June 20, 2019 | LetsRun.com

Mid-Week Track Action – Ostrava Golden Spike *Full Results

LRC Shaunae Miller-Uibo Sets World Women’s 300 World Record* Of 34.41 In Ostrava, Andre De Grasse (19.91) Nips Christian Coleman In Men’s 200 Watch both races in this article. Meet also included included a win by Amel Tuka in the men’s 800 (1:44.95), a win by Charlie Grace in the men’s mile (3:56.95) and Guday Tsegay in the women’s 1,500 (4:02.95). *IAAF Full Meet Recap

Distance News

Grant Fisher Joins The Bowerman Track Club
Eliud Kipchoge Has Started His Training To Try To Break 2 Hours “I think a good career is where you give yourself a challenge every now and then and so I think it is high time for me to try another challenge by beating the two-hour mark.”
A Lot Of Top Kenyans Are Skipping The African Games In Morocco This Year Reigning Africa 5,000m champ Edward Zakay explained why he isn’t gong: “Kenyans trials are no joke. They are explosive with new names merging each year. I am not in my best form and I don’t want to embarrass myself running in the semis and finals.”
Olympic Refugee Runner Yiech Pur Biel Says Competing At Rio 2016 Changed His Life Biel was one of the original 10 refugee athletes to compete at the Olympics and now he’s a Board member of the Olympic Refuge Foundation.

Non-Distance News

Recommended Read: Tim Layden For SI: “Is High School Sprint Phenom And Viral Star Matthew Boling The Future Of Track?” Before Boling had his viral race he had 1500 Instagram followers. Now he has 105,000.
NCAA 110H Runner-Up Daniel Roberts Signs With Nike
IAAF Inside Athletics: Video Interview With France’s Decathlon WR Holder Kevin Mayer Mayer says he was sad when Ashton Eaton retired because he felt like the competition makes him better, so the only way he could beat him was to break his WR.

Eugene 2021 / Hayward Field Updates

Register-Guard: Where’s The Buzz For Oregon21? Austin Meek writes that there is very little info accessible to the public about the preparations for Eugene 2021 and some key (financial) questions remain unanswered.
Register-Guard: “Planning Underway For 2020 Olympic Trials In New $195 Million Hayward Field” Construction of the new Hayward Field is on schedule to finish in time for the PAC-12 Champs in mid-May.
Ken Goe Writes That There Is Am “Unwillingness Of People Connected To Hayward’s Reconstruction To Speak With Any Specificity About The Project”

Post-adidas Boost Boston News

LRC Months After Leaving Their NCAA Teams In The Middle Of The Season, Sammy Watson & Lynna Irby Explain Why They Turned Pro Two NCAA stars went pro in the middle of the season this year. We try to find out why Sammy Watson and Lynna Irby went pro when they did.

LRC After A Stressful Year, Tori Bowie Returns To The 100 In Boston, Plans To Long Jump At USAs & Worlds On the comeback trail from injury, the 2017 world 100 champ ran her first 100 in more than a year on Sunday in Boston.

Rabat DL Results On 1 Page TV & Streaming

LRC PR Bonanza: Genzebe Dibaba Runs 3:55.47 To Edge Sifan Hassan As 9 Women Run PRs And 3 Set National Records In Rabat Full distance recap with video. Nijel Amos turned back Emmanuel Korir in the 800 as Clayton Murphy contended.
*IAAF Recap Part I: Dacres Gets WL And DL Record In Discus After His Foul Is Overturned Dacres threw 70.78m in the discus, which was a world lead, Jamaican NR, DL record and African soil record. In the LJ, Luvo Manyonga was carried from the track in a stretcher and Sandi Morris won with a 4.82 African all-comers record. *Video Of Discus
*IAAF Recap Part II: Sergey Shubenkov Wins Crazy 110H After Being Wiped Out By Omar McLeod *Video Of 110H

International Non-Distance Results

Mariya Lasitskene Clears World-Leading 2.02m HJ World Lead In Poland Pawel Fajdek threw a world-leading 80.87m to win the hammer and get revenge on compatriot Wojciech Nowicki. Tom Walsh threw 22.18m to win the SP.
Davide Re Breaks Italian 400m Record With 45.01 In Geneva Ireland’s Davicia Patterson ran a national U20 record with 52.57 in the women’s race (also the fastest European U20 time of the year).
IAAF Recap: Brazil Under-20 Bronze Medalist Alison Brendom Alves Dos Santos Highlights South American U20 Champs With 45.78 Championship Record In The 400m

