July 11, 2019 Homepage Archive

**Monaco is Friday Schedule and entries TV/streaming**

LRCMonaco Preview: Lyles vs. Gatlin in a 100m Showdown, How Fast Will the Men’s 1500 Go, and Sydney McLaughlin Returns Can Lyles dip under 9.80? Can Timothy Cheruiyot break 3:30 for the second time in 8 days? Plus we tell you why Michael Saruni didn’t race for 5 months after running 1:43 indoors.

Elijah Manangoi Pulls Out Of Monaco With Hamstring Injury Manangoi says he’s picked up the injury in Doha and aggravated it when he forced himself to compete in Stockholm last month.
Full Pre-Meet Press Conference
MB:Official 2019 Herculis Monaco Diamond League Discussion Thread
IAAF Preview:Season Heats Up As World’s Finest Coverage In Monaco There will be another TJ showdown with Christian Taylor, Will Claye and Pedro Pablo Pichardo.
Five Questions For The Monaco DL The always super competitive women’s 100 hurdles will be interesting as with three seperate winners so far in the 2019 season, no one has secured a place in the DL final yet.
IAAF: Spectators In Monaco Will Be Able To View The Stadium’s Live Air Quality Data Via Meet Website Monaco is one of the locations where the IAAF has installed air quality monitoring devices as part of their Clean Air Campaign. A lot of good info here for those interested.
AFP:“Rookie Noah Lyles In Monaco Shoot-Out With Old Timer Justin Gatlin”
IAAF Live Updates

Russian Doping Updates

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko Wins His CAS Appeal Against His Lifetime Olympic Ban However, this was not a vindication of Mutko. Basically CAS said that since Mutko isn’t an athlete, coach or member of the Russian delegation at the Games, the IOC doesn’t have the “jurisdiction” to keep him from attending the Olympics.
Top Russian Track Coach Vladimir Kazarin (Former Coach Of Maria Savinova And Whistleblower Yulia Stepanova) Admits To Breaking His Lifetime Ban He actually grew a beard to try and continue coaching without detection, but was caught by RUSADA and now the athletes he coached could (and should) be banned.

Boston Marathon News

Crews begin installing Boston Marathon bombing memorial on Boylston Street
Boston Marathon Breaks Their Record With $38.7 Million Raised For Charity Their previous highest was in 2014, the year after the bombing attacks.

More Mid-Week Results

Edward Cheserek Runs 7:43.47 In Lucerne, Switzerland For Second Place Behind Ethiopia’s Tadese Worku (7:43.24) European half marathon record holder Julien Wanders was third in 7:43.6. SA’s Akani Simbine (10.06) won the 100m ahead of European record holder Jimmy Vicaut (10.11) while Thomas Röhler (86.51m) and Kelsey-Lee Barber (67.70m) won the javelin. *Results
*MB: In Europe – Just Watched King Ches PR in 7:43
Genzebe Dibaba Runs 5:33.76 For 2,000m In Budapest
Christian Taylor Produces One Of The Farthest Jumps Of His Career (A Wind-Aided 17.93m) To Win In Hungary Over Rivals Will Claye And Pedro Pablo PichardoChristian Coleman (19.91) and Shaunae Miller-Uibo (22.18) won the 200m races while Grant Holloway (13.16 in his pro debut) and Keni Harrison (12.60) won the sprint hurdles. *Results
Masaki Toda Highlights Hokuren Distance Challenge With #2 Japanese All-Time 1,500 With A 3:37.90 Win He missed the record by just 0.48.
IAAF Recap:Poland’s Konrad Bukowiecki Breaks World University Games Record With 21.54m Shot Put Victory
India’s Dutee (11.32) Chand And Brazil’s Paulo Andre Camilo (10.09) Win World University Games 100m Titles
From The Weekend: Mao Ichiyama Runs 68:49 To Win Hakodate Half Marathon And Move To #8 On The Japan All-Time List Daniel Kayiok won the men’s race in 62:19.

