Monday’s Results From Lucerne

• Murphy Wins 800 In Lucerne In 1:46.41 
• Marielle Hall Dominated 3k In Lucerne – Wins In 9:20 
• Kate Grace And Kaela Edwards Both Run 2:01.18 In 800m Natoya Goule won in 2:00.32.
• Thomas Barr Wins 400H In Lucerne In 49.10
• Brianna McNeal Wins 100H In Lucerne In 12.44 Mike Rodgers prevailed over Jamaica’s Yohan Blake in the 100 with 10.08 to 10.12.

Links That Caught Our Eye

• Leo Manzano Ends Track Season Early …. He’s Headed To Spanish Version Of Survivor He’ll be off the grid until September!! 
• Former Lehigh Runner Tyler Mueller Shares Some Insight On Tinman’s Training “He embraces the fact that coaching is just as much about psychology – convincing an athlete that their training is the best training is more important than the training actually being the best.”
• *MB: True or False: Convincing an athlete that their training is the best is more important than the training actually being the best 
• 51-Year-Old Female Cattle Farmer Sets 116-Mile Endurance Record In The UK She’s the first ever to complete the “double Ramsay.” It took her nearly 56 hours.
• WSJ Story That Talks About How Hard It Is For Pro Athletes To Save For Retirement Focuses On Ben And Sarah True The Trues have started a coffee business with Desi Linden and her husband. Linden and True Coffee.
• Andre De Grasse’s Season Has Been Cut Short For A Second Consecutive Year By A Hamstring Injury It’s just a grade 1 injury but he’s calling it a season and will spend time with his newborn daughter.
• Chloe Cunliffe – Hannah’s Younger Sis – Breaks Washington State Record With 14-Foot Vault

A Slow Weekend In Terms Of Pro Action

• MB: Ben Bruce tries out for Worlds at USA Mountain Champs – Ends up eating a slice of “humble pie.” J. Gray and A. McLaughlin win 
• Utica Boilermaker Results: Gabriel Geay, Mary Wacera Win, John Crain & Allie Kieffer 1st Americans Wacera is now tied with Catherine Ndereba with most Boilermaker wins (4).
• Recap Of French Champs: Renaud Lavillenie Wins 8th Pole Vault Title Mahiedine Mekhissi won the steeple but world champ Pierre-Ambroise Bosse lost the 800 … to a guest Kenyan. Carolle Zahi completed the 100/200 double in 11.01 (1.5m/s) and 22.92 (3.6 m/s) as Jimmy Vicaut pulled out with an injury scare after running just 10.35 in the semis.
• Nigerian Champs Are Halted After Athletes Stage Protest Demanding Administrator Resign
• Full Results For The IAAF World Challenge Event In Brazil – The 2018 Grande Premio Brasil de Atletismo Bralon Taplin won the 400 in 44.67 as Brazil’s Andressa de Morais set a new South American record in the discus of 65.10m. *IAAF Recap
  *American Curtis Jensen Surpasses 70 Feet In Shot With Massive 1 foot+ PR In Brazile His mark of 70 feet, 11.75 inches (21.63m) is #5 in the world this year but not even in the top 20 all time in the US due to steroids.
• Kilian Jornet Breaks A Long-Standing 42-Peak Climbing Record On The English Fells

European Athletics U18 Championships *Entries / Seeds *Results *Schedule

• Free European U18 Live Stream
• 16-Year-Old Max Burgin Runs European Age 16 Record Of 1:47.36 To Win Euro U18 Gold We’re wondering if anyone knows what the US age 16 record is. If you do, post it here.
• Ireland’s Sarah Healy Lives Up To Hype And Wins Double European U18 Golds In 3k & 1,500 – Both In Championship Records Healy has PRs of 2:02, 4:09 and 9:10.
• European U18s – A Golden Night For Great Britain With Four Titles, Including Keely Hodgkinson’s 2:04 800 Win Sonia O’Sullivan‘s daughter Sophie was a well-beaten 2nd, which she was very happy with. *Race Video
• Watch: Heartwarming Moment As Proud Sonia O’Sullivan Reacts To Daughter Sophie’s Fantastic Silver
• Scotland’s Kane Elliott Wins European Junior 1,500 In Championship Record Elliott, 16, has already run 3:46 this year.
• Ireland’s Sarah Healy ((2:02, 4:09, 9:10 PRs) Lives Up To The Hype And Wins European U18 Gold In 9:18 CR She’s the first Irish athlete to ever win U18 European gold. She’s hoping for double gold as she’s also in the 1500 final.
• Athletics Weekly Recap Of Day 2 Of Euro U18 Champs
• 17-Year-Old Thomas Keen (8:14 PR) Wins Britain’s 1st Gold At European U18s In 8:27 Video of sub-60 last lap here.
• Sophie O’Sullivan – Sonia’s 16-Year-Old Daughter – Begins International Career With A Heat Win At European U18s Race video is here.

