Aussie Results/News 2023

[Daniel Foster]

Counting the hours until 6pm (and then 3am) with so many Aussies in action - especially that W Jav final.

Curious to see how our Aussie boys (especially Ash) perform in the deca too.

And my fingers are already crossed for Trina Bisset making the 800 final.

With Ella Connolly seemingly injured, guessing the Aussie team will be Lane, Masters, Edwards, Lewis

Looking at the results, we didn't do as well as we expected. Neither 800m runner made the final, the relay DNF, and I believe two of our decas are out. We did get a 4th in the W Jav.

[Vault-emort]

Counting the hours until 6pm (and then 3am) with so many Aussies in action - especially that W Jav final.

Curious to see how our Aussie boys (especially Ash) perform in the deca too.

And my fingers are already crossed for Trina Bisset making the 800 final.

With Ella Connolly seemingly injured, guessing the Aussie team will be Lane, Masters, Edwards, Lewis

[typpo]

Nina! How fuggin' good!

[El Toro]

Jessica Hull talks reality check, tactical changes and her belief that the next Olympic cyle will be her best.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/athletics/this-next-olympic-cycle-is-my-peak-unable-to-keep-up-with-kipyegon-hull-eyes-paris-games-20230818-p5dxr4.html

Doping bosses "unexpectedly" point finger at WADA in Peter Bol devastating doping disaster, "somebody else must be to blame" they shriek.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/athletics/peter-bol-s-comeback-ends-in-800m-heat-doping-police-admit-case-against-him-was-a-disaster-20230823-p5dyng.html

[El Toro]

Day 5 Morning Session results

MLJ Qualifying (39 competitors)

Group A
7.Christopher MITREVSKI 7.99 (-0.7) SB DNQ, 13th overall.

Series: 7.82 (+0.4) - 7.99 (-0.7) - 6.72 (-1.0)

Group B
7. Liam ADCOCK 7.99 (+0.5) DNQ, 14th overall
Series: X - 7.68 (-1.1) - 7.99 (+0.5) - 7.99 (+0.5)

10.Henry FRAYNE 7.78 (+0.5) DNQ, 20th overall

Series: 7.78 (+0.5) - 7.51 (+0.1) - 7.78 (+0.5)


MPV Qualifying

Group A
=1 Kurtis Marschall 5.75 q, =1 overall, 13 to final all on 5.75

Series: 5.35 O - 5.55 O - 5.70 O - 5.75 O

W800 Heats

H3.
3. Abbey CALDWELL 2:00.29 Q, 20th overal

H5.
7. Ellie SANFORD 2:03.55 DNQ, 51st overall

H6.
2. Catriona BISSET 1:59.46 Q, 3rd overall


WJT Qualifying

Group A

5. Kathryn MITCHELL 62.10 SB Q

Series: 62.10 Q

8. Kelsey-Lee BARBER 59.66 q, 12th overall

Series: 58.10 - 55.90 - 59.66

Group B

1.Mackenzie LITTLE 63.45 Q

Series: 50.94 - 58.79 - 63.45


W200 Heats

Heat 4.

Ella CONNOLLY DNS


M200 Heats

Heat 4

6. Aidan MURPHY 20.90 (-1.4) DNQ, 42nd overall

[El Toro]

Day 5 Evening Session - upcoming athletes


WHT Qualifying - 73.00 or at least 12 best

Group A

Stephanie RATCLIFFE SB/PB=73.63, WRK=29


W5000 Heats - first 8 only

H1.

Lauren RYAN SB/PB=15:11.84, WRK=36

Rose DAVIES SB=15:10.30 PB=15:07.49, WRK=26

H2.

Jessica HULL SB=14:44.24 PB=14:43.80, WRK=10


WPV Final

Nina KENNEDY SB=4.77 PB=4.82, WRK=2


W3000SC Heats - first 5 only

H1.

Brielle ERBACHER SB=9:40.64 PB=9:32.96, WRK=41

H2.

Cara FEAIN-RYAN SB=9:38.44 PB=9:36.35, WRK=30

H3.

