July 7, 2014 | LetsRun.com

Gold Coast Marathon: An Unknown Kenyan, A New 2:10 American

Unknown Kenyan Silah Limo Wins Gold Coast Marathon In Australian All-Comers’ Record With 2:09:14; US’s Jeffrey Eggleston PRs By A Minute With 2:10:52 For 2nd Limo came in with a 1:01:26 half, but this was his full debut. Yuki Kawauchi was 3rd in 2:11:27, coming from way back after falling over a traffic cone.
*IAAF Recap
*MB: Jeffrey Eggleston 2:10:52 PR for 2nd at Gold Coast

Film Of Oscar Pistorius Re-Enacting The Night He Shot Reeva Steenkamp Has Been Leaked To The Media

Non DL Track Results

Edmonton Track Classic Results: Duane Solomon (1:44.92) And Charlene Lipsey (2:02.57) Get 800 Wins Charles Jock was 4th (1:49.22), Cas Loxsom 5th (1:49.52). In the sprints, LaShawn Merritt won the 400 (44.30), Justin Gatlin ran 10.05 into a significant headwind, Jeneba Tarmoh won the 100 and 200 and Canada’s Aaron Brown beat Warren Weir and Wallace Spearmon in the 200 (20.25).
Results From Padova: Aussie Jeff Risley Wins 800 In 1:45.81 As Abda Harun Is 4th (1:46.32), Robby Andrews 7th (1:46.94) And Michael Rutt 8th (1:46.98)

2014 Paris DL – Meeting Ariva Results How To Watch On Demand

LRC Distance RecapWhat A Meet! Jenny 3:57.22, Rowbury Sub-4, Kiprop Over Amos, Emma Coburn & First Sub-13

What a meet. 3:57.22 for Simpson, first sub-13:00 of 2014, sub-4:00 for Rowbury, Emma Coburn, and Kiprop over Amos.

Sprint/Field RecapHansle Parchment, Dawn Harper Nelson W Leaders, SRR Back On Top, Blessing Okagbare Over Felix

Distance News: Verzbicas Has Rough Road Back

Recommended Read: Philip Hersh: Greatness May Prove Elusive For Lukas Verzbicas, Who Is Still Struggling With Effects Of 2012 Bike Crash And Spinal Cord Injury He recently had to drop out of a triathlon and his coach talks about how he’s competing with a “whole new body” and may never be the same athlete he was. Despite that, Verzbicas is still shooting for Rio 2016.
Results From Belgium Meet: Pat Casey 3rd In 1,500 (3:35.32), Will Leer 4th (3:35.48), Garrett Heath 6th (3:35.97) German Fernandez was 10th in 3:38.11. Chris Solinsky ran 8:00.46 for 7th in the 3,000.
Scientists At Annual Meeting Of The American College Of Sports Medicine Look At The Sub-2:00 Marathon Barrier One ~~idiot~~ scientist said that with “teamwork” and more prize money as motivation, current runners could work together to get the time. Has he not heard of rabbits?
*Not Gonna Happen: LRC The Myth Of The Sub-2 Hour Marathon
Nick Willis In Shape Of His Life And Looking Forward To Racing Mo Farah In Commonwealth Games 5,000 “You can’t turn down an opportunity to run in front of a packed British crowd who are roaring on their local favourite.”

USA Junior Champs Day 1 Results Meet Home

Day 1 Recap: Mary Cain Wins 3,000 Easily In 9:15, But High School NRs In The 100 Highlight Trentavis Friday broke the national HS record in the 100 with 10.00 in the heats, but false started in the final. Trayvon Bromell went on to win in 10.07 (+1.2). For the women’s race, 16-year-old sophomore Kaylin Whitney broke the HS record and set the 5th fastest American Junior time in history with 11.10 (+0.9).
*Photos From The Oregonian
Day 1 Quotes Mary Cain after winning 3K: “One thing I love about high schoolers is they go for it. There isn’t any of this, ‘Oh hey, let’s run six minute miles.’ They jump in and they chase you. I haven’t been in the high school circuit for a while.”
Cain Was Originally Going To Just “Sit And Kick” In Women’s 3,000, But Realized She Needed The 9:35 Standard
World Jr: Ethiopia Names Its Team For World Junior Champs

