Sprints And Jumps

• Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Dreaming Of A Sub-22 Second 200m SAFP has always been more of a 100m runner where she is #4 all-time while her 200m PB is 22.09 which is only 41st on the all-time list (26 women have gone sub-22).
• Jenn Suhr Reveals She Used To Be Self-Conscious About Her Height She says she was “a lanky 5ft 9ins at the age of 13.”
• USTFCCCA Looks Back 34-Years Ago When Jacki Joyner-Kersee Broke The US Long Jump Record With 7.24m Just A Few Months After Finisher Her NCAA Career She still has the AR, but moved it to 7.49m in 1994.
• World Indoor 60H Champ Andrew Pozzi To Miss British Champs With Injury
• September 7: GB’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson Doing The LJ/150m Double At The Great North CityGames
• RIP Australia’s 1956 Olympic 4×100 Champ Norma Fleming, 84

Paris DL Is Saturday *Provisional Entry Lists

• IAAF Preview: Stars Converge On Paris To Secure Tickets To Zurich And Brussels DL Finals Olympic and World steeple champ Conseslus Kipruto returns to action for the first time this season to take on Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakaali. Jakob and Filip Ingebrigtsen, Ronald Musagala and Ayanleh Souleiman in the 1500. Noah Lyles vs Ramil Guliyev in the 200m, Karsten Warholm vs Kyron McMaster in the 400H, Elaine Thompson vs Dafne Schippers in the 100m, Christian Taylor vs Will Claye in the TJ.
• IAAF: Last Remaining Places In The Diamond League Finals Up For Grabs In Paris A quick event-by-event rundown of which athletes have already qualified and who will be battling for spots in Paris.
• Event-By-Event Highlights To Look Out For At The Paris DL

Kenyan 10,000 Trials Are In The Books

Geoffrey Kamworor And Agnes Tirop Win 10,000m Titles At Kenyan Championships Kamworor ran 27:24.76 to just win over Rhonex Kipruto (27:26.34) and former world U20 champ Rodgers Kwemoi (27:26.92). The women’s race was even closer as the top three finished within 1.3 seconds of each other. Tirop ran 31:25.00 (fastest-ever 10,000m at altitude) to Hellen Obiri‘s 31:25.38 and Rosemarry Wanjiru‘s 31:26.22.
*MB: Rhonex Kipruto and Hellen Obiri are beaten at Kenyan 10,000 Trials – Kamworor and Tirop FTW

• Geoffrey Kamworor To Skip World Championships To Focus On The NYC Marathon This after just saying earlier this month that’d he was going for a “third attempt” at the World 10,000 title.
  *MB: Have you ever heard anything like that? Geoffrey Kamworor won the 10000m at Kenya Trials but will skip the Worlds!!
  *Headline From March: “Kamworor Confirms He Isn’t Quitting The Track Anytime Soon”
• Fancy Cherono Wins Kenyan Steeple Title In 9:42.05 World 5,000 champ Hellen Obiri says she’s undecided on whether she wants to run the 5k/10k double in Doha.
• Alphas Kishoyian (45.55) And Mary Moraa (52.65) Win Kenyan 400m National Titles
• Mike Mokamba Wins Kenyan National 200m Title In 20.80

Cheating Headlines

• Russian Track Official And Coach Vasily Shkurbitsky Under Investigation After Being Accused Of Forging Results To Boost His Athletes A Russian track writer says Shkurbitsky fudged the results so his athletes were eligible for higher status in the Russian state sport system. He claims one 800m runner had their time slashed by over 8 seconds.
• Former Latvian Athletics Federation President Ineta Raevica Gets A 2-Year Ban After Positive Retest Of Her London 2012 Sample The retired long jumper was initially 4th in London before being DQed and resigning her position as federation president.
• Morocco’s 2014 African 10,000 Silver Medalist Mustapha El Aziz And Indian Discus Thrower Karan Singh Both Test Positive For EPO

2019 Falmouth

LRC Leonard Korir Becomes First American To Win Falmouth Road Race Since 1988 On a hot and humid day in Massachusetts, Korir finally got the victory he so badly wanted after finishing in the top 3 each of the last 4 years. In the women’s race, Sharon Lokedi, the 2018 NCAA 10,000 champ, was the surprise winner and American Sara Hall the even more surprising runner-up.
*MB: 2019 Falmouth Road Race Thread: Edward Cheserek added to elite field
*Toni Reavis’s Falmouth Photos

LRC After A Year Of Ups And Downs, Josh Thompson & Cory McGee Stay Red Hot And Claim 2019 Falmouth Mile Titles Earlier this year, Thompson ran 9:02 for the steeple but now he’s one of America’s best in the 1,500. As for McGee, just weeks ago she was DQed at USAs. But both have been running amazingly of late and it continued tonight at Falmouth.
*MB: Official 2019 Falmouth Mile and Road Race Discussion Thread

Guardian Mile In Cleveland: MB: Nick Willis (3:58.12) and Shannon Oskia (4:27.20) win 2019 Guardian Miles in Cleveland Willis still needs the 2019 WC standard but he’s #45 on the descending order list and they take 45.

More Road Action: Suguru Osako Gets Ready For Japanese Trials With Dominant Half Marathon Win In Dallas, TX (62:23) 80 degrees with 76% humidity.

Other Links That Caught Our Eye

• 4 Japanese National Records Fall In Single Meet In Japan – Shiroyama’s 8.40m Jump Leads Four National Records At Athlete Night Games In Fukui The men’s long jump NR of 8.25 had stood since 1992 but was broken twice by two different men and went from 8.25 to 8.40. Also the women’s 100H (13.00) and men’s 110H (13.25) NRs were broken.
• Bryce Hoppel Signs With adidas
• Kalle Berglund Crushes Swedish National Record In Göteborg, Runs 3:34.89 (Prakel 3:37 – Full Video)
• One We Missed Harry Summers Basically Tied Steve Moneghetti’s Legendary 40:03 Race Record At Last Weekend’s 80,000-Strong City2Surf (14k) Race Moneghetti has held the course record at the world’s largest race since 1991 but some thought Summers (27:56 PR this year) broke it as he ran 40:05 but his chip time said 40:00.
• Meet Brett Larner’s Dark Horse Pick For The Japanese Olympic Marathon Team – Naoki Okamoto The 35-year-old has been on fire of late. Larner is profiling every single Japanese Trials athlete. All 31 men and 12 women.
• Nike Says It Won’t Reduce Women’s Contracts For 18 Months While Pregnant They can’t be cut in the 8 months before the baby is due or 10 months after.
• Emmanuel Korir Bags Plans To Run 400 At All Africa Games