Amy CASHIN SB=9:38.27 PB=9:21.46, WRK=35


W100H Semi-finals - first 2 + 2 fastest

H2.

Celeste MUCCI SB/PB=12.84, WRK=22

H3.

Michelle JENNEKE SB=12.69 PB=12.66, WRK=17

[El Toro]

Day 5 Morning Session - upcoming athletes


W800 Heats - first 3 + 3 fastest

H3. Abbey CALDWELL SB/PB=1:58.48, WRK=17
H5. Ellie SANFORD SB/PB=2:00.50, WRK=51
H6. Catriona BISSET SB/PB=1:57.78, WRK=8


MPV Qualifying - 5.80 or at least 12 best

Group A (17 athletes)

Kurtis MARSCHALL SB/PB=5.95, WRK=5


WJT Qualifying - 61.50 or at least 12 best

Group A (18 athletes)

Kathryn MITCHELL SB=61.84 PB=68.92, WRK=27

Kelsey-Lee BARBER SB=62.54 PB=67.70, WRK=4

Group B (18 athletes)

Mackenzie LITTLE SB/PB=65.70, WRK=2


MLJ Qualifying - 8.15 or at least 12 best

Group A (20 athletes)

Christopher MITREVSKI SB=7.96 PB=8.21, WRK=17

Group B (19 athletes)

Liam ADCOCK SB/PB=8.15, WRK=23

Henry FRAYNE SB=7.92 PB=8.34, WRK=32


W200 Heats - first 3 + 6 fastest

Heat 3. Ella CONNOLLY SB=23.07 PB=22.95, WRK=33


M200 Heats - first 3 + 3 fastest

H3. Aidan MURPHY SB=20.54 PB=20.41, WRK=69

[El Toro]

An AUS trivia question ahead of the W100H.

What do the Budapest absent Liz Clay (2022 AUS champ and 3rd fastest AUS behind Pearson and Jenneke) and old school hurdler Cornelia Oschkenat (WIC Gold, WC and Euro silver) have in common?

Since nobody seems interested in this admittedly trivial trivia I noticed when verifying Riley McGown's ACT record, here's the answer:

Although separated by 35 years in time and with origins on opposite sides of the earth, Clay and Oshkenat share the ACT allcomers record over 100H at 12.72, although with quite different experiences with the wind!

12.72 (-1.8) World Cup, Bruce Stadium, 6 Oct 1985
12.72 (+1.3) ACT Champs, AIS Track, 13 Feb 2021

The closest an AUS athlete has come to equalling an ACT sprint record is Melissa Breen who ran 11.11 just off Marlies Gohr's 11.10. No Australian has come close to the ACT W400 allcomers record, a modest 47.60.

Here's the ACT allcomers records still listed from WCp '85, some of which could be surpassed by AUS athletes but a lot out of reach and beyond the NR. The only possible ones are W100 and WHJ where Olyslagers jumped 1.98 early this year and both she and Patterson have jumped in Canberra fairly regularly.

400 44.47 Michael Franks USA
800 1:45.14 Silvio Koskei KEN
100H 13.35 Tony Campbell USA
400H 48.42 Andre Phillips USA
4x100 38.10 USA
4x400 3:00.71 USA
PV 5.85m Sergey Bubka USSR
LJ 8.20m Mike Conley USA
TJ 17.58m Willi Banks USA
SP 22.00m Ulf Timmerman GDR
DT 69.08m Georgy Kolnootchenko USSR
HT 82.12m Yuri Tamm USSR


100 11.10 Marlies Gohr GDR
200 21.90 Marita Koch GDR
400 47.60 Marita Koch GDR
10000 32:07.50 Aurora Cunha POR
400H 54.44 Sabine Busch GDR
4x00 41.37 GDR 6
4x400 3:19.49 GDR
HJ 2.00m Stefka Kostadinova BUL
LJ 7.27m Heike Dreschler GDR
SP 20.69m Natalya Lisovskaya USSR
DT 69.78m Martina Opitz GDR

[El Toro]

WC Day 4 Evening Session results


W100H Heats - first 4 + next 4 fastest

H3.
8. Hannah JONES 13.05 (+0.1) DNQ, 31st fastest overall. just outside her top 10, which is pretty tightly clustered around 13 flat. Solid running for her first time in a major but high-12s just don't cut it anymore.

