2022 Outdoors

[LuckySpikes]

Hellen Obiri is making her marathon debut in New York, up against Peres Jepchirchir and world champ Gotytom Gebreslase - https://www.worldathletics.org/compe...22-elite-field

Jess Piasecki is also entered.

Remember, there's another high-profile marathon debut to come by Gidey in Valencia in December.

[Ursus]

Just finished catching up with yesterday's Gold meeting in Szekesfehervar. Some big marks not mentioned by marilyn1 ...

Camacho-Quinn 12.27
Joe Kovacs 22.89 (backed up by a 22.87)
Ceh 71.23

2017 European U20 champion Milica Gardasevic (SRB) set a PB in winning the LJ. She's improved from 6.64 to 6.83 this year. Good consistency too - 6 of her 7 outdoor competitions this year have been at 6.67 or better. The only one not ... unfortunately the WCh, no marking in qualifying.

Ceh is entering the discus stratosphere - at 23 that’s already his 3rd 71m+ effort. As far as I can see Stahl has managed 5, the same number that both Kanter and V Alekna achieved in their entire careers. WR holder Schult only had one. 72m has only been exceeded 4 times - Schult, Alekna and Kanter twice.

Mystery is right about Kovacs. Superb thrower with the misfortune to be up against Crouser who has redefined the event. One of his warm up putts a few years ago was believed to be around the 24m mark. Maybe a bit fanciful but I hope he joins the 23m club one day.

[MysteryBrick]

It's easy to overlook just how historically good Kovacs is, dur to him competing against Crouser. Already has one of the best 5 resumes in history, in terms of marks.

[LuckySpikes]

Just finished catching up with yesterday's Gold meeting in Szekesfehervar. Some big marks not mentioned by marilyn1 ...

Camacho-Quinn 12.27
Joe Kovacs 22.89 (backed up by a 22.87)
Ceh 71.23

2017 European U20 champion Milica Gardasevic (SRB) set a PB in winning the LJ. She's improved from 6.64 to 6.83 this year. Good consistency too - 6 of her 7 outdoor competitions this year have been at 6.67 or better. The only one not ... unfortunately the WCh, no marking in qualifying.

[Pierre Johansson]

Tamari Davis finished second in 10.92 in Hungary today... she has the 5 fastest under-20 times in the world this year (all between 10.83 and 10.92) and 5 of the 8 fastest under-20 times ever. She also ran 22.48/200 when she had just turned 15, so she's not a one-trick pony. She should be a solid contender for the 4th-5th-6th places in future World Champs and Olympic Games behind Stephen Francis.

[Ursus]

70.42 from Pettersson to become the 2nd Swede over 70m in the disc this season.

[LuckySpikes]

Just caught up with Tuesday evening's international meeting in Nembro (ITA) ...

In the Women's 3000 it was, I think, for Nadia Battocletti a case of "prove your fitness ahead of Munich" and she did that with a last 200 in 29.0. It was an odd race though (without a pacemaker) - a very slow first lap before Giovanna Selva took off at 72s lap pace. Then in the 2nd km it slowed right down again before hotting up again in the last 1000. Battocletti won in 9:12.15. In 4th was Izzy Fry, 9:16.09 (or "Itzi Free" as the commentator called her!) and Verity Ockenden in 6th a further copple of seconds back.

In the Men's 3000 Emile Cairess had a good race, pushing on at the front once the pacemaker dropped out at 2000. He finished 4th in 7:44.84 PB behind winner Darragh McElhinney (IRL), 7:42.86 NU23R.

[DerbyCountyinNZ]

A couple (that I found after a quick look) of CG athletes heading over to Chorzów before the Games finish, Korir in 800m and Walsh in SP.

[LuckySpikes]

Entry lists are up for the next 2 Diamond Leagues ...

Silesia DL in Chorzów this coming Saturday - https://silesia.diamondleague.com/pr...rogramme-2022/

Very unusually at a DL, there's 800, 1500 & 3000 for the women.

Monaco on Wed 10th - https://monaco.diamondleague.com/en/...ats-monaco-en/

As always, Monaco is absolutely loaded!

[trickstat]

If a woman vaulted 5.87 the only thing that might be clean would be the clearance!

[jjimbojames]

I’m guessing that’s 4.87! 😜

[MBChristie]

"Clean" Russian pole vaulter SIdorova jumped a world leading 4.87 in Moscow yesterday.

[Occasional Hope]

That's really impressive.

[treadwater1]

Maria Vicente jumped 6.80 today, looks like she could still make it to Munich

[LuckySpikes]

Good 10,000m running earlier today in Abashiri (JPN) at Round 4 of the super Hokuren Distance Challenge series.

Women's
1 Pauline Kamulu (KEN) 30:20.97 (a 21s PB)
2 Ai Hosoda 31:35.44 (a 4s PB)
3 Rika Kaseda 31:41.29 (this 23yo was just 1.4s outside her PB)
Other notable athletes ...
5 Sayaka Sato 32:15.82
9 Honami Maeda 32:35.84

Men's
1 Gideon Ronoh 27:11.03 PB (debut at 10,000 for this 19yo; has a 13:16 PB at 5000)
2 James Muoki 27:29.74 (just 1.2s outside his PB)
3 Charles Karanja Kamau 27:30.44 (a 15s PB)
...
The fastest Japanese man on the night was Shunya Kikuchi, 27:57.95 (a 4s PB), with a further 7 going sub-28:10. Still fair to say that Japanese men's 10,000 running hasn't really taken off yet this year!