T&F Kettle is BOILING!

Hey, T&F Gods, I thought this week would be (maybe!) a good Rabat DL and not much else!
Ha!
Just wait till you see the MEGA-tons of material I have for you!

Yes, Rabat--the replacement DL for the NY meet--was a good meet.
Before I get into it, a few Aaron K Track and Field Record Book Announcements!

1. This blog will NOT honor or accept any times run by Caster Semenya as fully legit.  I will note them, but I will not list them as a Meet Record, National Record, Age Record, or any other kind of record!  Semenya's times will NOT be on any of my lists!  "She" does not belong on a Women's list!!  And I hope the IAAF and other governing bodies will follow suit!
2. The Rabat DL Meet Records listed below are for the entire history of the Rabat T&F meet, which has been held for several years.  Just as with other old meets (Weltklasse, Bislett, Van Damme, etc), which later became Diamond League meets, I look to a meet's entire history for MR's, not just since gaining DL status!

Now, on to the stats!

Almaz Ayana was on World Record pace for the 5000 through 3000 meters, hitting that mark all alone at 8:32.3.  She slowed some to a 2:54 4th K, and just couldn't pick it up enough all by herself, finishing in a Rabat MR of 14:16.31.
Viola Kibiwot got the Age 32 record with her PR of 14:29.50 in 2nd.
She also became the oldest woman to run a sub-14:30!!
Senbere Teferi was next in 14:35.09, with 4 others under 14:50, including Sweden's Meref Bahta, whose 14:49.95 breaks her own NR by almost 10 seconds!

In the Hengelo meet, Dejen Gebremeskel ran a solid 13:00.99 to handle Abrar Adem's 13:04.12, Bethwell Birgen's 13:04.66, and Yigrom Demalash's 13:06.60.
In Rabat, Abdelaati Iguider got the MR by default, as it was the first time the 3000 was run there, his time being 7:36.85!
Hengelo's Women's 5K was won by Letesenbet Gidey's 14:58.44.
Back a few places, Jen Rhines's 16:14.41 might be the US Over 40 record, though I'm not sure! 
Pierre Ambroise-Bosse beat Taoufik Makhloufi in the Rabat 800, 1:44.51 to 1:44.91.
Tim Cheruiyot's 3:33.01 took care of Silas Kiplagat's 3:33.68, and Ryan Gregson's 3:34.43.
The Hengelo Women's 1500 was taken by Besu Sado in 4:05.30.
Sub-4 runner Maureen Koster finished 2nd in 4:05.48.

The two Rabat 3000SC's produced some fast times!
Elenesh Diro Neda missed the MR by 0.73 seconds, her winning time being 9:16.87.
In 4th, with a slight PR, came Australian hopeful Genevieve LaCaze, time of 9:32.67.
But the Men's winner--Consesius Kipruto--got the Meet Record with his World-leading 8:02.77!
Jairus Birech was 2nd in 8:03.90.
Paul Koech was 3rd in 8:12.33.

I'll report other distance marks a bit later.
Let's continue with the Hengelo & Rabat report!

David Oliver nabbed the Rabat MR in the 110H with his 13.12.
Orlando Ortega was right behind him, time of 13.13!
Janieve Russell of Jamaica got a PR in winning the 400H, time of 54.16.
Cassandra Tate ran a good 54.69 in 2nd.
Javon Francis won the Hengelo 400 in 45.35.
Back in 3rd came Jeremy Wariner's 46.33!
Alonzo Edward took a very windy (3.8!) Rabat 200 in 20.07.
Dafne Schippers, however, had a minimal 0.3 wind to go up against on her way to a Hengelo Meet Record time of 22.02!!
Second place was a full 1.04 seconds behind!!  (23.06!)
It's her 2nd fastest time ever!!
In Rabat, LaShawn Merritt won easily in the Meet Record time of 44.66.
Back in 4th came Age Record-smashing vet Chris Brown, who broke his own Age 37 record with his 45.75!!
Elaine Thompson fought a tough wind of 1.3 to take the Rabat 100 in the Meet Record time of 11.02!
Blessing Okagbare took 2nd in 11.11, with Carmelita Jeter back in 5th with her 11.32!

The Rabat Women's 800 saw Caster Semenya cross the finish line ahead of everyone else in the time of 1:56.64.
But the Meet Record goes to the REAL winner--Francine Niyonsaba, her time being 1:57.74.
It was a fast race, with Niyonsaba being followed by Renelle Lamote of France (1:58.84), Eunice Sum (1:59.32), Lynsey Sharp (1:59.51), and Habitam Alemu, in 1:59.70.

