Athletics Discussion | Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Road to LA 2028

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Justyna Święty-Ersetic beat Natalia Kaczmarek in the 400m Polish nationals final alas Natalia had a pause this month due to a hamstring injury and she generally dislikes running indoors. It's debatable if she competes at IEC.

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 Indoor Nationals

 

Top of day #2

 

men's Shot Put: fierce battle between Fabbri and Weir, with the 2023 world silver medallist edging out his teammate 21.85m to 21.76m. He also recorded a very, very long (well beyond 22m, likely a 22.50m) last put, which unfortunately was called foul

 

men's Triple Jump: Andrea Dallavalle (European silver medallist and world champs 4th placed in 2022) came back after 2 injury-plagued years and won the national title with 17.36m (2nd best jump of the year so far)

 

women's 60m: Zeybab Dosso easily won the title with a pair of good races: 7.10 in the semifinal and 7.07 in the final. she's Europe's no.2 at the moment

 

men's 400m: Luca Sito was expected to run fast, but he didn't go as quick as many would have liked. "only" 46.15 for him (still, it's his PB)

 

among all the other (pretty ordinary) results, in the women's Triple Jump, 18-year young Erika Saraceni (world junior bronze medallist in 2024) beat all the more experienced rivals and set a new U-20 National Record with 13.71m (improving her PB by around 20cms)

[Grassmarket 4,085]

Nice story here.   Letsile Tobogo bought a truck with the money he's earned over the last few years - and he knows how to use it!

 

Watch the incredible moment Olympic gold medallist rescues people trapped in cars and STRANDED in floods | Daily Mail Online

[Biathlonfan 796]

17 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Nice story here.   Letsile Tobogo bought a truck with the money he's earned over the last few years - and he knows how to use it!

 

Watch the incredible moment Olympic gold medallist rescues people trapped in cars and STRANDED in floods | Daily Mail Online

oh look someone you can actually root for in track

[Biathlonfan 796]

23 hours ago, Makedonas said:

Our women's long jump final was such a joke, the top 3 had a combined 12 fouls and only 6 valid jumps 

litereally our women's triple jump

[Biathlonfan 796]

checked rankings for curiosity and Diego Casas actually tossed 63.69 at the winter championships,third best result this year so far,his second best career result ever.

[Makedonas 2,239]

12 hours ago, Biathlonfan said:

litereally our women's triple jump

Our silver medalist, Vasiliki Chaitidou, had one jump at 4.71m so that was probably almost a foul too or something for it to be so low.

 

So really the top 3 only had 5 "real" jumps out of 18 

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Grand Final to the Indoor world Tour Gold Series in Madrid tomorrow evening.  Auto Qualification slots to Nanjing 2025 available, as well as money and prestige.

 

Fierce clashes in store for World Indoor Tour Gold season finale in Madrid | PREVIEWS | World Athletics

[Biathlonfan 796]

As well as the All Star Perche-a Pole Vault meet in France.With Mondo,Karalis,Sasma,[turkish national record holder at 5.90], and Lavillenie competing,among others. 

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Duplantis released a song called "Bop"