2014 Athletissima Lausanne DL Results Video Highlights

Full Meet Recap
Ronald Kwemoi celebrates LRC New Kenyan 1,500 Star Arrives As Centro Fails To PR, Dibaba Loses, Tyson Gay Returns In “Drug 100,” Bondarenko Goes For The WR, And Sum Keeps Streak Athletissima Lausanne was pretty special. Read all about it, including a bold run by American Molly Beckwith Ludlow.

Blake wore face paint for his poor performance

LRC The Five Big Stories From Lausanne The 5 big stories from Lausanne: Justin Gatlin won the “Drug 100” vs. Tyson Gay, a new 1,500 star is here, 400 Running Supreme, Yohan Blake sucked, and more WR attempts in HJ.

LRC Video Highlights Of 2014 Lausanne Diamond League Meet

Valerie Adams Got Her 51st Straight Shot Put Victory
Tyson Gay: “It feels good [to be back] man. I was welcomed back with open arms.”Justin Gatlin on Gay: “I gave him a fist-pump, told him good luck, like I told all the other guys.”
IAAF: Bohdan Bondarekno Wins Again On Countback (2.40) As Fellow Ukrainian Andrey Protsenko Joins 2.40 Club
Kirani James Beats LaShawn Merritt In 400 With A Diamond League Record Of 43.74
Pascal Martinot-Lagarde Runs 13.06 In 110H To Beat Deep Field Including Sergey Shubenkov And David Oliver

Fans React On The Message Board: Official 2014 Lausanne DL Discussion Thread

1,500: Centro skipped nationals to get 7th place in Europe
Benabbad Mekhissi 4:09 1500m at Lausanne
Doper 100: Gatlin 9.80 (+0.1) Lausanne 2014 *GATLIN 9.75
200: Blake is temporarily off the juice, and SUCKS
HJ: The High Jump is gonna be INSANE this year:
Pre-Race: 2014 Lausanne Preview: Centro skipped USAs for this one – how low can he go?

Full Coverage In Lausanne DL Special Section

.US National 12K Set For Novevember 16th In Alexandria, VA

Commowealth Organizers Sigh Relief

Usain Bolt And Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Included On Jamaican 4 X 100 Squads For 2014 Commonwealth Games Neither competed at the Jamaican Trials, but got medical exceptions (Bolt after the meet was over) and were put on the relay teams.

69-Year-Old Larry Macon Breaks Record For Most Marathons In A Year With 239

Week That Was

LRC A Look Back At USAs, $245,000 Reasons Tennessee Is Better Than Penn State, A Non-DQ Controversy & A Top Track Recruit Punching A Girl In The Face The favorites ruled the day at USAs, the DQ rules were selectively enforced, the NCAA upsets were shown not to be upsets,and we pinch ourselves and confirm the world is still going on after as a major US meet was held outside of Eugene. Plus it was a really great and really bad week for football-playing tracksters and a quarter million reasons to leave Penn State.

US Distance Runners In The News After USAs

Lengthy Running Times Profile Of Kim Conley, Who Is Focused On Proving 2012 Olympic Spot Was No Fluke It’s interesting to see that her dad admits he was upset when Conley, who never made NCAAs in college, told him she wanted to be a runner. Conley has improved a lot since then under boyfriend/coach Drew Wartenburg.
As Pro Career Blossoms, Jordan Hasay Relishes “Best Job In The World”
Cain: “If I can go like I’m going, watch out for the world record – no, I’m kidding.” On a serious note, she was just trying to make the point she’s peaking for August.
Ryan Vail Blogs About His Clutch 3rd-Place Showing At USAs Need a new coach? Vail is now doing online coaching.
After 3rd-Place Showing At USAs, Katie Mackey Blogs About Avoiding Pre-Race Stress

