Yes, Emma Coburn "Shanghai'ed" the Shanghai DL Women's Steeplechase!
She took command (behind the rabbit)through the first 1000, then, rabbitless, led a parade of elite Africans to the finish line in a blazing time of 9:19.80.
This moves her from 3rd into 2nd on the A-T US list!
However, it misses making my World Top 24 by 1.45 seconds!
Tell me, when was the last time an American---man or woman---WON an elite-level Steeple??
Not sure, but my guess is, it was a LONGGGGG time ago!!
Lots of other DL news.
Abd El Rahman of Egypt threw the Javelin 292-8, moving him into 13th on the A-T World list.
It's also an Egyptian National record and the new Meet record.
Renaud Lavillenie also got a Meet record, vaulting 19-5 to win easily.
Sandra Perkovic had a humongous DT, her 231-5 a new Croatian National record (beating her own!), and a new Meet record.
Blessing Okagbare got TWO Meet records!!
And in separate events!!
She won the LJ with a leap of 22-6.50, and the 200 (missing Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce, who had been entered, but for unknown reasons, didn't run!) in 22.36.
Both are Meet Records!
The Men's SP featured Americans, including a "comebacking" Christian Cantwell.
He won the Battle of Meet Records, as THREE putters broke the old MR.
First, David Storl went ahead of the old mark.
Then Ryan Whiting broke Storl's record!
Finally, Cantwell took care of Whiting's record!!
Kept my "Record Book revision" hand busy, but it was fun!!
Cantwell's MR is 71-4.50.
In 5th place was Tomasz Majewski, with a toss of 68-7.
This is now the best-ever 5th place mark!!
Emma Coburn wasn't the only female American to perform well.
Jenny Simpson didn't lead the 1500, but she stayed close to Abeba Aregawi throughout!
(Aregawi missed getting Genzebe Dibaba's MR of 3:57.77!)
She lost to Aregawi's 3:58.72, but her time of 4:00.42 is her 2nd best ever!
And she was sprinting hard the last 250 or so, but was unable to catch the "Swede"!!
You should remember that Simpson and Coburn are products of Colorado!!
Both appear primed for a record-breaking summer!
Back a bit from Jenny was Sofan Hassan, whose 4:01.19 is a new Netherlands National record.
Another Meet Record went down in the Men's 5000.
Yenew Alamirew ran 13:04.83 to beat the old mark of 13:11.
Various other meets priduced other marks of note....a few just found from older meets.
The Oxy High-Performance meet was good, but not on the level of the 2013 edition.
Lots of PR's, but just one MR.
Dan Huling Steepled 8:17.00 for the Meet Record.
Chris Brown continues breaking Age 35 records.
His latest is a 45.23 400.
Jenn Suhr returned to action at a small meet with a 15-3.75 PV, good for the Age 32 record.
In Tokyo, Bogdan Bondarenko HJ'ed 7-10.50.
This set a new Age 24 record.
Jo Pavey got an Age Record in the 5000.
She broke the old Age 40 record by about 9 seconds with her time of 15:11.52 in a race in England.
Liz Gleadle broke the Canadian Javelin record---twice!!
She first hit 204-1.
Then, a week later, she got 211-7.
Viktor Butenko threw the Discus 214-11 recently.
His mark is the best-ever 8th place!
I'll close this post with a report on the new American Track League (ATL) meets.
There's been 3 of them so far.
May 2 in Indiana, May 9 in Virginia, and May 16 in Atlanta.
Instead of having separate records for each meet's location, I've decided to have one overall ATL Meet (or series?) Record!
Below is a list of all the MR's, listed with the event, athlete, mark, and date (like 5/16).
You should know that each meet (so far) has had some different events.
This means that SOME of the MR's are brand new, while others break an old mark (from a previous edition).
The overall quality of the marks aren't great, but I don't think the idea behind the ATL is to set global standards of athletic excellence.
Rather, it's to make T&F more entertaining.
And with a band playing throughout each meet, Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader clones performing their dances, and Lolo Jones being a huge fan favorite, I'd have to rate the ATL a success, though maybe not (yet) a "raging" one!!
Here's the Meet Records.
Men
100 Mark Jelks 10.17 5/16
400 Bryan Spratling 45.22 5/9
800 Tayron Reyes 1:48.13 5/9 (He's from the Dominican Republic.)
1500 (?) Hunter 3:40.36 5/2
3000SC (?) Turner 8:33.79 5/2
110H Jason Richardson 13.65 5/16
400H Bershawn Jackson 48.76 5/9
HJ Dusty Jonas 7-3.75 5/2
LJ Damar Forbes
Jeremy Hicks 25-4.50 5/16 (both)
PV Mark Hollis 18-8.75 5/2
DT Martin Maric 205-4 5/9 (He's a Croatian.)
Women
100 Lakeisha Lawson 11.29 5/16
200 Paris Daniels 23.18 5/9
300 DeeDee Trotter 36.29 5/16
400 DeeDee Trotter 52.47 5/2
800 Charlene Lipsey 2:02.21 5/2
3000SC Maria Mancebo 9:54.08 5/9 (She's from the Dominican Republic.)
100H Queen Harrison 12.70 5/9 (Lolo has run every meet, with a best time of 12.83.)
400H Cassandra Tate 55.90 5/16
PV Katie Nageotte 14-5.25 5/9
Well, that does it for the "Pro" section!
But don't despair.
You'll only have to wait until about 1 hour after the last events of the various Collegiate Conferences for my next post!
That one will be exclusively (unless I find other Pro stuff!!) High School and Collegiate marks.
(I've got over 20 marks to report----so far!!----and I feel certain there will be a LOT more!!)
See you then!
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