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Athing Mu ran 1:57.73 to Crush NCAA 800m Record
Athing Mu’s incredible 2021 season got even better as the Texas A&M freshman ran 1:57.73 at the Michael Johnson Invitational at Baylor University to destroy the NCAA record and set a 2021 world outdoor leader. The previous NCAA outdoor record was 1:59.10 by Raevyn Rogers of Oregon from 2017, while Mu had run 1:58.40 indoors this year.
Not that Mu’s run needed an exclamation mark, but making it even more impressive is that she ran a negative split. She was unofficially 60.0 at 400 which means she split 57.7 the 2nd 400.
Mu has been tearing up the NCAA record books this year:
Indoor 600m - 1:25.80
Indoor 800m - 1:58.40
Indoor 4x400m - 3:26.27
Outdoor 800m - 1:57.73
At the last World Championships, Raevyn Rogers and Ajee Wilson of the US got the silver and bronze. The women’s 800m at the Olympic Trials should be absolutely amazing in June.
And the woman who was a distance second to Mu today? That was Aaliyah Miller of Baylor who set the NCAA indoor meet record at 800 this year. Mu absolutely destroyed Miller today.
(04/19/2021) Views: 1,308 ⚡AMPby LetsRun
