2020 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix: Emma Coburn opens up at the Reggie Lewis Center over 2 miles!

World champion gold medalist and silver medalist, and Olympic silver medalist at the steeplechase, Emma Coburn will be competing tonight at the Reggie. We look forward to seeing her compete at the 2020 NB Indoor GP. Emma is competing in the Women’s 2 miles tonight, at 7:17 pm tonight, should be a barn burner.

Emma Coburn, photo by Getty Images for World Athletics

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Emma Coburn is the finest competitive steeplechaser in American history. An Olympic silver medalist, a World Champion and a World silver medalist, Emma Coburn has honed her hurdling skills, but most importantly, her competitive skill set and fitness level and her focus, to compete on the world stage.

In her gold medal performance in 2017, Emma Coburn defeated Beatrice Chepkoech, who had a nightmare race in 2017, missing a barrier and having to repeat it. Emma Coburn kept her cool, leading a gold, silver performance by the USA, something never done before!

In 2019, in Doha, Emma Coburn was racing the world record holder, and Chepkoech made no mistakes in taking gold. Emma Coburn raced perhaps the finest competitive race of her career, hurdling supremely and breaking away to earn the silver medal.

Her husband/coach, Joe Bosshard, should get some accolades, but Emma Coburn has emerged as a global player in any race that she is in. Emma Coburn gets the highest accolade I can give: she is the female version of Horace Ashenfelter, the late Olympian who took gold in 1952 Helsinki, against the Soviet world record holder.

Emma Coburn races today at the Reggie Lewis! Enjoy seeing one of our countries brightest Olympic medal hopes for 2020. What color of medal will she add in Tokyo?

The journey to Tokyo begins in Roxbury, MA.

Update, Jan 26: Emma was third last night, behind a sprinting Elle Purrier and fit Dominique Scott. Emma Coburn was three seconds behind the winner, and just not racing fit yet. Tokyo is a long way off.

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Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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