World U20 Champs Are Next Week In Finland

• Event-By-Event Preview For IAAF World U20 Championships
  
• LRC Television and Streaming Information for IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere
• 10 Stars To Watch At World U20s From Barega to Duplantis to Sammy Watson, the IAAF has you covered.

Links A Human, Not An Algorithm, Found Interesting

• Semenya And Her Coach Samual Sepeng Are Both Upbeat After Her Lausanne Loss Both were happy Semenya went with the hot pace. “I’ve never chased someone like that in my whole life,” said Semenya. “I am quite amazed I could hang on till 1,300m – if I die at the last 200m it is nothing, it is something I can work on.”
• Top Pros Like Kamworor, Bekele, Kipchoge Reveal What They Dreamed About When They Last Dreamed About Running Bekele’s involved being with Donald Trump.
• Kendell Williams Picks Up First Pro Win In LJ At Klaverblad Arena Games (21 Feet (6.40m)) The 7-time NCAA champ isn’t doing the multi this year and is instead focusing on the LJ and 100H.
• Recommended Read The Brooks Beasts’ Hannah Fields Reveals She’s Been Getting Treatment For An Eating Disorder For The Last 12 Weeks Fields, who ran a PR of 4:05 for 1,500 last year, has spent up to 50 hours a week in a treatment center in Seattle.
• The Bahamas Govt. Pulls Support For World Relays, Which Are Now Looking For A New Home – Would Jamaica Make Sense?
  *MB: How could this possibly be true? Published report says Bahamas govt spent $21 million on World Relays
• Citius Podcast: The Third Time Was The Charm: Jim Walmsley Talks About Winning Western States After Two DNFs
• Katerina Stefanidi Donates Kit She Won Olympic Gold In To The New IAAF Heritage Collection
• Rai Benjamin And Michael Norman Call It A Season
• Matt Sparks Promoted To Irish Head Track And Field And Cross-Country Coach

Interesting Reads

• Brett Larner: What Countries Have Had The Best 1st Half Of 2018 In The Marathon Answer: Ethiopia is #1 for both the men and women.
  *MB: Go figure: US women’s top 10 average marathon times for 2018 trails North Korea
• Not April Fools A Look At The Rise Of 3 World-Class Chinese Sprinters Two of them are training in Holland with Rana Reider.
  *South China Morning Post: Are American Coaches, Not Drugs, The Reason Why China Is So Good At Sprinting Now?
• Sam Kendricks’ Sportsmanship Earns NY Times Profile: “In Pole Vault, Sam Kendricks Is a Team Player” “They probably thought I seemed a little strange. I really pushed on these other guys that I wanted to be their friend and help them,” Kendricks said. “I had an undefeated season last year, but what good is victory if you can’t share it?”

