2018 Berlin European Champs *Watch LIVE *Results

• Sunday: MB: Move over Jakob Ingebrigtsen, you’re not even the best junior in Europe. Mondo Duplantis clears 6.05m (19′ 10¼”)!
• European Athletics: Mondo Duplantis Shatters Championship Record With An Incredible 12cm PR Duplantis’ jump broke the 24-year-old meet record (6.00m) and was a world U20 record as well.
  *Good Read: Armand Duplantis Wins PV Competition For The Ages Duplantis: “I just hope I wake up tomorrow and it’s still real.”
• Belarus’ Volha Mazuronak Survives Nosebleed And Wrong Turn To Win Euro Marathon Her nose started bleeding profusely just 30 minutes into the race and a slight wrong turn made the race close, but she still won by 6 seconds in 2:26:22.
• Belgium’s Koen Naer Wins Marathon In A Championship Record Of 2:09:51 It was a pretty fast race for a championship marathon (at Europeans) as Switzerland’s Abraham Tadesse was 2nd (2:11:24) and Italy’s Yassine Rachik (2:12:09) 3rd.
• MB: 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.
• The Telegraph Bashes Laura Muir’s Competition At Euro Champs Ben Bloom wrote, “The only possible way any of her inferior rivals could even consider winning was if the race came down to a sprint finish …”
• Dina Asher-Smith Goes From Fourth To First On Final Leg Of 4 X 100 To Complete The Euro Champs Triple Gold Asher-Smith: “When I got the baton I was like ‘not today, today is our day’ and I’m very happy to finish that off for the girls. I saw people and thought ‘not on my watch.'”
  *The Guardian: Dina Asher-Smith Snatches Victory For 4 X 100 Relay Team To Claim Third Gold
• GB Men Win A Third Consecutive Euro 4 X 100 Title The team of CJ Ujah, Zharnel Hughes, Adam Gemili and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake ran 37.80 to just miss the championship record by .01.
• IAAF Recap: Mondo Duplantis Vaults 6.05m While Dina Asher-Smith Completes Sprint Triple As Euro Champs Conclude Germany’s Gesa Felicitas-Krause got a huge roar from the home crowd kicking home to a 9:19.80 win in the steeple. Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk took her fourth European hammer throw title with a 78.94m meet record. Portugal’s Nelson Evora won the men’s TJ (17.10m).
• MB: 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.
• RRW: Volha Mazuronak, Koen Naert Win European Marathon Titles
• RRW: Distance Favorites Win On Final Night Of European Athletics Championships
• Michael Johnson Explains Why He Thinks Dina Asher-Smith Could Win Olympic Gold At Tokyo 2020 He thinks she’s probably better at the 100m than the 200m, but the 200m has less competition so she has a good chance in both.
• Sean Ingle: “Dina Asher-Smith Has Stunned Berlin, Other Britons Must Now Grab Baton”
• Athletics Weekly’s Top 10 Moments From Berlin Javelin champ Thomas Rohler celebrating with a swim in the steeplechase pit makes the list.
• GB Tops The Track And Field Medal Standings After Double Sprint Relay Gold
• Russia Tops GB In Final Euro Champs Medal Tally (All Sports)
• BBC Video Highlights From Euro Champs (All Sports)
• European Athletics President Sven Arne Hansen Calls Berlin 2018 “Best Ever” Euro Champs

2018 NACAC Champs *Results

• Sunday: Kate Grace Nabs NACAC 1,500 Gold In 4:06.23 As Shannon Osika Gets Silver In 4:06.92
• NACAC Men’s 1,500: Izaic Yorks Edges Pat Casey By .02 For Gold
• Canada Forfeits Men’s Steeple at NACACs. Andy Bayer Leads US To 1-2-3 Sweep
• Guess What Event The US Couldn’t Win At NACACs … Yep, You Nailed It – The Men’s 4 X 100 – Yet Another DQ
• IAAF Sunday Recap: USA’s Shamier Little Highlights With 53.32 Victory And Championship Record In The 400H Jamaica had a trio of golds from Jamaica’s Fedrick Dacres(discus), Shericka Jackson (200m) and Shaneika Ricketts (TJ). There were several other championship records including Kyron McMaster in the 400H (48.18).
• USATF: Team USA Cleans Up At NACAC Champs With Numerous Golds And Championship Records In non-distance events, on the final day Team USA won three out of four relays, the men’s PV, men’s LJ, women’s SP, women’s javelin,
• Reuters: Caribbean sprinters take 200 metres races as U.S. dominates meet

