Athletics Discussion Thread

[Black Dagger]

Alol the GB relay coaches are on drugs - putting Daryl on anchor and Dina on second leg

Lol at us still getting silver from it!

[Macie Lightfoot]

Was Dina really second leg??? Our commentators keep screaming about how we had to watch out for her on anchor but I wouldn't doubt it for NBC to just be dumb and not realize she was on second leg :joker:

[Macie Lightfoot]

Okay they showed a replay and the American commentators are just that stupid :)

Honestly though putting your fastest leg second IS the way to go if you can practice the handoffs enough to make it work. That's obviously not an option with the Americans but if Dina can get the baton early in the zone and hand it off late in the zone then it actually works out well.

[Macie Lightfoot]

*four minute long montage of all the American 4x1 disasters*

[Macie Lightfoot]

Get Mike Rodgers OFF the 4x1 and just put Holloway on ffs.

Honestly it should be Coleman, Lyles, Holloway, Gatlin but putting hurdlers in a flat relay is apparently un-American.

[Macie Lightfoot]

YUP let's not only keep Rodgers in the relay at all, but have him run a curve and do two handoffs when he could barely do both of them in qualifying :)

[Headie]

Alol USA win the Men's 4x100 even tho they should've definitely been DQ'd in the semis :joker:

[Macie Lightfoot]

asdfjkl; I can't get over the fact that we are CELEBRATING so hard that both American teams got the stick around :joker:

[Headie]

The women's relay team is apparently called "Dina and the girls" :)

[Macie Lightfoot]

Reminiscent of DEANA'S CREW circa BB13 :love:

[Nicky91]

Silly by Laura Muir trying to go with the winner. She should have just let her go and run her own race and she'd have got a Silver.

also Sifan Hassan had a choice to make, either this race or the 5, her coach said she had more chance at winning at the 5, but she personally wanted this race because at this event she did not have any medals till now

[Macie Lightfoot]

12.44 for Nia Ali *WOW* she's always been underrated but she always delivers!!!

[Macie Lightfoot]

ooooooh NBC says Dalilah Muhammad is running the 4x4!

[Alf]

What happened to that South African guy Van Niekerk?

Wasn't he at the championships this year?

[Macie Lightfoot]

lmfao Keni Harrison barely holding off Megan Tapper and all 5-foot-1 of her :joker: the girl can't handle anyone challenging her!

van Niekerk is coming back from ACL and meniscus surgery still from what I understand

[Macie Lightfoot]

YAAASSSSSS McLaughlin, Muhammad, Jonathas, and Francis for the 4x4 :love::love::love: US finally making a good decision

[Macie Lightfoot]

7.30 for Mihambo :o

[Headie]

Loool we're still getting Mo Farah VTs even tho he retired from track two years ago and we have no British entrant in this final

[James]

The coverage of the 1500m was weird, almost ignoring the winner in the home straight.

[Macie Lightfoot]

NIA ALI SHOCKING THE WORLD AND WINNING :love::love::love::love::love: also I don't even have anything against Keni Harrison but I just kinda love her getting denied of a gold medal AGAIN

Tori Bowie randomly coming in fourth in LJ :joker: Mihambo was gr8 though it's true

[Macie Lightfoot]

*extended Allyson Felix montage of her and her daughter*
Leigh Diffey: The Allyson Felix story continues to get more impressive :)
*cuts to the relay team that she ISN'T on*
Lewis Johnson: and here with us is Allyson Felix and her daughter for an interview :)

[Headie]

I didn't realise you could change your whole relay squad between the heats and the final, I thought the rule was always you can only swap 2 out??? When did that rule change?

[Macie Lightfoot]

I don't know how recently it got changed but we did it with the mixed relay too so it might be new now?

[Headie]

The coverage of the 1500m was weird, almost ignoring the winner in the home straight.

They did it with Muir as well. The BBC always override the race feed with their own cameras that are focused on the British athletes if there's someone in contention for a medal :joker: If you'd just tuned in you'd think Wightman and Muir were fighting for a gold medal not a bronze :joker: So annoying

[Headie]

I don't know how recently it got changed but we did it with the mixed relay too so it might be new now?

