Don't you just LOVE a week in which you're forced to choose WHICH World Record to lead with?
Well, hang on to your hats, friends!
We have HAD such a week!
Genzebe Dibaba, already holder of THREE INdoor WR's, added a fourth!
Her 14:18.86 over 5000 meters in the XL Galan meet in Stockholm was simply magnificent.
Not just for the time, but for the powerful way she ran the race.
Her pacers stayed with her only through the first mile or so.
Then she had to soldier on all by herself--except for all the runners she lapped!
Second place was over a full minute behind!
She reached 3200 meters in 9:12, meaning she beat the time (over 2 Miles) Jenny Simpson ran in her AR!!
Her final 1600 was in about 4:32.
Her last 800 was a 2:12.
And her last 400 was 64, with a last 200 in 31.
It's the Ethiopia National Record, and the Age 24 record as well.
Mo Farah is the owner of the second World Record of the week!
He ran 8:03.40 over Two Miles, breaking the record set by Ken Bekele in 2008.
He also did it with NO competition over the last half of the race!
After a 4:03.9 first mile, with PK Koech and Bernard Lagat following, Mo decided to GO!
Sprinting into the lead, then building steadily on it, he covered the final mile in 3:59.5!
His final 218 meters was in 30.3!!
He broke his own National Record for Great Britain.
He also is the Age 31 record holder.
He moved from 7th A-T World into 1st!
And enroute, he was timed in 7:33.1 at 3000 meters, so that's also a British National Record and an Age 31 record!
He moves from 24th A-T World in the 3000 to 19th.
Koech finished 2nd, but didn't PR.
But Lagat's 8:17.05 (and 7:41.3 at 3000 enroute) are new Age 40 records, the 3000 breaking his own mark from earlier this season.
A mark that came in a few days ago is a new INdoor PR for Mutaz Barshim!
He HJ'ed 7-10.75 , moving him from 5th A-T World (tied with 2 others) into 4th (tied with 1 other).
It's also breaks his own Qatar National Record, as well as his own Age 23 record!
The Stockholm meet produced some other great marks.
Maybe the most unexpected came in the 400 "B" race!
Abdullelah Haroun, a new Qataran resident from the Sudan, ran 400 in 45.39.
Why is that special?
According to reports from Twitter, he's just 17 years old!
However, he doesn't break the Age 17 record, as that's 45.24 by Kirani James in 2009.
It's the Qatar National Record, however.
And it makes him 24th A-T World, tied with 5 others!
Sifan Hassan won the 1500 in 4:00.46.
It's the National Record of Holland, breaking her own mark.
And it moves her up 3 notches on the A-T World list, from 11th to 8th.
The Men's 1500 was fast.
Homiyu Tesfaye ran 3:34.13.
It's the Age 21 record.
And he broke his own National Record of Germany.
He's now 13th A-T World, tied with 1 other.
Bethwell Birgen's 3:34.62 moves him from 18th to 17th on the A-T World list!
Cristobel Nettey destroyed her own Canadian National Record in the Long Jump.
Her 22-11.25 makes her 19th A-T World, tied with 3 others.
The Women's National PV record of Greece has been getting a working over this year.
From TWO different women!!
At the XL Galan meet, it was Nickoleta Kiriakopoulou's turn, with her vault of 15-7.25.
Besides the NR, it made her 10th A-T World, tied with 1 other.
But then, at a meet in New Mexico, Ekaterina Stefanidi raised the record by half an inch, to 15-7.75.
So SHE now holds the NR of Greece!
And she's now 9th A-T World, tied with 1 other!!
But wait a minute!!
The bouncing ball (pole??) is still bouncing!!
Because guess what?
Ms Kiriakopoulou took BACK the NR of Greece from Ms Stefanidi!
She jumped 15-9, and so moves from 10th A-T World (tied with 2 others) back into 8th!!
Next?
That meet where Mr Mo got the Two Mile record wasn't JUST a "Mo Show"!!
It was the Sainsbury meet in Birmingham, England, and there were several other great marks!
Possibly the best was by the young British Heptathlete, Katerina Johnson-Thompson, aka KJT.
She LJ'ed a long (sic!) 22-8.75.
It's the Age 22 record.
And it's the National Record of Great Britain!
And BTW, that's her SECOND National Record in just 7 days!!
She got that 6-5.50 HJ record also!
Imagine what score she could rack up in the Multi's if she were to match those marks then!!
The Men's 1500 produced some notable marks, but NOT by the winner!
Vincent Kibet's 3:34.91 didn't win, but his PR misses my DDD list by just 0.06 seconds!
Much more notable was the PR laid down by American Ben Blankenship!
His 3:35.28 makes him 3rd A-T on the US list!
