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• IAAF: Canada’s And Mississippi State’s Marco Arop Breaks Pan Am Games 800m Record (1:44.25) On Final Day Of Track Action In Lima There was another meet record from Canada’s Geneviève Lalonde in the steeplechase (9:41.45), beating US’s Marissa Howard (9:43.78) and from Grenada’s Anderson Peters in the  javelin (87.31m). Brazil’s Altobeli da Silva won the men’s steeple in 8:32.34. Team USA got four gold medals on the final day from Gwen Berry (hammer), Omar Craddock (TJ), Chris Nielsen (PV) and the women’s 4 x 400.
• Niki Hiltz Sprints To Pan Am 1,500m Gold Hiltz ran 4:07.14 to beat Aisha Praught (4:08.26) and Alexa Efraimson (4:08.63). This was the first time an American has won this event in 20 years.
• IAAF Friday Recap: Venezuela’s Yulima Rojas Jumps World-Leading 15.11m To Win The Triple Jump Brazil’s Ederson Pereira won the 10,000 in 28:27.47 while USA went 2-3 with Reid Buchanan (28:28.41) and Lawi Lalang (28:31.75). Mexico’s Laura Galván won the 5,000m in 15:35.47 just 40 minutes after she finished 4th in the 1,500m. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won the 200m in 22.43. Ecuador’s Alex Quinonez took the men’s race in 20.27.
• USATF Friday Recap: Kara Winger Wins Javelin Gold With 62.32m
• Olympic Champ Caterine Ibarguen Pulled Out Of Pan Am Games TJ With Foot Injury
• MB: 2019 Pan Am Games Official Thread

GB’s Commonwealth Games Champ Nick Miller Complains That The Hammer Throw Has Been Disrespected By The Diamond League Right now the hammer and the 10,000 (and race walk) are the only Olympic track and field events not in the DL, but that’ll change next year when eight more events get cut.

Distance News

• IAAF Advice To My Younger Self Series: Kenenisa Bekele Is Bekele talking to his younger self or current self when he writes this line, “Maintaining fitness levels and full health as an athlete in your mid-30s will be hard. But don’t give up. Stick with it and aim to sign off your career on a high.”
• Sunday: Jim Walmsley Vs. Kilian Jornet At World Mountain Running Race In Switzerland
• Geoffrey Kamworor Hoping Third Time’s The Charm At World Champs 10,000

Sprint/Field News

• Good Read: An Inside Look At Dalilah Muhammad’s 52.20 400H World Record Muhammad and her coach, Lawrence Johnson, explain that they went into this season going for the WR and Johnson says he thinks she could have run 51.6 or 51.7 if she “ran the perfect race.”
  *MB: Can Delilah Muhammad break 2 in the 800? The article mentions she ran mile time trials between 5:07 and 5:17 and the 800m in 2:06.
• Video: Sydney McLaughlin To Feature With Serena Williams, JJ Watt, Eli Manning And Other Athletes On Gatorade’s 2020 “Beat The Heat” Calendar The link is a comedic ad with Peyton Manning recruiting the athletes for the calendar. Apparently McLaughlin is slated for June.
• European Athletics Looks Back At Jonathan Edwards’ 18.29m Triple Jump WR From 1995 Edwards broke the record with 18.16m and followed it up immediately with 18.29m. It was the first time ever the world record had been broken back-to-back in the same TJ competition.
• Ashton Eaton And Brianne Theisen-Eaton Named IAAF Ambassadors For Doha World Champs

IAAF Inside Athletics Video Interview With Colombia’s Olympic TJ Champ Caterine Ibarguen “The passion has always existed. It’s something that runs in my veins. When I compete, I feel happiness, I feel a connection with the crowd, like they can feel what’s on my mind.”

Upcoming DL Action

• August 18: WR Holder Keni Harrison Takes On World Leader Danielle Williams In Birmingham 100 Hurdles The field also includes Olympic champ Brianna McNeal, NCAA champ Janeek Brown and two-time world indoor champ Nia Ali.
• Katerina Stefanidi And Jenn Suhr Lead Stack Pole Vault Field For The Birmingham DL Meet Others competing include New Zealand’s #3 all-time Eliza McCartney, USA’s Katie Nageotte and Cuba’s former world champ Yarisley Silva.
• Stacked Women’s 200m Set For Birmingham Diamond League The field includes Olympic 400m champ Shaunae Miller-Uibo, double. Olympic champ Elaine Thompson, two-time world champ Dafne Schippers and triple European champion Dina Asher-Smith.
• August 24: World 400H Champ Karsten Warholm And Double Olympic Champ Elaine Thompson Announced For Paris Diamond League Thompson will face African champion Marie-Josee Ta Lou and Dafne Schippers.

Sprint Stuff: A Former Olympic Champ Hangs ‘Em Up

Australia’s 2012 Olympic 100H Champ Sally Pearson Retires, Effective Immediately The 32-year-old said that she’s had six injuries this year and doesn’t think her body would make it to Tokyo 2020. The news is surprising as she had given no indication she was considering retiring and was being announced for upcoming meets just a few days ago.

GB’s Olympic 4 X 400 Bronze Medalist Eilidh Doyle Announces Her Season Is Over After Revealing She’s Pregnant The 32-year-old says she’s due in January and isn’t planning on retiring yet.

