Athletics 2019 Discussion Thread

[phelps 8,286]

European Cup 2019 (Alytus, LTU)

 

as expected, Yohann Diniz dominated the men's 50k...he won with more than 8 min-margin over Dzmitry Dziubin...3rd was Joao Vieira further 1min40secs behind...

 

but the most interesting race is the women's 50km, with Eleonora Giorgi leading from the start with good margin, but now Julia Takacs has cut down the distance to 1 minute with 3kms to go...and it looks that we're going to have an amazing head to head finish...

[Bearas 581]

12 minutes ago, phelps said:

European Cup 2019 (Alytus, LTU)

 

as expected, Yohann Diniz dominated the men's 50k...he won with more than 8 min-margin over Dzmitry Dziubin...3rd was Joao Vieira further 1min40secs behind...

 

but the most interesting race is the women's 50km, with Eleonora Giorgi leading from the start with good margin, but now Julia Takacs has cut down the distance to 1 minute with 3kms to go...and it looks that we're going to have an amazing head to head finish...

Girgi just won with new European Record - 4:04.50

[phelps 8,286]

and finally Eleonora Giorgi proved she was just controlling the race...she did even accelerate over the last couple of kilometers and not only won the event (at the end, she still is 56 seconds ahead of Julia Takacs, who also set a new PB and NR), but she also set a new European record  destroying by more than a minute the older European best time, held by Inès Henrique, who ended up 3rd in today's race, almost 4 minutes behind Giorgi...

[Gianlu33 5,276]

I am very disappointed by De Luca, I expected something more honestly.

Great time for Giorgi at her 1st official race on the 50km, she can do a great WCh in Doha.

[Bearas 581]

 Živilė Vaiciukevičiūtė won Women's 20km racewalk in front of home crowd. 

[phelps 8,286]

European Cup 2019 (Alytus, LTU)

 

quick recap...

 

men's 50km

Gold: Yohann Diniz

Silver: Dzmitry Dziubin

Bronze: Joao Vieira

Team Title: Ukraine

 

women's 50km

Gold: Eleonora Giorgi

Silver: Julia Takacs

Bronze: Inès Henriques

Team Title: Ukraine

 

men's 20km

Gold: Perseus Karlström

Silver: Vasily Mizinov

Bronze: Diego Garcìa Carrera

Team Title: Spain

 

women's 20km

Gold: Zivile Vaiciukeviciute

Silver: Laura Garcìa-Caro

Bronze: Raquel Gonzàlez

Team Title: Spain

 

men's Sub-20 10km

Gold: Riccardo Orsoni

Silver: Pedro Conesa

Bronze: Lukasz Niedzialek

Team Title: Italy

 

women's Sub-20 10km

Gold: Meryem Bekmez

Silver: Evin Demir

Bronze: Pauline Stey

Team Title: Turkey

[Werloc 3,191]

Edis Matusevičius with a good throw in the Javelin. His result was 84.55, only 23 centimetres shorter than his Lithuanian Record and only 45 centimetres off from an Olympic qualifying throw. Still, with this, he went over 83 metres and qualified for the World Championships.

[Dragon 2,026]

European 100m champion Zharnel Hughes ran an Olympic qualifying time in Guadeloupe 10,03

[heywoodu 16,004]

Semenya will run the 3000m at the DL in Stanford on 30 June, against among others Sifan Hassan, Almaz Ayana, Genzebe Dibaba and Hellen Obiri.

[juddy96 171]

22 yr old Trae Williams (10.10 100m PB) retired from athletics and signed a contract with the national Rugby Sevens team