Anti-Doping News

Biggest Ever Anti-Doping Raid Arrests 234 People The operation involved police from 33 countries and led to nine underground labs in European countries being shut down, with millions of illegal substances, including 24 tons of steroids, being confiscated.
WADA Confirms Involvement In Anti-Doping Operation Which Dismantled 17 Organized Crime Groups WADA provided practical support and intelligence during the investigation, which has led to the opening of 839 judicial cases.
Two More Kenyans Suspended For Doping, Including 2014 Commonwealth Games Champ Joyce Chepkirui Chepkirui was suspended for issues with her biological passport while 2:07:03 man Jacob Kendagor either evaded or refused a doping test.
*MB: Two More Kenyans Provisionally Suspended For Doping Violations

**NACAC U18 And 23 Champs *Full Results**

Briana Williams Highlights The Final Day Of NACAC U18 Championships She won the 100m unchallenged in 11.11. Jamaica had several more wins including Conroy Jones in the 100m (10.32) and Rajay Morris in the 200m with 20.82.
USA’s Tonea Marshall And Samson Colebrooke Lead Record-Breaking Sprints At NACAC U23 Champs Marshall was one of the highlights of the meet as she won the 100H in 12.57 while Colebrooke won the 200m in 20.58, got silver in the 100m (10.01) and silver in the 4 x 100.
DyeStat.com Day 2 NACAC U-23 Recap: Americans Go 1-2 In 7 Different Events In the women’s 800, UNLV sophomore Avi’Tal Wilson-Perteete reversed the order of finish at NCAAs on Penn’s Nia Akins to win gold in 2:05.70.
DyeStat.com Day 1 NACAC U23 Recap: Georgia’s Aliyah Whisby Wins LJ, Breaks Keturah Orji’s School Record With 22 feet, 4.50 inches (6.82m) The men’s 100 was fast as the top 3 in all ran 10.01.
Briana Williams Wins U18 Women’s 100 In 11.13 The US didn’t send a team to the U18 competition.
7 Individual NCAA Champs Are Competing At NACAC U23 Champs

Night Of 10,000 PBs In London *Results

Steph Twell Wins Women’s 10,000 In 31:08.10 Twell (31:08.10), Lonah Salpeter (31:15.80) and Eilish McColgan (31:16.83) all picked up the Olympic and World standards as Twell and McColgan moved to #6 and #7 all-me in British history.
*Yemaneberhan Crippa (27:49) won the men’s race where no one got the standard but 3 broke 28:00. *Women’s Results*Men’s Results
*IAAF Recap
*MB: It’s baaack! NIGHT OF 10,000 PB’s in London with sub-27:30 and sub-31 in the cards

More Mid-Week Results

World 5,000m Champ Hellen Obiri Holds Off Half Marathon WR Holder Joyciline Jepkosgei To Win Her Debut 10,000m At The Kenya Defense Forces Champs Obiri ran 31:43.0 in her first track 10,000 (although she has run 31:23 on the roads) to just beat out Jepkosgei (31:43.8).
*Obiri Has High Praise For Jepkosgei “Joyceline is going to pose a big threat during [Kenyan] trials considering how tight she kept me on toes until the last lap. Woe unto those who will run against her at the trials.”
MB:Edward Cheserek makes his European debut and gets smoked in 1500 (but runs 3:37) Cheserek was 8th (3:37.92) in a race won by GB’s Charlie Grice in 3:34.35 over Abdelaati Iguider (3:34.84).
Craig Leon (30:48) And Jenn Randall (35:02) Become Three-Time Winners Of The Butte To Butte 10k Road Race In Eugene
European Results: Sweden’s Tilde Johansson Breaks National U20 Long Jump Record With 6.73m At Karlstad Grand Prix

Great American Fields Set For Chicago 2019

LRCChicago Marathon Announces Deep American Fields For 2019 Race: Cragg, Derrick, & Ritz Join Rupp & Hasay We break down what it all means as we we get closer to the 2020 US Trials. Plus, why we think Berlin might be a better option.
*MB: 2019 Chicago Marathon US field is out: Cragg, Derrick, Ritz Join Rupp & Hasay

