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

LRC Final: The Best Distance Runner In Europe Is 17 Years Old: Jakob Ingebrigtsen Runs 54.09 Final Lap To Complete Euro 1,500/5,000 Double Jakob took the lead with 1k to go and never gave it up, cruising home to win in a PR of 13:17.06. Brother Henrik got the silver.

LRC 17-Year-Old Jakob Ingebrigtsen Wins European 1,500m!!! There was only one Ingebrigtsen on the medal stand – the youngest one, Jakob, with the gold. *IAAF

• On The Boards: MB: Jakob MF Ingebrigtsen X 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 54.09 Final lap to dust field in 5000 
• MB: Jakob ingebrigtsen… FOR THE WINNN!!!!
  
• MB: Jakob: This is ridiculous, I should do well in the 5 k tomorrow
• MB: Getting ready for Friday’s European 1500 men’s final – Can the Ingebrigtsens sweep? Who has the edge?

The Inside Scoop / Coverage From Norway (Translated)

• Dad/Coach Left Tactics Up To The Brothers But Is Stunned That Jakob Won, Saying It Was The Least Likely Scenario
  
• Dad Says Jakob Will Celebrate 1,500 Gold With A Warm Glass Of Milk
  
• Filip Ingebrigtsen Said He Knew Early On He Didn’t Have It But Wanted To Maintain His Good Position To Help His Brother He thinks if he was his normal self, the brothers would have swept the medals as he ended up boxing in Henrik who was following behind him.
• Filip Ingebrigtesn Withdraws From Today’s 5k Final With Bnjury His two brothers are running it.

More Coverage

• Filip And Henrik Ingebrigtsen Bask In Jakob’s 1,500m Success In Berlin Filip: “I told him he deserved it because he has been working every day since he was nine or 10 for this.”
• Reuters: Oh Brother! Jakob Ingebrigtsen Beats Sibling For Historic Win It was also a good day for the Borlee twins as Kevin and Jonathan won silver and bronze in the 400.
• Ghosts of Owens and Hitler equally felt in Berlin’s Olympiastadion
• AW‘s Recap Of Friday’s Women’s Action: Nafi Thiam Wins Euro Heptathlon As Johnson-Thompson Secures Silver – Athletics Weekly
  
• AW‘s Recap Of Friday’s Men’s Action: Matthew Hudson-Smith Strikes Euro Gold
  *Matthew Hudson-Smith Wins Gold For Great Britain In 400m He was the only guy to break 45 at 44.78.
  *MB: Warholm DFL in Euro 400 final
  
• Laura Muir Wins Her 1,500 Heat With Ease
  
• Ireland’s Ciara Mageean Eyes Medal After Cruising Into 1,500 Final

Other News That Makes The Cut

• Former Dartmouth All-American Dana Giordano Talks About How She’s Battled Back From Having A 5-Pound Malignant Tumor In 9th Grade Help her hit her $10k fundraising goal here.
• 2:37 British Marthoner Is Thrilled Her Period Has Returned – “The ‘P’ Word Take Two” “Relieved and a little proud of myself, it was like I was announcing I was pregnant and my friends joked of a period party.”
• Kenya’s Athletics Fraternity Plans Hero’s Send-Off For Nicholas Bett
• Even Though He Hasn’t Broken 8:00, Conseslus Kipruto Still Wants To Break The WR In Birmingham Or Zurich
• 44.94 Man Obi Igbokwe Will Transfer From Arkansas To Houston For His Senior Year He was just 7th at the SEC meet outdoors but 6th at NCAAs and is from Houston originally.
• Is IOC Head Thomas Bach Getting Rid Of Critics? Pound Removed From Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) Board For Both Its Spanish And Swiss Operations
• *After Coming Up Short In Quest For Double Gold, Karsten Warholm Says He Deserves A “Good Party” He also praises his team saying he’s a “spoiled little boy.”

Previous Euro News

Recommended Read Ingebrigtsen Brothers Going For Historic 1-2-3 Sweep In Men’s 1,500 Final Friday (translated) Both Henrik and Jakob say Filip is the favorite and Henrik puts the odds of a sweep at 20%.
*German Runner Implies That He Thinks Filip Ingebrigtsen Is Doped (in German) He was blown away by how quickly he recovered from a fall in the 1st round. Some on the message board agreed.

