June 10, 2019 | LetsRun.com

Post-NCAA Stuff

Mondo Duplantis Goes Pro with PUMA In a “thank you letter” to LSU, Duplantis says he’s loved his time competing as a Tiger, but “Now, it’s time to pursue another dream” going for medals at Worlds and the Olympics. *Discuss
Full List Of All DI All-Americans
Oregon State Announces 23 New Recruits

Caster Semenya On SA World Squad

Don’t Count Your Chickens: Caster Semenya Named In South Africa’s Preliminary Squad For World Championships Whether she can compete or not will depend on the results of her appeal to Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court. She is currently free to compete (without hormone treatment) until June 25th.

Non-NCAA US Results

Matthew Boling Wins Three Events At The Great Southwest Classic Boling took the 100m in 10.15, the LJ with 25 feet 0.5 inches, and anchored the 4 x 100 to 39.05.
Oregon Project’s Konstanze Klosterhalfen Wins Portland Track Festival 1,500m In 4:03.30 She was doubling back less than an hour after running a 2:04.18 in the 800. Craig Engels ran a 3:35.32 PR in the men’s race, just missing the 3:35.00 Olympic standard. Shannon Rowbury opened her outdoor season by winning the 5,000m in 15:38.75 and Former NCAA champ Josh Kerr took the 800 in 1:46.06. *Results
Amos Bartelsmeyer (3:51.76) And Therese Haiss (4:29) Win Virginia Mason Memorial Downtown Yakima Mile Bartelsmeyer, a German runner who is a volunteer assistant at UW and coached by Andy Powell, actually ran the Washington state soil record in a deep race where the top 4 all broke 3:55. Haiss beat out Heather Kampf by one second.
*Pre-Race Interview With Therese Haiss Haiss is an Arkansas alum and recently joined Terrence Mahon‘s The Mission Athletics Club based in San Diego.
*Interview With Race Co-Founder Chris Waddle
Last Week: Weston Strum (3:53) And Therese Haiss (4:19) Win State Street Mile In Santa Barbara, California Strum just beat out George Gleason who also ran 3:53 while Haiss’ time was a California soil record, beating Mary Decker’s 4:20.5 indoor mark from 1982.
MB: Ping Sisters (Lauren And Grace) Go 1-2 In 3200m At Minnesota State Champs Lauren ran 10:39 ahead of Grace’s 10:50.

US 10k Champs

LRC Sara Hall Wins New York Mini USA 10K Title In Sprint Finish Over Stephanie Bruce Hall now has USATF titles at the mile, 5k, 10k, 20k, and marathon. She’s only missing half and 25k. Video interviews with Hall, Bruce, Sally Kipyego and Jordan Hasay (and Jordan’s dad).

RRW: Sara Hall Outkicks Stephanie Bruce To Win US 10k Champs In 32:27 Hall put 5 seconds on Bruce over the final 200m while Sally Kipyego took 3rd in 32:35 and Emma Bates was 4th. *RRW Preview

Day 3 Distance Recaps

800 LRC 19 For 19: Bryce Hoppel Remains Perfect And Wins 2019 NCAA Men’s 800-Meter Title Hoppel won his 2nd NCAA title of the year with style as he PR’d (1:44.41).

1,500 LRC Notre Dame’s Yared Nuguse Snatches NCAA Men’s 1,500 Title At Line From Michigan State’s Justine Kiprotich The men’s 1,500 was decided by three one-thousandths of a second.

Steeple LRC Steven Fahy Of Stanford Survives Fall, Wins Men’s Steeplechase Final At 2019 NCAA Championships The final 30 seconds of the men’s steeplechase were wild as both leaders went down.

5k LRC Morgan McDonald Outkicks Grant Fisher (Again) To Win Men’s 5,000 Title At 2019 NCAA Outdoors McDonald closed in 52.91 seconds, truly world-class stuff, to become the sixth man to win an NCAA XC, indoor and outdoor title in the same academic year.