In Field events, Ekaterina Stefanidi won the Rabat Pole Vault with a height of 15-7.
She took 3 tries at 15-9.
Second was Nicole Buchler's 15-5.
Out after clearing 14-9 was Yarisley Silva!
Bogdan Bondarenko won the Rabat HJ with his best of the year--7-7.
Madera Palameika got the Rabat MR in the Discus Throw with his 212-5.
The Hengelo TJ was taken by Chris Carter's PR of 56-2.
He misses the A-T US list by 2.75 inches!
The Rabat Women's TJ was won by---who else??--Caterine Ibarguen, her winner measuring 47-7.25!
We should note that Collegian Keturah Orji's windy 47-11 TJ at the SEC meet would have BEATEN Ibarguen today!!!
Rushwal Samaal tied the Rabat Meet Record in the LJ with his winner of 27-6.
Right behind him came Fabrice LaPierre's 27-5.25!
Piotr Malachowski got the Rabat MR with his Discus toss of 221-3!
And Valerie Adams keeps moving closer to her "normal" Valerie Adams form---her 64-6.75 missing her own Rabat MR by just one-half inch!!

High Schoolers attacked their Record Book like it was---well, State meet time!!
But their onslaught wasn't limited to State meets!!

In a meet at Swarthmore (!!), Marielle Hall's 4:14.29 in the 1500 was overtaken by a hard-charging (from 4th to 1st on the final straight!!) Kate Murphy, whose 4:14.26 moves her from 12th A-T HS to 6th!
She becomes the 4th HS'er to run 4:15.28 or faster this OUTdoor season!!
(Someone, set up a RABBITED Mile race, PLEASE!!!)


In the Hoka One One (Oxy) meet's 1500, Austin Tamagno finished well back, but his 3:44.14 makes him 12th A-T HS!
(More on that meet later!)

Chris Nilsen has suddenly become the best HS Pole Vaulter of All-Time!!
Starting the year with a 17-6 PR, he upped that to 18-0 recently!
Well, forget those measly figures!!
His 18-4.75 is the new HSR!!
It's also the Senior Class record!
He moves from 7th A-T HS, tied with 1 other, to the top spot!
BTW, he's 18, so falls well short of Maksim  Tarasov's Age 18 record of 19-0.25.
If he'd been 17, he would have broken the World Age 17 record!!
(I tweeted him about his age!  He said he's 18!)



Alyssa Wilson continues to climb the ladder, her 55-1.25 SP moving her from 10th A-T HS, tied with 1 other, to 2nd.
Only Raven Saunders is ahead of her!
And Wilson's just an 11th Grader, so has the rest of this year and all of 2017 to attack that rung!!
Oh yes, it's the Junior Class record, obviously!
(Wilson had an earlier mark--from a few days ago--of 53-8.50, which had moved her from 10th A-T HS to 7th!
Also in the SP, Tripp Piperi got another PR, hitting 71-11.
It moves him from 21st to 12th on the A-T HS list!
It also broke one Michael Carter's Texas State record for 11th Graders!!

A couple of doubles are well worth talking about, even though no records were broken!
Sydney McLaughlin took the 400H and 400 flat races in 56.99 and 52.97, the best HS times in both this year!
Lauren Rain Williams's 100 of 11.17 and 200 of 22.44 were lost to over-the-allowable winds!
But what a pair of times!!
Both McLaughlin and Williams are Juniors!!
(Will either---or both--turn Pro before they graduate??)

Other HS news included--
Vernon Turner HJ'ed 7-4.50, moving him from 16th A-T HS, tied with 6 others, to 8th, where he's tied with 4 others!
Darryl Sullivan's 7-4 made him 17th A-T HS, tied with 6 others!
Terrell Adams had a DT mark of 213-9, which makes him 15th A-T HS!
Even better---in a way!---was the 198-9 DT of Kyle Carrillo!
Why is that mark "better" than Adams's?
It's the new Frosh Class record.
And it broke the old record by 7 feet, 1 inch!!
As with the Women's 1500, the Men's SP is a HOT item this year!
Another 70+ mark was hit by Dan Guiliani, his 71-1.50 making him 19th A-T HS, tied with one other!
Bobby Colantonio improved a few inches in the Hammer Throw, his 251-2 not enough to move him from his 5th A-T HS position!
Kamryn Brinson's HT of 187-0 moves her from 24th A-T HS to 15th!
Margaret Ollinger upped her PV best to 13-8.25, moving her from 23rd A-T HS to 19th, tied with 1 other!
And Madison Wiltrout continues her return from surgery, her 158-0 JT being her longest--so far!!