But even better (at least for ME!) is that his entrance ON the list bounced two legends of INdoor track OFF the US list!
Gone are Dick Buerkle and Tony Waldrop!
Buerkle's 3:39.8 is from 1978.
And Waldrop's 3:39.8 is from 1974!!
Back a bit further was Pieter-Jan Hannes, who ran 3:37.30.
But he's now the NR holder of Belgium!
Remember Miyinga Kambundji from the World Juniors last summer?
She made all kinds of improvements in her 200 there.
Well, here, in Birmingham, her 60 meters time of 7.18 set a National Record for Switzerland!
Jordan Hasay didn't win the 3000, but she did PR for INdoors with her 8:50.21.
It moves her up 9 spots on the A-T US list, from 24th to 15th!
Sharika Nelvis ran the fastest 60H of 2015, a 7.87.
It moves her from 21st A-T US, tied with 1 other, into 17th.
One of the featured races in Birmingham was the Women's Mile.
Shannon Rowbury was again seeking the AR, or so the pre-meet hype said!
Well, she ran a decent 4:24.12, but she didn't get the AR, nor a PR, nor the victory!
That went to Axumawit Embaye's 4:23.50.
Which is the National Record of Ethiopia!
And it's the Age 20 record too!
It breaks Vicki Huber's mark from 1988!
(Genzebe Dibaba had said--back in November!--that she would seek the 5000 AND Mile WR's, in Stockholm and England! Well, she produced on the former, but didn't even show for the latter. Haven't seen any explanation for her no-show!)
A few who did NOT do as good as expected in Birmingham included:
Carmelita Jeter, who finished 7th in the 60.
Matthew Centrowitz, who finished in 10th (!!) place in the 1500.
Francena McCorory, who finished second behind an unknown Welsh girl!
However, to be fair to McCorory, she tweeted later that she was happy with her time of 52.09.
Michael Lihrman got a Collegiate Record in the WT!
He threw the ball and chain out to 81-8.75.
(Kibwe Johnson threw further---82-3.50--but he competed in Division II, so the mark doesn't count for the CR under NCAA rules.)
Lihrman's throw is also the Collegiate Senior Class record.
And the Age 23 record.
It moves him from 5th A-T US into 4th.
And on the A-T World list, he moves from 6th to 5th.
Kearsten Peoples also got a long toss in the WT.
Her 74-11.25 moves her from 22nd A-T Collegiate all the way to 8th!
On the US list, she jumps from 22nd into 9th!!
And it moves her onto the World list too, into 12th!
While she doesn't make any lists, Vivian Brandhoff made a HUGE (Raven Saunders-style!) leap forward in her Shot Put PR.
She seemingly went from 52-1.25 all the way to 58-1.25!
(I said "seemingly" because I'm not sure at this point if she got any smaller PR's earlier this season! I'll do some checking, and if I find anything, I'll report it in my next post!)
BTW, she's a Junior at the University of Memphis!
Kamila Licwinko is having quite the season in the HJ.
She raised her bar another centimeter, this time jumping over 6-7.50.
It breaks her own National Record of Poland.
And it moves her from 17th A-T World (tied with 7 others!!) to 14th (tied with 3 others).
That "High Noon" showdown between Demi Payne and Sandi Morris turned into a fierce duel, but it had a FAR different ending---and maybe even more fascinating!--than if another CR had happened!
Adding Pro April Steiner-Bennett to the mix (Was she the "High Noon" Special Deputy?? LOL) made it a 3-way instead of 2-way.
Not entering until late in the day, they each cleared 14-8.50, but Payne had one miss, so when they all missed their 3 tries at 15-0.75, it came down to a Jump-Off between Morris and Bennett!
Morris made it over 15-0.75 in the J-O, then Bennett missed.
Morris wins!
In other PV news, HS'er Pauli Benavides jumped in a low-key OUTdoor meet in California.
His 17-6.50 puts him on the OUTdoor HS list in 18th place, tied with 3 others.
He tried 3 times at 18-0.50, but missed.
And Stephanie Richartz PV'ed 14-4.50.
This makes her 22nd A-T Collegiate, with no one tied!
There were a couple of fast Collegiate 600's.
Brannon Kidder ran 1:16.98.
He's now 9th A-T Collegiate.
And he made the A-T US list too, into 16th place!
Hanna Green ran 600 in 1:28.78.
She's now 12th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other.
And while I'm not 100% certain of this, I believe she got the Collegiate Soph Class record too!!
Ewa Swoboda ran 60 meters in 7.21.
Not so special, you say?
Well, how about if I tell you she tied the Age 17 World Record?
Yes, it ties the mark first set by Jodie Williams in 2011.
And it IS the actual Age 17 mark, not just my "0-17" standard!
