Athletics WA World Championships 2022

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All the big throws came in the first two rounds. No wind towards the end so Feng 69.12 holds up for gold. Perkovic & Allman with the minor medals.

 

Feng's previous PB was 66.00 from April this year

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Women's 3000 SC final next! Can get their second biggest sporting result of the season?

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Historic gold medal for Kazakhstan in the women’s steeplechase! 

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Sure enough, Jeruto wins in 8:53.02 CR! has bought themselves a gold medal so money well spend.

 

with NR silver & bronze. Yavi botched the water jump and finishes 4th.

 

NR for Gega in 5th place!

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Didn't know is subscribing to Rent-a-Kenyan service too

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Good to see Sandra back on the podium.

 

Apparently she is set on competing until.... Brisbane.

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5 hours ago, thiago_simoes said:

I only ask this out of ignorance about this sport, but wasn't this supposed to be a much bigger number? What's going on?

Take artistic gymnastics, for example: not a cheap sport at all, and Brazil more often than not walks away from the World Championships with a medal. In the last 16 editions, Brazil got 16 medals, with 1 medal per WC in average. Usually, there are 14 events, with WCs the year after the Olympics only supporting 12 events.

In athletics, we are nowhere close this number and there are way more events. 

One might argue athletics is a much bigger sport worldwide though, it's presumably simply harder to get anyone at the top. Plus success breeds success, so you (often) need good athletes to really get something going in terms of depth.

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Definitive mascot action here as he has a dance-off with  Alison Dos Santos.

 

Forgot the link 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/athletics/62247387

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On 7/20/2022 at 4:50 AM, Triplecast said:

 

He said it was a cramp, and says he's good for the relay.

And now the reports are he's out of 4x100 relay. Guess it was more than a cramp

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Media 800m took place this morning. A lot of athletics journalists I follow/read took part. Still trying to find out who won