Sprint / Field Event / Multi News

• Andre De Grasse’s Agent Paul Doyle Denies Published Report That De Grasse Has Parted Ways With ALTIS Doyle said the report “is complete speculation and unfounded,” but does admit that De Grasse is currently in Canada training with his HS coach.
• One We Missed: 400 National Records Of Switzerland (50.52), Netherlands (50.96) And Lithuania (50.99) All Fell In Same 400
• Rai Benjamin Announces He Won’t Race Samba At All In 2018 As He Will Not Run Another 400H This Year 
• Jake Doran, 17, Runs 10.15 Aussie Junior Record “Completely Out Of Nowhere,” PR Before Today Was 10.47
• Injured Lemaitre Out Of European Champs At the Paris DL, he pulled up clutching his leg and fell to the track.
• Maggie Ewen (37.8%) And Grant Holloway Win Fan Vote For The Bowerman (47.9%) We definitely think the women’s award should go to a field eventer.
• Diverse Group Of Italian Runners Wins 4 X 400 Praise And Thousands On Social Media Praise Them For Being The New Face Of Italy Many are using it as an opportunity to take a shot at the new interior minister who is anti-immigration, Matteo Salvini.
• Caster Semenya Wasn’t The Only South African To Set A National Record Last Week, Rikenette Steenkamp Ran A 12.81 100H NR
• 400H World Champ Karsten Warholm Recalls Competing At World Juniors 4 Years Ago … In The Decathlon
• World Leader In LJ, Lorraine Ugen (7.05m), Hopes 7+ Meter Jumps Become Routine After Her First Ugen, who was 5th in the 100 final as well (11.32), credits speedwork to her improvement.
• 24-Yesr-Old Beth Dobbin Can’t Believe She’s The British 200 Champ Even Though Many Thought She’d Win “Everyone has been saying since Eton ‘you’re going to win trials’ but I thought no, because the girls that I’m racing against are a different level. But I’ve won trials, I can’t believe it. It’s a dream come true.”
• 25-Year-Old Katarina Johnson-Thompson Thinks Her Best Is Yet To Come And Is Very Happy She Relocated From The UK To France After 2016 “I know I’ve got a limited amount of Olympics in one career so I just want to make sure I’ve done everything I could.”

2018 British Athletics Champs *Results

• Sunday Men’s Recap: Chris O’Hare Leads Scottish 1-2-3 Sweep Of 1.500 As Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Breaks Championship Best For British 200m Gold Also NCAA decathlon champ Tim Duckworth won the LJ.
  *MB: How in the world is this possible? Before today, the British champs 200m record was just 20.25. Now it’s 20.24
• After 5 Injury-Plagued Years, Dai Greene Will Savor His 400H Title
• Sunday Women’s Recap: Lorraine Ugen’s WL 7.05m Long Jump Headlines Best British Champs In Years
• IAAF Recap Of Sunday
• Controversy Top UK Pros Claim Laura Muir Was Allowed To Enter 800 At UK Champs After Deadline; Muir Wins Race
• Athletics Weekly’s Recap Of Saturday’s Men’s Action At British Champs Reece Prescod (10.06) wins the 100 over Zharnel Hughes (10.13) as Marc Scott wins a tactical 5,000.
• Saturday’s Women’s Recap: Dina Asher-Smith’s 10.97 100m Was The Highlight
• Prescod Hopes Brits Can Pull Off 1-2-3 Sweep In 100m At Europeans
• Linford Christie’s 9.87 National Record Still Stands Even Though There Was Talk Of It Going Down

Other Weekend Action / News

• Gold Coast Marathon: Kenya’s Ruth Chebitok Wins Women’s Race In New Course Record Of 2:24:49  as 44-Year-Old Kenneth Mungara Wins Third Men’s Title In 2:09:49 Chebitok was the first Kenyan women’s winner at Gold Coast ever (40th edition). Boston Marathon champ Yuki Kawauchi was just 9th in 2:14:51. *IAAF
• *Australia’s Jessica Trengrove Picks Up $40,000 Bonus For Running Under 2:28:00 For 2nd (2:26:29)
• Gold Coast Half Marathon: Americans Sara Hall (69:27) And Laura Thweatt (70:17) Both Set PRs At Sunday’s Gold Coast Half Marathon
• Kirani James Continues Comeback From Illness With 44.99 Victory In Guyana
• Comrades Champ Ann Ashworth Turns Down World 100km Spot, Rips Athletics South Africa “Until you can actually start doing something to assist road runners in our country with funding and other support, I’m not happy to compete in SA colours.”
• Mediterranean Games: Morocco’s Rababe Arafi Pulls Off 800/1,500 Double As Mediterranean Games Conclude
• European Mountain Champs – Men: Dematteis Twins Bernard And Martin Go 1-3 At European Mountain Champs To Lead Italian Men’s Sweep
• European Mountain Champs – Women: Switzerland’s Maude Mathys Obliterates Field By More Than 4 Minutes To Repeat As Champion