NCAA Day 3 Message Board Talk

Day 2 At NCAAs

LRC Weini Kelati Turns Back Carmela Cardama Baez Over The Final 100 Meters To Win An Epic NCAA 10K Final What a finish. Yesterday, Ed Eyestone called the 10,000 meters “the most exciting event in track & field” – albeit after a 24-lap setup. Tonight, we saw why.

LRC 2019 NCAA Women’s Distance Prelims: NCAA Champs Danae Rivers & Karisa Nelson Go Home; Allie O Impresses Nelson has battled health issues this spring, while Rivers ran a tactically poor race and wound up boxed in with nowhere to go in the home straight. Ostrander’s 9:44 was the fastest time ever in an NCAA prelim.

MB: Official Day 2 2019 NCAA Outdoor Discussion Thread
MB: Weini Kelati DOMINATES Americans

Outside Coverage:

USTFCCCA Full Day 2 Recap Includes video highlights.
Florida’s Yanis David’s Incredible Series Wins NCAA LJ Title She had the best jump by a collegian (6.84m -22-5¼) since 2015.
Women’s Pole Vault: Tori Hoggard Captures First National Title As a senior, she got NCAA titles #1, upsetting NCAA record holder Olivia Gruver and twin sister Lexi Jacobus, who had won 4 titles.
LSU’s Sha’Carri Richardson Becomes First U20 Woman To Go Sub-11 And Sub-23 On Same Day Her 10.99 was an U20 world lead and she ran a 22.37 PR in the 200m.
Georgia Star Johannes Erm Dominates Decathlon (8352) As He Eyes 2020 Olympics

Corruption (Incompetence?) And Doping

Reuters: Two Russian Coaches And A Doctor Banned For Doping Are Still Active In The Sport Sounds like these Russians are using loopholes (like being a “PE teacher” at a university instead of a coach) to skirt their bans. Any elite athletes caught working with banned coaches/doctors should be banned themselves; it should be that simple.
Suspended Nigerian Federation President Claims “Doesn’t Know Anything About” The Missing $135,000 From The IAAF Don’t they have bank records where this money can be tracked? How can this money be so hard to find?

Pre-NCAA News

LRC NCAA Track And Field Preview Podcast: Texas, “Ballsyness,” Bill Simmons On Matthew Boling, Praise For IAAF & Gabe Grunewald We preview NCAAs, discuss guns in Texas, get sidetracked with more gender/sex talk, and discuss Bill Simmons’ take on Matthew Boling aka “The Blond Bomber.”

LRC $200,019 LRC Running Warehouse NCAA Outdoor Prediction Contest The NCAAs start Wednesday. It’s time to get down to business. Get your picks in.

LRC Get Ready For Holloway Vs. Roberts & Mondo Vs. Nilsen As The World’s Best Clash At 2019 NCAAs World #1 vs. World #2 in 110 hurdles and pole vault.

LRC Women’s Distance Preview: Dani Jones Goes For 5K Glory, A Repeat Bid For Jessica Hull & 3-Peat Bid For Allie Ostrander Some big names will be looking to win their 4th NCAA titles later this week in Austin.

LRC Men’s Distance Preview: A Classic 5K, Wide-Open 1,500 & 10K, & Bryce Hoppel Chases The Perfect Season Can Morgan McDonald become a legend? Will Grant Fisher go out a winner or loser? We tell you here.
*MB: 2019 NCAA men’s distance preview: Will Hoppel remain undefeated? Who will go out a winner – McDonald or Fisher? We tell you here