Distance News

Yuta Shitara The Day After 2:07:50 Gold Coast Victory:“Even If We Ran the [Japan] Trials Right Now I’d Win”
14:32 5ker Margaret Chelimo Wins Kenyan National Police Service 10,000m Title in Her 10k Debut, Beating Out Defending Champ Stacy Ndiwa She ran 33:03.81 to Ndiwa’s 33:04.7.
Scott Fauble Still Looking Forward After His 2:09:09 In Boston Took A Big Toll On His Body NAZ Elite coach Ben Rosario: “He hasn’t let that performance go to his head in any way. In fact, he’s been mature, humble about it and understands that there is still a lot of work to be done.”
Geoffrey Kamworor Says He’s Ready To Thrown Down At The Kenyan Police Champs 10,000 “This race is important. I want to use it to gauge my form and to see if I’m ripe for the World Championships trials.”
Reminder:Olympic Steeple Champ Conseslus Kipruto Will Be Out Of Competition Until September After Suffering A Stress Fracture In His Foot

Non-Distance News

Usain Bolt Claims Next Generation Of Jamaican Sprinters Are “Spoiled” And Have Lost Motivation Bolt says that he’s noticed particularly on the men’s side that sprinters aren’t working as hard as when he was competing.
Good Read:World And Olympic 110H Champ Omar McLeod Writes About How He Had To Do “Some Soul Searching” Last Year And Regain The “Fearlessness” He Had When He Was Younger “It was less a case of giving advice to my younger self; it was more about what I could learn as an adult from my younger self. How could I reconnect with that feeling of fearlessness?”
GB Sprinter Adam Gemili: “Hopefully my performances can start to match my smile.” Gemili is another young sprint star who has struggled a bit with age, but has the right attitude: “I have had my ups and my downs in track but for me how you carry yourself is very important. This is sport, it’s not always going to be ideal. You deal with it and try to be positive.”
Euro Bronze Medalist Ilya Ivanyuk Clears World Leading HJ With 2.33m In Hungary
IAAF Inside Athletics Video Interview With Cuba’s World Indoor LJ Champ Juan Miguel Echevarria “We’re working on my longevity; we don’t want to just jump for a few moments in time.”
In Case You Missed Tuesday’s QOD: MB:Sandi Morris and Noah Lyles get together and make some sweet music Morris has published songs on her YouTube channel and Lyles has published tracks on Spotify. *IAAF article
July 20:World Champ Luvo Manyonga And World Indoor Champ Juan Miguel Echevarria Highlight LJ Field For London DL Meet

Tuesday Night Track: Sunset Tour In California

LRC Bryce Hoppel Wins 20th (!) Race In A Row, Donavan Brazier Runs 3:37, & Shelby Houlihan Finally Breaks 2:00 But Loses To Kate Grace A lot of PRs as Americans chased qualifying standards. We give you the event-by-event highlights.
*DyeStat Recap With Quotes From Bryce Hoppel, Kate Grace, Shelby Houlihan, Nikki Hiltz, Karissa Schweizer
*Discussion Thread

Lagat Shares How He Knocked 5 + Minutes Off His Marathon PR And Ran 2:12 At Age 44

LRC Q&A 44-Year Old Bernard Lagat Explains How He Broke The US Masters Record In Men’s Marathon And Went From Marathon Afterthought To Olympic Team Contender The former 1,500 star reveals the keys to his 2:12:10 marathon.
*MB: Bernard Lagat runs 2:12:10 to break Meb’s US Masters marathon mark. Amazingly now holds EVERY US masters mark 1500 and up!!!

European News

Eilish McColgan’s Mum, Liz (1991 World 10k Champ), Talks About What It’s Like To Coach Her Own Dughter “If Eilish is healthy, she will run well. My problem is keeping Eilish healthy. That’s the difficulty for any coach, keeping their athlete healthy. The training is the easy part!”
Jakob Ingebrigsten’s 3:36.02 World U20 1,500m Record Ratified By The IAAF
*LRC Archive:Jakob Ingebrigtsen Takes Down WR Holder Samuel Tefera to Win Battle of Teenage Stars in Dusseldorf 1500
Full GB Team For European U20 Championships Announced Unfortunately it won’t feature 17-year-old 1:45.36 man Max Burgin as he has withdrawn with injury.
GB’s Jacob Adkin And Switzerland’s Maude Mathys Win European Mountain Running Titles The GB men and Italian women won the team titles. *AW Recap
Estonia Wins European Combined Events Team Championships Title Super League Belgium won the second league and the Czech Republic the first league.
*IAAF Recap:Belarus’ Vitaliy Zhuk And Ukraine’s Daryna Sloboda Won The European Combined Events Team Championships
European Athletics’ Bi-Annual Newsletter “Inside Track” Available For Download Includes a look ahead at the European Team Championships, The Match: Europe vs. USA in September, and a review at the Dynamic New Athletics (DNA) meet.

