Athletics 2023 Discussion Thread

[Grassmarket 4,029]

We have the inaugural World Road Running* Championships from Riga  this weekend.  3 distances involved:

 

1. 5000 metres (whatever those are)
2. The Proper  Mile
3. Half Marathon.

 

Broadcast details in your country here

 

https://worldathletics.org/news/news/how-follow-watch-world-road-running-championships-riga-23

 

British team\

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/66863750

 

* Incorporating the World Shoe-Making Championship

[heywoodu 16,004]

Kelvin Kiptum is running an amazing race in Chicago and very much attacking Kipchoge's world record.

[dullard 743]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Kelvin Kiptum is running an amazing race in Chicago and very much attacking Kipchoge's world record.

And doing it with the pacers dropping early.

[heywoodu 16,004]

2 minutes ago, dullard said:

And doing it with the pacers dropping early.

And the only non-pacer who followed him, Mateiko, taking the lead for a grand total of....2 seconds, maybe?  

 

And I am assuming he's also running on those one-race megasupershoes  

[Grassmarket 4,029]

Wow, the proper sub 2 hour barrier is now thoroughly on!  
 

Kiptum looks like he could try again next week.

Edited October 8, 2023 by Grassmarket

[Dennis 759]

22 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Wow, the proper sub 2 hour barrier is now thoroughly on!  
 

Kiptum looks like he could try again next week.

I'll invite him to the Amsterdam marathon next week, just so I can say I have run a marathon against him 

[Dennis 759]

Btw, Hassan won the Chicago marathon in the 2nd time ever: 2:13.38, shaving almost two minutes from Paula Radcliffe’s mark of 2:15:25 which stood untouched as the world record from 2003 and 2019.

 

Hassan is now the current European Record holder on the 1.500m, 1 mile, 3.000m, 5.000m (track and road), 10.000m, half marathon, and the marathon. 

 

[Noorderling29 187]

Hassan: European record, second all-time. 
 

Her range is incredible: from 1:56 over 800 meters to 2 hours 13 minutes in the marathon.

[Grassmarket 4,029]

On 10/8/2023 at 5:35 PM, Dennis said:

Btw, Hassan won the Chicago marathon in the 2nd time ever: 2:13.38, shaving almost two minutes from Paula Radcliffe’s mark of 2:15:25 which stood untouched as the world record from 2003 and 2019.

 

Hassan is now the current European Record holder on the 1.500m, 1 mile, 3.000m, 5.000m (track and road), 10.000m, half marathon, and the marathon. 

 

Good news for  is that Sonia O’Sullivan is holding back the clean sweep with the prestigious 2000m!  

[Dennis 759]

9 hours ago, Noorderling29 said:

Hassan: European record, second all-time. 
 

Her range is incredible: from 1:56 over 800 meters to 2 hours 13 minutes in the marathon.

Yeah, insane range. However, Hassan isn't one of the finalists for European athlete of the year. The finalists are:

 

• Women:  Bol,  Mahuchikh,  Perez
• Men:  Duplantis,  Ingebritsen,  Tentoglou
• Women's Rising Star:  Adeleke,  Caune,  Topic
• Men's Rising Star:  Furlani,  Ingvaldsen,  Laros

 

Previous winners:

 

Year	Women	Men	Women Rising Star	Men Rising Star
2022	Bol	Ingebritsen &  Duplantis	Tzengko	Alekna
2021	Hassan	Warholm	Bol	Zhoya
2020	not awarded
2019	Lasitskene	Warholm	Mahuchikh	Kaul
2018	Asher-Smith	Mayer	Herman	Ingebritsen &  Duplantis
2017	Stefanidi	Vetter	Levchenko	Warholm
2016	Beitia	Farah	Thiam	Heß
2015	Schippers	Rutherford	Zbären	Bukowiecki
2014	Schippers	Lavillenie	Kuchina	Gemili
2013	Hejnová	Bondarenko	Hinriksdóttir	Bekrić

The fact that Thiam has never become European athlete of the year is quite surprising to me.