Idaho Statesman: Allie Ostrander Going For Three Peat In NCAA Steeplechase Ostrander would be Boise State’s first three-time national champion in any sport.
Recommended Read: DyeStat Pre-Meet Article: Family Man Chris Nilsen Balances Pole Vaulting And Parenting Nilsen and his high school girlfriend had a son during his sophomore year who is now 16-months old.
USA Today: “For Louisville 400 Hurdler Martice Moore, Obstacles Filled His Path To NCAA Title Contender”
The Oregonian: Oregon Women Begin Their Pursuit Of NCAA Women’s Team Trophy
USTFCCCA: Olivia Gruver (PV), Grant Holloway (110H) And Allie Ostrander (Steeple) Have A Chance For Three-Peats At NCAAs
North Dakota State shot put, discus star Payton Otterdahl finds fuel in failure going into NCAA champs Otterdahl wanted to make up for last year where he entered NCAAs as the top seed in the SP, but only finished 10th. (Note: He was 4th in the SP on Wednesday and has the discus on Friday).
Daily Trojan: USC Women Shooting For Victory In Austin
The Bowerman Award Women’s Pre-Nationals Watch List UO’s Jessica Hull is the lone distance runner on the list.

And The Greatest Ultras And Ultra Runners Are … (Ultramarathon Exploration Sponsored By HOKA ONE ONE)

LRC The Greatest Ultramarathons In The World: The “Triple Crown Of Ultras”: Comrades, Western States, UTMB There are a ton of great ultras in the world, but after a month plus of debate we’ve come up with a big 3.

LRC The G.O.A.T. Of The Ultramarathon Is … We can’t give it away as we want you to read the article. On the women’s side, our winner is an American.

2019 NCAAs Schedule, Start Lists, Results Women’s Distance Preview Men’s Distance Preview TV & Streaming *LRC Free Post-Race Interviews

LRC 10.75! LSU Freshman Sha’Carri Richardson Arrives As A Star With Insane Collegiate 100m Record The men’s sprints at NCAAs were insane, but Richardson’s run today was even better. She broke the 30-year-old collegiate record, clocked the fastest time in the world in two years, and moved to =#9 on the all time list. All while celebrating early. And she’s only 19.

USTFCCCA Full Meet Recap Includes every event and video analysis.
Arkansas Wins Team Title After USC Drops Baton In 4 X 400 The two teams were tied entering the 4 x 400. *Video Of Dropped Stick In 4 X 400
Arkansas’ Janeek Brown Runs World-Leading And Jamaican NR Of 12.40 In 100H *Post-Race Interview With Janeek Brown

Weekend International Action Comrades Results Hengelo Results

RRW: Gerda Steyn Destroys Field And Comrades “Up” Record, Breaks 6-Hour Barrier (5:58:43) And Wins By 18+ Minutes In the men’s race, Edward Mothibi (5:31:33) beat three-time champ Bongmusa Mthembu by 25 seconds as 100k WR holder Nao Kazami was third in 5:39:16. Sage Canaday was the top American in 21st. In the women’s race, 2017 champ Camille Herron DNFed.
FBK Games Hengelo: Full Results: Sifan Hassan (14:48) Gets Beaten And Doesn’t Break European Record, Bekele (12:57) Wins Again And More Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi upset Hassan in the 5,000 with a 14:37 as Eilish McColgan moved to #3 on the all-time GBR list with a 14:47. American Kim Conley 15:05 got the Olympic standard. In the men’s 5,000, Telahun Bekele got another win as a Kenyan – yes, a Kenyan – broke 13:00, Nicholas Kipkorir Kimeli. *IAAF Recap Sam Kendricks also was a winner. *Video Of Last Lap Of Women’s 5,000
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Blazes 10.88 At Racers Grand Prix In Jamaica She broke the meet record and ran the fastest time she’s had since 2016. GB’s Zharnel Hughes won the men’s 100m in 9.97 to beat Yohan Blake (10.01).
*IAAF: Shaunae Miller-Uibo Highlights Racers GP With 49.54 Victory In The 400m, Beating Out World Champ Phyllis Francis (50.85); Ajee Wilson Wins 800m In 1:59.22 Fred Kerley won the men’s race in 44.49 while Keni Harrison won the 110H in 12.54.
Austria’s Verena Preiner And Norway’s Martin Roe Win Arona Combined Events Challenge Meet In Spain They both started day 2 in second place, but had solid second days to win handily. *Day 1 Recap
Kenya’s Abel Kipchumba (41:55) And Ethiopia’s Zeineba Yimer (46:52) Run Course Records At Valencia 15k
GB’s Jonathan Albon And France’s Blandine L’Hirondel Upset The Favorites To Win The IAU Trail World Championships In Portugal France swept the men’s and women’s team titles.
Germany’s Olympic Javelin Champ Thomas Rohler Wins At Home At The JenJavelin Festival With 82.56m

