Week That Was

WTWDeena, Paula, German Fernandez And Andrew Wheating Are All Back (To Different Degrees), A New High School Star, Some Free Coaching Advice And More

Random But Interesting Stat Of The Day

Olympstats.com: China, E. Germany And Russia All In Top 5 For Highest % Of Olympic Medals Won By Female Athletes That’s of countries with more than 100 medals. Every medal ever won by Bahrain, Costa Rica, Montenegro, Mozambique and Zimbabwe has been won by a woman.

Truly Random: Vigorous Exercise May Be Bad For Your Teeth Saliva apparently protects your teeth and you have less of it while exercising.

Don’t Take Your Health For Granted

Katarina Johnson-Thompson Is In Thailand On Vacation, Not Taking Anything For Granted After Foot Injury Prevented Her From Winning Commonwealth And European Gold Britain’s new heptathlon star put up a big early season PR that would have won gold but she couldn’t compete due to a stress fracture.

Biathlon Relay Gold Medal Presented To The Soviet Union’s Nikolay Kruglov At The 1976 Winter Olympic Goes For $28,750 At Auction

USA 5K Championships *Top 20 US Results *Top Overall Results

RRW: Molly Huddle Earns Fourth USA 5-K Title In 15:10; Diego Estrada Wins Emotional First National Title (13:56) Huddle won by 15 seconds over Jordan Hasay in second; Mary Cain was back in 6th (15:53). Estrada won in a kick over German Fernandez (13:57.0) and Maverick Darling (13:57.5). Matt Centrowitz was 7th in 14:03.2.

More Weekend Road Action: The Return Of Paula

• Paula Radcliffe Returns To The Roads For The First Time In More Than 2 Years With 35:49 Third-Place Finish At Worcester City 10K Radcliffe said she went out too fast and would have liked to gone under 35 minutes, but that her foot is fine, which is the main thing.  The race was won by 19-year-old Jenny Nesbitt in 34:22. *Athletics Weekly Article
• Kenya’s Linet Masai And John Mwangangi Win Dam tot Damloop 10-Mile In The Netherlands Masai ran 53:09 to win comfortably over Olympic marathon champ Tiki Gelana (53:57) while Mwangangi outkicked Eritrea’s Nguse Amlosom 45:45 to 45:47.

• Ethiopians Gebo Burka (2:11:18) And Biruktayit Eshetu (2:29:42) Get The Wins At The Sydney Marathon

• Kenyans John Kyalo Kyui (2:14:50) And Purity Kimetto (2:38:53) Win Siberian Marathon In Cold Conditions The #4 fastest 10Ker ever, Nicholas Kemboi, was outside the reported top 5 (slower than 2:30), so likely a DNF.

• Track: Germany’s Carolin Schafer And Estonia’s Mikk Pahapill Win Decastar IAAF Combined Events Challenge Meet In Talence, France
• Kenya’a Willy Kibor (2:10:45) And Ethiopia’s Meserest Biru (2:31:00) Win Cape Town Marathon
• Peter Kurui (64:33) And Nancy Kimaiyo (75:58) Win Chemususu Half Marathon In Kenya