Field Event Blog: US Jav Champ Kara Patterson Blogs About Rome, NYC, And Winning USAs

Reigning World Champion Pawel Fajdek Throws 82.37m World Lead In Velenje

News From Japan

Yuki Kawauchi’s Youngest Brother Will Join A Corporate Team After Graduation He’s joining Fujiwara’s Arata Project. Check out this funny pic of the two brothers.
Japanese Wedding And Funeral Management Company – Memolead Group – Starts Women’s Corporate Team With Eye To 2020 Tokyo Olympics

USA Junior Champs Day 2 (Day 1 Below) Results Meet Home

Alexa Efraimson Wins Dual With Elise Cranny In US Junior Champs 1,500 Efraimson led wire-to-wire and held off a late move from Cranny, running 4:16.87 to Cranny’s 4:17.40.
Virginia Tech’s Patrick Joseph Wins Men’s 1,500 In 3:49.76 Over HS Junior Grant Fisher (3:50.51) Check out our piece on Fisher after he won the adidas Dream Mile.
Mary Cain Really Enjoyed Racing Against HSers For First Time In 2 Years Cain: “I haven’t been in the high school circuit for a while. … The pros don’t talk to people. You kind of awkwardly sit in your corner. So everybody was talking before hand and I was like ‘I miss this.'”
USATF Day 2 Recap: Fast Times In The Men’s And Women’s 200m High school sophomore Kaylin Whitney set a World Youth best (ages 15-17) with 22.49 as Trentavis Friday ran a wind-aided 20.03 (+2.9) for the fastest junior 200m time in any conditions. NCAA heptathlon champ Kendell Williams won the 100H, breaking Kristi Castlin‘s US Junior record with 12.87.
*Day 2 Quotes
*Oregonian Photos
Good Read: US HS Shot Put Record Holder Raven Saunders Had To Fundraise The Money To Pay For Her Trip To Eugene She thanked her supporters with a national title and the third farthest throw in HS history (behind her other two top marks).
Kaylin Whitney: “It’s crazy to think I ran that fast … It was one of the smoothest races I’ve ever run.”

More July 4th Road Results

Alexi Pappas Wins Eugene’s Butte To Butte 10K In CR
MB: Runner Angered The Sub-Elites Were Started Separately From The “Invited Athletes” At The Peachtree US Road 10K Champs Normally the elites start with the first wave, but not here. Apparently a sub-14 5K guy was among those not able to race with the other elites despite being on the US Champs entry list.
Yonas Mebrahtu Beats Out Andrew Lemoncello In Flagstaff Downtown Mile Mebrahtu ran 4:16 to Lemoncello’s 4:18. Diane Nukuri-Johnson won the women’s race in 4:56. *Results
Anthony Famiglietti Wins Small Local July 4th 5K In Long Island Famiglietti unexpectedly showed up at the SWR July 4 5K to win by almost 2 minutes.

Former Head UK Track Coach Charles Van Commenee Gets Job As Performance Manager For Dutch Olympic Committee

2014 Peachtree – US 10k Champs Results $100,000 In Prize Money *Photo Gallery

RRWChristo Landry And Amy Hastings Win 2014 AJC Peachtree Road Race & USA 10-K Titles

Landry won after a late battle with Tyler Pennel. Sara Hall was the women's runner-up as husband Ryan ended up a DNF with more hamstring problems. *Photo Gallery

4+ Months Later: USATF DQ Report From Indoors Finally Out

The Ultimate Holiday Weekend News Dump: USATF DQ Report Has Been Released The report doesn’t take a side in whether there should have been DQs or not, but does finally acknowledge that the DQ of Andrew Bumbalough was a case of mistaken identity. It also suggests some rule changes and mentions the accusations of Nike’s/Alberto Salazar‘s influence.
Gabriele Grunewald’s Coach Dennis Barker Disagrees With Point From DQ Report
USATF Statement On DQ Report

