Team GB Day 1 round-up in Torun
March 21, 2026
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.
Jeff Benjamin wrote this interview of Neely Spence Gracey, daughter of Steve Spence, a 1991 WC bronze medalist at the...
Going Into 2023 With Coach Mark Coogan And Team New Balance Boston! By Jeff Benjamin The trajectory growth of New...
Jeff Benjamin wrote this piece on one of our favorite scribes, Toni Reavis. Toni just won the George Hirsh Award...
In mid-October, the New York Road Runners announced that the late Art Hall, the finest road runner in Staten Island...
Updated October 22, 2022 Friday, October 21, was the 43rd anniversary of this incredible race and the very last time...
This is one of my favorite all-time pieces by Jeff Benjamin. It is about his friend, Rod Dixon, 1972 Olympic...
This is the 4th in a series by Jeff Benjamin on the 50th Anniversary of the Munich Olympics. In this...
This is the third story in a series on the Munich 1972 Olympics. In this piece, Jeff Benjamin writes about...
This is Jeff Benjamin's piece on WC gold medalist Jake Wightman, who is always open to an interview and is...
This is the second in a series of articles on the Munich Olympics, which happened fifty years ago this week....