August 20, 2018 | LetsRun.com

Week That Was

LRC Yomif Kejelcha Goes Fast Like Mo Farah, Emmanuel Korir Joins a Special Club, Nick Willis Extends Streak, Ben Flanagan Wins Falmouth It’s not true that Mo Farah never went for a fast time.

Ultra: Pikes Peak And Leadville

Dakota Jones And Megan Kimmel Win Pikes Peak Marathon Jones biked 250 miles over four days from his hometown to the race site. He then won the race and biked home later in the week.
Ridgway runner Megan Kimmel has record day at Pikes Peak Marathon Kimmel broke a 37 year old record held by Lynn Bjorklund (former girls high school 3000 record holder before Mary Cain).
Eagle’s Kim Dobson again wins women’s Ascent in return to Pikes Peak
Non LRC message board discussion as to whether the Pikes Peak Ascent should have been shortened
Leadville: Rob Krar And Katie Arnold Win Leadville Trail 100 Mile Run Krar won the notoriously difficult ultra for a second time, finishing more than an hour ahead of second place.

Usain Bolt’s Soccer Journey Continues In The Land Down Under

Australian Fans Gather To Welcome Usain Bolt At Airport As He Arrives For Soccer Training Stint Bolt has agreed to “an indefinite training period” with the Central Coast Mariners.
Reuters Article Says Bolt Could Play His First Match On August 31st It also talks about some controversy as some critics are calling this a publicity stunt.
A Black Rental Car Is Bolt’s Only Demand While Training With Aussie Soccer Team Asked if there were any other demands Mariners chief executive said, “We’ve had no requests for private bodyguards, personal masseurs, chauffeurs. Nothing about providing bottled water from France, either. … The one thing we’ve been really firm on is that Usain, while trialling for a contract, be treated the same as any player … And that’s what Bolt wants.”
Previously: Usain Bolt To Train With Australian A-League Soccer Team Central Coast Mariners The deal does not guarantee a pro playing contract. *BBC article
Aussie Coach Says Bolt Will Have To Prove Himself Like Any Other Player Although he admitted he hadn’t seen any of Bolt’s footage from stints with other clubs. *2nd Article

Upcoming Action

MB: Galen Rupp Racing Tilburg Ten Mile On September 2th The course is very fast as it is the host of the 10 mile world record (by Haile Gebrselassie in 2005).
September 6: All Germany’s Six European Champions Returning To Berlin For ISTAF Meet Gesa Krause wants to break the German steeplechase record and go sub-9:10.

Pre-Birmingham News

LRC Birmingham DL Preview: Emmanuel Korir Battles Clayton Murphy, Laura Muir Goes For UK 1000m Record, & Loaded Sprint Races After a month break, the DL is back and it’s going to be intense as it marks everyone’s last chance to qualify for the DL finales.

Athletics Weekly: Noah Lyles Looking To Light Up Birmingham Lyles vs. Christian Coleman, SA’s Akani Simbine and Yohan Blake will be a highlight of the meet.
IAAF Preview: Newly Crowned Continental Champions Converge In Birmingham Dina Asher-Smith up against Shaunae Miller-Uibo and World silver medalist Marie-Josee Ta Lou in the 200m. Sandi Morris and Katerina Stefanidi in the PV.
Athletics Weekly’s Ones To Watch At Birmingham Diamond League Laura Muir is trying to break Kelly Holmes’ 21-year-old national 1,000m record of 2:32.55.
Dina Asher-Smith Knows She’s Up against Real Competition Now At The Birmingham DL “I am definitely well aware that the Europeans didn’t including the best sprinters or the best sprinting nations in the world.”
Dina Asher-Smith Didn’t Realize The Hype Around Her Euro Triple Had Until She Got Back Home “When we were out there, we were in a bit of a bubble, so we didn’t actually know the impact it has had on the nation.”

LRC Running Warehouse Prediction Contest Winners

LRC Gwen Jorgensen’s High School Teammate, A Coach Of Geniuses, And 20th Placer At Olympic Marathon Trials Win Running Warehouse Summer Prediction Contests Meet the winners of the LetsRun.com Running Warehouse Prediction contests.