More 2019 Comrades *Results

Gerda Steyn Breaks 6-Hour Barrier, Wins 1st Comrades Title In 5:58:53! Steyn took more than 10 minutes off the women’s old up CR of 6:09:24. 2017 champ Camille Herron DNFed.

Edward Mothibi Guns Down 2-Time Defending Camp Bongmusa Mthembu And Wins Comrades By 25 Seconds In 5:31:33 100k WR holder Nao Kazami of Japan was third in 5:39.16. Sage Canaday was the top American in 21st.
*MB: Sage Canaday under/over?

IAAF Overturned Athletics South Africa Decision To Ban Russian Amateur Runners From Competing In Comrades Marathon The IAAF made the decision after it was found the athletes were amateurs and not affiliated with the Russian Athletics Federation.

Non-NCAA Distance Action – FBK Games On Sunday

Sunday: Sifan Hassan Using “Wavelight Tech” To Try To Break Her Own European 5,000m Record (14:22.34) At The FBK Games In Hengelo Instead of pacemakers, “wavelight technology” will be used to help the athletes follow the desired target pace. Rome DL winner and 12:52 man Telahun Haile Bekele will race the 5,000m again here. Dafne Schippers leads sprint action in the 100m.
Saturday: Spain’s Luis-Alberto Hernando And Netherlands’ Ragna Debats Are Back To Defend Their Titles At The World Trail Running Champs Apparently the 44k race is the shortest the championship has been in years.
Last Week: Drew Holman (7:07:40) And Justyne Wilson (8:52:25) Win 50-Mile Trail National Championship In Ithaca, NY If you’re curious what pace that is, Holman ran 8:33/mile and Wilson 10:39/mile.

Day 1 At NCAAs

LRC Clayton Young And BYU Earn Redemption, Young Sprints To 2019 NCAA 10K Title A year ago, BYU runners took the last 3 spots in the NCAA men’s 10,000. Tonight, they took 3 of the top 4, led by Clayton Young‘s national title.

LRC Mondo Duplantis Is BEATEN At 2019 NCAA Outdoor Track And Field Champs, Chris Nilsen Wins By Breaking His Own Meet Record LSU’s Duplantis, the #2 outdoor jumper of all time and 2019 world leader at 6.00m, was beaten as South Dakota’s Nilsen got PRs at 5.90 and 5.95 to score the upset – and break his own meet record.

LRC 2019 NCAA Men’s Distance Prelims: Bryce Hoppel Gets A PR, A Terrific 1,500 Final Is Set, & The Heat Claims Some Victims In The Steeple What we know after day 1: Hand the men’s 800 NCAA title to Bryce Hoppel.

After Two Disappointing NCAA Meets, LSU’s JuVaughn Harrison Gets Redemption With 8.20m Long Jump Victory
Anderson Peters Leads Mississippi State To A 1-2-3 Javelin Sweep At NCAAs
Texas’ Adrian Piperi Opens NCAAs With National Shot Put Title (21.11m)
Daniel Haugh Wins First NCAA Title In Kennesaw State School History With 74.63m In The Hammer
Kentucky’s Daniel Roberts Runs #2 All-Time NCAA 110H Time With 13.06 Roberts entered the meet tied with Grant Holloway at 13.07, but now is the sole owner of the #2 spot. Today’s final should be interesting to say the least.