This Weekend’s Action

Konstanze Klosterhalfen Crushes NR And PR … Runs Solo 14:26! Second place in the race was 15:19!
*MB: Epic German TV blunder? Did German TV totally mis-ID Konstanze Klosterhalfen’s mom in middle of her record run?

• 40-Year-Old Lisa Weightman Nabs $17,000 For Breaking Australian All Comers Record In Half Marathon By Clocking 68:48 The money will help a lot as she’s currently unsponsored. In the men’s race, Jack Rayner crossed the finish line minutes before anyone else but was DQed for running 40m short.
• Sam Parsons 2nd At German 5k Champs
• Malaika Mihambo Improves Her Own World Long Jump Lead To 7.16m To Win German Champs
• Chris O’Hare (3:54.81) And Cory McGee (4:27.97) Win 2019 Sir Walter Miler Titles In The Rain
• Alex Korio (27:34) And J. Jepkosgei (31:05) DESTROY Beach To Beacon Fields As Emily Infeld Returns To Action In 4th (32:39) It was Infeld’s first race since February of 2018. Top American honors for the men went to Scott Fauble in 6th (28:59) as top non-African born honors went to Brett Robinson in 4th (28:43). Chris Derrick, Abdi, Bumbalough, Sharon Lokedi and others raced as well.
  *For 1st Time In Its 22-Year-History, Beach To Beacon Had Drug Testing This Year Aisling Cuffe got woken up at 5:37 AM on Friday.
• Jakob I Runs 3.36.33 Solo At The Norwegian Championship 
• China’s Newly-Minted 19.88 Sprinter Xie Zhenye Comes From Behind To Win 100 Trials Over Su Bingtian (10.03 To 10.19)

RIP World’s First Sub-2:14 Marathoner – Basil Heatley (2:13:55 In 1964) – Dies At Age 85

Caster Semenya Legal Update From Amby Burfoot

LRC After Latest Swiss Court Ruling, The Odds Are Against Caster Semenya Guest column by former Boston Marathon champ Amby Burfoot.
*Paper in India: European Court Of Human Rights May Well Be The Last Court Of Appeal To Overturn The Restrictions Placed On Semenya We disagree. It’s not a human right to compete in a restricted category of professional sports.

Medical News

• Anemia May Increase Your Odds Of Alzheimer’s And Dementia
• Scientific Study: People Who Work Out Before 12 PM Lost More Weight Than Those Who Did It After 3 PM

More US Distance News

• Bryce Hoppel Announces He’s Turning Pro After making the Worlds team, Hoppel has decided he will forgo his final year of eligibility at Kansas.
• Friday Night In Raleigh, NC: Final Fields Set For 2019 Sir Walter Miler Brit Chris O’Hare leads the men’s mile along with Eric Avila, Sam Prakel while the women are led by Lauren Johnson, Heather Kampf, Stephanie Garcia and Cory McGee. *Live Results *Meet Home *Race Day Info (Live Stream With FloTrack Subscription)
• A US Road Race That Got Overlooked During USAs: World Half Marathon Record Holder Joyciline Jepkosgei Wins Bix 7 Miler In 36:04 She beat fellow Kenyan Vicoty Chepngeno by 4 seconds.
  *Kenya’s Leonard Barsoton Pulls Away To Win Bix 7 Miler In 32:34 He beat Boilermaker winner Gabiel Geay (32:40) as well as 7:58 steepler Jarius Birech (32:51) and Stephen Sambu (33:05).
• Alexi Pappas Credits Her Father As Having A Critical Role In Her Career As She Trains To Try To Make Tokyo 2020 In The Marathon Pappas’ father raised her and her brother as a single parent after the suicide of her mother when Pappas was just four.
  *MB: Alexi Pappas article in SF Examiner

Upcoming Summer Action In Europe

• August 18: Christian Coleman Announced For Birmingham DL 100m He’ll be up against Andre de Grasse, Yohan Blake, Adam Gemili and Akani Simbine.
• August 9-11: Final Entries Available For European Team Championships First League In Norway There will be a strong showing from the home team with Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the 1,500m, Henrik Ingebrigtsen in the 3,000m) and Filip Ingebrigtsen in the 5,000m.
• August 9-11: Entries Available For Euro Team Championships Super League In Poland Gesa Felicitas Krause leads the German team in the steeplechase.
• August 10-11: Olympic Discus Champ Sandra Perkovic Highlights Entries At European Team Championships Second League In Croatia Euro 10,000m champ Lonah Chemtai Salpeteris doing the 3,000/5,000m double for Israel.
• September 7: Sally Pearson Announced For Great North CityGames
• This Fall In South America: GB Team Named For World Long Distance Mountain Running Champs In Argentina

More Post-USAs Analysis

LRC 2019 USATF Nationals Recap Podcast: What Really Happened? Dalilah Muhammad WR, Lopez Lomong Crushes It, Michael Norman Loses, Dennis Mitchell Is Baaaack Subscribe today on itunes.

LRC Tactics Matter: How Ben Blankenship Beat Johnny Gregorek To Take Home The Final Men’s 1,500 World Championship Spot Want to learn how to (and how not to) run the 1,500 or mile? Read this piece and watch the embedded video.
*MB: How to run the 1500 / mile – and how not to. Video analysis of men’s 1500 final at 2019 USAs.