Sorry you had to wait, but as my title implies, the Lausanne DL didn't produce enough material to warrant a separate post!
In fact, even with Paris added, the total of good marks is still below that of some USA domestic meets (of the non-DL variety!).
That said, let's see what DID happen of note.
Kirani James broke through, big time!
He improved his 400 best all the way to 43.74.
This is a Grenada National Record.
It's also the Age 21 record, breaking the vaunted Lee Evans's mark from 1968 (!!!) of 43.86.
Plus, he moves from 9th All-Time World up to 5th, tied with 1 other.
That "other" happens to be LaShawn Merritt, who finished 2nd with a 43.93.
And that time just misses the Best 2nd Place mark ever, set by Butch Reynolds with his 43.91 in 1996!
This race also allowed Chris Brown to again break his Age 35 mark, this time with a 44.59.
Another age record happened in the Men's 100.
The race was somewhat controversial, as the top 3 all had been busted for drugs at one time or another!
(The Twitterverse went nuts with tweets about this!!)
Anyway, the winner, Justin Gatlin sprinted 9.80, for the Age 32 record.
Tyson Gay ran a solid 9.93 in his 1st race back from his drug ban!
The Men's HJ was maybe THE most hyped event in Lausanne, as all the latest 2.40 jumpers came together.
But the WR of Javiar Sotomayor survived this multiple challenge.
Andriy Protsenko's 7-10.50 had the biggest affect on the Record Book.
It made him 7th A-T World, tied with 5 others.
But it was what happened to my DDD that excited me the most.
There had been NINE tied at 7-9.25.
With Protsenko's PR, all of them were kicked OFF my list!!
Among them were 4 guys with marks from the 1980's!
They were:
Carlos Thranhardt from 1984
Tom McCants from 1988
Valeriy Sereda from 1984
And Jerome Carter from 1988!
Also, Ivan Ukhov's jump of 7-9.75 is the best 3rd Place mark ever, but tied with 1 other.
Two National Records went down in a Women's 4X100 race.
The Netherlands ran 42.40, as they become the 13th fastest Nation.
And Switzerland ran a NR of 42.94, becoming the 21st fastest Nation.
That Netherlands mark is the new Meet Record.
Henrik Ingebrigtsen ran the 1500 in 3:33.68 for a Norway National Record.
Moving on to Paris, 3 American women ran the races of their lives, albeit all in non-winning efforts.
But this blog is not about who wins, it's about records and marks, even if that person finishes dead last!!
In a spectacular 1500, Jenny Simpson JUST missed Mary Slaney's "ancient" American Record (3:57.12 from 1982), running a great time of 3:57.22!!
Phoebe Wright paced the field through a first 400 of 61.92!
But most of the field were at about 63.
They came through 800 in 2:07, and 1200 in 3:10.9.
At that point Hassan had a meter's lead on Simpson.
And she held on to it all the way to the finish!
It appeared to me that Jenny gained on her just a bit in the final 50 meters,
This moves her from 3rd A-T US up to 2nd!
Back somewhat came Shannon Rowbury with her first-ever sub-4:00 time.
Her 3:59.49 moves her from 8th A-T US up to 5th!
(She tweeted later that she tripped twice in the early laps, thus inferring there's a much faster PR awaiting her!)
Hassan's 3:57.00 is the new Netherlands National Record!
In the Women's 3000SC, Emma Coburn keeps chopping her PR (but not her steps!!).
She ended 2nd to Hiwot Ayalew's 9:11.65 Meet Record, but her 9:14.12 cut her best by over 3 seconds, and left her just 1.62 seconds shy of tying one Jenny (Barringer) Simpson!!
Small world, eh?
BTW, this moves Emma from 22nd A-T World all the way to 17th!!
Another American, Stephanie Garcia, ran 9:24.35 to move up 1 place on the A-T US list, from 5th to 4th!
And Salima El Ouali Alami's 9:21.24 set a new Morocco National record.
Jamaica's Hansle Parchment ran the first sub-13.00 110H race of the year.
His 12.94 is the Jamaican National Record.
It's also the Age 24 record.
And it moves him from 23rd A-T World (tied with 2 others) up to 10th, tied with 1 other.
In 2nd was Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, whose 13.05 makes him 24th A-T World, tied with 2 others.
In a fierce battle, the Women's DT produced not 1, not 2, but THREE Meet Records!!
First up was American Gia Lewis-Smallwood's 215-3.
Then it was Australian Dani Samuels's turn, with her 218-4. (She later improved to 221.7.)
Finally, despite 3 early fouls (in the first 4 rounds), Sandra Perkovic moved from 4th place in the competition to the top step of the podium with her Meet Record mark of 224.8!
In the Men's 100, Kim Collins didn't win, but he did get another Age 38 record, running 10.10.
In other news, Jinzhe Li LJ'ed 27-9.50 for the National Record of China.
Fami Ogunade's 20.06 200 set the Qatar National record.
And Pavel Fajdek tossed the Hammer 270-3.
But he missed getting into the Top 24 in the world by 3 inches!!
He also missed Poland's National Record by a mere 4 inches!!
Finally, I just became aware that I have a new leader in my Combined Events list in the Men's 800-1500.
Asbel Kiprop has PR's of 1:43.15 and 3:27.72.
This adds up to 5:10.87!!
(It helps to have Peter Matthews great statistical work, the Athletics Annual 2014, for research in this area!!)
The next post will have all the great marks to come from the USATF Junior Championships, which is also the Trials for the WJC!!
Look for it either late tomorrow night or early Monday morning!
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