Wednesday Was Global Running Day

IAAF: A Bunch Of International Stars Including Yuki Kawauchi Turned Out For The IAAF’s Run 24-1 On Global Running Day
More Than 15,000 Runners Participate In IAAF Run 24-1 This was the IAAF’s series of one mile races on six continents across 24 hours to celebrate Global Running Day.
A Bunch Of International Stars Including Yuki Kawauchi Turned Out For The IAAF’s Run 24-1 On Global Running Day
IAAF: Nearly 50,000 Children Take Part In IAAF Kids Mile Runs On Global Running Day

IAAF Responds To Swiss Court

IAAF Seeking A “Swift Reversal” Of Swiss Court’s Suspension Of Testosterone Rules The IAAF says the suspension only applies to Caster Semenya (so Francine Niyonsaba and Margaret Wambui still can’t run) and it only applies until June 25th.
Full IAAF Statement In Response To Swiss Federal Tribunal “The IAAF is convinced there are some contexts, sport being one of them, where biology has to trump identity.”
IAAF Defends Itself Against Women’s Sport Groups That Attacked Intersex Rules “The DSD Regulations were introduced precisely because the IAAF is committed to protecting the rights and opportunities of female athletes. The IAAF is entitled, indeed required, to give male and female athletes an equal chance to excel …”

Day 4 Distance Coverage

1,500 LRC Sinclaire Johnson Of Oklahoma State Becomes 2nd-Fastest Collegian Ever, Wins Thrilling NCAA 1,500 Duel With Jessica Hull The #2 and #4 times in NCAA history got the mid-d and distance action underway in Austin on Saturday.

Steeple LRC Allie Ostrander Makes History And 3-Peats As NCAA Women’s Steeplechase Winner Ostrander became the first woman to win three straight NCAA steeplechase crowns and she did in style, with a new PR as she remained undefeated in the event.

800 LRC Texas A&M’s Jazmine Fray Wins Coveted 1st NCAA Title In Her Last Race, Goes Wire-To-Wire And Wins 800 In 2:01:31 After many disappointing performances at NCAAs, the NCAA indoor record holder finally got it all right as a senior.

5,000 LRC Colorado’s Dani Jones Kicks To Another NCAA Title, Wins 5,000 In 15:50.64 Dani Jones has only been running on land since mid-April. That proved to be enough for another NCAA title tonight in Austin.

NCAA Post-Race Videos: More Here

News From The IAAF – Name Change/Russia Still Banned

IAAF Unveils New Name And Logo; Will Now Be Known As “World Athletics” IAAF CEO Jon Ridgeon: “The IAAF name has been in existence for over 100 years, but it has little understanding or relevance to those outside of athletics. The new identity creates a symbol that can stand alone and work with partners and events.”
IAAF Extends Russian Suspension For The 11th Time Following Allegations Of Forged Documents And Suspended Coaches Remaining Active Russia has made progress as they paid the IAAF the $3.2 million cost of the Russian investigation and the Moscow lab data is being analyzed, but these other corruption issues hurt them. They could still have a chance to be reinstated before Worlds in September. *BBC Article
IAAF Council Approves Out-Of-Competition Drug Testing Funding For Road Races The IAAF is looking to improve the amount of testing after it was shown that in 2018, 74% of IAAF Gold Label road race podium finishers were not including in any out-of-competition testing pools.
IAAF Council Notes On Eugene 2021 Review From Seb Coe: “The athletes will be a lot closer to the fans and the fans to the athletes, which will create a really unique atmosphere. There are however some operational aspects that we need to be creative about. These will be a very different type of championships but that in essence is a good thing.”
IAAF Renews Long-Standing Partnership With Seiko For Another 10 Years Seiko will continue to do the timing and measurement services at IAAF events.

Day 4 NCAA MB Talk

Day 3 At NCAAs

LRC 2019 NCAAs: Grant Holloway’s 12.98 NCAA 110 Hurdles Record & Divine Oduduru’s 9.86/19.73 Double Highlight An INCREDIBLE Night Of Sprinting If you add up the winning times for the 100, 200 and 110 hurdles tonight, the total is lower than what won gold for the 2016 Olympics and 2017 Worlds.