Yeah it happened with the mixed relay and I saw people saying online that they didn't realise that was allowed but assumed it was cause it was a new relay format. But now you can do it in the normal relays too apparently.

Anyway Martyn Rooney is not in the Men's final team so we might have a shot of not finishing last now <3

[Headie]

Jodie Williams should really take up 400m running and give up the short sprints already while she still has a good few years of her career left

[Macie Lightfoot]

*Sydney McLaughlin splits 48.****ing.8*

Sanya: Allyson Felix should be proud, doing the second leg justice :)

If this was a drinking game I'd be dead three days ago

[Headie]

Jodie Williams should really take up 400m running and give up the short sprints already while she still has a good few years of her career left

49.6 split yeah she needs to give the game up and make the jump already! From her interview just then it sounds like she probably will though

[Macie Lightfoot]

Didn't she have a blog post about how people need to stop being rude and saying she should run the 400 just bc she's slower now? :joker: hope it works out for her tbh she deserves some sort of individual success after all her junior success

[Macie Lightfoot]

The American broadcasters are shocked about no Rooney :joker:

[Black Dagger]

****ing screaming.

We have no 400m depth. Every other distance at least has somebody with potential and these lot all just turn up.

[Macie Lightfoot]

For anyone (probably just Hayden) wondering what happened to Mary Cain, the answer is very grim:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/opinion/nike-running-mary-cain.html

[Headie]

For anyone (probably just Hayden) wondering what happened to Mary Cain, the answer is very grim:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/opinion/nike-running-mary-cain.html

Yikes. And it's mad to think she's still only 23.

[Headie]

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*Gabby Logan squeals in excitement

[Macie Lightfoot]

LOLO JONES is back racing :joker::skull: we’re interviewing her AND Nia Ali together even though Ali ran like 8.0 for first and Jones ran 8.3 for last

[Macie Lightfoot]

Milrose Games last night were pretty darn good? Highlights include:

-4.91 for Sandi Morris to break the PV meet record (a seriously awesome day for PV because Kendricks jumped 6.01 for the American record and Mondo 6.17 for the world record in other meets)
-1:44.22 for Donovan Brazier to set the American record in a negative split?! 53.04-51.18
-Ajee' Wilson breaking her own American record in the 800 with a 1:58.29
-Elle Purrier breaking through with a 4:16.85 Mile to break the American record and become #2 AT?!?!?!


Jemma Reekie also is A Name To Watch this season for y'all Brits. 4:17.88 to break Muir's national record in the mile and she also ran like 1:57.91 in the 800 to set that national record too? Never heard of her before but I'm ready.

Also also, Koko Klosterhalfen does NOT look good. I'm not even trying to be that guy watching a woman's weight and whatnot but she is seriously looking unhealthy. She struck me as such at New Balance Grand Prix a few weeks ago but now she looks even worse? Ridiculously skinny and working wayyyyy too hard on that last lap with head and upper body movement. Not to mention that Salazar association. I'm just getting nervous for her.

[James]

New Men's and Women's 400m hurdles world records.

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[Nicky91]

https://twitter.com/Diamond_League/status/1428953756301889542

[Nicky91]

Hassan had won 5000m but no world record, that attempt had failed

[James]

10.54 :o

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[Nicky91]

World championships Eugene, USA

men's 20km walk

1. Toshikazu Yamanishi (JAP)
2. Koki Ikeda (JAP)
3. Perseus Karlstrom (SWE)



4x400 Mixed Relay

1. Dominican Republic
2. Netherlands (national record)
3. USA (season best)



Women's 20km walk

1. Kimberly Garcia (PER)
2. Katarzyna Zdzieblo (POL)
3. Qieyang Shijie (CHN)




from 15–24 July 2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_World_Athletics_Championships

https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldAthletics/videos

[Zizu]

I wasn’t impressed with these two British athletes!!

Far too skinny in my opinion..

Now all young girls going into middle distance running will think they have to be this underweight to be successful

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[Beso]

What an absolute crock of **** zizu, shes just built that way.

[Zizu]

...

Fair enough ..

