Kenya Cleans Up On Final Days Of African Champs

• WR Holder Beatrice Chepkoech Leads Kenyan Sweep With 8:59.88 To Win African Champs Steeplechase World champion Elijah Manangoi outkicked his training partner Timothy Cheruiyot by .73 in 3:35.20. Kenya’s World U20 champ Edward Zakayo took the men’s 5,000 in 13:48. The Kenyan men also set a meet record to dominate the 4 x 400 in 3:00.92.
• Caster Semenya Completes The 400/800 Double With Strong 1:56.06 Victory Olympic silver medalist Francine Niyonsaba was second in 1:57.97. This was Semenya’s 27th consecutive 800m win (she last lost in 2015).
• Kenya Dominates Women’s African Champs 10,000 With A 1-2 Showing By Stacy Ndiwa (31:31) And Alice Aprot (31:36) Ethiopian Gete Alemayehu was a distant 3rd in 32:10.
• Kenya Edges Out South Africa To Finish Top Of African Champs Medal Tables That’s the headline anyway, but South Africa had way more medals overall (30 to 19), but Kenya had two more golds.
• Report Says Nigeria To Bid For The 2025 World Championships The Nigerian federation president said they should be in strong contention after hosting African Champs which finished yesterday in Asaba.
• IAAF: Top Ten Memorable Moments From African Champs Half of them were distance events.

2018 European Champs Start Today In Berlin *Watch LIVE *Live Results/Start Lists *Schedule

• Recommended Read: GB Sprinter Jodie Williams Battles Back From “Rock Bottom” Ahead Of Euro Champs Williams’ story is important for young stars to hear because they need to know that the success they have as a junior isn’t guaranteed to continue and just one injury can set your career back years.
• T&F News: 5 European Championships Events Worth Watching Closely Mondo Duplantis vs. Renaud Lavillenie in the PV and the “Ingebrigtsen show” in the 1,500 and 5,000.
• 400 Hurdler Thomas Barr The Big Irish Hope At Euro Champs Never before has an Irish male sprinter won a medal at the European Championships and Barr is ranked 5th.
• Russia’s Former Olympic HJ Champ Anna Chicherova Barred From Competing Internationally Chicherova, who is coming off a 2-year doping ban, was denied neutral athlete status by the IAAF.
• Russian 110 Hurdler Sergey Shubenkov: “Winning Medals Is More Important Than Breaking Records” Shubenkov moved within .01 of Colin Jackson‘s 25-year-old European record with 12.95 at Monaco last month.
• Recent Irish Transfer Leon Reid Skipping Euro 100m To Focus On 200m; May Also Run 4 X 400

Doping News: Another Big Name Kenyan Suspended

• 2:19 Kenyan Marathoner Lucy Kabuu Fails Drug Test The former Olympic 10,000 5th placer and #13 all-time marathoner has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for morphine, which is a banned narcotic.
• GB Javelin Champ Joanna Blair Gets 4-Year Doping Ban The 32-year-old tested positive for a steroid in an out-of-competition test last year.
  *MB: British Javelin Champion Steroids Bust

2018 European Championships

• 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.

2023 Worlds Looks Like They Are Headed To Budapest

LRC IAAF Unfreezes Transfer Of Allegiance Process, Wants To Fix Problem Of Identical Kits, Russia Still Banned, & Budapest 2023? We’ve got great news coming out of the IAAF Council meeting in Argentina. The IAAF agrees with us – runners should not wear identical uniforms in DL meets and Haron Lagat – a US citizen who has lived here for 16 years – should be allowed to represent Team USA soon. Plus it looks like the 2023 Worlds are going to Budapest.

• New IAAF Transfer Of Allegiance Rules In Effect A minimum 3-year waiting period, athletes can only transfer once and not before they are 20 years old.
• Budapest: One Of The Most Beautiful Capital Cities In The World
• Seb Coe Confirms Budapest Is The Preferred Choice For The 2023 World Championships Coe: “Although the bid process is ongoing I have no doubt Budapest 2023 can and will be a great Champs.”
• IAAF Release On Buenos Aires Council Meeting

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.