2023 Indoors

[LuckySpikes]

Great meeting in LIevin!

Brilliant WR by Lamecha Girma and it was a great race too with Mo Katir. Also good to see a World Record breaker in the distances look suitably knackered after the race!

I've lost count of the number of times that Gudaf Tsegay has scuppered her chances of a WR by going out way too fast. Presumably, it's she who is asking the pacemakers for the pace.

Keely's shot at her British Record was, I think, also damaged by a silly early pace (sub-27 for the first 200 !)

[Occasional Hope]

Anna Hall scored an astonishingly good pentathlon in the US championships: 5004, second best all time (just ahead of KJT's 5000). She's still only 21.

[MysteryBrick]

That's crazy good. The next great global Hep star, surely.

[RunUnlimited]

Anna Hall scored an astonishingly good pentathlon in the US championships: 5004, second best all time (just ahead of KJT's 5000). She's still only 21.

Also from the US Indoors yesterday:

Tara Davis Woodhall, former World U18, NCCA and Pan-Am U20 Games long jump champion, twice improved the WL and her indoor PB, to win the national indoor title. She initially set the world lead with her opening effort, going out to 6.94m, a PB indoors. Then in round 3, Davis improved that with a 6.99m jump that sealed the competition.

Deanna Price set a new WR in the women's weight throw, going out to 26.02m in the 5th round.

Vashti Cunningham equalled her outright high jump PB of 2.00m to win her 7th national indoor title, and move into 2nd in the 2023 world indoor list.

[philipo]

Anna Hall scored an astonishingly good pentathlon in the US championships: 5004, second best all time (just ahead of KJT's 5000). She's still only 21.

If Hall hadn't been a little off her LJ best a new World indoor Record .It will be a great tussle for the womens hep in Budapest.

[RunUnlimited]

European silver medallist, Adrianna Sulek, jumps an outright long jump PB in the Polish Indoor Championships of 6.56m as part of the pentathlon event. She'd opened with a 8.33 PB in the 60m hurdles and an =PB in the high jump of 1.89m.

[LuckySpikes]

I'm enjoying the Italian Indoor Championships. All their best and their big names who've been competing this winter are there and competing in their favoured events. As a result, there's a number of really good domestic fields. What a novel concept ! I don't know whether they're forced to compete there by the Italian federation if they want to be selected for the European Championships or whether it's just a different mentality that their athletes have, perhaps still valuing a shot at a national title?

Ludovica Cavalli, 22yo rising star, has just won the Women's 1500 in 4:08.00 from Vissa, 4:08.20, & Del Buono. That follows up her 8:44 over 3000 in Metz last weekend.

[LuckySpikes]

As if to emphasise my point above ...

Nicla Mosetti wins a loaded W 60 Hurdles final in 8.04 PB (prior to today her PB was 8.22 !) from Elisa Maria di Lazzaro, also 8.04 PB. All 8 finalists broke 8.30.

[RunUnlimited]

European silver medallist, Adrianna Sulek, jumps an outright long jump PB in the Polish Indoor Championships of 6.56m as part of the pentathlon event. She'd opened with a 8.33 PB in the 60m hurdles and an =PB in the high jump of 1.89m.

Sulek wins the Pentathlon with a new PB score of 4860, marginally improving her own NR by 9 points.

[Occasional Hope]

Yet another WR for the phenomenal Ryan Crouser. 23.38.

[RunUnlimited]

Aleia Hobbs comes closer than any other female sprinter in the last 30 years to dethroning Irina Privalova as the fastest ever over 60m. At the US Indoor Championships on the final night of action and the closing event of it, Hobbs scorched down the track and crossed the lane in 6.94 seconds. It's a new American national record that replaces the one set by Gail Devers at the 1993 World Indoor Championships in Canada.

[Ursus]

Yet another WR for the phenomenal Ryan Crouser. 23.38.

He’s just taken the event to a whole new level. Indoors, but an outright WR.

[MysteryBrick]

It's crazy. Kovacs being amazing too has helped.

[libarun]

Anna Hall also came back after her 5004 pentathlon to win the 400m in a new PB of 51.04. Her coach apparently believes she can get to under 50 in a properly paced race. Would have to think that suggests 200m pace greater than even KJT at the peak of her powers. You never know with the multis, freak fouls can happen and injuries have derailed many a promising athlete, but given that she seems to be physically robust enough to compete a very demanding schedule and her throws are already perfectly acceptable with a lot of room to grow, it seems she'll be knocking on the door of 7000 points sooner rather than later.

[Occasional Hope]

Yes indeed. Given that she added over 400 points to her pentathlon over the last year, she only has to find 250 for her heptathlon. I think the main danger for her is the risk of spreading herself too thin by adding extra events, eg she has doubled 400h at the US level. But that and potential injury aside, she should supplant Thiam if not this year then next, and likely to stay at the top for a home Olympics in LA.

[philipo]

The posts are surely predicting a very likely scenario over the next years, but I would be love to see Halls huge talent in a European setting. If she and her coach are wise they will resist the temptations of competing in the 400m and even the long hurdles.

[MysteryBrick]

Oh, they would be insane to do that (which isn't to say it won't happen...)

[Ladyloz]

I hope Hall does Gotzis this year - it will be 6 weeks before US Champs so plenty of time between both - she can stop off in Paris on the way back for some R&R and maybe watch her other half Ben Shelton at the French Open in Roland Garros.

[RunUnlimited]

Success Eduan wasn't the only teenager winning a senior national title yesterday. Jolanda Kallabis, last year's EU18 2000m steeplechase champion, won the German Indoor 800m title in 2:03.71, a PB of almost a second. She had just turned 18 the previous day, so this was a very nice birthday present for herself, as she beat several athletes who were a decade older than herself.

That time moves her up to 2nd on the European U20 rankings for this year, 2nd on the German U20 indoor all time list (after a whole swathe of beyond-dodgy East German times had been scrubbed from the record books in the last couple of years), and 9th on the European U20 indoor all time list too.

[philipo]

Predicting Hall to reign for years is silly as just as she has come to the top very quickly , so could some unknown do the same. The score she achieved was achieved at high altitude so must be worth a little less across the events, 4 at least .