Shalane Flanagan Not Retiring Yet

Good Read: Shalane Flanagan Will Return To Defend Her NYC Marathon Title Flanagan 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 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

Falmouth And The Fastest 3k For 7 Years

NCAA 10,000 Champ Ben Flanagan Becomes First North American Man To Win The Falmouth Road Race In 30 Years Flanagan beat Scott Fauble by 2 seconds as Olympian Leonard Korir was another 5 seconds back in 3rd and Stephen Sambu 4th. On the women’s side, Kenya’s Caroline Chepkoech got her third consecutive victory, dominating by almost a minute. *Results
World Indoor Champion Yomif Kejelcha Runs 7:28.00 For 3,000m At The Goteborg In Sweden It was the fastest time in the world since 2011. Sweden’s Andreas Kramer ran 1:45.23 to win the 800, just missing his national record of 1:45.03. Russia’s Olympic/World HJ champ Mariya Lasitskene won in 1.97m. *Full Results *Discuss
Craig Engels (3:58.88) And Rachel Schneider (4:27.23) Win Falmouth Mile Josh Kerr did most of the early leading, but Engels surged from midpack to blow by him and Ben Blankenship in the final straight. So did Cristian Soratos to take runner-up in 3:59.19. Schneider won a close race with Helen Schlachtenhaufen, who fell at the line and got up just in time to take 2nd. *Results *Discuss
David Angell (15:45) And Laurie Knowles (17:29) Win USATF Masters Road 5k Championships

Birmingham DL Full Results TV & Streaming

Results: Miller-Uibo Wins The Stacked 200, Emmanuel Korir Runs 1:42.73, Stewart McSweyn Continues To PR And Wins Mile, Muir Fails To Get British 1k Record The men’s 100 was VERY tight but in the end Christian Coleman was given the 9.94 win over Reece Prescod (same time). Disappointing days for people like Clayton Murphy (DFL but he earned our respect for going for it) and Drew Hunter (3:58).

IAAF Full Men’s Recap: Coleman Wins 100m Sprint Showdown In 9.94
IAAF Full Women’s Recap: Miller-Uibo Stops Asher-Smith’s Momentum By Crushing Her In 200
The Telegraph: Reece Prescod Justifies The Hype With Stunning 9.94 Finish In Strong Field To Show Americans “The British Boys Can Sprint” Prescod; “I always said once I dropped below 10sec, my body would get used to it – I can’t be running 10s now, it has to be 9s.”
The Telegraph: “Dina Asher-Smith Must Settle For Second In The 200 While Laura Muir Keeps Up Winning Ways” Asher-Smith says she would have considered pulling out of this race if it wasn’t at home due to post-Euros fatigue. Muir on the other hand missed the GB 100m record by a bit over a second.
Sifan Hasan Says She Was Just Happy To Get The Win Since She Was Sick A Couple Of Days Ago
Germany’s Andreas Hofmann Wins Birmingham Javelin In 89.82m To Win Over A Deep Field
MB: Live Birmingham Thread
MB: Korir fails in record attempt/Murphy destroyed
MB: DINA ASHER-SMITH: Best Sprinter In The World 2018
MB: My dad during 100m in Birmingham: ‘Who are these runners? I’ve never heard of them. Are they professional?’

Today’s Dose Of Random

Donn Cabral Stars In Funny KFC Commercial With A Bucket On His Head (includes video) It’s one of the KFC commercials airing on ESPN “The Ocho” and Cabral says when he got a call about it he at first thought he was being pranked by Kyle Merber.
Video Of 2018 Beer Mile World Classic We’ve been informed that WR holder Corey Bellemore (initial winner, but DQed for too much left over beer) actually ran close to 4 flat mile pace for the running section of the race.
Lolo Jones Completes #PantsJump Challenge We didn’t know it was a thing, but there is a viral online challenge where you have to jump up straight into a pair of pants held by two friends at waist height.