Pre adidas Boston News

LRC Noah Lyles On Christian Coleman: “Some people just don’t like you. You can’t do nothing about it.” Lyles also reiterated once again that he has zero plans to run the 100 at USAs and Worlds. Plus he says he’s “more excited” to train after losing to Michael Norman in Rome.
LRC Shaunae Miller-Uibo Says She’s In The Best Shape Of Her Life, “I Just Feel A Whole Lot Stronger This Year.” In other news, Miller-Uibo declined to discuss what happened in the fight with Tori Bowie that led to Bowie’s exit from PURE Athletics.
LRC Ajee’ Wilson Plans To Eventually Move Up To The 1,500, Perhaps As Soon As Next Year US 1,500 Olympic hopefuls, your nightmare may become reality in 2020.
LRC Robby Andrews Is Trying To Come Back From Hell But He’s Not Making Any Excuses, “There’s no real excuse for running 1:54.” Andrews, who is coming back from Lyme disease and surgery, was horrific earlier this week when he ran 1:54 for 800.
USATF Preview: Star-Studded Lineup Prepares To Take To Boylston At adidas Boost Boston Games

Rabat DL Pre-Meet News

Caster Semenya Denies She Refused To Run In Rabat And Blames Event Organizers Semenya says that the organizers initially rescinded their invitation and by the time the reissued the invite Semenya would have needed 20 hours of travel before the race which she said “was not rationally possible.”
IAAF Highlights Five African Diamond League Stars Ahead Of Rabat
Latest Updates From Rabat El Bakkali wants meet record in steeple (8:02.77), Arafi wants NR in 1,500 (3:59.15), Schippers wants sub-11 100 and more.

Hit Pieces From Daily Mail On Mo Farah? Or Justified Negative Press?

Ethiopian Hotel Maid Who Was Jailed For 16 Days After Mo Farah’s Stuff Was Stolen In Haile’s Hotel Wants An Apology She also says Farah never tipped her in the 2 months she cleaned his room. (This article is from April but we only saw it with release of article below)
Olympic Hero Sir Mo Farah And Family Dubbed “Neighbours From Hell” After They Move Out Just kids being kids and playing on the green or kids totally out of control? You be the judge.

News Of Note

Swiss Court Denies IAAF Request To Immediately Re-Impose Testosterone Rules On Caster Semenya
Divine Oduduru Reluctantly Says He’s Going Pro As He Can’t Turn Down $300-500k Per Year But Says He’ll Still Be Coached By Calvin Robinson “I feel more comfortable here than when I’m back home in my country,” he said, “because they’ve given me home here. They’ve accepted me. They’ve given me love. Everything I need, they’ve given it to me here.”
Eunice Kirwa’s Brother, Felix (2:06:13 PR), Banned For 9 Months For Using Drug Often Found In Rat Poison
Kara Goucher, Steph Bruce, Nick Willis, Molly Huddle And Others Remember Gabe Grunewald
Great Run Company Launching A 55k Ultra – UltraLondon – In London
A Look At The Leading Entries For The 2019 Japanese National Track And Field Champs

A Star Has Left This Earth

LRC Gabe Grunewald: Rest In Peace No one wanted to see this day come, but thank you Gabe for teaching us all how to live. You can pay your respects here or by donating to her foundation.

Tim Layden SI Article
LRC Discussion
USATF: “She will be remembered as one of the bravest athletes we knew.” Also includes a compilation of tweets from Molly Huddle, Deena Kastor, Kara Goucher, Emma Bates and Chip Gaines.
More: *Toni Reavis *Cas Loxsom *Runner’s World *IAAF *MileSplit *NY Times *AP

Week That Was / Podcast

LRC Podcast: Jama Aden Raid Anniversary, Jenny Simpson’s Medal Chances, Who Who Would You Rather Be: Josh Kerr, Drew Hunter Or Grant Fisher?

