August 15, 2018 Homepage Archive

Week That Was

LRC Week That Was: A 17-Year-Old Is Dominating Europe, Everyone Is Medaling In North America, And What Is The Real American 1,500 Record? A look back at an interesting week in the track and field world.

Shalane Flanagan Not Retiring Yet

Good Read:Shalane Flanagan Will Return To Defend Her NYC Marathon TitleFlanagan had considered retiring after winning last year at 36 years old, but has decided to line up at least one more time before she hangs ’em up.
*Geoffrey Kamworor Will Also Return To Defend His NYC Title
*MB:Shalane Flanagan is Running 2018 NYC Marathon.

More From The Weekend

Brit Dale Clutterbuck Wins Beer Mile World Classic In 4:50 After Corey Bellemore And Two Others Get DQed Bellemore finished in 4:22 to break his previous world record by 9 seconds, but was DQed for not drinking enough of his beers (officials measured post-race and he was over the allowable amount).
*MB: Beer Mile world classic is this weekend at an undisclosed location in Vancouver
Spain’s Kilian Jornet And Kenya’s Lucy Wambui Murigi Win Mountain Racing World Cup Race In Switzerland It was Jornet’s sixth time winning the race.

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 800Drew 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 ChampsCathal 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.

Random Running Stuff

Interesting:Outside:There Is A New Machine That Will Actually Classify You As A “Competitive” Runner Or A Hobby Jogger Should help put to rest the debate in threads like this.
Grizzly Bears On Marathon Course In Canada Cost Race Leader The Win The bears on the course forced the leader to backtrack away from them and he ended up coming in second.
LeBron James Launches Mile-Run, “Ultimate Obstacle Course” Competition TV Show The Million Dollar Mile will have contestants cover an obstacle-filled mile for a chance at winning $1 million.
USATF Awards Elite Athlete Development Grants To 45 Elite Athletes

Full-Time Job, No Shoe Contract? No Problem – Meet Our “Blue Collar “Runner Of the Month

LRC Travel Woes, A Finish-Line Fall, & A Full-Time Job: How Charlie Marquardt Went From A Zero-Time DIII Champ To A 3:55 Miler Marquardt, who was a three-time NCAA DIII runner-up at Haverford, has no shoe contract, works a full-time job and just broke 4:00 in the mile for the first time in style – skipping the 3:59s, 58s, 57s and 56s entirely – running 3:55 at the Sir Walter Miler on August 3.
*MB: Meet Charlie Marquardt – a guy with a full-time job and no shoe contract who just broke 4 for the 1st time in style @ 3:55
*MB: Dude dives at line to go sub 4 for the first time and comes up …. short

The Latest On The Ingebrigtsens

Jakob Ingebrigtsen Celebrated His Double Gold With His Girlfriend By Downing A Glass Of Bubbly Water Sorry, single ladies and/or gents, he’s apparently got a significant other.
They Were A TV Hit 70% Of Norwegians Watching TV Tuned In To Jakob Ingebrigtsen Winning Gold
Henrik And Jakob Ingebrigtsen Get Hero’s Welcome Upon Return Home Even the Mayor showed up at the airport to greet them.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen Is Given A Red Mercedes BY A Local Dealer
Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s Agent Thinks The Brothers Should Get Appearance Fees For All 3 To Run At The Same DL Now

Post-Euro Champs News

Mondo Duplantis’ Epic Leap Highlights Flaws In American Record Rules Currently dual citizens can set American records even if they represent another country. This issue was brought up to the USATF rules committee last year, but the issue wasn’t taken seriously.
*MB: Thoughts on Mondo’s AMERICAN pole vault record?
Laura Muir Happy To Finally Win A Medal In Front Of Her Parents “Every single time they’ve been there, I’ve not delivered the medal for them. So I knew I had to get them a medal this time.”
Tianna Bartoletta Blogs About Being A Spectator At Euro Champs She says she had a ton of fun and was particularly impressed with the multi-eventers.
Dina Asher-Smith Knows She Needs To Get Faster If She Wants To Win Olympic Gold In 2020 She correctly points out that her main competition (USA and Jamaica) weren’t at Euros.
*The Independent: Dina Asher-Smith Turns Attention Towards Tokyo 2020 After Berlin Success
British Athletics Head Neil Black Says Dina Asher-Smith’s Competitors Should Be Afraid After Triple Euro Gold Black: “When you put Dina’s multiple gold-medal-winning and world-leading, world-class times together, if they are not fearful, if they are not respectful, then they must be crazy.”
*The Guardian:Dina Asher-Smith’s Triple “The Performance Of A Generation”
IAAF’s Top 10 Memorable Moments From Euro Champs The most impressive distance performance was definitely 17-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen‘s 1,500/5,000 double.
T&F News’ Top Five Women’s Moments From Euro Champs Sandra Perkovic made meet history by becoming the first athlete in history to win 5 European titles in the same event (although Mahiedine Mekhissi would have beaten her to it if it wasn’t for his shirtless celebration DQ).
T&F News’ Top Five Men’s Moments From Euro Champs Ramil Guliyev‘s 19.76 tops the list.