I wouldn’t want my daughter to be that underweight though

[Nicky91]

men's 100m

1. Fred Kerley (USA)
2. Marvin Bracy (USA)
3. Trayvon Bromell (USA)


Men's Long Jump

1. Wang Jianan (CHN)
2. Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE)
3. Simon Ehammer (SUI)

Men's Hammer Throw

1. Pawel Fajdek (POL)
2. Wojciech Nowicki (POL)
3. Eivind Henriksen (NOR)



Women's 10.000m

1. Letesenbet Gidey (ETH)
2. Hellen Obiri (KEN)
3. Margaret Kipkemboi (KEN)


Women's Shot Put

1. Chase Ealey (USA)
2. Gong Lijao (CHN)
3. Jessica Schilder (NL)

[Nicky91]

women's 100m

1. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM)
2. Shericka Jackson (JAM)
3. Elaine Thompson-Herah (JAM)

women's pole vault

1. Katie Nageotte (USA)
2. Sandi Morris (USA)
3. Nina Kennedy (AUS)

women's hammer throw

1. Brooke Andersen (USA)
2. Camryn Rogers (CAN)
3. Janee' Kassanavoid (USA)



men's 10.000m

1. Joshua Cheptegei (UGA)
2. Stanley Mburu Waithaka (KEN)
3. Jacob Kiplimo (UGA)

men's marathon

1. Tamirat Tola (ETH)
2. Mosinet Geremew (ETH)
3. Bashir Abdi (BEL)

men's 110m hurdles

1. Grant Holloway (USA)
2. Trey Cunningham (USA)
3. Asier Martinez (ESP)

men's shot put

1. Ryan Crouser (USA)
2. Joe Kovacs (USA)
3. Josh Awotunde (USA)





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medal table top 5 so far

1. USA 6 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze = 14
2. Ethiopia 2 gold, 1 silver = 3
3. Poland 1 gold, 2 silver = 3
4. China 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze = 3
5. Jamaica 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze = 3

[Nicky91]

men's 3.000m steeple chase

1. Soufiane el Bakkali (MOR)
2. Lamecha Girma (ETH)
3. Conseslus Kipruto (KEN)


men's high jump

1. Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT)
2. Woo Sang-Hyeok (KOR)
3. Andriy Protsenko (UKR)


women's 1.500m

1. Faith Kipyegon (KEN)
2. Gudaf Tsegay (ETH)
3. Laura Muir (GB)


women's marathon

1. Gotytom Gebreslase (ETH)
2. Judith Jeptum (KEN)
3. Lonah Chemtai Salpeter (ISR)

women's triple jump

1. Yuilmar Rojas (VEN)
2. Shanieka Ricketts (JAM)
3. Tori Franklin (USA)

women's heptathlon

1. Nafissatou Thiam (BEL)
2. Anouk Vetter (NL)
3. Anna Hall (USA)

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TeamGB's Laura Muir a bronze medal


Laura Muir claimed Great Britain's first medal of the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, winning bronze in the 1500m.

Faith Kipyegon of Kenya came first with a time of 3:52.96 while Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia came second, but Muir ran a season-best 3:55.28 to finish on the podium.

It marked the end of Muir's quest for a world outdoor medal after several near-misses, finishing fifth, fourth and fifth in her last three attempts.

It also came after the Scot suffered a stress reaction to her femur in her right leg in February which left her on crutches.

Muir, who won a memorable silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics last summer, said that the absence of a world medal had been "bugging" her.

"I am so delighted. It was all about this, that was what I wanted," Muir, 29, said. "I took my time trying but I am so, so happy I got it. This time last year I didn't have any global outdoor medals and now I have two.

"This was the one that was bugging me. After I got the silver last year, I was like 'this is the year I am going to get it' and I've got it.

"Better late than never, having to wait so long makes it feel even more special."

But there was disappointment elsewhere for Britain as Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the defending champion in the heptathlon, finished a lowly eighth.

Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium took Johnson-Thompson's crown, recording a personal best of 2:13.00 in the 800m to claim her second world title after Johnson-Thompson had beaten her to gold in 2019.

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Thiam won with a final score of 6,947, ahead of the Netherlands' Anouk Vetter and the United States' Anna Hall.

Johnson-Thompson, who has been plagued by injuries, will look to put her poor performance in Oregon behind her at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where she will hope to mount a successful title defence.

Dina Asher-Smith gave Britons more reason to cheer as she qualified for the 200m semi-finals in a time of 22.56 seconds.

