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

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It is a brief interview (very brief) with Anna Corridor, who I imagine would be the subsequent international star within the multi-events. I’m trying ahead to seeing Anna Corridor compete with the most effective on the earth.

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

Anna Corridor is a tremendously proficient athlete who works exhausting and may be very aggressive. After her bronze medal within the World Champs final summer time, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, the best girls’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.

Anna Corridor, 60m hurdles, occasion 1, pentathlon, 2023 USATF Indoor Observe & Discipline Championship
Albuquerque, New Mexico 2023-02-16
picture credit score: © 2023 Kevin Morris

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.

Anna Corridor, HJ, occasion 2, pentathlon, 2023 USATF Indoor Observe & Discipline Championship
Albuquerque, New Mexico 2023-02-16
picture credit score: © 2023 Kevin Morris

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

Anna Corridor, 2023 USATF Indoor Observe & Discipline Championship
Albuquerque, New Mexico 2023-02-16
picture credit score: © 2023 Kevin Morris

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 document.

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 document of 5,004 factors.

Anna Corridor gained each the Pentathlon and 400m, a primary! 2023 USATF Indoor Observe & Discipline Championship
Albuquerque, New Mexico 2023-02-16
picture credit score: © 2023 Kevin Morris

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

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

We are going to 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 revealed in RW in 1983. Larry has revealed a number of magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. model of Spikes journal. He at present manages the content material and advertising and marketing improvement of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his every 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 completed, besides, perhaps working itself.”

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

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