2018 Berlin European Champs Watch LIVEResults

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

Non-Ingebrigtsen European News (Fri./Sat.)

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

Improved 2018 BOA Chicago Marathon Elite Fields Released

LRC Analysis Props To Chicago: Galen Rupp Will Battle Strong International Field As He Tries To Repeat At Chicago Marathon The international fields for the 2018 Chicago Marathon are out and this year we have no fears about whether Chicago is being watered down to ensure a victory by Galen Rupp. If Rupp is to defend his crown, he’ll have to defeat the winners of the following marathons in 2018: Dubai, Tokyo, Rotterdam, Paris and Boston. The American hopefuls on the women’s side, Jordan Hasay and Amy Cragg, also face increased competition as well.
*MB: 2018 Chicago Marathon elite fields are out and both are much improved from 2017 – Can Galen Rupp repeat?

Toni Reavis Is Upset That 2018 Chicago Field Is So Good He wants to see a Mo Farah vs. Galen Rupp grudge match.
Jordan Hasay Doesn’t Just Want To Win Chicago, She Wants To Run Fast “This year, I’ll definitely be trying to shoot for the win, but also trying to run fast. That American record is definitely in my sights.”

Pre-NACAC News

Sandi Morris, Keni Harrison And Lopez Lomong Lead Team USA For NACAC Championships
CBC’s Preview Of The 2018 NACAC Champs They focus the preview on the top Canadians but also tell you about the top pros not from Canada.
Hassan Mead Is Running NACACs As He Finds It Hard To Say No To Opportunity To Wear Team USA Jersey “For me, it’s tough to deny a chance to wear the USA uniform. It means a lot to me and shows you are doing something right.”
Fraser-Pryce Looking For Great Returns At NACAC Championships Her main goal appears to be sub-11.
Andre De Grasse Talks Setbacks And Fatherhood Prior To NACACs

NCAA News: Multiple Ducks Are Jumping Ship

NCAA XC 4th Placer Katie Rainsberger And NCAA 5,000 3rd Placer Lilli Burdon Leaving Oregon Track ProgramTanner 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)

News From Kenya

Daily Nation:Tears As Athletes And Family Pay Their Final Respects To Former World 400H Champ Nicholas Bett Among those who came to pay their respects were Eliud Kipchoge, Asbel Kiprop, former 800m world champions Janet Jepkosgei and Eunice Sum, Sally Kipyego, Augustine Choge and others.
Athletics Kenya Not Happy With Team Chosen For Continental Cup By Confederation Of Africa Athletics (CAA) They weren’t happy that only 9 Kenyans were chosen for the team despite Kenya topping the medal standings (with 11 golds) at the recent African Championships.
Gladys Cherono Won’t Give Up Her Berlin Marathon Title Without A Fight Cherono knows she’s up against tough competition with Tirunesh Dibaba and Edna Kiplagat in the field, but she’s still determined to get Berlin title #3.

Upcoming Diamond League Action

August 18:Laura Muir And Katarina Johnson-Thompson Lead 14 European Medal-Winning Brits At The Birmingham Diamond League Muir is going to try go break Kelly Holmes‘ 21-year-old 2:32.55 UK 1000m record. The 1,500 will have Caster Semenya vs. Sifan Hassan.
*Birmingham Provisional Entry Lists
August 30:Noah Lyles Vs. World Champ Ramil Guliyev Over 200m

The European Ingebrigsten Champsionships

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 DoubleJakob 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.

LRC17-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

The Inside Scoop / Coverage From Norway (Translated)

The Ingebrgitsens’ Father Says It 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.