LRC Who Has The 2019 Worlds Standards? Plus Young 800m Stars Max Burgin & Roisin Willis Run Fast Elinor Purrier got her second Worlds qualifier this past week. Who else has the Worlds standards for America? Leonard Korir and Kirubel Erassa got it in the 10,000m. Updated with info on Josh Kerr breaking Steve Cram‘s U23 GBR record.

163 Pages Of Info On The Caster Semenya CAS Case

LRC What You Need To Know From The 163-Page Caster Semenya Vs. IAAF CAS Decision Veteran journalist Amby Burfoot has read the full 163-page decision, which was released on Tuesday, in its entirety, and offers his take on the most interesting details that were revealed.

AP: IAAF Claimed Caster Semenya Was “Biologically Male” With A “Female Gender Identity” *Discuss
IAAF Releases Statement Thanking CAS For Releasing Full Findings From Caster Semenya CAS Case “Having the arguments of all parties and the detailed findings of the CAS Panel in the public domain will help to foster greater understanding of this complex issue …”
Caster Semenya Accuses IAAF Of Using Her As A “Guinea Pig” Semenya claims they’ve used her to “experiment” with how the medication affected testosterone. She also says taking the medication caused her to feel sick and gain weight.
Full 163-Page CAS Award On Caster Semenya Case

LetsThrow.com

LRC Greatest Of All Throws: Michael Carter’s Unbreakable High School Shot Put Record Turns 40 One of the greatest records in all of sports is now 40 years old and no one one has even come within four feet of it. Read all about it here. We’re so amazed by it we had Jonathan Gault write more than 5,000 words about it.
*MB: Jonathan Gault on Michael Carter a must read. Definitely the greatest high school record

Good News / Bad News

Good: HS Female Runners In CT File A Federal Discrimination Complaint, Saying It’s Unfair That Transgender Girls In CT Won The State Title Remember, CT is even worse than the NCAA. You can run boys indoor track indoors and girls outdoors. *Discuss

Bad: Baltimore’s Legendary “Running Man” Beaten While Out On His Daily 20 Miler The “running man” has a cult following as he regularly runs 20+ but has never done a race in his life.

Other News

Ticket Scalping Laws Come Into Effect In Japan Ahead Of Tokyo 2020 Anyone in Japan found guilty of ticket scalping now faces up to a year in prison.
International Athletics Film Festival Competition Is Open For Entries

2019 adidas Boost Boston Games *Results

LRC Noah Lyles False Starts For The First Time Ever (Kind Of), Marcin Lewandowski Kicks To Victory Again, & Akani Simbine Runs 9.92 Just days after they excelled in Oslo, Marcin Lewandowski and Drew Hunter impressed once again in Boston this afternoon but Noah Lyles literally stole the show as he false started but was not booted from the meet.

Weekend Distance Results

Kara Goucher Finishes 5th In The Leadville Trail Marathon Goucher ran 3:54:07 while Trials qualifier Tara Richardson won the race in 3:22:41. Afterwards, Goucher tweeted, “Without a doubt, the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” *Results *Discuss
Max Burgin Breaks UK Under-18 800m Best With 1:46.80 At British Milers’ Club Grand Prix In Loughborough He broke the record set by Steve Ovett 45+ years ago.
Italy’s Yassine Rachik (64:26) And Moldova’s Lilia Fisikovici (73:32) Win Olomouc Half Marathon
Kenya’s Emmanuel Bor (27:53) And Ethiopia’s Tesfaye Nigsti Haftu (32:00) Prevail At The Corrida de Langueux 10k In France
MB: NAU XC Alum/All-American Matt McElroy runner-up at Leeds Triathlon McElroy (28:36 PR for 10,000m) made the switch from running to the triathlon after college. *Post-Race Video Interview

Going Pro

Grant Holloway Signs With adidas Talking about winning NCAAs in a collegiate record, Holloway gave himself a “B+” and said, “I watched the NCAA race probably 5,000 times just to see how I can get better.”
Kentucky’s NCAA 110H Runner-Up (13.00 PR) Daniel Roberts Is Also Going Pro At the time of the announcement last week, Roberts said his contract is “still in the works.”

