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Senior Writer Jeff Benjamin has written for almost 40 years for RunBlogRun! The Former President of the Staten Island AC & was the 5th man scorer for his 1982 Susan Wagner High School NYC XC City Championship team. Also a member of the College of Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame for XC, Jeff is also a retired NYC DOE history teacher. Some of Jeff's subjects have included Sebastian Coe, Eamonn Coghlan, Matt Centrowitz, Billy Mills, Joe Newton, Tom Fleming, Bill Rodgers, Abel Kiviat, Frank Shorter, Rod Dixon and Carl Lewis as well as Book Reviews and articles covering track meets and races primarily in the Northeast U.S. and beyond.
Jeff has also covered Track & Field events at the 1996, 2016 & 2024 Olympic Games as well as the 2022 World T&F Championships in Eugene, Oregon. A noted T&F historian and chronicler of the athletic achievements of Jim Thorpe, Jeff helped with the restoration of Thorpe to the official IOC 1912 Record Books.
In 2023 Jeff was honored with the awarded the prestigious James Dunaway memorial award for excellence in Track and Field journalism by the Track and Field Writers Association.
Yared, Cole & Grant! How America’s “Big 3” Got Started by Jeff Benjamin They are the Triumvirate! Accumulating Olympic Medals,...
Today, May 6, 2025, is the 71st anniversary of the first sub-four-minute mile. Jeff Benjamin, senior writer from Staten Island,...
GBTC Remembers 1975! By Jeff Benjamin To the young and in the go Boston College students, the gathering of bunch...
Today is April 20, 2025. This is the 50th anniversary of Bill Rodgers' first win at the Boston Marathon in...
This piece is published with permission of the publisher, SI LIVE.com. Jeff Benjamin wrote this piece on Seb Coe, who...
Jeff Benjamin originally wrote this for the 45th anniversary of the first sub 3:50 mile! Sir John Walker was the...
This piece was written by Jeff Benjamin in 2016 after the US relay teams. This story was done 8 years...
This is Jeff Benjamin's interview with Benson Kipruto, victor at Chicago, Prague, and Boston Marathons, as he talks about the...
Jeff Benjamin’s Spring Book Reviews Third In A Series Chariots Return - Saving The Soul Of The Games By Mark...
The Challenging Road To Paris - 9th in A Series - Vashti Cunningham - By Jeff Benjamin 1) How is your training...