H4.
4. Celeste MUCCI 12.90 (0.0) Q, 22nd fastest overall. her 3rd fastest time ever behind 12.84 (+0.6) and 12.87 (+1.2) in Sydney and Bern respectively. Running right up to her best in a Heat is impressive and she will need to back up with a big new PB to have any chance of progressing...and if a couple of others crash out.

H5.
3. Michelle JENNEKE 12.71 (+0.4) Q, =15th overall and her 5th fastest ever. She scraped into the final last year with her 12.66 PB for 5th and backed it up with a 12.68 in the final, also for 5th. It looks like she is peaking well but will need to be in PB territory again to make the final in this redhot event. It looks like she is ready to do it.


M800 Heats - first 3 + 3 fastest

H2.
3.Joseph DENG 1:45.48 Q Easy controlled run to get the big Q. It looks like he is ready to deliver on his potential, fingers crossed.


H5.
8. Riley MCGOWN 1:48.38 DNQ, not in it at all and seems to have lost form steadily after his promising start of 1:46.29 in Vienna. Still, it's his first OS tour let alone major competition.

H6.
5. Peter BOL 1:46.75 DNQ, positioned himself well but had nothing at the end.


MHJ Final

=8. Brandon STARC 2.25 Surprisingly made the final with some focused jumping considering his modest performance this year with no 2.30 jumps at all. Cleared the first two heights on first attempts but the next height of 2.29 would have equalled his SB so was a step too far. He turns 30 later this year, so he might be able to make one more team unless he has Protsenko's (b.1988) motivation to keep going, noting that Protsenko has declined from a 2.40 PB compared to Starc's 2.36 that will be 5 years old in a couple of days.


W1500 Final

7. Jessica HULL 3:59.54, amazingly for the slow early pace, this is her 6th fastest ever and fastest AUS in a WC/OG final, was Linden Hall's 6th place 3:59.01 in the Tokyo OG final. =1st highest rank in WC along with Zoe Buckman 2012 and herself in 2022. Along with her early rounds, that is the fastest series of times by far that she's ever run in major events:

Rounds 2023: 4:03.50/3:57.85/3:59.54.
Rounds 2022: 4:04.68/4:01.81/4:01.82
Rounds 2020: 4:05.28/3:58.81/4:02.63

[El Toro]

Easy, neither of them have been in my kitchen...

That's an old Cheers gag (from when Cliff was on Jeopardy)

Impressive recycling of a 1980s joke. I await Vault-emort's selection from his 1880s collection...

edit: checking shows Season 8 Episode 14 first aired in January 1990 so a 1990s joke written and recorded in the 1980s - take your pick of decades.

Also, the answer relates to one of my posts today.

[AS]

Easy, neither of them have been in my kitchen...





That's an old Cheers gag (from when Cliff was on Jeopardy)

[El Toro]

An AUS trivia question ahead of the W100H.

What do the Budapest absent Liz Clay (2022 AUS champ and 3rd fastest AUS behind Pearson and Jenneke) and old school hurdler Cornelia Oschkenat (WIC Gold, WC and Euro silver) have in common?

[El Toro]

In the hustle and bustle of the W1500, I forgot to mention Melbournian Sophie O'Sullivan who finished two places behind Linden Hall's 6th in Heat 3.

O'Sullivan repping her mother's home country of Ireland ran a massive 4:02.15 PB, a 5 second improvement and an OG qualifying time for Paris, somewhat making up for the final outcome of DNQ.

