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

Sunday: MB: Move over Jakob Ingebrigtsen, you’re not even the best junior in Europe. Mondo Duplantis clears 6.05m (19′ 10¼”)!
*Anti-Climatic: Sifan Hassan Wins Euro 5k By Nearly 7 Seconds, Laua Muir Wins 1,500 In the last distance final of the 2018 Euros, 2015 World Championships bronze medalist Gesa-Felicitas Krause, who came in with only a 9:39 seasonal best, ran 9:19 to win the women’s steeple.
*European Championships Women’s 5,000: Salpeter Stops A Lap Early Thinking She Had Won Silver She got going again and finished 4th in what would have been an Israeli NR of 15:01 but was DQed for cutting in too early at the start. 

Saturday: 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: What will Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s 1500 and 5000 PRs be at the end of his career? 
• 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)

• The Ingebrgitsens’ Father Says Ir Has Been Very Hard To Be Both Their Father And Coach Apparently, their main rule is the kids come up with the goals and the dad figures out a plan for them to achieve them.
• Norwegian Journalist Raves About The Amazing Ride The Ingebrigtsens Have Given Him During The Last 6 Years 6 years ago, Henrik had so little funding he couldn’t afford to stay in a hotel in Flagstaff and had to sleep on a couch.
• 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 Withdrew FromWith 5k Final With Back Injury

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.

Other News That Makes The Cut

• Nick Willis (3:59) And Emily Lipari (4:33) Win Inaugural Guardian Miles In Cleveland Willis raved about the event after it was over.
  *$14,000 In Prize Money Was Offered In Race Organized By Colby Alexander’s Mother The race was run on the Hope Memorial Bridge.
• Hundreds Of Menial Laborers Take To Streets To Protest After Not Being Paid For Working At African Champs And yet the local government claims it was going to spend $11 million on hosting the champs.
• 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.”

Three Recommended Reads On Eugene 2020

• Alan Abrahamson Also Isn’t Happy The Trials Are Going Back To Eugene “Eugene is on par with Fargo and Peoria. Who wants to argue that track and field ought to be grown out of Fargo or Peoria?”
• Runner’s World Calls Out USATF For Lack Of Transparency On Eugene 2020 Olympic Trials Decision Erin Strout writes, “Track and field will remain stagnant if we continue to hide in a tiny Oregon bubble where we feel comfortable, nobody asks any questions, and we can so easily delude ourselves into believing it represents a broader fan base. It doesn’t. Eugene is an anomaly, built by the Nike neighbors up the street.”
• Mario Fraioli On Why Eugene 2020 Isn’t Going To Elevate The Sport Of Track And Field In The US This was Thursday’s Quote of the Day.

More Non-Distance News

Distance News

• Good Read: Jake Robertson Will Run His Second Marathon At The Toronto Waterfront Marathon The 2:08 man says he isn’t putting limits on himself: “I would like to win the race, first and foremost. If the pacemaking is set up to run a 2:05, then I would like to run 2:05. If it’s 2:06 pace, then 2:06.”
  *MB: Jake Robertson makes his marathon pick. #2 will be Toronto on October 21!
• Is It Time For The Jamaican Men To Step Up To The 800m? With former NCAA champ Natoya Goule running well for the women, this writer from The Gleaner laments the fact that a the last time a Jamaican went sub-1:47 was nine years ago.
• 2:09:49 Debutant Dewi Griffiths Talks About How He’s Fought Back From Stress Fracture In His Hip Griffiths, who stunned the UK with his debut in Frankfurt last year but then got hurt, is on the comeback trail.
• Thursday Night: Charlene Lipsey And Johnny Gregorek Lead West Chester Mile Fields
• 28 Americans Broke 4:00 For The 1st Time In 2018 – Most First-Timers Ever

Kenyan Updates – Sad News

• RIP: Kenya’s Former 2015 World 400H Champion Nicholas Bett Has Died In A Car Accident Bett died on the scene when his car veered off the road into a ditch just a day after he returned from African Champs. Bett was the first Kenyan to win any short sprint medal on the global level. *IAAF Tribute
  *MB: Sad news: Nicholas Bett
• Third Kenyan Doping Bust In 10 Days As Athens Marathon Champ Samuel Kalalei Fails Drug Test The 2:10 marathoner has been suspended after testing positive for EPO.
  *MB: Third Kenyan runner in 10 days fails doping test

More Euros

• World Decathlon Champ Kevin Mayer’s Gold Medal Hopes Disappear As He Fouls Out Of The Long Jump Mayer had the fastest time in the 100m with a 10.64 PR, but no mark in the LJ ends his chances at gold.
• Poignant Opening Ceremony Gets Berlin 2018 Underway
• GB Captain Dai Greene Withdraws From Euro Champs Due To Hamstring Injury
• Athletics Weekly’s Euro Medal Predictions They think there will be two Ingebrigstens on the 1,500m podium.
• GB 800m Runner Lynsey Sharp Regains Her Hunger For Medals After Difficult 2017 Sharp says she had a rough time mentally last year and that carried over to early 2018 at the Commonwealth Games, but she says she’s “as hungry as ever” now.
• The Telegraph: Dina Asher-Smith Targeting Breakthrough Win Over Dafne Schippers In Berlin Schippers is a world champion and Asher-Smith has never been on an individual global podium, but the bookies have Asher-Smith as the favorite in the 100m and 200m.
• GB LJer Jazmin Sawyers Says She Gets “Imposter Syndrome” She says it’s the voice that asks, “Should I really be here?”
• World Champions Mariya Lasitskene (HJ) And Ekaterini Stefanidi (PV) Highlight Women’s Jumps In Berlin
• Athletics Weekly: Dai Greene Has Experience With GB Captain’s Speeches
• BBC: “British Sprinting – What’s Going So Right?” They don’t have the fastest names in national history, but they have great depth.
• InsideTheGames: Euro Champs Opened By Party In Glasgow As Federations Unveil Winner’s Trophy The trophy will go to the country with the most gold medals by the end of the Championships.
• The Guardian: European Champs Launch Of New Spectacle Of Sport 11 days, 4 locations, 8 different sports.
• The Guardian: Glasgow Gears Up For Inaugural Euro Championships 4,500 athletes from 52 nations competing in Berlin and the UK.
• Dina Asher-Smith Is GB Performance Director Neil Black’s “One To Watch” In Berlin
• The Telegraph: First Multi-Sport Euros Ready To Bask In The Limelight