Athletics 2024 Discussion Thread

[Makedonas 2,263]

Great result for 21 yo Anastasia Dragomirova at our National Championships for combined events 

 

She got a new U23 NR with 5965 points, the previous record was 5927 points from 2000. And her previous PB was 5636 from 2023. She is also now third all-time in Greece for the women's category (our NR is 6235 from 2006).

 

Dragomirova was very good as a teenager in the field events, and Tentoglou's coach wanted to take her and make her a long jumper (she has the U18NR of 6.44 from when she was 16 yo), but she insisted on being a heptathlete. Once the pandemic hit, her results really suffered. She also had some injuries and was only doing shot put for a while. She was always weak in the track events but especially 800m.

 

Today, she got a new PB in 800m of 2:30.50 (she had 2:35.19 from earlier this year), new PB in javelin throw of 50.28 (she had 50.07 from 2023), new PB in the 100m hurdles of 14.37 (she had 14.57 from earlier this year), and equaled her high jump PB of 1.78 (from 2020).

 

Her other results today were 15.15 in shot put (her PB is 15.69 from 2021), 6.05 in long jump (her PB is 6.44 from 2019), and 26.01 from 200m (she has 25.46 from 2019).

 

She still has work to do but it's nice to see her finally heading in the right direction again!

[bestmen 2,924]

Results FBK games

 

https://www.omegatiming.com/live-sports-timing-ath?code=Hengelo_2024&year=2024

[bestmen 2,924]

Triki 17.07 i doubt if he can be finalist in paris

 

1	3	BUR	ZANGO Hugues Fabrice	17.57 MRSB
2	1	ALG	TRIKI Yasser Mohammed	17.07
3	2	GER	HEß Max	17.03
4		NZL	OLIVIER Ethan	16.44
5		CUB	NÁPOLES Cristian	16.30
6		AZE	COPELLO Alexis	16.01
7		USA	TAYLOR Christian	15.82
8		AUS	MURPHY Connor	15.66
		SEN	FAYE Amath	NM

[Biathlonfan 836]

Nnot great conditions for the men's discus,also had a bit of rain but Mykolas Alekna returns to action with the most casual 69 meter[69.07] throw ever.it was done in round one,he also did 68.80 in round 5,this was after some rain.Denny as has become so commen this season finishes in second behind him,this time much closer than usual with 68.17,though that was the only longer throw he had,he also had two  65 plus throws.     

Edited July 7, 2024 by Biathlonfan

[heywoodu 16,465]

100m in Paris:

 

Martina's last ever race on home soil, and given that he's highly unlikely to make the relay team for his 6th Olympics, I think this was the last time we've really seen him compete. Watched his interview afterwards and at 40, he is still as filled with positivity as 20 years ago. Man, Dutch sports is going to miss him, far and away my favourite ever Dutch athlete in any sport (and I think it's the same for many other people, he has always been such an incredibly humble and inspirational guy and I don't remember any athlete in any sport who has gone through so much with such a big smile, no matter what happens - including being disqualified for stepping on a line after winning gold in the home European championships).

Edited July 7, 2024 by heywoodu

[stepansevs 219]

3 hours ago, Makedonas said:

Great result for 21 yo Anastasia Dragomirova at our National Championships for combined events 

 

She got a new U23 NR with 5965 points, the previous record was 5927 points from 2000. And her previous PB was 5636 from 2023. She is also now third all-time in Greece for the women's category (our NR is 6235 from 2006).

 

Dragomirova was very good as a teenager in the field events, and Tentoglou's coach wanted to take her and make her a long jumper (she has the U18NR of 6.44 from when she was 16 yo), but she insisted on being a heptathlete. Once the pandemic hit, her results really suffered. She also had some injuries and was only doing shot put for a while. She was always weak in the track events but especially 800m.

 

Today, she got a new PB in 800m of 2:30.50 (she had 2:35.19 from earlier this year), new PB in javelin throw of 50.28 (she had 50.07 from 2023), new PB in the 100m hurdles of 14.37 (she had 14.57 from earlier this year), and equaled her high jump PB of 1.78 (from 2020).

 

Her other results today were 15.15 in shot put (her PB is 15.69 from 2021), 6.05 in long jump (her PB is 6.44 from 2019), and 26.01 from 200m (she has 25.46 from 2019).

 

She still has work to do but it's nice to see her finally heading in the right direction agai

 

[stepansevs 219]

I would like to inform you about interesting result in  combined junior Championship.

Big talent Thomas Järvinen was attacking world junior record, but He had 3 strikes in pole vault and 0 points from it.

In spite of, he won the tittle And qualified to world junior Championship :-) 

[Grassmarket 4,305]

Two good meets early this week.  
 

Istvan Gyulai from 

 

https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-continental-tour/where-to-watch?countryCode=GB&eventId=7189670
 

And the Cork City Sports, Part One of the annual  double bill with Dublin on Friday.  Apart from the Irish stars, always plenty Brits, Americans, antipodeans.

 

 

[Makedonas 2,263]

On 7/7/2024 at 4:04 PM, stepansevs said:

 

What?? It doesn't show any message for me.

[stepansevs 219]

3 hours ago, Makedonas said:

What?? It doesn't show any message for me.

I am sorry i reacted by mistake and i did not know how to delete it :-)