Athletics 2024 Discussion Thread

[Biathlonfan 625]

Yay our High jumper won in Astana with 1.92

[hckošice 14,822]

Aaargh !

 

 

 

[Biathlonfan 625]

And it was a 1 cm pb also,cool.

[phelps 7,674]

 athletes in good shape, it looks...

 

in  Lodz, Zeynab Dosso was second only to local hero Ewa Svoboda by 1/100 in the women's 60m, but she destroyed twice the National Record, clocking 7.09 in the prelims and then 7.05 in the final (the previous record, she was sharing with Manuela Levorato, was 7.14) 

 

Lorenzo Simonelli, instead, is the official new world leader* in the m en's 60m Hurdles after he won the race in Poland with 7.50 (new NR, also)

 

*in the NCAA season, a guy named Trey Cunningham already ran 7.47, but his result has not been recorded by WA yet (and maybe it will never be, who knows?)

 

world silver medallist Leonardo Fabbri, finally, made his debut in the indoor season and won the men's Shot Put in 21m26

 

in  Padua, in the meantime, Pietro Arese improved the NR over the men's 1500m, running in 3.37.03, not a truly impressive time, but I think it's still worth to be mentioned

 

last but not least, Larissa Iapichino completed her 1st LJ competition of the winter in  Sabadell...she won, but couldn't go further than 6m62 

[phelps 7,674]

in  Nordhausen,  Zane Weir won Today's competition with a world leading mark of 21m84, beating his teammate Leonardo fabbri, who recorded 21m67 (way better than Yesterday, despite the night travel from to ) 

[phelps 7,674]

in  Ancona,  Jenns Fernandez improved his 6.52 from last week to a world leading mark of 6.48 

 

the Cuban, however, lives and trains (and runs for local clubs) in  since 2022...going for some cheap shopping?  

[Josh 10,504]

Livestream for the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold event in Ostrava: https://worldathletics.org/videos

 

In case the live is geo-blocked for you, 

https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/16111539131-czech-indoor-gala/424232401012001/ is also streaming it (with Czech commentary)

Edited January 30 by Josh

[dullard 699]

It's on too late for me. With how poorly the stream performed for Astana it might be better to watch the replay anyway.

[Josh 10,504]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

Livestream for the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold event in Ostrava: https://worldathletics.org/videos

 

In case the live is geo-blocked for you, 

https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/16111539131-czech-indoor-gala/424232401012001/ is also streaming it (with Czech commentary)

Preview: Top clashes in store as major medallists descend on Ostrava

 

Live Results: https://results.onlinesystem.cz/ResultsAthletic/Index?idK=69937&discType=0&stats=2

Edited January 30 by Josh

[Biathlonfan 625]

Highlighting Two male Italian discus throwers today.

 

First Off-Enrico Saccomano who started his season of with 59.87,the reasons i think he's worth mentioning Is because he's just 22[going to turn 23 on February 12.],He has never thrown the 2kg discus so far in his first contest of a season,and it's his fifth best result ever with his Pb being 60.99,from the 2022 season in the Summer,not predicting he's gonna do anything crazy this year but already seemingly not that far off his pb at the very start of the season looks like a good sign.

 

 

And the main one is- Alessio Mannuci Who threw his new PB of 64.19 in that same season opener two days ago[he will turn 26 in early July].Previous Pb was 63.61 from mid July of last year,7 off his current 10 best Marks came from 2023.Obviously it's huge to get a pb in the first comp of the year,He's 10th on the all time Italian Men's discus list,but of the ones still competing,Absolutely looks like the number one right now.Takes second place on the discus world list for this year behind Connor Bell at the moment,I know the Germans will be having their winter championships near the end of February,Ceh will Probably compete in His Winter throwing champs which will be on the 17th,But I think Alessio is likely going to stay in the top 10 for at least February and is worth keeping an eye on to see how he progresses through the season.

 

 

 

 

Edited January 30 by Biathlonfan