Asher-Smith said she was "gutted" after finishing fourth in the 100m final on Sunday despite matching her British record of 10.83 seconds, but this was a comfortable start to the defence of her 200m gold medal from 2019.


https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/34265597/laura-muir-wins-1500m-bronze-worlds-katarina-johnson-thompson-falls-short-heptathlon

[Nicky91]

men's 1.500m

1. Jake Wightman (GB)
2. Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)
3. Mohamed Katir (ESP)

men's 400m hurdles

1. Alison Dos Santos (BRA)
2. Rai Benjamin (USA)
3. Trevor Bassitt (USA)

men's discus throw

1. Kristjan Ceh (SLO)
2. Mykolas Alekna (LIT)
3. Andrius Gudzius (LIT)

women's high jump

1. Eleanor Patterson (AUS)
2. Yaroslava Mahutskih (UKR)
3. Elena Vallortigara (ITA)

[Zizu]

men's 1.500m

1. Jake Wightman (GB)
2. Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)
3. Mohamed Katir (ESP)

men's 400m hurdles

1. Alison Dos Santos (BRA)
2. Rai Benjamin (USA)
3. Trevor Bassitt (USA)

men's discus throw

1. Kristjan Ceh (SLO)
2. Mykolas Alekna (LIT)
3. Andrius Gudzius (LIT)

women's high jump

1. Eleanor Patterson (AUS)
2. Yaroslava Mahutskih (UKR)
3. Elena Vallortigara (ITA)


How bizarre that the stadium announcer was commentating on his own son as he won the 1500metres final to become world champion !!


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[Nicky91]

women's 3.000m steeple chase

1. Norah Jeruto (KAZ)
2. Workua Getachew (ETH)
3. Mekides Abebe (ETH)

women's discus throw

1. Feng Bin (CHN)
2. Sandra Perkovic (CRO)
3. Valarie Allman (USA)

[Nicky91]

men's 200m

1. Noah Lyles (USA)
2. Kenneth Bednarek (USA)
3. Erriyon Knighton (USA)

women's 200m

1. Shericka Jackson (JAM)
2. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM)
3. Dina Asher-Smith (GB)

[Nicky91]

men's 400m

1. Michael Norman (USA)
2. Kirani James (GRN)
3. Matthew Hudson-Smith (GB)


women's 400m

1. Shaunae Miller-Uibo (BAH)
2. Marileidy Paulino (DOM)
3. Sada Williams (BAR)

women's 400m hurdles

1. Sydney McLaughlin (USA) world record
2. Femke Bol (NL)
3. Dalilah Muhammad (USA)

women's javelin

1. Kelsey-Lee Barber (AUS)
2. Kara Winger (USA)
3. Haruka Kitaguchi (JAP)

women's 35km race walk

1. Kimberly Garcia (PER)
2. Katarzyna Zdzieblo (POL)
3. Qieyang Shijie (CHN)

[Nicky91]

men's 800m

1. Emmanuel Kipkurui Korir (KEN)
2. Djamel Sedjati (ALG)
3. Marco Arop (CAN)

men's triple jump

1. Pedro Pichardo (POR)
2. Hugues Fabrice Zango (BUR)
3. Zhu Yaming (CHN)

men's javelin

1. Anderson Peters (GRN)
2. Neeraj Chopra (IND)
3. Jakub Vadlejch (CZE)

men's 4x100m

1. Canada
2. USA
3. GB


women's 5.000m

1. Gudaf Tsegay (ETH)
2. Beatrice Chebet (KEN)
3. Dawit Seyaum (ETH)

women's 4x100m

1. USA
2. Jamaica
3. Germany

[Nicky91]

men's 5.000m

1. Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)
2. Jacob Krop (KEN)
3. Oscar Chelimo (UGA)

men's pole vault

1. Armand Duplantis (SWE) world record
2. Chris Nilsen (USA)
3. Ernest Obiena (PHI)

men's 4x400m

1. USA
2. Jamaica
3. Belgium

women's 800m

1. Athing Mu (USA)
2. Keely Hodgkinson (GB)
3. Mary Moraa (KEN)

women's 100m hurdles

1. Tobi Amusa (NGA)
2. Britany Anderson (JAM)
3. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (P-Ri)

women's long jump

1. Malaika Mihambo (GER)
2. Esa Brume (NGA)
3. Leticia Melo (BRA)

women's 4x400m

1. USA
2. Jamaica
3. GB

[Nicky91]

