Athletics WA World Championships 2023

[heywoodu 14,336]

5 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Europe with 2 medals in M 5000 after 40 years.

 

It happened only once at the inaugural worlds in 1983, probably was as boring race as tonight

A quick YouTube search suggests in 1983 it was decided quite early indeed, like often is the case in the usual African 'up the pace higher and higher and wait for nobody to be left' races

 

Definitely wasn't a thrilling final with a decision in the last meters like today  

 

[heywoodu 14,336]

Mu thinking it's race walking. You can run and try to go fast, you know  

[heywoodu 14,336]

Moraa  

 

Awesome final, the last session is off to a good start  

Edited August 27, 2023 by heywoodu

[Monzanator 4,133]

Moraa wins in 1:56.04

[Josh 9,047]

Moraa with the gold in a new PB time of 1:56.03. Silver again for   Hodgkinson in 1:56.34, and bronze for Mu in 1:56.61

Edited August 27, 2023 by Josh

[hckošice 14,218]

Happy for Hodgkinson, the only to wear normal women athletics suit and not this one-piece bathing suit

[heywoodu 14,336]

Meanwhile it's  vs   with weapons, which is not normally a good thing, but luckily this time it's slightly friendlier  

[dcro 10,210]

Not bad for a Top 15 athlete from Pakistan.

[heywoodu 14,336]

Just realized the 'otunekko' I've been hearing at the end of commercials on Eurosport all week is actually someone apparently saying "Outrun your echo"  

 

Whoops.

[Josh 9,047]

87.82m for  Nadeem in R3