Kamworor Takes Down The WR

Geoffrey Kamworor Breaks Half Marathon World Record With 58:01 In Copenhagen Kamworor ran splits of 13:53 (5k), 27:34 (10k), 41:05 (15k) and 55:00 (20k) to break the record by 17 seconds. Five other men finished inside 60 minutes with Bernard Kipkorir taking second in 59:16. 2018 Tokyo Marathon champ Birhane Dibaba won the women’s race in 65:57 to beat out Evaline Chirchir (66:22). *Discuss

Kenyan Trials *Results

• IAAF Recap Of 2019 Kenyan Trails World Junior silver medalist Ng’eno Kipng’etich surprisingly won the 800 over Emmanuel Korir.
  
• Does Track Have A Popularity Problem Even In Kenya? Classy Fields But Empty Terraces At The Kenyan Trials Elias Makori writes, “A world class field, brilliant weather, free stadium and high adrenaline action. But the terraces at the Nyayo National Stadium still remained largely empty…”
• Citizentv.co.ke Recap Young guns earn Kenya tickets for Doha Worlds.
  *MB: Did a 19-year old threat just arrive for Ajee Wilson in Kenya’s Jackline Wambui? 
• Tearful Pre-Race Pep Talk By Elijam Manang’oi Motivates Younger Brother George Manang’oi To Qualify For Worlds In 1,500 Timothy Cheruiyot crushed the field.
• Top Two In Kenyan Trials 5,000 Await To See If They Can Go To Worlds As They Haven’t Taken Enough Drug Tests Neither of them has broken 13:10 for 5,000. The winner of the Trials was a total unknown guy best known for serving as the Monaco 1,500 rabbit earlier this year.
• Steeplechase Women Cross Line Holding Hands At Kenyan Trials In “Sign Of Unity” Beatrice Chepkoech, Hyvin Kiyeng and Celliphine Chespol were timed at 9:45.15, 9:45.20 and 9:45.24 respectively.
  *Hyvin Kiyeng: “I think we will … probably sweep the medals … we cannot allow the title to go back to America.”
• Emmanuel Korir Wins 800m Semi To Advance To The Final While Michael Saruni Misses Out Korir won his heat in 1:46.6. Saruni struggled in his semi, only finishing 5th (1:47.2).
• Michael Kibet Gets Surprise 5,000m Win At Kenyan World Champs Trials Kibet ran 13:26.83 to win over Kenyan national champ Daniel Simiyu (13:27.95).
  *2nd Article Some top names that finished outside the top 3 included Olympic 10,000 silver medalist Paul Tanui and former world indoor champ Caleb Ndiku.
• Nicholas Chirchir Hoping To Reclaim Kenya’s World 400H Title In Doha The late Nicholas Bett made history as the first Kenyan to win a sprint Worlds title in 2015. Chirchir is the only Kenyan qualified in the 400H.

World Champs Start September 27th

• IAAF Will Use “Ground-Breaking Technology” For The 2019 World Champs Broadcast Their release says that they have “an array of new cameras that will provide innovative angles on the competition and behind-the-scenes pictures that have never been shown to the audience before.” For example, there will be cameras in the starting blocks.
• Former Olympic PV Champ Yelena Isinbayeva Hopes RusAF Suspension Can Be Lifted Before World Champs With reports of banned coaches still working with athletes and allegations that RusAF forged paperwork to help HJer Danil Lysenko avoid a ban, it’s not likely that Russia will be unbanned in the next two weeks.
• IAAF: State Of The Art Mondotrack Ready To Welcome Athletes At Doha 2019 Includes a cool time lapse video of the track being installed at the Khalifa Stadium.
• The IAAF Look Back At Five World Records Set At The World Championships Usain Bolt‘s 9.58 and 19.19 at Berlin 2009 is definitely one of the most memorable world champs performances.
• The IAAF Looks Back At Five Home Winners At The World Championships Japan’s Hiromi Taniguchi actually won the marathon when Tokyo hosted in 1991.
• 400 Hurdler Thomas Barr Highlights Provisional Irish World Team Only five who had the standards have been announced so far, but others who were close should also get in.

Hayward Field Construction Updates

Christian Coleman Talks And We Listen

LRC Christian Coleman Releases YouTube Video About Whereabouts Failures, Criticizes USADA & Media, Says He Has Never Failed A Test “And Never Will” Coleman ripped USADA, which he accused of trying to land a “big fish” and says the whole episode cost him at least $150,000 in earnings.
*MB: Robert Johnson is an unprofessional, irresponsible hack and an idiot … and I have no problem tell him to his face
*MB: World’s fastest man Christian Coleman faces potential whereabouts failure ban for 3 missed drug tests 

Big Collegiate News

LRC The Race For The Ages That No One Knows About: The US (NAU) And Japanese Collegiate Champs (Tokai) Just Raced Each Other In Cross-Country Last Weekend. Here’s What Happened. And the narrow 25-to-30 victory went to …
*MB: Just saw GREATEST Intl’ collegiate men’s XC race ever?

The Oregonian: Vin Lananna Opens Up About Leaving Oregon To Become Track Coach At The University Of Virginia Lananna says that he has realized he has missed coaching and working directly with athletes, but says he has no intention of resigning his USATF presidency.

MB: Vin Lananna Hired as Director of T&F/XC at University of Virginia

Better Running Shoes

LRC Top 10 Most Comfortable Running Shoes As Rated By You We got over 1,500+ shoe reviews last month and decided to do something with them. People rate shoes different ways but when we ask them what they want they often say “comfort.”