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

Doping News

Kenyan World 800 Bronze Medalist Kipyegon Bett Suspended After Refusing A Drug Test Bett becomes the fourth Kenyan to be suspended in less than a month. *Discuss
Caster Semenya Is Officially The 2012 Olympic 800m Champion This after CAS upheld the disqualification of Russian doper Mariya Savinova. Semenya now becomes the first woman to win two Olympic 800m titles.
That’s Quite The Loophole: Russian Cyclist Thinking About Switching Citizenship To Uzbekistan Due To Fear Of Being Banned From 2020 Games The 38-year-old has a previous failed drug test and says she “doesn’t feel her age” … hmm, we wonder why?
Canadian Marathoner Natasha Yaremczuk Gets 14-Month Ban For Testing Positive At The 2017 Dublin Marathon (Where She Was 10th)

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?
Athletics Weekly Brit Photo Highlights From Euro Champs
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 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

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

Upcoming Action

Sunday: Mo Farah Going For A Fifth Successive Great North Run Half-Marathon Title Farah won last year in 60:06.
August 30/31: With Qualifications Now Concluded, IAAF Diamond League Final Fields Taking Shape The DL finals are on August 30th in Zurich and August 31st in Brussels. Some highlights will be Noah Lyles vs World champ Ramil Guliyev in the 200m and Mondo Duplantis vs Renaud Lavillenie in the PV.
September 8-9: African Team Named For IAAF Continental Cup In Ostrava Nijel Amos and Emmanuel Korir in the 800, Elijah Manangoi in the 1500, Hellen Obiri in the 3000 and Caster Semenya and Francine Niyonsaba in the women’s 800.
Trophy For Continental Cup Unveiled Looks like a bowl of candy. *European Athletics: Each Member Of The Winning Team Will Get Their Own Piece Of The Trophy It’s a pretty cool/unique design.

NCAA News

Attorney General Of New Mexico Says It Will Take University Of New Mexico To Court Over Elimination Of Four Sports They are accused of violating state laws on open meetings and are being asked to reconsider the decision or face court action.
*MB: New Mexico to cut athletic programs
*MB: University is New Mexico Track/XC still alive, but forced to reduce track/XC roster size
MB: Head Coach Al Cantello To Retire At End Of August After 55 Years At Navy
Colorado State University’s Newly Renovated Track No Longer Open To The Public Or Non-Track Athlete Students Apparently there was issues with homeless people sleeping there and the track being too crowded during practice. Sounds like an obvious solution would be to lock it at night and block access during practice hours?
MB: What D1 programs should be great but aren’t?
MB: Preseason NCAA D1 Men’s Cross Country Podium Picks

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.

Sprint Stuff

Good Read: You Can’t Say He Isn’t Entertaining: Noah Lyles Believes He Can Run 9.41 Seconds For 100m Lyles also talks about “transcending the sport” and says he’s had a lot of kids come up to him and saying they’ve only heard his rap songs, but not seen him run.
Reuters: Christian Coleman Ready For A Bright End To A Rough Season In Birmingham Coleman didn’t have much of a season as he was dealing with hamstring injury, but the 9.98 he ran for the win in Rabat shows he’s at least in a place to challenge Noah Lyles.
The Guardian: “Sprinting Needs Another Hero And Noah Lyles Puts Up His Hand” Lyles says he’s sad he didn’t get to race against Usain Bolt at least once before he retired.

African News

Ethiopia’s Olympic Marathon Silver Medalist Feyisa Lilesa Invited Home After Reformist Prime Minister Takes Power Lilesa has been in self-imposed exile since he held up his arms in protest of the Ethiopian government when he crossed the finish line at Rio 2016. *2nd Article
Recommended Read: The Guardian: “Why Ethiopia’s Running Success Is About More Than Poverty And Altitude” A UK writer talks about his training adventures in Ethiopia which included things like 3AM hill repeats and six hour round-trips by bus. A good read, but he is discounting the genetic factor when he says Brits could have similar distance success if they trained like the Ethiopians did.
*MB: Guardian article on Ethiopian Training Philosophy
Emmanuel Korir Believes He Can Break David Rudisha’s 1:40.91 World Record And Even Go Sub-1:40 Korir is also already thinking ahead to 2019 Worlds: “I can’t go and sleep even after the season ends. I have to work harder to be ready for Doha. It is a title that I long for …”
Video: Olympic 400m Champion Wayde Van Niekerk Recounts The Race Of His Life When He Broke The WR At Rio 2016
Athletes Eulogise Nicholas Bett At His Burial Asbel Kiprop was among those to say some words.
Top Three Moments From The History Of The Birmingham Diamond League The list includes Kenya’s former javelin World champ Julius Yego‘s 91.39m African and Diamond League record.

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 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

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.

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.”

LetsRun.com Founders Named as Two of “The 50 Most Influential People in Running”