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Sondre Guttormsen soars to a 5.90m indoor NR in the pole vault competition at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic on Saturday, which is also a Princeton school record. That places the senior Guttormsen brother into 2nd on the 2023 lists and =15th on the European all time lists.
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Good to see a real promising meeting in Torun tomorrow. Enough of the puffed up , overpromoted stuff across the pond.Comment
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Pia Skrzyszowska out for the rest of the indoor season with a hamstring injury. Such a shame. Hurske Vs Visser (Ditaji?) it is.Comment
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God damn it! She was a near-cert for the European Indoor gold next month, and would have likely taken down the nearly 43 year old NIR for the 60m hurdles too (7.77, Zofia Bielczyk 1980) either at the champs or before them. Hopefully it'll not be anything that will affect them into the outdoor season either.
With her out, I'd agree with your assessment that the title is a fight between Hurske and Visser. Ditaji Kambundji is an outside chance for gold, while new Cypriot indoor record holder Christofi, is also on that list, along with Samba-Mayela. Ireland's Sarah Lavin is in the shout for a podium I reckon.
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I enjoyed the very good live coverage of Day 1 of the Asian Indoor Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan. The standard of competition hasn't been bad so far and it's interesting to see good athletes that we don't see on the European circuit (perhaps because they don't have the resources?) Who knew, for example, that Iraq has a pretty good male 400m athlete (in the final later on today) and that Iran has a speedy woman in the 60m, Fasihi Farzaneh - she ran 7.23 NR in the heats and then won gold later on, ahead of Olga Safronova (KAZ) in 2nd.
Norah Jeruto was a complete non-factor in the Women's 3000 (straight final), trailing in next to last. That left the door open for fellow Kazakenyan Caroline Kipkirui to claim the gold. He Wuga (CHN) was rewarded with silver for animating the race after a dawdling first 1000. Yuma Yamamoto finished just ahead of Ririka Hironaka to win a very nice bronze. With Seira Fuwa struggling with injury for a year and Narumi Kobayashi not the athlete she was 2 years ago, Yamamoto is the best Japanese female collegiate distance athlete at the moment and when she graduates this summer she's well-placed to transition pretty seamlessly into one of the top corporate teams (if that's what she wants to do.)
Fang Yaoqing won the Triple Jump with 17.20. Rather optimistically someone had marked the board alongside the pit up to 21 metres!
Today's programme includes both 1500s in the evening session with Japan having a great chance of picking up 4 medals there (including 2 Golds maybe).
Full results via https://sport-online.kz/showresults/?s=617a834beed44Comment
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Trayvon Bromell sets a new world leading time and PB in the men's 60m, running 6.42 seconds over at the Tiger Paw Invitational last night. He moves to joint 6th on the world all time list.Comment
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Ajee Wilson can't match Hodgkinson's 600m time at Millrose, 1:24.85 for her.Last edited by MysteryBrick; 11-02-23, 23:22.Comment
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Yared Nuguse goes to 2nd on the world all time list for the indoor Mile as he wins in an extraordinary 3:47.38! He smashes the US national record by over 2 seconds, and becomes just the 2nd person ever to run the mile indoors sub-3:48, a feat that not even the legendary Hicham El Gherrouj managed, the man that he's now pushed down into 3rd place all time.
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Bol with a possible game-changer today. For me, that might be the true world record.Comment
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22.58 from Crouser equalling his own 5th best all time indoor. Now owns 5 of the 6 best indoor puts in history.
20.03 from Ealey.Comment
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At the final 2 days of the Asian Indoor Championships in Astana (KAZ) ...
In another case of "Who'd have thought?", the Bangladeshi, Imranur Rahman, won a very decent Men's 60 in 6.59 NR. It was a first ever medal for his country at these championships, although I do see from his WA profile that he's a recent transfer from Britain! Oman's Ali Anwar Ali Al Balushi was 5th in 6.69, again highlighting the global reach of athletics (only matched by football).
The Women's 1500 was full of surprises. The marginal favourite for gold was Ran Urabe (JPN) over her compatriot, Yume Goto. However, Urabe finished only 4th, caught on the line by fast-finishing Akbayan Nurmamet (KAZ). The winner was Vietnam's Thi oanh Nguyen in 4:15.55, closing with a very nice 32.3 and 30.9 last 2 laps. Her official outdoor PB according to WA is 4:13.38 but I wonder if she's run faster at a meeting they haven't recorded. Based on how much she had left here it certainly looks like she could take several seconds off that. But where on the Asian circuit would she get the competition needed for that? Maybe, if she could get into the Seiko Golden Grand Prix in Japan - that's very likely to have a 1500 because of Nozomi Tanaka.
There were no surprises in the Men's 1500 though. It was expected to be a match race between the 2 Qataris and the 2 Japanese and that's how it turned out, Kazuto Iizawa (JPN) taking gold in 3:42.83.
Mohamad Al Garni (QAT) upgraded his silver in the 1500 to gold in the 3000, cruising past 19yo Keita Satoh (JPN) on the last lap to win in 7:55.25.
16yo Sharifa Davronova (UZB) won the Women's Triple Jump with 13.98. You may remember her as the World U20 champion in Cali, aged just 15 !
Masumi Aoki (JPN) won a pretty competitive Women's 60 Hurdles in a handy 8.01 NR. Japanese women's high hurdling is on the rise with 3 women (Aoki included) at 12.87 or faster in the last 2 years, headed by Mako Fukube's 12.73 NR last September. Aoki's compatriot Sumire Hata won the Women's Long Jump with 6.64, an indoor NR.
The surprise winner of the Men's High Jump was Ryoichi Akamatsu (JPN), jumping 2.28 =PB to beat Woo & Ghazal.
So, Japan topped the medal table with 15 medals, 6 of them gold - reward for sending a strong team that numbered 28 athletes. Kazakhstan also won 6 golds although 2 of them were slightly soft 4x4 wins.
Kazakhstan proved to be worthy hosts of these championships. It's a nice arena (suitable for a Wor,d Indoor Champs?) and although it wasn't full by any means the crowd were enthusiastic, loud and gracious.
There's more opportunities to watch these athletes go for continental glory at the Asian Championships (Pattaya, THA) in July and the rescheduled Asian Games in Hangzhou in Sep/Oct (if the Chinese are letting foreigners in by that point).Comment
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He's not a hurdler though - only flat times, but the point is the same, he was't likely to trouble a UK team before this big improvement. His best on Po10 was 6.68 last year, and his best no windy time at 100 is 10.32 (10.22 wind assisted), and he's no spring chicken either, assuming this is him: https://thepowerof10.info/athletes/p...hleteid=463469. -
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I say well done to him! Like Sean Safo-Antwi moving to Ghana, gives him an International Vest when he was never likely to be top tier in the UK.
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An Oceania indoor HJ record and absolute NZ record for Hamish Kerr at 2.34.
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3.32.38 WL for Ingebrigsten in, I think, his season debut.Comment
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Girma gets Daniel Komen’s 3000m WR. 7:23.81. Katir also got it. But just an AR for him.
Nothing better than a head-to-head WR chase.Comment
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