Athletics 2022 Discussion Thread

[Swewi 382]

Kristian Ceh had taken over as the best discus thrower this season but Daniel Ståhl just took back the WL with 71.47 at the swedish club championship. 

[JoshMartini007 2,537]

19 hours ago, Monzanator said:

No-brainer. This multi-sport European Championships made no sense from the start and who knows how long that idea keeps going. Athletics is big enough it doesn't need to share the table with other sports.

 

Maybe they should have a multi-sport games? Perhaps you can call it the European Games?

[Jinzha 702]

European Championships U18 starting 4-8 July in Jerusalem.

 

The Dutch  team consists of 19 athletes in total.

Four of them are 400m hurdlers. Wonder if that's some sort of early Bol effect already.

[Dragon 1,844]

7 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

Maybe they should have a multi-sport games? Perhaps you can call it the European Games?

The one that nobody ever wants to host?

To be serious, isn't it about time the European Games are abandoned?

[Makedonas 2,155]

On 6/21/2022 at 5:00 PM, Jinzha said:

European Championships U18 starting 4-8 July in Jerusalem.

 

The Dutch  team consists of 19 athletes in total.

Four of them are 400m hurdlers. Wonder if that's some sort of early Bol effect already.

It's surprising that each country can only send two participants in each event instead of three. Was it always this way? I don't remember.

 

The Greek  team consists of 48 athletes in total. We had around 80 with standards. In some events we had 7 or 8 with standards but only two got selected due to these limits 

[Grassmarket 3,408]

Lots of National Championships this weekend.  Unfortunately the one most people want to see - the US Nationals - are locked away pretty tight on pay TV sites, although the individual finals will get to YT later.  British one is free streaming.

 

https://www.britishathletics.org.uk/news-and-features/mukacm-2022-day-one-live/

 

Also on free, the Kenyan World & Commonwealth trials (official National Champs were last month.)

https://www.youtube.com/c/KenyanAthletics/videos

 

[Grassmarket 3,408]

News from the US trials.  Sha-Carri Richardson fails to emulate Florence Griffiths-Joyner's World Record, to the extent of going out in the first round.

 

Sha'Carri Richardson fails to advance in 100m at US trials for World Championships - BBC Sport

 

Many dodgy bootleg streams here, watch 'em before the US Legal System gets out of bed.

 

(2215) usatf outdoor championships 2022 - YouTube

[Werloc 3,164]

Lithuanian athletics championships opened today with the Discus Throw

 

1. Mykolas Alekna - 69.00 PB, remains the 5th best thrower even with the PB, really shows the quality of throwing this season.

2. Andrius Gudžius - 65.21, really couldn't handle the pressure today, only two valid throws.

3. Aleksas Abromavičius - 59.93

4. Martynas Alekna - 59.70

[Werloc 3,164]

Updates from the Lithuanian championships

 

Rugilė Miklyčiūtė (2005) goes above and beyond. She broke the Lithuanian pole vault NR a week ago and today she smashed it!

 

3.60 XXO

3.75 O

3.95 O

4.00 O

4.10 XO

 

And then she stopped jumping.

 

First ever Lithuanian woman to jump 4 metres, becomes the third best European U18 vaulter this season, qualifies for World U20 championships.

 

Another very respectable result came from Jogailė Petrokaitė with a clean 6.76 jump. That's her PB and she's having a season of her life. Might be enough for ranking points to get quotas in both the World and European championships. We'll know next week. 

[Makedonas 2,155]

Not a real event, but 38 yo  Antigoni Drisbioti became the oldest Greek to set a national record, this time in the 5000m walk (she also did it earlier this year in the new 35k walk as a 37 yo). With 21:06.40, she broke Christina Deskou's record from 1999 (21:37.78).