Jamaican Champs Highlight Weekend International Action *Results

• Elaine Thompson Beats Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce To Win Jamaican 100m Title As Both Clock 10.73 Thompson got the win by three-thousandths of a second (10.726 to 10.729) in the first race in history in which two women broke 10.75. Briana Williams set a world U18 best of 10.94 for third. Yohan Blake won the men’s 100m in a SB of 9.96 while Kemar Mowatt (48.70) and Rushell Clayton (54.73) got upset victories in the 400H.
  *Video of Women’s 100m
  *Video of Yohan Blake’s 9.96 win
  *MB: Elaine Thompson – 10.73 +0.6 WL
  *MileSplit: Briana Williams Smashes US High School 100m Record With 10.94 Williams said she’s sick with a fever and will seek medical exemption from the 200m, but “chase a top-3 Jamaican time” later on to try and get a worlds spot.
  *Jamaican Junior Championships Recap: Shaquille Lowe Wins Boys LJ With 7.33m
• Rushell Clayton and Kemar Mowatt pulls off stunning 400m hurdles upset at Jamaican Nationals Mowatt was 4th at 2018 NCAAs for Arkansas. Pre-race women’s favorite Janieve Russell was stunned when she only finished 4th.

Other News That Passed Our Vetting Process

It’s Pride Month

A Pride Month Ode to Nikki Hiltz and Therese Haiss Former Cornell runner David Melly praises Hiltz as a LGBTQ role model 50 years after the Stonewall Inn raid in New York City.

New Stadium News

• Stadium Revamp Plans Revealed For Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Capacity will be increased permanently from 12,700 to 18,000, with up to 40,000 during the Games through additional temporary seating.
• Former UK Athletics Head Ed Warner Is Afraid New Birmingham Stadium Could Turn Into A “White Elephant” He suspects that Birmingham will lose its Diamond League when the IAAF’s new system takes effect and the stadium will be much bigger and near impossible to fill with fans.
• West Virginia has a brand new track, but no plans to re-instate the men’s track team

Distance Stuff

• Recommended Read: IAAF Profile On Refugee Runner Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed Who Fled The Violence In Sudan To Earn Money To Help His Family At age-17, Mohammed traveled by foot for over a week, including three days crossing the desert, to reach Israel. Now he’s a 28:47 10,000m runner and dreaming of the 2020 Olympics.
• MB: Morgan McDonald Goes Pro, Signs With Total Sports
• From Last Week: 17-Year-Old Ryuji Miura Breaks 30-Year-Old Japanese Citizen High School Steeplechase Record With 8:39

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 a win by Amel Tuka in the men’s 800 (1:44.95), a win by Charlie Grice in the men’s mile (3:56.95) and Gudaf Tsegay in the women’s 1,500 (4:02.95). *IAAF Full Meet Recap

• MB: Coleman v De Grasse over 200 in Ostrava tonight
  
• MB: Shaunae Miller-Uibo Runs 34.41 300m world record in Ostrava

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.

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.

MB Talk:

• Elinor Purrier Goes From 15:23 to 15:08 at Adrian Martinez Classic!! 
• HSer Ryan Oosting runs 4:03 – US#1 
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