• Saturday: NACAC Day 2: Jenna Prandini Wins 100 In CR Of 10.98 As SAFP Was A Disappointing 5th, Kendra Harrison Wins 100H In 12.55 In the pole vault, the winner was Katie Nageotte, not 2015 world champion Yarisley Silva of Cuba or Olympic silver medalist Sandi Morris.
• Ajee Wilson (1:57.52) Over Natoya Goule (1:57.95) In Loaded Women’s 800 At NACACs, Raevyn Rogers Was 4th
• Hassan Mead And Riley Masters Go 1-2 In NACAC 5,000, Justyn Knight 3rd
• Brandon McBride Gets Revenge On Marco Arop As Canadians Go 1-2 In NACAC 800 Drew Piazza was 5th.
• Marielle Hall (33:27) And Rochelle Kanuho (33:28) Go 1-2 In Women’s 10k At NACACs Canada’s Rachel Cliff denied Team USA a sweep.
• Jamaicans Win 4 Gold On Day 2 – Men’s 100 (10.03), 110H (13.28), 400 (45.47), Women’s 400 (51.15)
• IAAF Saturday Recap
• Friday: Americans Mel Lawrence And Rachel Schneider Win Steeple And 5k At NACACs
• Lopez Lomong Leads American 1-2-3 Sweep In Men’s 10k
• MB: Are you kidding me? Every woman who started the women’s steeple and 5k at NACACs medalled? We have no idea why Canada forfeited in the women’s steeple.
• NACAC Champs LIVE Updates

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.

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Week That Was

LRC Stars Impress At African Champs, Olympic Trials Are Back In Eugene, The Start Time For Tokyo Olympic Marathon Needs to be Changed Elijah Manangoi only beats Cheruiyot these days when it really matters. Amos over Korir and Semenya x2. Plus, we think it’s a mistake for the Olympic Trials to be in Eugene every time.

*Book Review LRC Book Review: “Racing The Hands Of Time” By Larry Hannon – Those New To The Sport Might Enjoy It, But Serious Fans Can Avoid This One Not every race can be your best and not every book can be our favorite. This one starts out fascinating but fizzles.

2018 Berlin European Champs

Dina Asher-Smith (10.85) And Zharnel Hughes (9.95) Win 100m Gold Hughes broke the meet record while Asher-Smith, who trounced Dafne Schippers, broke her own British record. Video of run here. *BBC Article *IAAF Recap

• RRW Morhad Amdouni Wins First French European 10,000m Gold Ever
• MB: Filip Ingebrigtsen Wins His 1500m Heat Despite Falling On Lap 3
• Ingebrigtsen Boys Reach 1,500m Final After Scare, Keeping Dream Of 1-2-3 Podium Sweep Alive
• Lynsey Sharp Leads GB Charge Into 800m Semi-Finals All three Brits advanced past the opening round.
• Poland Cleans Up In The Throws, Taking Gold And Silver In Both The Hammer And Shot Put Wojciech Nowicki beat out world champ Pawel Fajdek in the hammer and Michal Haratyktook the shot put.
• DyeStat: Mondo Duplantis Isn’t The Only Recent Prep In The European Champs Pole Vault California’s Sondre Guttormsen is trying to become the first Norwegian to make the final since 1962.
• DyeStat: New Mexico Signee Adva Cohen Is Ready To Represent Israel In Euro Steeplechase
• Ireland’s Thomas Barr Below Par But Earns Place In 400H Final Barr had a late surge to go from 4th to 2nd in the home straight to qualify automatically for today’s final.
  *Barr: “Put me into a dogfight and I’ll give it my best.”
• Athletics Weekly: Enjoyment Is Key For GB Pole Vaulter Holly Bradshaw In Berlin Bradshaw says she lost “the love” for the sport, but has rediscovered it this year.
• Ukraine’s Maryan Zakalnytskyy And Portugal’s Ines Henriques Defy Conditions To Win 50km Racewalk Titles
• FloTrack: An American’s Guide To The European Championships
• InsideTheGames: British Sprinters And Polish Throwers Corner The Medals On First Finals Eveing At European Athletics Championships
• GB’s Reece Prescod Ahead Of Euro 100m: “I don’t wake up to be the best in Europe – what drives me is to be world champion.” He ended up with the silver behind Hughes.
• The Guardian: Dina Asher-Smith Targets Three European Golds
• British Trio Get Berlin Qualifying Done On First Day