Distance News

• Jake Robertson Wins Beach To Beacon 10k By Nearly A Minute With 27:37; Sandrafelis Chebet Tuei Wins In 31:21 As Molly Huddle Is Third (31:40) Stephen Sambu was second for the men (28:27) and Ben True the top American in 3rd (28:29). *Results
• Did You Know That Shelby Houlihan’s Mom Was A Professional Marathoner And Ran For Asics Houlihan says some of her earliest memories were driving around handing water to her mom on training runs.
• USA 10k Champ Lopez Lomong Wins Sir Walter Miler In 3:53 As 13 Break 4:00, Charlene Lipsey Beats Sara Vaughn Props to Charlie Marquardt going sub-4 for the 1st time with a 3:55.97. Everyone who finished on the men’s side broke 4:00.
• October 21: Ethiopia’s Marta Megra Will Defend Her Title At The Toronto Waterfront Marathon Merga talks about her training situation in Ethiopia where her husband actually works as a pacer for her training group.
• New Mo Farah “Why I Run” Documentary On YouTube The 11 minute video shows him training in Ethiopia ahead of London 2018.
• August 19: Des Linden To Serve As Official Starter For The New Balance Falmouth Road Race Afterwards she will run with the masses to check off one of her “bucket list” races.
• Duluth News Tribune: Ben Cogger Breaks Scott Jurek’s 20-Year-Old Course Record At The Voyageur 50 Mile Trail Ultramarathon Despite Getting Stung By Hornets

2018 European Championships Start Tuesday In Berlin *Watch LIVE

• European Athletics – Ingebrigtsens Set To Dominate The 1,500m And 5,000m In Berlin?
• Hassan, Muir And Can To Headline Women’s Distance Events In Berlin
• Pretty Cool: Illuminated Projection Of Former Olympic Discus Champ Robert Harting To Adorn Berlin Skyscraper During Euro Champs The light show is a tribute to Harting’s career as he is retiring at the end of this season.
• Pole Vault WR Holder Renaud Lavillenie Bidding For A Return To The Top Of The Podium In Berlin Lavillenie is the world leader at 5.95m, but famous young star Mondo Duplantis has cleared 5.93m.
• Olympic Champ Ekaterini Stefanidi Firing On All Cylinders Again Ahead Of European Title Defence Stefanidi had a difficult start to the year due to injury, but has steadily improved and is back “in a good place” for Berlin.
• British Born Sprinter Leon Reid Cleared By IAAF To Represent Ireland At Euro Champs Reid had been left in between countries when the IAAF froze transfer of allegiances for the last two years.
• Q&A With British 100m Champ Sprinter Reece Prescod Prescod talks about using a block-start app and drones in practice and says his favorite athlete to watch is javelin thrower Thomas Rohler.
• World Multi-Event Champions Kevin Mayer And Nafissatou Thiam Primed For European Titles In Berlin
• Former World 400H Champ Dai Greene Named GB Team Captain For Euro Champs
• Italian Discus Thrower Daisy Osakue Will Miss European Champs After Egg Throwing Attack Osakue was hit in the eye by an egg thrown from a car in what she alleges was a racist attack.
• Athletics Weekly’s Day-By-Day Guide To The Athletics Action At 2018 Euros
• Official European Championships App Available To Download The free app features daily news, results, athlete bios and pictures.

Random Running News

• MB: Dreams don’t become reality- Meghan Markle banned by Royal Family from running London Marathon The official reason is security issues, but a source says it’s because it is “unseemly for senior royals to be seen sweating away in workout gear with a public mob.”
• Woman Shatters Half Marathon Triple-Stroller Pushing Record By 18 Minutes We sometimes roll our eyes at these “world records” but a mom running 13 miles at 6:48 pace pushing three kids in a stroller is pretty impressive.
• Stray Dog Joins In And Runs Entire Australian Half Marathon Finishing time of two-and-a-half hours.

LetsThrow.com

• US Hammer Record Holder Deanna Price Credits Losing 40 Pounds Between The 2017 And 2018 Seasons As Key To Her Success This Year Price says she wants to share a message about “body positivity” with younger athletes. She’s been anywhere between 145 and 265 pounds, but feels she throws her best at her current 225.
• Italian Discus Thrower Daisy Osakue Leaves Hospital After Being Hit In The Eye By An Egg Thrown From A Car Osakue fears the attack was racially motivated and says she was in “an area used by prostitutes” and was mistaken for one of them.

