# @therunnerscentral on Instagram

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- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2966357-therunnerscentral-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-01-06T00:22:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Runners Central (@therunnerscentral) — https://gondola.cc/therunnerscentral

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Will Team USA 🇺🇸 medal at the 2023 Budapest World Athletics Championship in a distance event, from 1500m to 10000m? 

Since the first ever World Championship meet at Helsinki in 1983, Team USA have struggled immensely to pick up medals in the 1500m, 3000m SC, 5000m, and 10000m; four events that have been dominated by African and European nations. 

World Champs Medal Breakdown (🏅) 

| 1500m | 

Men -> 6/54 (11.1%) of the medalists in this distance have been from the United States; Bernard Lagat (2), Matthew Centrowitz (2), Steve Scott (1), Jim Spivey (1) 

Women -> 7/54 (12.9%) of the medalists in this distance have been from the United StatJenny Simpson (3), Regina Jacobs (2), Mary Decker (1), Shannon Rowbury (1) 

| 3000m SC | 

Men -> 1/54 (1.8%) of the medalists in this distance have been from the United States; Evan Jager (1) 

Women -> 3/26 (11.5%) of the medalists in this distance have been from the United States; Emma Coburn (2), Courtney Frerichs (1) 

| 5000m | 

Men -> 4/54 (7.4%) of the medalists in this distance have been from the United States; Bernard Lagat (3), Paul Chelimo (1) 

Women -> 0/42 (0%) of the medalists in this distance have been from the United States

| 10000m | 

Men -> 0/54 (0%) of the medalists in this distance have been from the United States 

Women -> 2/51 (3.9%) of the medalists in this distance have been from the United States; Kara Goucher (1), Emily Infeld (1) 

Can the new wave of American distance runners break this medal drought and put Team USA on the map in Budapest on August 19-27, 2023? 

📸: chuck_aragon 

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