Anna Hall answers a few questions from RunBlogRun after her American record

This can be a quick interview (very quick) with Anna Corridor, who I imagine would be the subsequent world star within the multi-events. I’m trying ahead to seeing Anna Corridor compete with the perfect on the planet. 

On February 16, 2023, on the 2023 USATF Indoor Championships, Anna Corridor set a brand new American file for the pentathlon.

Anna Corridor is a tremendously gifted athlete who works exhausting and could be very aggressive. After her bronze medal within the World Champs final summer time, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, the best ladies’s multi-eventer of all time, advised me that Anna Corridor has what it takes to be on the worldwide podium within the multi-events.

On the USATF Indoor Champs, Anna corridor ran 8.04 for the 60-meter hurdles, an enormous PB (was 8.17).

Within the excessive soar, her weakest occasion, Anna scored one other PB together with her clearance of 1.91 meters (6’3.25″). That gave her 2,239 factors after two occasions.

In occasion three, the shot put, Anna Corridor threw 13.80 meters, 43’5″, giving her 3,020 factors.

Within the fourth occasion, the lengthy soar, Corridor leaped 6.34 meters / 20’9.75″, giving Anna 3,975 factors after 4 occasions.

She solely wanted a 2:19.55 to get the American file.

Anna Corridor used went to hyper velocity and ran a 2:05.70, breaking the AR by 190 factors and simply ten factors off the then WR (5014), together with her new American file of 5,004 factors.

Nathalie Uhl of USATF requested the questions from RunBlogRun of the brand new file holder.

We did hear that Anna Corridor requested her agent, Paul Doyle, if he might schedule one other pentathlon throughout the season. Mr. Doyle prompt that she give attention to the heptathlon.  (On the weekend, Anna Corridor additionally gained the 400 meters with a PB of 51.04!).

We’ll see Anna Corridor on the highway to Budapest this spring and summer time!

Larry Eder has had a 50-year involvement within the sport of athletics. Larry has skilled the game as an athlete, coach, journal writer, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America’s first sub-4 minute miler, was printed in RW in 1983. Larry has printed a number of magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. model of Spikes journal. He at the moment manages the content material and advertising and marketing growth of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his each day pilgrimage with the game, Larry says: “I’ve to confess, I really like touring to distant meets, writing in regards to the sport I really like, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, probably the most of something I’ve ever achieved, besides, possibly working itself.”

Theme track: Greg Allman, ” I am no Angel.”

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