Camel City Elite & IAAF Karlsruhe *Live Camel City Results *Karlsruhe Results *Free Karlsruhe Stream Replay

LRC Ajee Wilson (1:59.26) And Clayton Murphy (1:45.92) Both Break Flat Track World Records At 2019 Camel City Elite Meet! Other winners included Edward Cheserek and Patrick Tiernan,who dominated the mile and 3k in 3:55 and 7:48 respectively. Grace Barnett (4:33) and Emily Lipari (8:59) won the women’s mile and 3k.
*MB: Official 2019 Camel City Elite Live Discussion Thread

2019 IAAF Karlsruhe Recap: Japan’s Naoto Tobe Pulls Off Shock HJ Win Wth 4 NRs, Dafne Schippers And Juan Miguel Echevarria Are Beaten

Berlin ISTAF: Great Performances From Sam Kendricks, Reece Prescod, Mihambo Mihambo And Nadine Müller Highlight ISTAF Berlin Kendricks set a world lead in the PV at 5.86m and took a couple close attempts at 6.01m. Malaika Mihambo jumped a meet record and world lead of 6.99 m in the LJ, Pamela Dutkiewicz set the 60H WL and GB’s Prescod won the 60m in 6.53.
*IAAF Recap A new WR was set in the rarely-contested indoor discus throw.

Weekend Road / XC Results

• Betsy Saina Defends Her Title At The Marugame Half With A 67:49 Win She beat out Japan’s Ayuko Suzuki by 6-seconds. On the men’s side, Abdi Nageeye broke a 20-year-old Dutch record with 60:24 over Kenya’s Simon Kariuki (60:43).
  *Suzuki’s 67:55 Was The #3 Fastest Japanese All-Time
• Japan’s Suguru Osako Breaks CR With 63:00 To Win Surf City Half-Marathon Osako said the goal was a “solid effort at marathon pace.”
  *MB: 2 Japanese studs Yoroizaka and Osako showed up at local half marathon and crushed it for an easy top 2
• IAAF: Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo And Kenya’s Fancy Cherono Take Top Honors At Almond Blossom XC Race In Portugal Kiplimo just beat out Kenyan Davis Kiplangat as both finished with identical times while Cherono beat out compatriot Daisy Jeptoo Kimeli by 4-seconds. *Almond Blossom XC Hosts Euro Club Champs As Teams From Spain (Men) And Portugal (Women) Win The Senior Team Titles
• Morocco’s Hicham Laquouahi (2:08:35) And Japan’s Haruka Yamaguchi (2:36:51) Win Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon Kohei Futaoka was the first from Japan in 4th (2:09:15) as he and two compatriots broke 2:10 for the first time to qualify for the Japan Olympic Trials.

Doping News

• IAAF Releases Regulations For Neutral Athletes To Compete At World XC Champs Only three athletes from the same suspended federation can compete.
• Russian Athletics Federation Withdraws Its CAS Appeal Against IAAF Suspension  The Russian Federation’s appeal predated the reinstatement of RUSADA so they say they no longer need to appeal, although the IAAF has maintained their suspension.
• Two Russian Distance Runners Get Drug Bans After Testing Positive For Meldonium  Alexey Kiselev and Vasily Minaev are each banned for 4-years.

LRC Exclusive Content

LRC Podcast Shelby Houlihan Guest Interview+ NBIGP, US Cross, And Sydney McLaughlin Pro Debut And Diva Talk The American record holder Shelby Houlihan opens up for more than 30 minutes about her breakout year, what is on tap for 2019, her coach’s high standards and more. Plus the LRC crew discusses a Rosa athlete running fast in Dubai, split screen coming to track and field broadcasts and even UCLA legend John Wooden.
*MB: Shelby Houlihan is running 10k cross this weekend and we’ve got a podcast with her to celebrate

Transcript Shelby Houlihan Talks About Her Breakout 2018 Season, Making America Great At 5,000 Again, And Jerry Schumacher If you’re not a podcast person, we’ve got a transcript of our interview with Houlihan right here.

WTW Brazier AND Murphy Impress, Should We Not Get Excited About Fast HS Girls?, Who Are The World XC Favorites? And we take a look at the amazing times in Dubai.