The Hoka One One/Oxy meet was productive, besides that 1500 by Austin Tamagno!
Hassan Mead took the Men's 1500 in 3:37.65.
Jordan McNamara ran 3:38.26 in 2nd.
Back in 6th, but kicking hard, was Andrew Wheating's 3:38.60.
The Women's 1500 was won by Kate Grace in a PR 4:05.65.
She beat the "winking" Sheila Reid's 4:05.74.
(Much was made on Twitter about the attractive Reid winking at the starting line as the camera passed by her!  She winked again while crossing the line!!)
Katie Mackey, Shannon Rowbury (doubling back from a slow 800!), and Emma Coburn followed, all sub-4:07!
Morgan Uceny ran in a "slow" heat, but won it with her strong-looking 4:09.27!!

Charlie Grice took the Men's 800 in 1:46.95 over Robby Andrews's 1:47.22.
The Women's race was a thriller!
Hitting a high-58 the first go-round, Brenda Martinez and Laura Roesler opened a gap over the field by the back-straight.
They ran side-by-side for almost the entire last 300, with Martinez slightly ahead, but just by inches!
Roesler's 400 speed (and maybe old HS sprinters speed!!) was JUST enough to pass Brenda at the tape, winning in 2:00.15 to Martinez's 2:00.18.
Phoebe Wright had her best race in awhile, her 2:01.02 taking the 3rd spot over Molly Ludlow's 2:01.11.

The 5000's were fairly slow, but saw different names at the front.
Eric Jenkins won the Men's race in 13:24.67, his last lap being 55!
Canadian Andrea Seccafien took 13 seconds off her PR, her winning time being 15:17.81.
Jessica Tebo and Marathoner Kellyn Taylor came next in 15:21.88 & 15:22.10.
Another "Marathoner" was 4th, Sara Hall running 15:26.25.
I was happy to see Natosha Rogers running her best race since 2012 (!!), her 15:28.56 showing she might be back in the game!
Jordan Hasay faded badly in the last few laps, running just 15:50.12 in 16th!

The only Meet Records came in the 3000SC's!
Jamie Cheever just got engaged (the announcers stated!), and she ran a celebratory time (and MR) of 9:37.12.
Shalaya Kipp was with her half the way, before falling back to a 9:42.21.
Marisa Howard ran 9:42.94 in 3rd, with Mel Lawrence next in 9:43.90.
In the Men's race, Evan Jager jogged behind the pacers for a few laps, then closed with a spectacular 57 second final lap---with all the hurdles & water pit!!!---his MR time being 8:15.26!
57 frigging seconds!!
How many runners run that---but WITHOUT any barriers in their way??
Amazing!!
Dan Huling was first among the humans--his 8:18.58 beating Cory Leslie's PR of 8:19.12.
That makes him 20th A-T US!
Matt Hughes ran his usual strong race--in 8:20.62!

Yes, there's more!!
Take a break, and come back for the rest!

Mason Ferlic is best known as a Steepler!
But he PR'ed in the 1500, his 3:36.65 making him 11th A-T Collegiate!
Pushed OFF my Collegiate DDD were two guys you might have heard about!
Gabe Jennings had run 3:37.33 in 2000.
And Don Paige ran the same time in 1979!
Both are GONE!!

In that Swarthmore meet, David Torrence won a fast 1500 in 3:36.06.
In 5th was Thomas Awad in 3:37.75, with Nate Brannen 8th (3:38.04), Will Leer 9th (3:39.09), and Garrett O'Toole 11th in 3:39.34.
Ajee Wilson took the 800 there in 2:02.60.
Helen Obiri took the Beijing IWC 1500 in 4:02.11, with Lauren Johnson getting her OT qualifier in 5th with her 4:05.29.