2019 Bislett Games – Oslo DL Schedule & Results TV & Streaming

LRC 2019 Bislett Games Recap: McLaughlin And Warholm (NR) Win, Chepkoech Loses, Coleman Runs A WL, And Norway’s Dream For The Dream Mile Is Denied Karsten Warholm got a big NR in the men’s 400H, Sydney McLaughlin got a win in her 400H Diamond League debut, Christian Coleman ran a world lead in the 100, Beatrice Chepkoech suffered a rare loss in the women’s steeple and the hometown fans’ dream of a Norwegian victory in both the 400 hurdles and Dream Mile did not become reality as Marcin Lewandowski beat Jakob Ingebrigtsen yet again. *IAAF Recap *Part II *USATF Recap

OSLO MB Chatter:

Don’t Try This At Home

Lessons From Ron Hill: The World’s First And Greatest Run Streaker The Boston, European, and Commonwealth Marathon champion ran every day for more than 52 years in a row.
Why Run Streaking Isn’t As Insane As It Sounds
How And Why To Start A Run Streak

Distance News

Monaco Diamond League Renames Women’s Mile To BraveLikeGabe Mile Grunewald set her 1,500 PR in Monaco in 2013 at 4:01.48.
*Gabe Grunewald’s Spirit Lives On As Hundreds Turned Out For Her Funeral On Monday
Kara Goucher Calls Leadville Marathon “Hardest Thing I Ever Accomplished” Goucher suffered from altitude sickness during the race and said, “I think of myself as a pretty tough person, but I’ve never been in such a pain cave as I was yesterday. I mean, I was in such a dark place that I’ve never experienced before.”
One We Missed: Ben Flanagan (28:37) And Natasha Wodak (32:09) Win 2019 Canadian 10,000 Crowns. American Jared Ward Is 4th

Upcoming Track Action

Thursday: Christian Coleman’s First 200m Of The Season Will Be One Of The Highlights At The Ostrava Golden Spike Meet He’ll face Andre De Grasse. who will be doubling back from the 100m against US’s Michael Rodgers. Distance action has world indoor 1,500m record holder Samuel Tefera vs. Worlds silver medalist Adam Kszczot in the 800m, and Gudaf Tsegay (3:57.40) vs. Rababe Arafi (3:58.84) in the women’s 1,500m. Shaunae Miller-Uibo is going for the world best in the 300m; Mariya Lasitskene heads the HJ.
MB: Caster Semenya Moves Switches From Pre Classic 3,000m To The 800m A statement from meet director Tom Jordan said, “Caster’s representation requested that she be moved from the 3,000 meters (where she was originally entered) to the 800 meters and we are happy to comply.”
July 5: Hot Men’s 5,000m On Tap For Lausanne DL World leader Telahun Haile Bekele (12:52.98) will face Selemon Barega, Paul Chelimo, world champ Muktar Edris, Asian champ Birhanu Balew, Abadi Hadis (12:56.48), Swiss road star Julien Wanders and Henrik Ingebrigtsen.
June 30: Michael Norman And Fred Kerley Will Square Off Over 400m Set For Pre Classic Former Olympic champions LaShawn Merritt and Kirani James are also in the field.
IAAF: 100 Days To Go Until The 2019 Doha World Championships A look ahead to what some of the top matchups might be in Doha in September. Right now the men’s HJ looks like it could be one of the big highlights.

European News

IAAF: Injuries Finally Behind Him, Bogdan Bondarenko Unafraid Of What The Future Holds After missing all of 2018 due to injury and surgery, Bondarenko was thrilled to win in Rome earlier this month. “It was an incredible feeling to win and I rejoiced like a child.”
GB Pole Vaulter Holly Bradshaw (5th At The 2016 Olympics) Talks About Body Image; Insinuates That Nike Dropped Her Because Of Looks, Not Performance She says that after London 2012 if you put her name in Google the next suggested word was “fat.”
Josh Kerr’s 3:33.60 At Brooks PR Broke Steve Cram’s British Under-23 Record He beat Cram’s time by just .06 seconds and also moved to #2 on the Scottish all-time list behind Chris O’Hare.
Kevin Mayer Donates The Kit And Spikes He Wore During The Decathlon WR To IAAF’s Heritage Collection In Doha

