SUPER STACK 3000m Pre Classic Field (June 30) including ALMAZ AYANA

You and your ALL CAPS always wanting attention. Why?

Why ask why...drink Budweiser Dry or on ICE!

Courtesy of IAAF

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FIVE GLOBAL CHAMPIONS SET TO CLASH OVER 3000M IN STANFORD – IAAF DIAMOND LEAGUE

The greatest field of women distance runners ever assembled on US soil will step to the starting line for the Prefontaine Classic 3000m when the IAAF Diamond League heads to Stanford on 30 June.

World 5000m and cross-country champion Hellen Obiri will be making her sixth appearance at the Prefontaine Classic. She set meeting records at 1500m in 2013 and 2014, then won the 5000m in 2016.

The Kenyan, who won the 5000m IAAF Diamond League title in 2018, is undefeated this year and won the 3000m at the opening leg of the IAAF Diamond League in Doha earlier this month in a world-leading 8:25.60.

Multiple world record-holder and five-time world indoor champion Genzebe Dibaba has won all three of her past Pre Classic appearances and her 14:19.76 victory in 2015 is the fastest 5000m ever run in the US.

Sifan Hassan won the 1500m Diamond League trophy in 2015 and followed it with world indoor gold over the same distance in 2016. The Dutch athlete is one of the most versatile runners in history, boasting an 800m PB of 1:56.81 and a half marathon PB of 1:05:15. She also holds the European 5000m record and the world 5km record.

Olympic 10,000m champion and world record-holder Almaz Ayana will be competing in the US for the first time. The Ethiopian won the 2015 world 5000m title, 2016 5000m Diamond Trophy and 2017 world 10,000m title, but missed all of last year with a knee injury.

Obiri, Dibaba, Ayana and Hassan are among the seven fastest women of all time at 5000m, but this will be the first time they have all raced one another at any distance.

The addition of world and Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya adds further interest. Although she has contested the distance in low-key domestic races in South Africa, this will be her first international 3000m race.

Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey and Senbere Teferi, ranked eighth and ninth respectively on the world 5000m all-time list, are also in the field. Gidey is a two-time world U20 cross-country champion, while Teferi earned world silver medals at 5000m and cross country in 2015.

The field also includes two-time Ethiopian champion Fantu Worku, versatile Kenyan Caroline Chepkoech Kipkurui, world U20 cross-country champion Beatrice Chebet, 2017 world cross-country bronze medallist Lilian Kasait Rengeruk, double European indoor silver medallist Konstanze Klosterhalfen, 2016 European 5000m and 10,000m champion Yasmin Can, European 1500m bronze medallist Laura Weightman, six-time NCAA champion Karissa Schweizer and USA’s Rachel Schneider.

It will be interesting to see what Semenya can do. She has never seriously raced the 3000m. I can’t see her hanging with the big guns though. Maybe 8:40s? Ballsy move to move up though and give the IAAF he middle finger.

Let's keep this thread focused on the XX real women.

dunes runner wrote:

Let's keep this thread focused on the XX real women.

+1

See the previous thread derailed

I think the IAAF will have to re-evaluate even the longer distsnces once Caster Semenya trains soecifically for 3000m-5000m. I d>n't think Caster will threaten any WR but with soecific training and another year of base I can see sub 8:40 for 3000m and sub 14:40 5000m.

If Caster has the testerone level reported its closer to a regular male then to a normal female. A 1:54 800m and 3:59 1500m male would have little trouble achieving times I posted with soecific training and another year of base.

Come on Ayana and popped a sub 8:20 PB at Pre and show the world YOU ARE BACK!

Remember at 2015 when she closed for the 5000m Gold in 8:20 destroying 1500m WR holder Genzebe Dibaba.

nehemiah wrote:

You and your ALL CAPS always wanting attention. Why?

Because old farts need bigger letters to see.

I could still beat you in any running event from 100m to 5000m.

VIPAM wrote:

I could still beat you in any running event from 100m to 5000m.

Wow you must have a low IQ and be awfully insecure. You have no idea whether you could beat that poster at anything. Why don’t you think before your next post? You have no idea.

VIPAM wrote:

I think the IAAF will have to re-evaluate even the longer distsnces once Caster Semenya trains soecifically for 3000m-5000m. I d>n't think Caster will threaten any WR but with soecific training and another year of base I can see sub 8:40 for 3000m and sub 14:40 5000m.

If Caster has the testerone level reported its closer to a regular male then to a normal female. A 1:54 800m and 3:59 1500m male would have little trouble achieving times I posted with soecific training and another year of base.

She's pretty stocky though, I think she'd have to change her training AND her body type to get world class at the 3K-5K, and with that comes risk of injury.

Also, for the hundredth time, it doesn't matter what her testosterone level is if her body can't make use of it. We don't know the answer to the second part of that question but we know it has to be less than a normal male. You can't just extrapolate to guy times, she's training with much greater specificity than a guy with ordinary levels of androgen sensitivity who runs the same time.

Most people don't know Almaz (Diamond) is named after the pioneering Soviet space station program that spied on the United States. A mini space-station race between the US and USSR in the 70's was made moot by the development of unmanned spy satellites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz

Bad Wigins wrote:

Most people don't know Almaz (Diamond) is named after the pioneering Soviet space station program that spied on the United States. A mini space-station race between the US and USSR in the 70's was made moot by the development of unmanned spy satellites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaz

Most people don't know as much as you? How do you know so much about everything? You're such a brain person. Most people spent their sophomore years trying to improve their 5k XC times instead of doing what you are meant to do in college and actually get an education and develop your brains. You are probably the only one here who did that. That is why you are the GOAT brain of letsrun.

Posters automatically think ones ability to move up in distance is a fixed body type. How many milers have become successful marathoners, how many 400m runners have become world class 800m runners, Caster started out as a 800m runner and showed world class potential at 1500m. Increased mileage for about 18 months to 2 yeaes will make Caster leaner and greatly increase endurance Caster should have little trouble becoming world class at ub 8:40 3000m/sub 14:45 5000m.

The only question is how much under those marks can Caster improve?

Any update on Almaz Ayana fitness? She normally doesn't tow the line unless she is ready to crush it.

lol literally the most doped women on Earth.

any got any good marinara sauce recipes

VIPAM wrote:

Any update on Almaz Ayana fitness? She normally doesn't tow the line unless she is ready to crush it.

She has been training hard on the track - but I would be very surprised if she shows up and dominates this particular race. But who knows? You cannot apply the same logic to Ayana’s runs as she is unique in terms of race splits and convention. Most athletes require races to be at their best but Ayanas point of difference is that she is essentially a solo time trialing runner. At least a third of any particular race she is running all alone, I guess her training specifically targets the development of a singular hi tempo metronomic pace. Her weakness has always been tempo changes which is why she has focused on blowing the race open early. I can’t wait until she moves to the marathon.