The Diamond League goes to Africa - Offiical 2016 Rabat Discussion Thread

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Gregson 3rd behind Cheruiyotuiyoiut and Silas Kiplagat in the 1500m.

Women's 400 hurdles:

22-year old Janeive Russell of Jamaica, who was 5th at Worlds last year, came in as the top seed and #3 performer in the world at 54.61 and she improved on that and ran a stellar 54.16, a new pb (her pb was 54.61) that moves her to #2 in the world.

We predict that Russell will go faster as she chopper her steps a lot on the last hurdle but still won easily as she led from start to finish. American Cassandra Tate, the bronze medallist in Beijing last year, moved up late to nab second in a new seasonal best of 54.69 (previous sb was 55.57).

Anybody have free live stream link?

Lenny Leonard wrote:

Gregson 3rd behind Cheruiyotuiyoiut and Silas Kiplagat in the 1500m.

There were some non DL distance races:

International Events

Men's 1500m - 22.05.2016

Final

Pl. Athlete Nat. Birth Result

1. Timothy CHERUIYOT KEN 95 3:33.61

2. Silas KIPLAGAT KEN 89 3:33.68

3. Ryan GREGSON AUS 90 3:34.43

4. Fouad EL KAAM MAR 88 3:34.96

5. Homiyu TESFAYE GER 93 3:35.05

6. Florian CARVALHO FRA 89 3:36.64

7. Dawit WOLDE ETH 91 3:36.96

8. Dumisane HLASELO RSA 89 3:37.73

9. Younés ESSALHI MAR 93 3:37.94

10. Adam Ali MOUSAB QAT 95 3:38.04

11. Tarik MOUKRIME BEL 92 3:38.86

12. Morhad AMDOUNI FRA 88 3:39.32

13. Salim KEDDAR ALG 93 3:39.61

14. Mohamed MOUSTAOUI MAR 85 3:40.83

15. Oussama NABIL MAR 96 3:42.90

16. Carlos ALONSO ESP 89 3:43.92

- Reuben BETT KEN 84 DNF

- Adil BRIAMI MAR 83 DNF

Women's 3000mSC - 22.05.2016

Final

Pl. Athlete Nat. Birth Result

1. Etenesh DIRO NEDA ETH 91 9:16.87

2. Gladys Jerotich KIPKEMOI KEN 86 9:26.36

3. Caroline TUIGONG KEN 90 9:28.81

4. Genevieve LACAZE AUS 89 9:32.67

5. Birtukan ADAMU ETH 92 9:35.97

6. Weynshet ANSA ETH 96 9:41.74

7. Fadwa SIDI MADANE MAR 94 9:51.68

8. Ophelie CLAUDE-BOXBERGER FRA 88 9:58.49

9. Maeva DANOIS FRA 93 9:59.97

- Elena GARCÍA GRIMAU ESP 86 DNF

Men's 800m - 22.05.2016

Final

Pl. Athlete Nat. Birth Result

1. Achraf EL MALIKY MAR 98 1:48.80

2. Anas MGARI MAR 1:49.03

3. Mouad ZAHAFI MAR 1:49.94

4. Zouhir ENNAKI MAR 1:50.99

5. Younés BENYECHEK MAR 1:52.02

6. Achraf EL GHAROUS MAR 1:52.09

7. Moncef BOUAZZAOUI MAR 1:53.20

8. Soufiane BENRADAD MAR 1:53.27

9. Mohammed BALI MAR 1:53.43

10. Mohammed ELBARBARI MAR 1:55.96

11. Amine HAFDAOUI MAR 1:58.84

- Ayman ZAHAFI MAR 97 DNF

With that 1500 mark, Gregon is going to the Olympics. Remember, he was knocked over in Doha and they didn't restart the race.