Week That Was

LRC Shelby Houlihan Loves Her Cat, Ce’Aira Brown Keeps PRing, Doping OK In Pro Sports But Not In the Olympics? Plus more national 800 records and some slow distance times at the Irish Champs.

More Recent Results

• Colombia’s Olympic Triple Jump Champ Catherine Ibarguen Delights Home Crowd While Jamaica Enjoys Magic Monday At CAC Games Ibarguen complete the first half of her jump double, wining the LJ with 6.83m leap while Jamaica had a meet record from O’Dayne Richards in the shot put and 100m wins from Nesta Carter (10.07) and Jonielle Smith (11.04). Somehow Carter was the first Jamaican man to win the 100m in the 94-year history of the meet.
• World 200m Champ Ramil Guliyev Tunes Up For Euro Champs With 20.18/10.15 Sprint Double In Austria
• A Result We Missed: After Yohan Blake’s False Start DQ, GB’s Harry Aikines-Aryeetey Won The Loughborough 100m In 10.42
• Team USATF Women Claim Ninth Consecutive Victory At Thorpe Cup Multi-Event Meet On the men’s side, the US had the individual winner (Steve Bastien), but Germany won the team competition.

Exactly One Week Until European Championships

• World Champ Karsten Warholm Will Do The 400/400H Double At Euro Champs
• Thirty Russian Athletes To Compete Under Neutral Status At European Champs
• Six Reigning European Champions Named To Poland’s Team For Berlin Adam Kszczot in the 800 and Angelika Cichocka in the 1,500 lead the way.
• More Nations Select Teams For Euro Champs The Borlee Brothers and Olympic heptathlon champ Nafissatou Thiam lead Belgium team.
• Czech Republic Names 49 Athletes To Euros Team

Anti-Doping News

• Sweden’s Former European 5,000 Champ Meraf Bahta May Face Doping Ban After Reportedly Missing Three Out-Of-Competition Tests However, because it is a whereabouts violation, it would not require Bahta to face a suspension during the legal process, she could still compete at next week’s Euro Champs.
• In Case You Missed It: Serena Williams Complains On Twitter That She Being Discriminated Against With The High Number Of Drug Tests Well, assuming it works the same in tennis as it does in track, the best athletes are often the most tested, so it would make sense that Williams gets tested the most.
  *MB: Serena Williams… I’m the one getting tested the most. Discrimination? I think so’… does she have a point?

Eugene 2021 Updates

• Hayward Field Will Add Standing-Room Only Sections And “Fill-In” Seating For 2021 World Championships There are only 12,500 permanent seats so they are relying on temporary stands and standing-room only space to hit the 30,000 capacity required by the IAAF.
• TrackTown’s Request For $10 Million From Oregon Tourism Marketing Agency Under Review By State Department Of Justice This will be the first infusion of public money for the 2021 World Champs.

Post-IAAF Meeting Doping News

• Kenya And Ethiopia Identified By IAAF As Among Countries Most Likely To Dope New anti-doping system classifies countries into three categories based on risk of doping with the most at risk having to meet extra testing requirements.
• Russia Remain Suspended By IAAF Despite Key Improvements Three demands yet to be fulfilled include the RAF paying for the costs of the IAAF taskforce, giving access to doping tests from the Moscow lab (how has this not happened yet?) and of course, Russia actually has to admit they did something wrong.
• Russia Could Be Reinstated At The Next IAAF Council Meeting In December
• IAAF Approves Application Of Two More Russians To Compete As Neutral Athletes They are miler Yegor Nikolayev (3:37 PR) and sprinter Aleksandr Skorobogatko (47.06 PR).
• Russian Olympic Committee President Says RAF “Working Hard’ Towards Reinstatement

More From USATF Junior / Masters Champs

• Chloe Cunliffe Claims Youth National Pole Vault Record (3.80m In The 17-18 Division) On Day 5 Of USATF Hershey Junior Olympic Championships She is the younger sister of pro and former NCAA champ Hannah Cunliffe.
• Two World Records Broken On Second Day Of USATF Masters Outdoor Champs Charles Allie ran 59.18 to break the M70 400m record and William Platts threw the javelin 31.46m to break the M90 record (imagine a 90-year-old throwing the javelin).
  *MB: 70 year old man run under a minute for 400

11 Days Until European Championships

• LRC Singlet Shows Up On Official Team Netherlands Roster/Bio Page Cornell alum Benjamin de Haan (Rainero) will race the 5k/10k for the Netherlands next week at the Euro Championships.
• Five Reigning European Champions Named On Germany’s Team For Berlin
• Videos Published Of European Championships Marathon And Racewalking Courses

