2021 World Results

[Atticus]

Alice Wright just smashed the UK record for the One Hour run on a track!. Only 7 women have run at least 18,000 meters!

Did they catch Gidey's split at an hour?
It had to be over 20K, well beyond Hassan's 18930.

[aaronk]

Alice Wright just smashed the UK record for the One Hour run on a track!
She ran 17,030 meters (unofficial), beating the old record by about 535 meters (16,495 meters from 2000).

25th A-T is 17,323 meters, so Alice is maybe 30th or so A-T.
The American Record---17,930 meters--is by Molly Huddle, and she's 11th A-T!!
Only 7 women have run at least 18,000 meters!

[Atticus]

Remember she competed at the Olympic Trials literally days after she got citizenship in late June.

Oh, yeah, I do remember that now - thanks.
Does she have a shot at making our 2022 team? She's off my radar now after a great younger career.
Sisson, Schweizer, Monson, Schneider, Cranny, etc., are formidable talents.

[ATK]

I didn't realize that Weini Kelati was an American now.

Remember she competed at the Olympic Trials literally days after she got citizenship in late June.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2021/06/25/weini-kelati-citizenship-10000-meters-olympic-track-trials/

[Atticus]

I didn't realize that Weini Kelati was an American now.

BOSTON (CBS) — A 24-year-old woman set a new record during a 10K race in Boston Saturday. Weini Kelati, a Flagstaff resident who was born in Eritrea, now holds the new American 10K record for a women’s-only race. It happened at the Boston 10K for Women, presented by REI. This is Kelati’s first professional race. She finished in 31:18, beating the 2015 American record by three seconds.

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/10/...k-race-boston/

Meanwhile

Ethiopia's Haftu Teklu (59:39) And Kenya's Sandrafelis Tuei (67:12) Win Barcelona Half Marathon.

Ethiopia's Abdera Adisa Tola (59:54) and Kenya's Joyce Chepkemoi Tele (66:35) win Roma-Ostia Half Marathon.

[Atticus]

Nice 2.27 in Brasilia by Thiago Moura.

via instagram jumpers.world

[Atticus]

In Hungary last Saturday Robert Szikszai PRed in the DT
66.93
Not bad for mid-October.

- from Carles B.

Also - in one of the the 17 gazillion 5000 and 10000 races in Japan every week, Antipas Kibet (Ken) ran 13:08.58.

NB - CB's blogspot is back. . . . but I can't link it because the botmod sees it as spam.

[TN1965]

I agree that 15:55 is probably not a good simulation for a championship race. A better simulation might be running a 1500m time trial (possibly with a male pacer) several hours before a high level 5000m race with runners like Hironaka and Hagitani.

[Conor Dary]

Good points...this is far more impressive....


Galen Rupp's incredible workout right after breaking the American indoor 2-mile record in 2014 in Boston. Workout: 5 x mile (400m rest in-between) 4:21, 4:20, 4:20, 4:16, and 4:01

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P2da7ETunf4

[NotDutra5]

Nozomi Tanaka did a single day triple of 1500 (4:08.81) 3000 (8:50.47) and 5000 (15:55.99) in a span of six hours. Apparently, she is doing this kind of stuff to prepare herself for a situation where she has to race more than once in a championship.

I don't know if this was the intention but I don't see that as a particularly difficult set of marks to hit for a pretty decent runner over that time span.

[Conor Dary]

Not the times but the quick recovery.....like the road shoes.

[LuckySpikes]

The fancy shoes are doing wanders.

It doesn't seem unreasonable for someone whose PBs are 3:59, 8:40 & 15:00. If she'd run 15:25 for the 5k instead of 15:55 I would have been surprised.

[Conor Dary]

The fancy shoes are doing wanders.

[TN1965]

Nozomi Tanaka did a single day triple of 1500 (4:08.81) 3000 (8:50.47) and 5000 (15:55.99) in a span of six hours. Apparently, she is doing this kind of stuff to prepare herself for a situation where she has to race more than once in a championship.

[ATK]

Why isn't there a big discussion on the new 9.77 man?

Discussed in the thread where is happened: https://forum.trackandfieldnews.com/...-wct-gold-2021