Rome DL *Full Results

LRC Full Recap: Michael Norman Upsets Noah Lyles, A Bekele Runs 12:52 For 5,000, Dibaba Over Muir A great Rome DL meet is in the books and Noah Lyles has lost a 200m for the first time ever. Huge PR for Elle Purrier and a national Canadian 5,000m record for Mo Ahmed. *Video Of Norman > Lyles

LRC What A Race Donavan Brazier WINS In Rome In 1:43.63 Great race, great win for Brazier to get his first Diamond League win.

Ukraine’s Bogdan Bondarenko Keeps Himself In The Sport With 2.31m In Rome To Tie World Lead Bondarenko missed 2018 with knee surgery and said he was debating about leaving the sport after only clearing 2.19m in Shanghai.
Germany’s Malaika Mihambo Broke Into New Territory With 7.07m Long Jump World Lead In Rome
IAAF: Michael Norman Defeats Noah Lyles In Epic 200m Showdown In Rome 19.70 to 19.72.
IAAF: Telahun Haile Bekele And Genzebe Dibaba Come Out On Top In Rome Distance Duels
USATF: Norman-Lyles clash highlight of four-win day for Team USA at Rome
Rome OTB: Michael Norman TAKES DOWN Lyles @200
Wow: Donavan Brazier is the top 800 m runner in the world –
Ben True – 7 Straight Years 13:12 or Faster
Nick Willis 13:56 DFL?
Pre-Race: Noah Lyles is Racing Michael Norman @ 3:25 pm eastern But Talks Christian Coleman: “He just never liked me” The rivalry continues to grow. *NBC Article

Sprints/Jumps

Could Canadian Decathlete Damian Warner Break The 10-Second Barrier This Season? Warner lowered his own decathlon 100m record to 10.12 in Gotzis a couple weeks ago.
GB 110H Hurdler Andrew Pozzi Explains Why He Uprooted HIs Life To Move To Italy To Be Coached By Hurdles Guru Santiago Antunez He says one of the difficulties is being long distance with girlfriend and star heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson who is based in France.
From Earlier In The Week: Former Two-Time World 400H Champ Zuzana Hejnova Opens Her Season With A 55.04 Victory In Prague It was her fastest time since 2017.
IAAF Inside Athletics Video Interview With Italian 2.02m High Jumper Elena Vallortigara Vallortigara was a youth star, but then struggled with years of injuries until last year when she started to improve for the first time in almost a decade.

NCAA Message Board Talk

MB: Official 2019 NCAA Outdoor Day 1 Discussion Thread
MB: RE: Clayton Young DOMINATES Africans
MB: BYU is good, Their** men are.. well… more men, than the rest
MB: Congrats to Clayton “Young” – Is Mr Young at 25 the oldest NCAA champ in decades?
MB: Can BYU pull off the Stanford sweep?
MB: Brigham Young University’s success in distance is due to the Latter-Day Saints community’s discipline and work ethic –
MB: Kudos to ESPN tonight
MB: Could BYU win track natty’s??
MB: West Region Dominance in Men’s Distance
MB: Are you kidding me? MONDO BEATEN at NCAAs

Long Distance Running News

Sports Science Expert Yannis Pitsiladis Says The Two-Hour Marathon Could Be Broken Soon But will it be an athletic accomplishment or a scientific one? Pitsiladis said, “We need to develop tools to inject carbohydrates into the runner’s body effectively and to provide them with intelligent sensing systems that monitor physiological variables and provide feedback on their condition in real time.”
RW: Are Elite Men Or Women Better At Pacing A Marathon? New data analysis shows elite men are much more likely to speed up at the end of a marathon and women keep the same average pace.
USATF 24-Hour Running Team Named For 2019 World 24-Hour Championships