Other News

• 50-Year-Old Becomes One Of The Oldest Women Ever To Compete For A College XC Team Bego Lopez is a business major competing at the NJCAA level where there are no age limits. There are actually a 42-year-old and a 49-year-old also on the team.
• College Student Missing After Going For Nighttime Run In Iowa Police and the FBI have called off the volunteer search, and are pursuing other leads.
• Are You The Next Great Voice Of Track And Field? The IAAF Is Looking For An Announcer For The Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games You can submit a clip of your own commentary for a chance at winning the contest and a trip to Buenos Aires.
• 103-Year-Old Who Set The 100 And Over 100m World Record Receives An Honorary ESPY Award

2018 London DL *Full Results *TV & Streaming

LRC Emmanuel Korir Blasts 1:42.05!, Murphy 1:43, Centrowitz, Ce’Aira Brown Get Wins, Akeem Bloomfield Joins Sub-44/Sub-20 Club London saved the best for last of the 4 days of international track and field at the Olympic Stadium in London.

• IAAF: Emmanuel Korir Scorches To 800m World Lead Sifan Hassan ran the #3 all-time mile time to win in 4:14.71 while Keni Harrison dominated the 100H with a world-leading 12.36. Mariya Lasitskene tied her world lead in the HJ to win in 2.04m.
• Laura Muir Falls Short In Bid To Break Zola Budd’s National Mile Record Muir ran 4:19.28 for 5th, missing Budd’s 32-year-old 4:17.57 mark.
  *Laura Muir Admits To Going Out Too Fast In Record Attempt
• The Mirror: Greg Rutherford Leaves London Stadium With Tears In His Eyes After Calling Time On Long Jump Career Rutherford joked that his 4-year-old son could jump further than he could as he struggled to jump through his foot injury.
• .Aussie’s Linden Hall Says She Was Inspired By Countryman Joseph Deng Before Setting Her National Mile Record Hall 4:21.40 to break the 11-year-old record.
  *MB: Aussie Deng breaks almost 50 year old 800m record in Monaco
• The Telegraph: “Emotional Greg Rutherford Jumps Through The Pain Barrier At Anniversary Games But Rules Out Defence Of European Title”
• Athletics Weekly: “Britain’s 4 X 100m Relay Men Find World-Leading Form In London” The GB squad ran 37.61 to win over Japan (38.09).
• The Guardian: “Laura Muir And Greg Rutherford Fail To Deliver Stardust At Anniversary Games”

2018 Monaco DL Was Friday *Full Results *TV & Streaming

LRC What A Meet: Full Monaco Recap: Steeple World Record, Sub-8 For El Bakkali, Miller-Uibo Sub-49 400, Amos Is Back This meet had it all and we recap it all.

LRC 10 Crazy Stats From Absolutely Bonkers Monaco Diamond League Meet A 17-year-old Norwegian is now 3-0 vs. Matthew Centrowitz, and much more.

LRC Final Beatrice Chepkoech DESTROYS The Steeplechase World Record, Courtney Frerichs Sets American Record In Monaco Women’s Steeplechase In one of the greatest runs in women’s distance running history, Kenya’s Beatrice Chepkoech absolutely destroyed the WR by running 8:44.32. She wasn’t the only one to run fast as the race featured a record 7 women under 9:10 and three national records.
*MB: COURTNEY MOTHER FV<KIN FRERICHS

• Monaco Loves the Ingebrigsten Brothers Filip Ingebrigtsen ran 3:30.01 to break his brother Henrik‘s 1,500m Norway national record (3:31.46) which was set in Monaco 4 years ago. 17-year-old Jakob also broke Henrik’s record with 3:31.18.
• IAAF: Olympic Champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo Goes Sub-49 To Win Monaco 400m She set a new Bahmian record with 49.97 while in the TJ, Christian Taylor beat rival Pedro Pablo Pichardo with 17.86m.
• IAAF: Beatrice Chepkoech’s Steeple Was The Fifth World Record Set At The Monaco Diamond League There was also a meet record in the 200m where Noah Lyles ran 19.65 to beat world champ Ramil Guliyev (19.99) and world silver medallist Danil Lysenko equaled the MR in the HJ with 2.40m. Anzhelika Sidorova was the surprise winner in a very deep PV clearing 4.85m as Katerina Stefanidi and Sandi Morris were only 3rd and 4th. Marie-Jose Ta Lou won the women’s 100m in 10.89.
• Monaco Shot Put: Ryan Crouser Wins Deepest Shot Put In History In Monaco With 22.05 Heave It was the first time that 7 men threw farther than 21.20.