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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.
The 2016 Millrose Games was the finest that I have seen in the Armory. It is also a story about...
The Millrose Press Conference is one of my favorite pressers of the year. Unfortunately, I needed a couple of days...
Jeff Benjamin is a long time writer for our pubs and sites for the past twenty-six years. Jeff is young,...
Jeff Benjamin wrote this review. A long time writer for American Athletics, then, American Track & Field, and now, RunBlogRun,...
Updated January 6, 2016, 10 AM, updated link for website to purchase book: http://www.worldsgreatestinathletics.com/order-worlds-greatest-in-athletics I recieved my copy of the...
Mare Dibaba running for gold, photo by PhotoRun.net For nearly ten days, Jeff Benjamin wrote a daily column on US...
Jeff Benjamin, track geek that he is, views as much track TV as his lovely wife and daughters permit. A...
Seb Coe, photo by PhotoRun.net This is Jeff Benjamin's Day 5 review of the American TV broadcast. He has watched...
Schipper, Fraser-Pryce, VCB, 100 meter final, photo by PhotoRun.net The 100 meter final for women featured Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce...
Seb Coe, photo by PhotoRun.net The accolades continue for Seb Coe have continued to come in. RBR writer Jeff Benjamin...