Triple Jump- Women

Colombia’s Caterine Ibarguen extended her win streak to 33 meets in a row with a 14.51 mark (47' 7¼"). In Doha, Ibarguen was pushed to a 15.04 by World indoor champ Yulimar Rojas who jumped 14.79 but Rojas only managed a 14.11 today which got her 4th. Ibarguen’s 14.38 1st round mark was better than what anyone else in the field put up as indoor bronze medallist Paraskeví Papahrístou of Greece was second in 14.28.

rojo wrote:

With that 1500 mark, Gregon is going to the Olympics. Remember, he was knocked over in Doha and they didn't restart the race.

Triple Jump- Women

Colombia’s Caterine Ibarguen extended her win streak to 33 meets in a row with a 14.51 mark (47' 7¼"). In Doha, Ibarguen was pushed to a 15.04 by World indoor champ Yulimar Rojas who jumped 14.79 but Rojas only managed a 14.11 today which got her 4th. Ibarguen’s 14.38 1st round mark was better than what anyone else in the field put up as indoor bronze medallist Paraskeví Papahrístou of Greece was second in 14.28.

FYI Robert, Gregson already got the Olympic standard in the Netherlands midweek.

Here are quick recaps of some of the other events:

Women's shot

Two-time Olympic champ Valerie Adams grabbed her first Diamond League victory of 2016 (and 24th overall) by launching her fifth throw 19.68 meters. All six of her throws would have won the competition; five of six were 19.20m or farther. Adams has now won all four of her competitions outdoors, improving her winning mark each time (though she was only third at World Indoors):

February 23 (Auckland): 18.85m

March 6 (Dunedin): 19.43m

May 7 (Zug): 19.52m

May 22 (Rabat): 19.68m

Women's steeple

Ethiopia’s Etenesh Diro Neda, who went out in the heats at Worlds last year, took the win in this non-DL event, running 9:16.87, the #2 time of her career and fastest since August 2012. She finished almost 10 seconds up on second placer Gladys Kipkemoi of Kenya, while rabbit Caroline Tuigong hung in the race to finish third in a pb of 9:28.81.

Women's 100

Jamaica’s Kerron Stewart got a great start and held the lead for the first half of the race, but the second half was all Elaine Thompson as the 2016 World Indoor 60-meter bronze medallist stormed away from the field to win in 11.02 despite a 1.3 m/s headwind. Thompson ran 10.71 two weeks ago with an illegal tailwind (2.4) so she should be able to go well under 11 seconds legally if the wind cooperates in her next meet.

Jonathan Gault wrote:

rojo wrote:

With that 1500 mark, Gregon is going to the Olympics. Remember, he was knocked over in Doha and they didn't restart the race.

FYI Robert, Gregson already got the Olympic standard in the Netherlands midweek.

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Gault, Rojo doesn't pay you the big bucks to make a fool of him.

He can do that quite well on his own for free.

ok good, jeter and mak lose.

this crazy sport - it's made me root against people.

Sooo there's no way to stream this online for free?

Wow Bosse took the 800 in impressive fashion. No one went with the rabbit51.1 at 600 but at 600, Bosse who was right with Amos powered to the lead and he soon gapped the field. He soon had a gap on everyone as in the homestretch Amos went backwards. Amos was awful in the final 100.

Makhloufi and Tukas closed the gap a little bit but it was never in doubt

I'll post results soon. HEre are the results so far:

