Athletics 2022 Discussion Thread

[Makedonas 2,239]

I got to attend the Greek National Championships this past weekend! It was a great experience for me. We hadn’t had anything important in Thessaloniki in athletics since the 2009 World Athletics Final, which I remember wanting to go to but did not (I was a lot younger). We had the U20 National Championships last year and I could not go that weekend although it went well so now we got the National Championships for seniors.

 

The stadium seats 28.000 so it was going to be hard to fill obviously, but it’s located very close to the city centre so it’s easily accessible. I’m not sure how it is in other countries but for Greece these were decent crowds for athletics. I wasn’t sure what to expect but I think if we host again next year it will be even better. They are saying we want to host something bigger in the future. It’s a nice stadium and the local football club that uses it hasn’t been in the first division for several years so we might as well.

 

Tentoglou was definitely the highlight (he won with a wind assisted 8.32) and the crowds were really big for his jumps, everyone went close to the sand pit. The women’s pole vault was disappointing. Stefanidi didn’t compete, Kyriakopoulou NM and Polak won with an abysmal 4.25. However we did have a 17 yo local girl (Iliana Triantafyllou) set a new PB of 4.15 (she previously had 4.13 from last week’s U20 National Championships) so that is quite exciting.

 

Men’s triple jump we had 40 yo Tsiamis win for the 100th time. He only had one valid jump and it was 16.82. The men’s hammer was also cool with 5 guys over 70m including a 19 yo (Ioannis Korakidis). Frantzeskakis won with 77.95. Stamatia Scarvelis won the women’s with 70.31, which confirms that she will be in Eugene. She’s had many throws this year over 70m, but all were in small events that didn’t give many points until the last two weekends as she won the Balkans and Nationals.

 

Karalis and Tzengko won their events but were far from their best. The men’s 100m was really impressive with a lot of guys getting good times, most of them very young too. The women’s sprints were disappointing as we have three “stars” but only one competed in each event. Spanoudaki has covid, Emmanouilidou just came back from injury and only ran the 100, and Anastasiou only ran the 200. The women’s 400 was nice. Vasiliou won with 52.32 after not competing in this distance since Tokyo, and 34 yo Ferra with a new PB after so many years (53.19).

 

The women’s 100 hurdles was another good event, as we got to see the young Karagianni vs. experienced Pesiridou. Karagianni beat her at the Balkans but Pesiridou got revenge here (13.18 and Karagianni had 13.21). The men’s 110 hurdles, women’s discus, women’s 400 hurdles, men’s high jump, men’s javelin, women’s shot put were all boring with one clear favourite winning as expected.

 

The men’s shot put, men’s discus and women’s high jump each had several contenders and should have been interesting but in the end the performances were much lower than expected. The women’s triple jump was really poor (Papachristou either quietly retired or is pregnant again and Karydi seems to be regressing). The women’s long jump was somewhat interesting with a lot of young talents who are decent but nothing special. A local girl (Vasiliki Chaitidou) won it with 6.47 which is close to her PR of 6.49. Her progression has been impressive. 5.79 in 2019, 6.08 in 2020, 6.24 in 2021 and now 6.49 in 2022.

 

 

I'm trying to post some photos but it says the files are too big.

 

 

[Makedonas 2,239]

https://sportsfeed.gr/latreia-gia-tentogloy-photofeed/

 

You can see some photos here, of the crowds for Tentoglou 

[NearPup 3,505]

https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2022/07/14/tokyo-world-track-and-field-championships-2025/

 

Tokyo will host the 2025 World Championships, becoming the first African country to... wait, they aren't hosting the 2025 worlds in Africa after all?

[PHI2019 313]

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of strict amateurism rules of the time.

 

The International Olympic Committee announced the change Friday on the 110th anniversary of Thorpe winning the decathlon and later being proclaimed by King Gustav V of Sweden as “the greatest athlete in the 

 

https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-sports-native-americans-stockholm-sweden-5cbe83bde828487ce2f82e3066850d85

[Werloc 3,191]

Good day!

 

If anybody is looking for some European time zone friendly athletics action, then look no further than this.

 

Today and tomorrow in Vilnius we're having our annual Baltic U18 & U20 championships, where Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have to put forward two athletes into every competition and the points are tallied for every event.

 

The broadcast is not in English, but often I just watch and have music playing in the background

 

For quite a few athletes, this is the final competition in preparation for the World U20 championships and for others, a start before the European Youth olympic festival.

 

Starts in less than 30 minutes

 

 

[Werloc 3,191]

Yesterday and today, the President's cup was held where Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian athletes have to send forward 2 athletes in every discipline to collect points and Lithuania managed to beat Estonia by two points this year.

 

There were quite a few that missed the event in preparation for the European Championships, but there were still some decent news.

 

The President's cup is awarded to the best male and female performer, both went to Lithuania, Gediminas Truskauskas with 20.65 in 200m and Dovilė Kilty with 14.14 in Triple Jump and she hasn't jumped this far since 2020, looking positive with ECH soon. 

[Swewi 460]

Simon Pettersson won the Swedish nationals in discus with 70.42 over Daniel Ståhl 70,29, in this very strong event international this season. 
 

the shape was good for that training group today. also their training Buddy Fanny Roos Did a NR in shot out in Diamond league today

[NMQ 243]

Russian Nationals this week, Sidorova won in 4,91m (WL by 6cm) and Lasitskene jumped 2m. Both cried a lot as well 

[heywoodu 16,016]

52 minutes ago, NMQ said:

Russian Nationals this week, Sidorova won in 4,91m (WL by 6cm) and Lasitskene jumped 2m. Both cried a lot as well 

Do they still do that in Cheboksary, where gravity used to be lower?  

[Grassmarket 4,062]

After the DL on Saturday, the Continental Tour Gold restarts tomorrow with the Istvan Gyulai from Budapest.  Live on the World Athletics YT Channel.

 

https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldAthletics