Zatopek 10k on right now

Ben St. Lawrence has the Australian Record of 27:24.95, Stewart McSweyan who has run 13:05 for 5000 and 7:34 for 3000 this year, and Jack Raynor who recently ran 1:01.01 are 2 runners in the race who will try to better that time tonight.

27:40.00 is the standard for Doha 2019 World Championships.

In the Womens race Niiya of Japan ran 31:32 ahead of Masters star S. Diver who just missed the Doha Standard of 31.50.00 by running 31.50.98.

Ryan Gregson is in the race, bringing his 3:31.06 for 1500 speed to the 10000

Slow race, not even a WCQS. Gregson DNF, pacer or couldn’t handle 10k.

Only 13 people (including 5 Kenyans) have gone sub 27:40 this year. It could end up being a very small field.

Lame race wrote:

Slow race, not even a WCQS. Gregson DNF, pacer or couldn’t handle 10k.

Gregson was a pacer. Apparently it was kind of windy according to McSweyn. Here are the results.

Men's Results.

Event 18 Men 10000 Metre Run Zatopek Open

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National: N 27:24.95 5/1/2011 Ben St Lawrence, New South Wales

Vic Record: V 27:29.73 4/24/2009 Collis Birmingham, Eureka

Name Year Team Finals Points

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Finals

1 Mcsweyn, Stewart TASMANIA 27:50.89

2 Rayner, Jack VICTORIA 28:12.07

3 Bruce, Jack QUEENSLAND 28:49.70

4 Summers, Harry VICTORIA 29:20.56

5 Milosevic, Brad NEW SOUTH WALES 29:23.43

6 Roeger, Michael AUSTRALIAN C 29:24.19

7 Canala, Daniel SOUTH AUSTRALIA 29:26.78

8 Cocks, Riley SOUTH AUSTRALIA 29:26.80

9 Gusman, Jordan NEW SOUTH WALES 29:32.74

10 Hudson, Matthew NEW SOUTH WALES 29:39.42

11 Mcafee, Louis QUEENSLAND 29:42.52

12 Potter, Adrian SOUTH AUSTRALIA 29:48.29

13 Buchanan, Andrew VICTORIA 29:53.44

14 Shields, Caden VICTORIA 30:02.24

15 Lefroy, Timothy WESTERN AUSTRALIA 30:10.33

16 Goddard, Edward NEW SOUTH WALES 30:20.03

17 Earl, Nicholas VICTORIA 30:20.81

18 Vincent, Tim QUEENSLAND 30:28.11

19 Anderson, Bryce AUSTRALIAN C 31:58.08

-- Tall, Kieren NEW SOUTH WALES DNF

-- Cowley, Rhydian VICTORIA DNF

-- Gregson, Ryan VICTORIA DNF

-- Williamsz, Jordan VICTORIA DNF

-- Burgess, Joe NEW SOUTH WALES SCR

Women's Results.

Event 15 Women 10000 Metre Run Zatopek Open

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National: N 30:37.68 9/6/2002 Benita Willis, Victoria

Vic Record: V 30:53.37 9/30/2000 Sonia O'Sullivan, Glenhuntly

All Comers: A 30:17.49 9/30/2000 Derartu Tulu, ATH

Name Year Team Finals Points

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Finals

1 Niiya, Hitomi JAPAN 31:32.50

2 Diver, Sinead VICTORIA 31:50.98

3 Pashley, Ellie VICTORIA 32:17.81

4 Brichacek, Emily AUSTRALIAN C 32:22.38

5 Buscomb, Camille NEW ZEALAND 32:28.37

6 Campbell, Paige NEW SOUTH WALES 32:39.16

7 Palm, Tara SOUTH AUSTRALIA 33:06.22

8 Adams, Caitlin SOUTH AUSTRALIA 33:45.52

9 Paterson, Alexandra VICTORIA 33:52.97

10 Pompeani, Leanne AUSTRALIAN C 34:18.23

11 Ponton, Marnie NEW SOUTH WALES 34:30.52

12 Martrin, Belinda NEW SOUTH WALES 34:47.35

13 Fry, Kiah VICTORIA 34:57.72

14 Quinn, Tamara VICTORIA 35:03.72

15 Lawrence, Henrietta VICTORIA 35:06.99

16 Hamilton, Lara NEW SOUTH WALES 35:14.03

-- Duncan, Melissa VICTORIA DNF

-- Trengove, Jess SOUTH AUSTRALIA DNF

-- Gregson, Genevieve VICTORIA DNF

-- Williams, Brooke VICTORIA SCR

-- Marvin, Sarah NEW SOUTH WALES SCR

Here is a full race replay:

And a few recaps.

Cool, in every aspect, winner's profile on Tempo https://tempojournal.com/article/whatever-it-takes/

Solid run for McSweyn. Wore 4%’s. Wonder if they had spikes in them.

Why didn’t Tiernan run? Any update on him?

Shame the MTC guys had to have pacers in the race (which was a national championship race) to get the job done. Even more embarrassing was in the women's race where the rabbits weren't even helping the Japanese athlete leading the race.

Nice run, Mcsweyn, but wearing road shoes?

Wabbits wrote:

Shame the MTC guys had to have pacers in the race (which was a national championship race) to get the job done. Even more embarrassing was in the women's race where the rabbits weren't even helping the Japanese athlete leading the race.

Agreed, this is garbage behaviour and atrociously rude! The puppet master controls AA.

Lame race wrote:

Slow race, not even a WCQS. Gregson DNF, pacer or couldn’t handle 10k.

4:28 PACE FOR 6.2 miles.

that's pretty fast for December

douglas burke wrote:

here,

http://japanrunningnews.blogspot.com/2018/12/zatopek10-livestreaming.html

The most intriguing aspect of this race was the performance of Jordan Gusman who recently relocated to the US to train with TinManElite. He is an extremely talented athlete but his 29:32 would have been disappointing. Hopefully he will be back on the right track in the mile next week in NSW.

observer of sport wrote:

douglas burke wrote:

here,

http://japanrunningnews.blogspot.com/2018/12/zatopek10-livestreaming.html

The most intriguing aspect of this race was the performance of Jordan Gusman who recently relocated to the US to train with TinManElite. He is an extremely talented athlete but his 29:32 would have been disappointing. Hopefully he will be back on the right track in the mile next week in NSW.

Allergic to national championships, will go well in the who cares mile.

Tasmanian, interesting fun fact.

Gusman's run was an anomaly. He went out too hard and blew-up. He's likely in mid-28 mins shape but went out in mid-27 min pace.

Any word on why Tiernan didn't race? Is he injured? Haven't heard much from him over the last year since McSweyn beat him at last year's Zatopek.

wkmjwebfibf wrote:

Gusman's run was an anomaly. He went out too hard and blew-up. He's likely in mid-28 mins shape but went out in mid-27 min pace.

Any word on why Tiernan didn't race? Is he injured? Haven't heard much from him over the last year since McSweyn beat him at last year's Zatopek.

Some truth to that, but it's not really an anomaly if the same runner continually fails in all big races. It was ludicrous to see Gusman, Summers and Bruce running that hard from the start, they should have formed their own pack early. Bruce looks likely to rattle some cages this summer.