More NCAA Updates

• NCAA DI Athletes Of The Week Are North Dakota State’s Payton Otterdahl And Arkansas Payton Chadwick Otterdah threw 21.64m in the shot put, making him #3 all-time behind the 21.73m held jointly by Ryan Crouser and Ryan Whiting. Chadwick won the 200 (22.97), 60H (8.01) and 4 x 400 (52.46 split) at the Arkansas Invy.
• Arkansas Women Stay Ranked #1 In The NCAA As The Rest Of The Rankings Get A Big Shake-Up Southern California moved up from 7th to 2nd while Texas A&M dropped to 3rd. Florida moved up from 6th to 4th.
• Texas Tech Men Still Ranked On Top After Another Week Of NCAA Action Below them, Florida State and Florida flip-flopped 2nd and 3rd while LSU moved up from 8th to 4th.
• Event-By-Event Top-10 Marks From The Collegiate Weekend

Interesting News From The Bureaucrats

• Tokyo Olympics Likely To Feature Morning Track And Field Finals To Meet Demands Of U.S. Broadcasting 7 or 8 finals are expected.
• We Sure Hope US Lawmakers Also Outlaw US Doping US Bill To Criminalize Global Doping Fraud Gets Introduced With Rare Bipartisan Support “Now is the time to create stiff penalties for Russia’s cheating and send a signal that Russia and other sponsors of state-directed fraud can’t use corruption as a tool of foreign policy,” US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said.

Weekend XC / Road Action

• Geoffrey Kamworor Warms Up For World XC By Defending His Crown At The Kenyan National Police XC Championships Kamworor put 17 seconds on Josphat Boit in the final kilometer to get a dominant win. African XC silver medalist Margaret Chelimo won the women’s race easily from 2015 world steeple champ Hyvin Kiyeng. *IAAF Recap
• World Under-20 10,000m Champ Rhonex Kipruto And Brilliant Jepkorir Win Discovery Kenya XC Race Kipruto beat out world U20 5,000m champ Edward Zakayo by 6 seconds.
• Two-Time Diamond League Steeple Champ Jairus Birech And Bahrain’s Winfred Mutile Yavi Beat The Snow And Cold To Win CInque Mulini XC
• Ethiopia’s Fatuma Sado (2:25:39) Just Beats Out Rei Ohara (2:25:46) To Win The Osaka Women’s Marathon Ohara had already qualified for the Japan Olympic Marathon Trials, but in 4th place Madoka Nakano also qualified while Yukari Abe came agonizingly close, missing the 2:28:00 standard by 2 seconds. only 9 women have qualified. *IAAF Recap
• Brett Robinson And Melissa Duncan win Australian XC Trials Robinson wins a big thumbs up from us for saying he’s 100% going to run World XC just 4 weeks before the London Marathon. Duncan won the trials but not the race as British marathoner Charlotte Purdue won the race. *Full Results

NCAA News *All Weekend Collegiate Results

Devin Dixon Of Texas A&M DESTROYS American Collegiate Record – Runs 1:45.27 – At Altitude! His 1:45.27 broke Donavan Brazier‘s school record and sits #3 on the NCAA and US all-time lists (Kenyan Paul Ereng has the NCAA record at 1:44.84, Johnny Gray has US record at 1:45.00). Dixon’s previous indoor best was only 1:47.37.

• Oregon’s Jessica Hull Puts Up NCAA-Leading 4:31.03 Mile As Arkansas RS Frosh Lauren Gregory Runs 4:32
  *Once A Duck, Always A Duck – Hull Didn’t Want To Transfer To UW With The Powells
  *Arkansas Women Capture Razorback Invy title They scored 145.5 points with Oregon a distant second with 101 points.
  *Oregon Men Take Team Title At Razorback Invite Oregon got six individual wins including Cooper Teare in the mile (3:59.21) and Charlie Hunter in the 3,000 (7:59.88).
• NCAA 1,500 Champ Oliver Hoare Of Wisconsin Runs NCAA-Leading 7:48.81 At Indiana
• Grant Holloway Runs World-Leading 6.51 In The 60m At The Razorback Invy The time broke Jeff Demps‘s Florida school record and puts Holloway tied for #9 fastest in the NCAA all-time. *Race Video
  *MB: What can’t he do?? Grant Holloway 6.51 60m
• Danae Rivers Breaks Her Own Penn State 800m Record With An NCAA Leading 2:02.93 At The Penn State National Open
• Mondo Duplantis Jumps World Lead And School Record 5.83m In His First Meet For LSU
• Stanford Track Team’s Bus Catches On Fire In Seattle All 31 passengers were able to evacuate safely and no one was injured. The AP says investigators believe the fire may have been sparked by overheated brakes and a blown out rear tire.

2019 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon *Results *Full Race Replay

LRC Marathon Madness In Dubai: Getaneh Molla Runs 2:03:34 Debut Record; Ruth Chepngetich (2:17:08) & Worknesh Degefa (2:17:34) Move To #3 & #4 On All-Time List The 12:59 5ker Molla took to the marathon like a fish to water while Chepngetich went sub-2:18 just 75 days after breaking 2:19 in Istanbul. Course records fell for both the men and women.

MB: Official 2019 Dubai Marathon Discussion Thread
MB: If Kipchoge ran Dubai…
MB: Negesa (2nd place and Adidas runner) ran Dubai in Nike Vaporfly Flyknits dyed red to (poorly) mask the Nike Logo