Jasmine Stowers PR'ed in the 60H, her 7.90 moving her from 22nd A-T US, tied with 1 other, into 19th, also tied with 1 other.
Some good HS marks happened this week.
She's NOT a HS'er now, but that girl who ran that spectacular 800 of 2:03.59 at the 2013 NBIN might be returning to her HS form!
Sabrina Southerland, now a Soph at Georgetown--She just turned 19 on December 18th!--ran the 800 in 2:03.89!
I believe that's the fastest she's run since HS!
And it misses my Collegiate DDD by just 0.42 seconds!
HS PHENOM Sydney McLaughlin ran a FLAT track 400 in 53.72!
This puts her 14th A-T HS!!
And remember, she's just a 15 year old 10th Grader!
Be willing to bet she turns Pro before her Senior year?
Tonea Marshall ran the 60H in 8.39, making her 24th A-T HS, tied with 2 others!
I reported in my last post that Kelly Ann-Baptiste had returned to the sprint wars with a 7.24 in the 60.
Well, she's upping her game a bit.
She ran 7.20 in a heat, then 7.19 in the final!
As always, Notre Dame's HUMONGOUS Oversize Track produced another slough of NCAA Q's in the distance events!
(And you KNOW how I feel about that! It's UNfair to teams (and individuals) who can't, or won't, or don't travel to ND or other OT venues, for whatever reason or reasons!! Thus the Q list is skewed!! It's NOT a TRUE representation of who's best Collegiately!!)
Anyway---breathing SOMEWHAT back to normal!---here's a few marks run on Notre Dame's 352 yard (!) track!
Not Collegians, but Becca Addison outran Canadian Nicole Sifuentes in the Mile, 4:30.70 to 4:32.36.
And in the DMR's, the following teams got good marks:
Baylor's Women ran 10:58.52.
New Mexico ran 11:01.44.
Notre Dame (sic!) ran 11:01.59.
Michigan ran 11:03.23.
For the Men, Arkansas ran 9:28.37.
Stanford ran 9:29.34, getting a 3:56+ anchor 1600 from Sean McGorty.
And Alabama ran 9:29.93.
You all know who Chuk Enechwechi is, right?
He's now number 2 on the A-T Collegiate WT list, and 1 of 2 who have thrown at least 80 feet!
Well, maybe he's a Shot Putter too!
I don't know what his previous PR was, but he threw the ball out 62-10.75!
Not bad for a Hammer/Weight Thrower!!
Speaking of the SP and WT, I'll close with a funny story!
(Well, maybe NOT funny, if you seek ACCURACY in what you report!)
As I've noted in a previous post, I go to the website called TFRSS to find Collegiate marks I might have missed.
But I also found flaws in their reportage!
Well, they made a WHOPPER today!!
On Twitter, they post links to all the major and minor Collegiate meets happening each week.
So today, they linked the results from an All-Women's meet in Minneapolis called the Parents Day Open!
Curious, as I'd never heard of the meet, I clicked the link!
And there, leading the Shot Put results was a Senior at the University of Minnesota, name of Devin Stanford!
(Why didn't she become a Cardinal? LOL)
But it was her winning mark that---for a moment---blew my mind!!
There it was---this total unknown had thrown the ball out into Valerie Adams territory!!
TFRSS reported she had thrown a massive 66-7 (20.29 metric)!!
In fact, her entire 6-throw series was GREAT.
In metric, it was 19.22, 19.40, 19.34, the 20.29, 19.24, and 19.79.
Well, it turns out it was the Weight Throw, not the Shot Put!!
But an hour or more later, it was STILL listed under SP.
In fact, it was also listed in TFRSS's year-by-year progression chart for Ms Stanford as her SP PR!!
Later still, after they'd corrected the error in the meet results, they still had it as the SP in her PR chart!!
On that note, I'll close this post!
Before I do, let me give you a heads up for what's coming.
March is going to be a BUSY month on my blog!!
We'll have individual posts for the 4 BIG meets--the USATF (which ends March 1st), the NCAA, NBIN, and the European Championships!
I'll probably have Meet Record Prediction posts---as I did last year!---for the NCAA and NBIN meets.
Then I'll do my INdoor wrap-ups, with my selection of the INdoor Athletes of the Year!
Following that will be some previews of the OUTdoor season!
I plan to do Class and Age Record predictions, as I did before the INdoor season!
And there will probably be some good marks (and records??) to report from the early part of the OUTdoor season!
Oh yeah, almost forgot!
Besides Pauli Benavides's OUTdoor 17-6.50 PV (See earlier in this post!), Vashti Cunningham also opened her OUTdoor season with a bang!
She HJ'ed 6-2, which not only is the leading OUTdoor mark so far, but tops the INdoor best too!!
See you after the USATF meet, if not before!!
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