Also in Beijing, Sam Kendricks raised his PV bar to 19-5, cleared it, but missed the World DDD by one-half inch!
He does move from 12th A-T US to 8th, tied with 1 other.
Fabiana Murer got the Age 35 record with her 15-1.
That was in the Rio Test meet!
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Chaunte Lowe started a Heptathlon in Rio, completing the 1st day.
Her marks were 13.96, 6-4, 30-11.75, and 24.47.
Her point total was 3558!!
Not bad for, as she said, "messing up"!!
She also won the open HJ with 6-5!
Three National Records fell there.
Yancarlos Martinez's 20.19 in the 200 nabbed the NR of the Dominican Republic.
Another DR NR (sic!) came in the Men's 4X100 Relay, their time being 38.52.
It misses my World DDD by 0.05 seconds!
And Colombia's 4X400 Men's Relay team got their NR with their 3:01.88.
It misses my World list by 0.76 seconds!

Some Field event marks (besides the ones already mentioned!) included--
At the ACC conference, Bria Matthews TJ'ed 45-0.50 to make her 24th A-T Collegiate, tied with 4 others!
Majed El Ghazel HJ'ed 7-8.75 for Syria's National Record!
In Ostrava, Thomas Roehler threw the Javelin 286-7 for the World leader!
Konrad Bukowiecki got the Age 19 record in the SP, hitting 68-11.25!!
He also holds the Age 18 record!
In the Ostrava Women's PV, Yarisley Silva returned to action with a good 15-1, better than she did a few days later.  (See above!)
But she lost there to Jirina Ptacnikova's 15-1 by having more misses!
Logan Cunningham PR'ed with 18-8.75.
Emanouil Karalis reached 18-2.50.
Oh, BTW, that's the World Age 16 record!!
Kylie Hutson continues a strong spring of PV'ing, her 15-3.50 being the latest!
Katie Nageotte reached 14-9 at the Manchester City Games street meet!

A "Throwers" meet produced more than just "good" marks!
Would you believe an American Record??
Gwen Berry has been on fire this year, but she outdid herself with the new US record of 250-4 (76.31), the first US woman to reach 250 feet!!
She moves from 2nd to 1st on the US list.
She also moves from 21st A-T World to 15th!!

Reese Hoffa improved his own Age 38 record by quite a bit, reaching 68-4.25!
Cyrus Hostetler PR'ed in the JT to 275-0, moving him from 10th to 8th A-T US!
Ben Woodruff threw the spear 265-3, making him 21st A-T US, tied with 1 other!
Tavis Bailey threw the Discus 213-1.
Jill Camarena-Williams had a solid SP of 62-3.75 to show SHE ain't done yet!!

The lone running event at this Throwers meet was a Women's 400H, and it was FAST!!
Georgeanne Moline ran her fastest time in awhile, a 53.98, to take over the World lead!!
Second was Delilah Muhammed's 54.64.
Arizona Collegian Sage Watson was 3rd in 54.82.
But her time makes her 19th A-T Collegiate!
Now OFF my list is the venerable Kim Batten, her 55.04 dating from 1992!
It now takes a 54.99 to tie for 24th on the Collegiate list!
A 55+ won't do!!

At that Manchester street meet, Dafne Schippers took a windy (2.7) 100 in 10.94.
Kim Collins also had a good wind (3.2) to help him to a 10.08.
Schippers beat Tiana Bartoletta's 11.19, while the 40 year old Collins took care of  a guy HALF his age, 20 year old Trayvon Bromell, who ran 10.14.

Sally Pearson returned from a broken wrist with a solid 12.75 in the 100H.
It was a small Australian meet!
In Ostrava, Jarrett Eaton took the 110H in 13.25.
In that Beijing IWC meet, Aries Merritt ran his fastest post-kidney transplant time of 13.24!!

Veronica Campbell-Brown took the 200 in Beijing in 22.29.
Murielle Ahoure's 11.06 took the 100 there.
Kaylin Whitney was a far back 7th in 11.45.
Justin Gatlin ran another 9.94 to win in Beijing, beating the 9.97 by Mike Rodgers!
And MISTER USAIN BOLT---trumpets, a parade, a sold-out crowd---won the Ostrava 100 in 9.98!

And last, but certainly NOT least, the return of Tirunesh Dibaba after a two year absence for childbirth and whatever else!!!
She won the Great Manchester Road 10000 in 31:16!!
Edna Kiplagat took 2nd in 31:25, with Diane Nukuri in 3rd with 31:49.
She's BAAACCKKK!!!!

And the Men's race?
How about Ken Bekele's 28:08 beating Marathoner Wilson Kipsang's 28:15 and Australia's David McNeill's 28:39??
What a match-up!!

Thank YOU for hanging in there!!
Not bad for a supposedly "quiet" week!!