An American Hero Has Passed – RIP Louis

RIP Louis Zamperini – War Hero, American, Track Star And Man updated NY Times obit. Zamperini ran the 5,000 at the Berlin Olympics and then was shot down in WWII and survived 47 days on a life raft in the Pacific and 2 years in a POW camp. If you have not read his biography, it is a must, must read.
On The Boards: Celebrate Louis’ great life and pay your respects

Chicago Marathon News

Dennis Kimetto Won’t Defend His Chicago Marathon Title – Will Go For World Record In Berlin He wants 2:03-flat and will be joined by Tsegaye Kebede.
Matt Llano To Debut At Bank Of America Chicago Marathon – Thinks 2:08 Debut Is Possible The openly gay athlete is a great story but this quote is quite ambitious: “I wouldn’t put Ryan Hall’s American Marathon Debut record of 2:08:24 out of my reach.” MB: Who is Matt Llano and why does he think he can run 2:08?
More Marathon News: 2:13 Marathoner Lee Merrien Pulls Out Of Commonwealth Games With Sacral Stress Fracture

Caught With EPO

LRC Chris Derrick, Ryan Vail And Other Elites React To Mo Trafeh EPO Bust

LRC Exclusive Mo Trafeh – American Record Holder At 25k – Caught With EPO, Is Retiring From The Sport The 2-time Foot Locker finalist, 8-time US road champion, and the US 25k American Record holder was recently caught with EPO in his possession, which he admits to purchasing for intended use but never actually using. *Discuss

More Paris

Dawn Harper And Hansle Parchment Get Sprint Hurdle Victories In Paris DL Parchment became just the 16th man in history to break the 13-second barrier, running a Jamaican NR of 12.94.
Blanka Vlasic Proves She’s Not Past It With 2.00m HJ Win
Renaud Lavillenie Only Needed One Vault To Win At Home In Paris Pole Vault
GB’s Recent Sub-10-Second Sprinter Chijindu Ujah Only 6th In DL Debut With 10.20 Laura Muir set a Scottish 1,500 record with 4:00.07 as Laura Weightman ran 4:00.17 to put herself 6th on the UK all-time list.
Pretty Funny: Sofia Assefa And Other Top African Steeplers Thought Emma Coburn Was The Rabbit When She Got Her Win In Shanghai Assefa: “I know her, but when I last saw her, she wasn’t this strong, so I thought she was pacing. … Believe it or not, after I finished, I was looking for someone to hand me the [winner’s] bouquet.”

Oregonian’s Ken Goe Comments On USATF DQ Report And, Like Many, Doesn’t Understand Why It Took So Long “For some reason, USATF chose to stall … I think it was a public relations disaster. It made the people running USATF look either distant and out of touch (best case) or calculating and inept (worst case).”

UK News

GB 800 Man Michael Rimmer Took Alberto Salazar’s Advice And It Almost Cost Him A Spot In The UK Champs Final In the prelim, Rimmer was using the new altered running form Salazar had suggested and felt “flat” and barely scraped into the final. Then in the final he switched to his old style and won.
UK’s James Dasolu Unsure Of European Team Spot After 10.03 Opener In Lausanne Dasolu didn’t race the UK Trials so it’s up to selectors to choose between him and 9.96 man Chijndu Ujah for the last team spot.
Q&A With UK Former World Champs 1,500 Silver Medailst Hannah England Her longest run ever? 14 miles because she got lost on a run that was supposed to be 10.
Short Q&A With Paula Radcliffe Talking About Her Career As Well As Random Things Like TV And Movies

PreRace News – 2014 Peachtree – US 10k Champs Are July 4th – Full Elite Fields $100,000 In Prize Money

RRW Five Storylines For The 2014 Peachtree Road Race – Where An American Will Win For 1st Time Since 1995 With $100,000 in American-only prize money, many big names have shown up- Olympians Hall, Abdi, Linden, Hastings, Meb and others like Christro Landry. To us, the story line is Josh McDougal‘s return.