european championships athletics medal table so far

1. Germany (4 golds, 3 silver, 1 bronze)
2. Spain (2 golds, 3 silver, 1 bronze)
3. Greece (2 golds, 1 silver)
3. Croatia (2 golds, 1 silver)
5. Netherlands (2 golds, 2 bronzes)
6. GB (1 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronzes)
7. Poland (1 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronzes)
8. Italy (1 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronzes)
9. Israel (1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
10. Portugal (1 gold, 1 silver)
11. Finland (1 gold)
11. Norway (1 gold)
11. Romania (1 gold)
11. Turkiye (1 gold)
15. Switzerland (3 silvers)
16. France (1 silver, 3 bronzes)
17. Serbia (1 silver)
17. Sweden (1 silver)
19. Estonia (1 bronze)
19. Hungary (1 bronze)
19. Slovenia (1 bronze)
19. Czech Republic (1 bronze)

[Nicky91]

todays medal winners so far

men's

400m

1. Matthew Hudson-Smith (GB)
2. Ricky Petrucciani (SUI)
3. Alex Haydock-Wilson (GB)

110m hurdles

1. Asier Martinez (ESP)
2. Pascal Martinot-Lagarde (FRA)
3. Just Kwaou-Mathey (FRA)

triple jump

1. Pedro Pichardo (POR)
2. Andrea Dallavalle (ITA)
3. Jean-Marc Pontvianne (FRA)


women's

400m

1. Femke Bol (NL) new national record
2. Natalia Kaczmarek (POL)
3. Anna Kielbasinska (POL)

pole vault

1. Wilma Murto (FIN)
2. Katerina Stefanidi (GRE)
3. Tina Sutej (SLO)

hammer throw

1. Bianca Ghelber (ROU)
2. Ewa Rozanska (POL)
3. Sara Fantini (ITA)

[Nicky91]

todays medal winners

men's

1.500m

1. Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)
2. Jake Heyward (GB)
3. Mario Garcia (ESP)

high jump

1. Gianmarco Tamberi (ITA)
2. Tobias Potye (GER)
3. Andriy Protsenko (UKR)

hammer throw

1. Wojciech Nowicki (POL)
2. Bence Halasz (HUN)
3. Eivind Henriksen (NOR)

women's

5.000m

1. Konstanze Klosterhafen (GER)
2. Yasemin Can (TUR)
3. Eilish McColgan (GB)

long jump

1. Ivana Vuleta (SER)
2. Malaika Mihambo (GER)
3. Jazmin Sawyers (GB)

heptathlon

1. Nafissatou Thiam (BEL)
2. Adrianna Sulek (POL)
3. Annik Kalin (SUI)

[Nicky91]

men's

200m

1. Zharnel Hughes (GB)
2. Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (GB)
3. Filippo Tortu (ITA)

3.000m steeple chase

1. Topi Raitanen (FIN)
2. Ahmed Abdelwahed (ITA)
3. Osama Zoghlami (ITA)

400m hurdles

1. Karsten Warholm (NOR)
2. Wilfried Happio (FRA)
3. Yasmani Capallo (TUR)

discus throw

1. Mykolas Alekna (LIT)
2. Kristjan Ceh (SLO)
3. Lawrence Okoye (GB)


women's

200m

1. Mujinga Kambundji (SUI)
2. Dina Asher-Smith (GB)
3. Ida Karstoft (DEN)

1.500m

1. Laura Muir (GB)
2. Ciara Mageean (IRL)
3. Sofia Ennaoui (POL)

400m hurdles

1. Femke Bol (NL)
2. Viktoriya Tchatchuk (UKR)
3. Anna Ryzhikova (UKR)

triple jump

1. Maryna Bech-Romanchuk (UKR)
2. Kristiina Makela (FIN)
3. Ganna Minenko (ISR)

[Crimson Dynamo]

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[Beso]

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Was just coming to post that...

[Zizu]

So he only broke the record set by Bolt when HE was 16 years old .. he didn’t break THE world record held by Bolt