Ostrava Golden Spike Live Thread: Bolt (2:55 pm ET) , Van Niekerk, Rudisha (2:05 pm) and Farah (10k 2:15 pm ET) all running.

Only 2 runners in history hadgone sub 31 secs in 300m before today.

Van Nieker now has the #1 time 30.81

30.85A Michael Johnson USA 13.09.67 1 Pretoria 24.03.2000

2 30.97 Usain Bolt JAM 21.08.86 1rA Ostrava 27.05.2010

3 31.03 Wayde van Niekerk RSA 15.07.92 1 Kingston 11.06.2016

4 31.23 LaShawn Merritt USA 27.06.86 2 Kingston 11.06.2016

5 31.30 LaShawn Merritt USA 27.06.86 1 Eugene 07.06.2009

6 31.31 LaShawn Merritt USA 27.06.86 1 Eugene 08.08.2006

7 31.48 Danny Everett USA 01.11.66 1 Jerez de la Frontera 03.09.1990

7 31.48 Roberto Hernández CUB 06.03.67 2 Jerez de la Frontera 03.09.1990

9 31.53 LaShawn Merritt USA 27.06.86 1 Atlanta 01.08.2015

10 31.56 Michael Johnson USA 13.09.67 1 Salamanca 22.07.1994

Why in the hell don't they start the 1k in lanes. Rabbits out in 26.91. Rudisha probably 27.5.

Rudusha letting the rabbit gap him.

I think Rudihsa was 55.49 or was that the rabbit?

jeezum, rudisha just got blow away in a slow race

worst race i've ever had to witness....

Shocked how little Rudisha had left in the tank after going through 800 in 1:52.

Sidenote, Van Niekerk is unreal, hope he can get double gold in London

Iceman400m wrote:

Shocked how little Rudisha had left in the tank after going through 800 in 1:52.

Sidenote, Van Niekerk is unreal, hope he can get double gold in London

1:52.54 for 800 for Rudisha and then he gets smokes over the final 200.

Caltyon Murphy has got to be watching that at home right now and thinking, "Oh my god. If only I was in the 800 at Worlds this year."

Rank Athlete Nation Result

1 KIPKOECH Nicholas KEN

2:18.51

2 HOLUÅ A Jakub CZE

2:18.60

3 SASÍNEK Filip CZE

PB 2:19.03

4 RUDISHA David KEN

2:19.43

5 MATHEWS Luke AUS

2:19.57

6 FRIÅ  Jan CZE

PB 2:20.05

7 ROZANI Jacob RSA

2:20.25

8 GREGSON Ryan AUS

2:20.51

9 GRETHEN Charles LUX

2:21.05

VOJTA Andreas AUT

2:26.48

PAVLÍČEK Matěj CZE

DNF

Intermediate times:

800 236 Rudisha David (KEN) 1:52.54

600 238 Pavlíček Matěj (CZE) 1:23.63

400 238 Pavlíček Matěj (CZE) 55.49

200 238 Pavlíček Matěj (CZE) 26.91

I'm watching through a czech proxy, so it is confusing. I was about to ask why there was a second heat of the 1000m, then I realized there was an extra 0 in there.

I don't know why it seems weird to me that the 1000m and 10000m would be back to back.

Rudisha is not an endurance guy

how did big man look?

RunSprintRun wrote:

Rudisha is not an endurance guy

Yeah, but he has a 1:40 800

Will somone post splits for Farah? Im working atm.

63 through first lap, farah in 4th

watch out for COLLIS birmingham! That's a Melbourne man!

Is the stadium full? I can only imagine what they're charging to watch and how much $ they gave out in appearance fees for 4 of the biggest 5 male stars/talents in the sport.

Who besides me is upset Kwemoi isn't running the 5k at Worlds. The Kenyan 5k team is horrible. Winner of Kenyan trials has 13:03 pb. I think KWemoi could maybe challenge him.

Who the hell is going to challenge Farah now?

I need splits too, since I'm watching the czech feed, which is currently showing HJ only, including B-roll of HJers walking around between jumps when they should be cutting back to the 10k

sternburg wrote:

worst race i've ever had to witness....

WHy did they all bother? What a JV performance.

2000m in 5:17. Km average 2:08. Decent pace

Farah through 2k in 5:18