Athletics WA Diamond League 2024

[Josh 10,463]

32 minutes ago, Cinnamon Bun said:

Great day for  on the track (Reece Prescod aside), particularly Hudson-Smith, Reekie, Reardon (who unfortunately isn't going to Paris) and Hodgkinson who ran incredible PB's,  Tebogo and  Alfred looked really good also and looks very likely to win their countries' very first Olympic medal. Dissapointed with  McMaster today, I know I shouldn't take too much from it but I'd have liked him to be closer to  Dos Santos, who he'll be battling with for bronze in Paris, as opposed to being beaten by  Clarke. 

Bell in the women’s 800m also deserves a mention as she’s now the 3rd fastest performer this year, don’t you think? 
 

Few things to point out 

 

Botswana has won two Olympic medals before during London 2012 (men’s 800m, Nijel Amos), and Tokyo 2020 (men’s 4x400m relay)

 

Yeah that was not a good sign for McMaster heading into the Olympics, but realistically speaking Benjamin, Warholm, and dos Santos are levels above the rest. Benjamin-Warholm are the favourites to go 1-2 (probably in that order), but I wouldn’t count out dos Santos for silver or even gold even with two mediocre races (by his standards) because his 47.18 he did today he had nobody to push him. 

[Nickyc707 382]

2 hours ago, Josh said:

Diamond League London 

 

Women’s Javelin Throw

1.  MacKenzie Little (66.26m, PB)

2.  Adriana Vilagos (65.58m, PB & NR)

3.  Maggie Malone (62.99m)

 

Men’s Shot Put

1.  Leonardo Fabbri (22.52m)

2.  Ryan Crouser (22.37m)

3.  Payton Otterdahl (22.13m)

 

Women’s Pole Vault

1.  Nina Kennedy (4.85m) 

2.  Alysha Newman (4.75m)

3.  Molly Caudery (4.65m)

 

Women’s 400m Hurdles

1.  Femke Bol (51.30) 

2.  Shamier Little (52.78)

3.  Rushell Clayton (53.24) 

 

Men’s Triple Jump

1.  Hamish Kerr (2.30m)

2.  Juvaughn Harrison (2.26m)

3.  William Grimsey (2.22m)

 

Men’s 400m

1.  Nickisha Pryce (48.57, PB & WL & NR) 

2.  Natalia Kaczmarek (48.90, PB & NR) 

3.  Lieke Klaver (49.58, PB)

 

Men’s 400m Hurdles

1.  Alison dos Santos (47.18)

2. Roshawn Clarke (47.63)

3.  Ismail Abakar (47.72)

 

Men’s 3000m

1.  Dominic Lobalu (7:27.68, PB & NR)

2.  Grant Fischer (7:27.99)

3.  Edwin Kurgat (7:28.53, PB)

 

Women’s 800m

1.  Keely Hodgkinson (1:54.61, PB & WL & NR) 

2.  Jemma Reekie (1:55.61, PB) 

3.  Georgia Bell (1:56.28, PB) 

 

Men’s 1 Mile

1.  Oliver Hoare (3:49.03)

2.  Narve Gilje Nordås (3:49.06)

3.  Adel Mechaal (3:49.21)

 

Men’s 400m

1.  Matthew Hudson-Smith (43.74, PB & WL & AR) 

2.  Vernon Norwood (44.10, PB)

3.  Jereem Richards (44.18, PB)

 

Women’s 200m

1.  Gaby Thomas (21.82) 

2.  Julien Alfred (21.86, PB & NR) 

3.  Dina Asher-Smith (22.07)

 

Men’s 100m

1.  Noah Lyles (9.81, PB) 

2.  Akani Simbine (9.86) 

3.  Letsile Tebogo (9.88, =PB & =NR) 

 

Full Results

Extremely substandard performances in the men's triple jump (😀) but apart from that an excellent meeting in front of a capacity crowd of 60k.

[phelps 7,664]

wow! what a meet!

 

I guess the track was shorter than 400m or either we're going to watch the most drug addicted Olympics ever (Seoul 1988 where are you? ) 

 

or maybe both  

 

  

[Josh 10,463]

21 minutes ago, Nickyc707 said:

Extremely substandard performances in the men's triple jump (😀) but apart from that an excellent meeting in front of a capacity crowd of 60k.

As you can probably tell I copy and pasted 

[Cinnamon Bun 609]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

Bell in the women’s 800m also deserves a mention as she’s now the 3rd fastest performer this year, don’t you think? 
 

Few things to point out 

 

Botswana has won two Olympic medals before during London 2012 (men’s 800m, Nijel Amos), and Tokyo 2020 (men’s 4x400m relay)

 

Yeah that was not a good sign for McMaster heading into the Olympics, but realistically speaking Benjamin, Warholm, and dos Santos are levels above the rest. Benjamin-Warholm are the favourites to go 1-2 (probably in that order), but I wouldn’t count out dos Santos for silver or even gold even with two mediocre races (by his standards) because his 47.18 he did today he had nobody to push him. 

Yes Bell's performance was brilliant, there were just so many today I couldn't remember them all. And I instantly realised my mistake regarding  not only after I'd said it, I always forget they've medalled for some reason. 

 

Also regarding the 400m Hurdles, I think Karsten and Rai are a class above the rest and won't be surpassed by anyone else but I think Dos Santos is quite vulnerable to the rest of the field. I don't know what it is but he seems to be lacking quite a bit of pace in-between hurdles (mainly at the start and end) which is giving him too much to do going into the final straight compared to Karston and Rai and leaving him open for an attack from someone like McMaster or Clarke. Hopefully the heats and semis will help McMaster to prepare for the final and go close to his PB (which is what is at least needed to overtake Dos Santos) but I'm not as confident as I was before. 

[Federer91 2,728]

These new magical shoes are doing wonders. I propose everyone to run barefoot 

[bestmen 2,811]

High jump is pretty boring ,during years  no one can be close to Sotomayor ...the same jumps allvthe time around 2.30 

[dullard 697]

12 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

And big capital letters all the way down the line!

This is happening so often lately.

[dobar_73 60]

11 hours ago, Josh said:

Diamond League London 

 

Women’s Javelin Throw

2.  Adriana Vilagos (65.58m, PB & NR)

 

 

Full Results

I think Adriana deserves a as well. 

 

After her breakthrough in 2021/2022, in 2023 she got injured and was not able to throw to the best of her ability. 

 

But now she is back in 2024 

 

With this result, I think that she will medal in Paris. Maybe even longer. Coming from a girl that learned javelin from youtube, in a village with no club, with mother coaching her who was a handball player. 

[Nickyc707 382]

11 hours ago, Federer91 said:

These new magical shoes are doing wonders. I propose everyone to run barefoot 

It worked for Abebe Bikila when he won the marathon in Rome in 1960.