Diamond Race

Women's 100m - 22.05.2016

Final, wind: -1.3

Pl. Athlete Nat. Birth Result

1. Elaine THOMPSON JAM 92 11.02

2. Blessing OKAGBARE-IGHOTEGUONOR NGR 88 11.11

3. Kerron STEWART JAM 84 11.19

4. Carina HORN RSA 89 11.28

5. Carmelita JETER USA 79 11.32

6. Alexandria ANDERSON USA 87 11.45

7. Mujinga KAMBUNDJI SUI 92 11.45

8. Ezinne OKPARAEBO NOR 88 11.46

Women's 400mH - 22.05.2016

Final

Pl. Athlete Nat. Birth Result

1. Janeive RUSSELL JAM 93 54.16

2. Cassandra TATE USA 90 54.69

3. Wenda THERON NEL RSA 88 54.88

4. Hanna TITIMETS UKR 89 55.10

5. Kemi ADEKOYA BRN 93 55.33

6. Emilia ANKIEWICZ POL 90 57.25

Women's Triple Jump - 22.05.2016

Final

Pl. Athlete Nat. Birth Result Wind

1. Caterine IBARGUEN COL 84 14.51 -0.4

2. Paraskevi PAPACHRISTOU GRE 89 14.28 -0.4

3. Patrícia MAMONA POR 88 14.13 -0.5

4. Yulimar ROJAS VEN 95 14.11 -0.6

5. Susana Cristina COSTA POR 84 13.90 +3.5

6. Tetyana PTASHKINA UKR 93 13.33 -1.5

7. Joelle MBUMI CMR 86 13.24 +1.4

- Susana Cristina COSTA POR 84 13.72 +0.3

Women's Shot Put - 22.05.2016

Final

Pl. Athlete Nat. Birth Result

1. Valerie ADAMS NZL 84 19.68

2. Anita MÁRTON HUN 89 18.51

3. Brittany SMITH USA 91 17.84

4. Paulina GUBA POL 91 17.74

5. Alena ABRAMCHUK BLR 88 17.53

6. Natalia DUCÓ CHI 89 17.21

7. Auriol DONGMO CMR 90 16.81

Women's Javelin Throw - 22.05.2016

Final

Pl. Athlete Nat. Birth Result

1. Madara PALAMEIKA LAT 87 64.76

2. Liina LAASMA EST 92 63.65

3. Kathryn MITCHELL AUS 82 60.68

4. Lina MUZE LAT 92 59.54

5. Martina RATEJ SLO 81 59.39

6. Ásdís HJÁLMSDÓTTIR ISL 85 57.02

7. Hanna HATSKO-FEDUSOVA UKR 90 55.72

8. Tatjana MIRKOVIĆ SRB 90 46.61

Men's 800 results

Men's 800m - 22.05.2016

Final

Pl. Athlete Nat. Birth Result

1. Pierre-Ambroise BOSSE FRA 92 1:44.51

2. Taoufik MAKHLOUFI ALG 88 1:44.91

3. Amel TUKA BIH 91 1:45.41

4. Marcin LEWANDOWSKI POL 87 1:45.76

5. Abdelatif ELGUESSE MAR 93 1:46.80

6. Nijel AMOS BOT 94 1:47.34

7. Amine EL MANAOUI MAR 91 1:48.83

8. Jamal HAIRANE QAT 93 1:50.58

- Edwin Kiplagat MELI KEN 94 DNF

Steeple is loaded.

Mhhfhgvbn wrote:

Steeple is loaded.

And they are going for it!! Kipruto and Birech run 236.5 for the first 1k!!

5:17 for 2k

rojo wrote:

Mhhfhgvbn wrote:

Steeple is loaded.

And they are going for it!! Kipruto and Birech run 236.5 for the first 1k!!

yo waddup wrote:

5:17 for 2k

rojo wrote:

And they are going for it!! Kipruto and Birech run 236.5 for the first 1k!!

Kipruto 8:02, Birech 8:03!

Jogged and waved the last 100m. Do these guys not care about running fast times?

Bad news for Jager... Kipruto waved, jogged the last 150 and still ran 2 seconds off of Jager's lifetime PB. If he had actually ran he would've closed in 57 in a 7:57 race... No way Jager competes with that.

The thing about Jager's OXY close was that he went 100% to the line. In 2015 World Champs Kemboi closed in 56 whilst jogging after the last barrier.

Keinr wrote:

Bad news for Jager... Kipruto waved, jogged the last 150 and still ran 2 seconds off of Jager's lifetime PB. If he had actually ran he would've closed in 57 in a 7:57 race... No way Jager competes with that.

The thing about Jager's OXY close was that he went 100% to the line. In 2015 World Champs Kemboi closed in 56 whilst jogging after the last barrier.

Kind of lame...they were well under 8 minute pace at 2k and it seems like they just let it go