Doping News

Olympic Marathon Silver Medalist Eunice Kirwa Gets 4-Year Doping Ban It was announced last month that she tested positive for EPO.
Will They Ever Learn? Russian Runner Artyom Denmukhametov Suspended For Working With Banned Coach Vladimir Kazarin Are there no coaches left in Russia not linked to doping? Is that the issue here?
Russia Has To Replace 10 Athletes For European Games Squad With Athletes Who Have Neutral Status Only 9 of the 19 athletes they had initially chosen had neutral status.
IAAF Approves Applications Of 14 More Russians To Compete As Neutral Athletes The list is athletes who will compete at the European U23 Champs and/or the World University Games.
IAAF Approves Application Of Russian Javelin Thrower Ekaterina Starygina To Compete As A Neutral Athlete
WADA Recommends Dismissal Of Two Romanian National Anti-Doping Agency Officials After Finding Doping Cover-Up Both the director general and president were implicated in positive doping tests being covered-up for at least three athletes.

Brooks PR / NBNO Brooks PR Results Brooks PR Meet Video NBNO Free Live Stream NBNO Results

MB: Josh Kerr Wins Men’s Pro 1,500m At Brooks PR Meet In 3:33.60 Former NCAA indoor mile champ Henry Wynne was second (3:35.14) and Brannon Kidder third (3:35.14). Katie Mackey won the women’s race in 4:05.97.
MB: Three 4:03s at Brooks PR Boys Mile Nick Foster won the race in 4:03.11. Zofia Dudek won the girls mile in 4:41.34.
Brooks PR Full Results Ericka VanderLend won the girls 2 mile in 9:53.00 (#4 all-time) while Cole Sprout won the boys race in 8:46.41. AJ Green (1:50.71) and Rosin Willis (2:04.86) won the 800s.
NBNO Sunday: Freshman Kayla Davis Wins 400m In 51.17 MR Marlee Starliper won the girls mile in 4:41.18.
NBNO Saturday: Kurt Powdar Runs #4 All-Time 13.27 To Win 110H
DyeStat NBNO Friday Recap: Sydney Masciarelli Highlights With A 16:16.20 Victory In The 5,000m The time broke her own sophomore class record. Kelsey Chimel was runner-up in 16:18.57.
*MB: Sydney Masciarelli will be better than Katelyn Tuohy
MileSplit: Robbie Cozean Wins Men’s NBNO 5,000m In 14:26.18

What Are The Best Ultras In The World? (Sponsored By HOKA ONE ONE)

LRC The “Majors” Of Ultrarunning Earlier this week we had our “triple crown” of ultras. Now we’ve got the other races we think you should pay most attention to.

LRC Rojo And Wejo’s Favorite Ultra Marathons LRC’s founders (who have never run an ultra) tell you their favorites.

Previous: The Greatest Ultramarathons In The World: The “Triple Crown Of Ultras”: Comrades, Western States, UTMB

Distance News: Galen Rupp On The Comeback Trail

Recommended Read: RW: Galen Rupp Interview Talking About His Comeback From Surgery And Being “Reinvigorated” By Break From Racing It was a very tedious process getting back to real running after surgery, but Rupp is back to 85 “dry” miles (plus more on the underwater treadmill) and says retirement isn’t on his mind.
*MB: Galen Rupp Tells Runner’s World the American Record and Gold Medal are still within Reach
MB: Allie Ostrander Gives “Rant” On Instagram About ESPN’s Commentating Ostrander writes, “I was disappointed with the commentary that has occurred during my races for the past two years. Both times, the comments have brought attention to my appearance more than my ability. In 2018, I was called ‘the baby faced assassin’ and told that I looked like I still played with barbies.”
*Dwight Stones Responding To Criticism Over Allie Ostrander Commentary: “Having a little fun! Lighten up. We’re fans of hers. Thx for watching.” This was a tweet from Stones last week, before Ostrander had made her “rant” post.
MB: Twitter Spat between Jonathan Marcus and Noah Droddy The disagreement culminated with Marcus blocking Droddy.

2019 Adrian Martinez Classic Full Meet Replay Results

LRC 2019 Adrian Martinez: Comebacks Galore And Everyone Is Feeling #BraveLikeGabe Charlie Grice (3:54) and Elle Purrier (15:08) were the big winners on the night in terms of time but Abbey D C impressed as did Nikki Hiltz and HSer Ryan Oosting. Plus Robby Andrews and Isaiah Harris try to come back from injury.