Gold Coast Marathon

LRC Bernard Lagat Runs 2:12:10 Marathon At Age 44 To Break US Masters Record Most 44-year-olds would be thrilled to run one 5:02 mile. Not American Bernard Lagat. He just ran 26.2 of them in a row at 5:02.5 pace. Japan’s million dollar marathoner Yuta Shitara got the win in an Australian all-comers record of 2:07:50 as Zane Robertson set a a new national record for New Zealand with 2:08:19.
*JRN:Shitara Ran Race As A Training Run For Japanese Olympic Trials In 2 Months
*IAAF Recap: Jack Rayner (1:02:30) and Sinead Diver (1:09:45) won the half as defending champ Sara Hall ran 71:59.
*IAAF Recap

Articles That Passed Our Vetting Process

Recommended ReadPaul Chelimo Talks About How Hard It Is To Balance Being A New Father And Elite Distance Runner He picked up a hip injury from holding his daughter and had to take Mondays off as he had baby duties while his wife was in school. But after bombing in his first two races, he decided to focus solely on running by going to Kenya for a month and he got A LOT better.
Frank Meza’s Family Appears On Local TV News and Decries The Public Shaming Ignoring the reams of evidence, they still don’t think he cheated.
A Look At How Steve Prefontaine Wasn’t Just An Athlete – He Considered Himself To Be An Artist Pre: “My philosophy is that I’m an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.”
23-Year-Old Dina Asher-Smith Thinks It’s Really Cool That 32-Year-Old SAFP Has Come Back So Well After Giving Birth
Meet Yao Miao, The Best Ultra Runner You-ve Never Heard Of 3 years ago, the 23-year-old Chinese athlete thought she had no prospects in life as she was a 38-minute 10k runner iwth a 2:59 marathon pb. Now she’s the #1 ultra runner in the world according to the Ultra Trail World Tour rankings. Is the UTMB course record next for her?
Kenyan Edward Zakayo, the 17-yr old who has run 13:03, releases image of passport and birth certificate to prove he is 17
8-Time Utah State Champ And BYU Recruit Meghan Hunter Injured In Roll-Over Crash She broke several cervical vertebrae and had 6.5 hours of surgery. She has PRs of 11.96 , 24.20, 52.59 and 2:09.26.
LA Times Offers Details On Frank Meza’s Death A possible bridge jumper was reported at 9:49 am and he was declared dead at 10:05 am.
Former Rio de Janeiro Governor Sérgio Cabral Testifies In Court That He Bought 9 Rio Votes For $2 Million Including Sergey Bubka’s
*IOC Says It Will Investigate
*Bubka Threatens Legal Action

Other News

Good Read: Athletics Weekly: A Look Back At When Seb Coe Set Three World Records In 41 Days It was 40 years ago in the summer of 1979 when Coe set WRs at 800m (1:42.33), 1,500m (3:32.03) and the mile (3:48.95).
Pre-Lausanne:AP: “American Sprinters Relishing Open Races In Life After Usain Bolt”Justin Gatlin: “I like where the sprints are right now. It’s not a clear favorite always.”
Report Reveals $2.4 Million Severance Was Given To Former USOC Chief Executive Scott Blackmun Blackmun resigned last year after being criticized for not doing enough to protect athletes in the gymnastics sexual abuse scandal.

Doping News

Lance Armstrong Says He Would Have Won The Tour De France Even Without Doping Armstrong also talks about the very first time he took doped and says he first took fully banned substances in 1993. These highlights come from a 28-minute video interview with NBC Sports.
Moroccan Distance Runner Abderrahmane Kachir Provisionally Suspended By Athletics Integrity Unit The 60:21 half-marathoner tested positive for a type of grown hormone.
Ridiculous:Athletes implicated in Operation Puerto scandal will not be named or sanctioned when identification process concludes This is because the statute of limitations passed in 2014, but the reason it took so long was because the Spanish courts fought forever to keep the confiscated blood bags from being released.
There Is Obviously A Communication Problem Between The AIU And Kenya We don’t know who’s at fault, but the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya CEO Japhhter Rugut said that he only found out about the recently banned distance runners from the media coverage, not an official notice.