• The Guardian: Laura Muir Descends From St. Moritz Eager For 1,500m Euro Gold Muir wants to become the first British woman to win 1,500m gold while also winning her first outdoor medal.
• Athletics Weekly: Laura Muir Will Feed Off Being The Favorite In The 1,500 “I’ve gone from not making the final to hopefully winning the championship. It’s crazy how far you can come in four years but I’m really proud of myself.”
• Video: Behind The Scenes At A British Athletics Training Camp A 14-minute video with GB distance runners Laura Muir, Charlie Grice, Marc Scott and Charlotte Purdue training at their camp in St. Moritz.
• RRW: Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad Wins Fourth European Steeplechase Title It wasn’t easy for him, though, as he ran 8:31 and was pushed by Spain’s Fernando Carro (8:34) and Italy’s Ethiopian born Yohanes Chiappinelli (8:35).
• Norway’s World Champion Karsten Warholm Blazes 47.64 Win In The 400H While Turkey’s 200m World Champ Clocks 19.76 Victory At Euro Champs Warholm broke his own national record to complete the first half of his 400H/400 Euro double. Olympic PV champ Ekaterini Stefanidi cleared a championship record 4.85m. Belarus’ Elvira Herman was a surprise winner in the women’s 100H (12.67).
  *Video: Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad Showboats In 3,000m Steeplechase Win Unfortunately the video is region locked to Europe.
• 400 Hurdler Thomas Barr Makes History With Ireland’s First Men’s Sprint Medal Ever At Euro Champs Cathal Dennehy writes, “Despite his form coming in being no better than mediocre, [Barr] conjured up a one-lap sprint that was akin to sporting sorcery.” Leon Reid couldn’t match Barr’s bronze, though, as he ended up only 7th in the 200 final.
  *Irish Examiner: “Thomas Barr’s Bronze A Delightful Vindication Of His Talent”
• Thomas Rohler And Andreas Hofmann Deliver One-Two For Germany In Javelin
• Germany’s Former Olympic Discus Champ Robert Harting Was 6th In The Last European Champs Of His Career
• GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson Storms To Lead After Heptathlon Day 1 She leads the favorite, Olympic champ Nafi Thiam, by 87 points.

NCAA News: Multiple Ducks Are Jumping Ship

• NCAA XC 4th Placer Katie Rainsberger And NCAA 5,000 3rd Placer Lilli Burdon Leaving Oregon Track Program Tanner Anderson and Mick Stanovsek are also transferring as they confirmed they will follow Andy and Maurica Powell to Seattle. Multiple sources have said Rainsberger and Burdon will do the same.
  *Ken Goe: Katie Rainsberger And Lilli Burdon Lead Exodus From The Oregon Ducks’ Track Program
  *MB: Katie Rainsberger, Lilli Burdon Others Not On Oregon’s 2018 Roster
• World Junior 200 Silver Medalist Lauren Rain Williams Has Also Left The Ducks She is transferring To rival USC.
• Previous News: WITH POWELLS GONE, BRODEY HASTY FLIPS FROM OREGON TO NAU
• Missouri Distance Runner Austin Hindman Turns Pro In Triathlon Hindman (a 4:04 high school miler) leaves Missouri after his freshman year to join Project Podium, a triathlon group in Arizona.
• 2018 USTFCCCA Coaches Hall Of Fame Class Announced
• MB: Coaches, if an athlete screws up, please try to follow this advice from Chris Fox and Justyn Knight on how to handle it
• MB: Inside The Allegations Against Former UW Track Coach (WBUR Radio Show)

Previous European Champs Coverage

• RRW: Historic Gold Medal For Israel’s Lonah Chemtai Salpeter At European Championships Salpeter became the first Israeli woman ever to win a gold medal in any Euro Champs event. She ran 31:43 to win comfortably over the Netherlands’s Susan Krumins (31:52) and Sweden’s Meraf Bahta (32:19.34).
  *MB: ‘Historic’ Israel Euro 10k title – by a Kenyan!!
• Ingebrigtsen Boys Reach 1,500m Final After Scare, Keeping Dream Of 1-2-3 Podium Sweep Alive
  *EA: Filip Ingebrigsten Survives A Scare In The 1,500 Heats
  *MB: Getting ready for Friday’s European 1500 men’s final – Can the Ingebrigtsen’s sweep? Who has the edge?
  *MB: Here is what will happen in Friday’s European 1500 Final
• After 84-Year Wait Ireland’s Thomas Barr (400H) And Leon Reid (200m) Bid For Historic Medals No Irishman has ever won a European sprint medal.
• “It’s Like Putting On A Super-Suit” – Leon Reid About Finally Wearing The Irish Uniform After Transfer Of Allegiance Block

• IAAF: Germany’s Arthur Abele Delivers Hosts Germany Their First Gold Of The Championships With Decathlon Victory Lithuania’s Andrius Gudzius won the discus gold with 68.46m.
• Dramatic Victories For Lithuania’s Andrius Gudzius (Discus) And Poland’s Paulina Guba (Shot Put)
• 2015 Beijing World Champs Still Haunts Katarina Johnson-Thompson In 2015 she was the favorite to win, but fouled out of the LJ dropping her to 28th place.
• My, How The Tides Have Turned: Three Years Ago, It Was Katarina Johnson-Thompson Dominating Over Nafissatou Thiam In The Euro Champs Indoor Pentathlon Now it is Olympic champion Thiam who is the favorite and Johnson-Thompson who is trying to win in an upset.
• Steve Cram Believes Dina Asher-Smith Can Now Be Considered “World Class” After Her 100m Win
• GB Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson Wants To Win Her First European Outdoor Medal In Berlin