fifth birthday, Rice set the ladies’s 75+ age group world file together with her 3:33:15 end on the Boston Marathon.
Simply six weeks earlier than she ran Boston—and earlier than her seventy fifth birthday—Rice received the ladies’s 70+ age class on the Tokyo Marathon in 3:31:22 to obtain her six-star finisher medal, awarded to runners who’ve accomplished all six Abbott World Marathon Majors.
Rice additionally holds the ladies’s 70+ file of three:27:50 from the 2018 Chicago Marathon. In 2019, she was named USATF’s masters athlete of the yr. That yr she ran 1:37:07 on the Akron Half Marathon in August to set an age-group world file and secured the three quickest instances within the half marathon 70-74 division.
