Aussie Results/News 2021

[El Toro]

Alas I missed most of the meet online as I was wrestling two five-year-olds (mine) to sleep.

You just need to buy Uncle El Toro's book of exciting stories.

Children, let me read you the story about the time Uncle El Toro marked out a 9 lane grass track with sump oil......SNNRRRRXXXX, WHHHEWWWW, SNNRRRRXXX.........

[Vault-emort]

BRISBANE 27 JAN
60 (2.1) Stubbs 6.80 Rizzo 6.91
300 Beck 32.95 Diffey 33.27

60 (1.3) Durmaz TUR 7.49 Edwards 7.51 Clay 7.56
300 Clay 39.03 Sargent-Jones 39.76

[AS]

Beck looks to be #5 on the AUS all-time 300m list behind:

31.88 D Clark (1986)
32.22 D.Capobianco (1992)
32.43 P. Greene (1996)
32.81 S. Perry (1989)

http://www.alltime-athletics.com/m_300ok.htm

En-routes push him further down

32.49 M. Garner (1991)
32.61 M.Ladbroook (1997)

[Vault-emort]

This weekend's most interesting competitions look to be:

Perth - Pole Vaulters Kurt Marschall & Nina Kennedy
Brisbane - M/W Sprints inc Ella Connolly over 200m vs Riley Day, Ellie Beer plus Mitch Cooper (Dis)
Sydney - M/W Sprints plus Mackenzie Little (Jav)
Canberra - Lauren Boden to make her 2021 400H debut

[Vault-emort]

Well, I just posted a bunch of today's results in here including some WL marks, but some bot tells me it has been marked as potential spam and needs admin approval, so lord knows when it might show up..

[Vault-emort]

Maybe I'll try again and hope it doesn't have any unfortunate repercussions for me...

MINGARA - 30 JAN
100 (0.0) Azzopardi 10.58 Abu-Ganaba 10.58
200 (0.8) Abu-Ganaba 20.96 Sarmento 21.38
400 Atkiinson (b03) 47.53
LJ Freyer 7.58m (1.0)

100 (1.2) Quirk 11.51 Carroll 11.89
200 (0.0) Quirk 23.48 Pasternatsky 23.85 Carroll 23.91
100H (1.5) Breslin 13.65
LJ Carroll 6.09m (2.4) (& 5.85m 0.2)
JAV Little ??

A couple more PBs for teenager Quirk

ADELAIDE - 30 JAN
200 (1.5) Moss 21.38

PV Lawson 4.00m

BRISBANE - 30 JAN
100 (0.2) Doran 10.50 Hartmann 10.55 Stubbs 10.60
200 (2.4) Doran 20.99 Harmann 21.01 Law

100 (0.3) Day 11.54 Edwards 11.73 Lewis (b05) 11.76
200 (-0.6) Connolly 22.96 Edwards 23.92 Beer 23.93
DIS Gollshewsky 56.03m Lally GBR 55.79m

Connolly shows her windy 100m from last week was no fluke

WODEN - 30 JAN
100 (1.7) Roberts 10.71
400H Proudfoot 51.75

100 (2.0) Pretorius 11.71

[AS]

Connolly jumps to #17 Aussie all-time. Ahead of Pearson

[El Toro]

11.34 as a PB doesn't really fit with her 200 or 400 PBs which is a good thing so I'd say she's on track to run 22.9 and 51.5 this year.

22.9 = Tick for Connolly on her first run after THAT 100m, so her first one lapper should be a sight to behold. Theoretically, she should be some way off her peak at this stage, so maybe new predictions reqired for later in the year?

[El Toro]

In WA Breanna Beahan improves her 100m PB from 11.54 to 11.48 +1.9. More imprortantly, Tayla Cruttenden born 2003, was just 1 hundreth behind, improving from 11.63 +0.6. This puts her in 7th alltime U20 AUS behind Debbie Wells' performance at the Montreal OG as a 15 year old.

[edited to add paragraph]
Cruttenden also surpasses Jane Ovenden as WA U20 state record holder trimming .05 off her 11.54 from back in 1992, She still has some way to go to beat Colleen Pekin's open record of 11.24 from 1982.

[El Toro]

PERTH - 22 JAN
1500 Ramsden 3-34.97

Apologies for being slow on the uptake with regard to this performance.

I just realised that Ramsden broke a 60 year old WA state record held by one Herb Elliott with 3:35.6 set in Rome on 6 September 1960. I'm not sure what the competition was but it seemed pretty fast for so long ago....

Ramsden also owns the U20 WA state record with 3:42.97 he set in 2016.

[Vault-emort]

Apologies for being slow on the uptake with regard to this performance.

I just realised that Ramsden broke a 60 year old WA state record held by one Herb Elliott with 3:35.6 set in Rome on 6 September 1960.

Surely Matt broke the WA record with his 3-35.23 in Ostrava and then his 3-34.83 in Zagreb last year? It would still have been a 60yr old record though.

[Vault-emort]

Finishing off yesterday's results:

PERTH
100 (1.9) Bresland 10.47 Ennis 10.64
PV Marschall 5.60m Armstrong 5.20m

100 (1.9) Beahan 11.48 Cruttenden (b03) 11.49
100H (2.2) Beahan 13.18
PV Kennedy 4.70m Parnova 4.45m

MINGARA
SP Kolesnikoff 19.51m
JAV McEntyre 76.29m

JAV Blackett 50.37m Little DNS

BRISBANE
TJ James 15.68m (1.2) Konie 15.64m (0.0)
DIS Cooper 53.96m

WODEN
200 (2.0) Roberts 21.59

200 (1.4) Pretorius 23.93

BOX HILL - 31 JAN
4x100 Essendon (Mitrevski Despard Searle Hale) 39.80

Plus another that hasn't been mentioned here:

FAYETTEVILLE - 30 JAN
MILE Charlie Hunter 3-54.54i NIR

[Tuariki]

Woden?

Is that somewhere near Valhalla?

[El Toro]

Surely Matt broke the WA record with his 3-35.23 in Ostrava and then his 3-34.83 in Zagreb last year? It would still have been a 60yr old record though.

Well, yeah, maybe, dunno. It's weird.

AthleticsWest has a list of records as at 9 December 2020 which still has Herb but also has Ramsdens 5000m record as 13:16.63 on 29 August 2020.

He ran a mile and the two 1500s in the fortnight after the 5k with the last race on 15 September before he moved up in distance. So there's been enough time to process them, especially as they have approved a number of under age records set after that with the latest one on 4 December last year.

They still require athletes to submit a form to apply for a record, so maybe Ramsden missed the 14 day deadline for those runs?

Whatever happened, he should be getting credit for at least this one.

BTW, he also smashed the allcomer's record (fastest time ever in WA), surpassing Youcef Abdi's 3:39.65 from 2004.

[El Toro]

Woden?

Is that somewhere near Valhalla?

Not near, it's IN Valhalla, otherwise known as the continent of Australia. Don't they teach basic facts in NZ schools anymore?