At the start of the year her PB was 4:17.54 set at the 2022 Pac-12 Championships in Eugene, which had her sitting in the mid-40s on the IRL alltime performers list. But that was before putting the 800 on the backburner to focus on the 1500, leading to a run of PBs:

22 APR 2023 4:17.46 Payton Jordan 2nd Final
12 MAY 2023 4:16.29 Pac 12 Ch. Heat
14 MAY 2023 4:12.19 Pac 12 Ch. 4th Final
27 MAY 2023 4:08.06 NCAA Division I West Heat
16 JUL 2023 4:07.18 Euro U23 Ch 1st Final
19 AUG 2023 4:02.15 WC Heat

The major blemish on her year and NCAA season was a disastrous 12th in the NCAA final no doubt due to a case of acute "away with the fairies." No such problems with the little folk in Budapest with an all out if somewhat ungainly finish that moved her to 4th on the IRL alltime performers list from 7th after her Euro U23 win.

She now sits behind the significant roadblocks of two active runners and a legend, the only IRL sub-4s : Ciara Mageean 3:56.63, Mum 3:58.85, Saray Healy 3:59.68.

If she returns to her Senior year in NCAA competition with the Washington Huskies, she will no doubt have the psychological edge over competitors given she is now the third fastest collegiate runner ever (all competitions in calendar year). According the Huskies and Pac-12, she is only behind Jenny (Barringer) Simpson 3:59.90 at the 2009 Prefontaine Classic and Jessica Hull's 4:01.80 in the semi at 2019 WC.

[El Toro]

A story to make Vault-emort happy. Canberra coach Des Proctor converted Leann Pompeani from a soccer player and has also converted Riley McGown (b.1996) from bodybuilding to appearing in Heat 5 in M800 at WC.

McGown muscles up to Bol and Deng at world championships
The Canberra Times
Cameron Mee

Riley McGown was your typical 21-year-old boy. Focused on lifting heavy in the gym and building big muscles, he was a self-confessed meathead. But deep inside him, McGown had an itch he just couldn't scratch. A talented runner growing up, the Canberra athlete felt like he hadn't fully reached his potential as an athlete.

His initial aerobic fitness was somewhat lacking and coach Proctor explains it well

After three or four weeks of training, he said he was going to do an 800. He ran 2:16, I said 'well done, good run' but generally I've got 12-year-old girls who run that time.

Five years of steady work later has made a dramatic difference according to McGown.

I'd say it's absolutely outrageous if you predicted this five years ago. I was still a bit heavy, hadn't gone under two minutes yet and I was watching on TV the people I'm currently having breakfast with.

The turning point was a training camp at altitude Perisher in January this year with Proctor predicting a breakthrough and McGown obliged with his first title built off a 1:46.08 PB and ACT Resident record when winning the Sydney Track Classic in March.

McGown talks about Bol and Deng and chasing their standard:

Those guys have been at the top for a little while now. Having those guys out the front to chase always makes you a better athlete. They do a good job pulling up the entire level of domestic running. You have no choice, those are the guys you've got to beat.

Full story (Paywall but visible in page source)

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8314986/mcgown-muscles-up-to-bol-and-deng-at-world-championships/?cs=14280

PBs:
22.81, 2018
48.36, 2019
1:46.08, 2023

Progression (IAAF)

2018 1:55.52 Canberra (AUS) 03 NOV 2018
2020 1:52.83 Woden Park, Canberra (AUS) 27 NOV 2020
2021 1:49.78 The Crest Athletics Centre, Sydney (AUS) 27 MAR 2021
2022 1:49.27 SOPAC, Sydney (AUS) 12 MAR 2022
2023 1:46.08 SOPAC, Sydney (AUS) 11 MAR 2023

[El Toro]

Day 4 Evening Session - upcoming AUS athletes


W100 Heats - first 4 + 4 fastest

H3. Hannah JONES SB=12.96 PB=12.91, WRK=44

H4. Celeste MUCCI SB/PB=12.84, WRK=22

H5. Michelle JENNEKE SB=12.69 PB=12.66, WRK=17


M800 Heats - first 3 + 3 fastest

H2. Joseph DENG SB/PB=1:43.99 NR, WRK=38

H5. Riley MCGOWN SB?PB=1:46.08, WRK=76

H6. Peter BOL SB=1:44.29 PB=1:44.00, WRK=27


MHJ Final

Brandon Starc SB=2.29 PB=2.36, WRK=22


W1500 Final

Jessica Hull SB/PB=3:57.29, WRK=9