Young Adult Championships WUG Live Results, Startlists, Schedule Euro U23 Live Results, Startlists, Schedule

Victories By Italy’s Ayomide Folorunso In The 400H (54.75) And Bulgaria’s Tihomir Ivanov In The HJ (2.30m) Highlight Day 3 Of The World University Games Distance wins went to Australia’s Catriona Bisset in the 800m (2:01.20) and Poland’s Michal Rozmys (3:53.67) in the 1500m.
Japan Picks Up Three Medals At WUG Including Silvers In The Men’s And Women’s 10,000 Both were close races with Hiroki Abe running 29:30.01 to South Africa’s Mokorane Milton Kekana‘s 29:29.43 and Rino Goshima running 34:04.65 to China’s Deshun Zhang‘s 34:03.31.
AW Day 3 WUG:Former WUG Bronze Medalist Jess Judd Advances In The 5000
European Athletics Preview:Berlin 2018 Medalists Headline At European U23 Champs
Athletics Weekly Preview:56-Strong GB Team Headed To Sweden For Euro U23
HJer Morgan Lake And Race Walker Callum Wilkinson To Captain Team GB For The European U23 Champs In Sweden
July 19:Team USATF announces 2019 Pan American U20 Championships rosterAthing Mu, Matthew Boling, Lanae Tava-Thomas and Taylor Ewert highlight Team USA.
And The Old Too: July 11: More than 900 athletes set for USATF Masters Outdoor Championships in Iowa

Is 40 Days Of Running Enough?

LRC Exclusive Evan Jager Will Attempt To Win His 8th-Straight US Title After Just 40 Days Of Running Injuries have kept Evan Jager from racing since last August. Jager is back running now – finally – and he’s ready to talk. So we listened.
*MB: Evan Jager Will Attempt To Win His 8th Straight US Title After Just 40 Days of Running – Is It Enough?

Good News For The US Olympic Women’s Marathon Trials

LRC Here’s What We Know About The 2020 US Olympic Marathon Trials The top 3 across the line in the women’s race on February 29th will definitely be going to the Olympics. As for the men, that’s still TBD.

MB:Frank mesas death has officially been ruled a suicide The Los Angeles County coroner’s office says Meza died from multiple blunt force traumatic injuries and ruled his death a suicide. This after there were reports last week that someone may have jumped from a bridge.

Lausanne Diamond League Full ResultsTV & Streaming Information

LRC Noah Lyles Rips 19.50 World Leader In 200 Meters in Lausanne To Become The 4th-Fastest Man In History 19.50 into a headwind (-.1 m/s). Wow.

Rest Of The Meet
LRC 2019 Lausanne DL Recap: Gebrhiwet Miscounts His Laps, Cheruiyot Runs 3:28 And SAFP Runs 10.74 Lausanne entertained from start to finish as we saw a super-fast men’s 1,500, a wild men’s 5,000 with the fastest penultimate lap in history and a whole lot more.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen Reacts To His 3:30.16 His brother Filip, who ran 3:30.82 in Lausanne, still holds the family record at 3:30.01.
Guy Learmonth Thought He Was In PR Shape In Lausanne Unfortunately, he ended up last in 1:45.86.
Katie Nageotte Becomes First American To Win Women’s Pole Vault In Lausanne She set an outdoor PR (4.82m) to win the non-DL event on July 4.

MB Talk:

MB:Official 2019 Lausanne Diamond League Live Discussion Thread
MB: NOAH MF LYLES 19.50!!!!
MB:TIM MF CHERUIYOT!!!
MB: Jakob 3:30!!

50th Peachtree *Results

LRC/RRW: Brigid Kosgei (30:22) And Rhonex Kipruto (27:01) Break Course Records And Win $50,000 Bonuses At 50th Peachtree Road Race Kipruto dominated the men’s race, leading pretty much wire-to-wire, to break the record by just 3 seconds with his brother, Bravin Kiptoo, finishing runner-up in 27:29. On the women’s side, it was an exciting three-way battle on the final straight with Kosgei collapsing at the line after just nipping former world XC champ Agnes Tirop.