Athletics IAAF World Championships 2017

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

Glavan becoming the new Robert Heffernan..... 3 times 4th place in a row in global championships now! Heartbreaking for him.

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

7 minutes ago, dcro said:

Looks like Glavan can't keep this pace. 4th place incoming, after finishing 4th in both 2013 and 2015.

 

Was there ever an athlete who finished 4th at three consecutive World Championships?

 

400m runner Chris Brown finished 4th in the world championships 2005, 2007 and the Olympics in 2008, then 5th in the world in 2009..... very tough streak.

Edited August 13, 2017 by OlympicIRL

[dcro 10,210]

This was anything but a battle for the silver.

[Gianlu33 4,574]

No points for Lorenzo De Luca, actually in 9th position and in crisis, what bad championship for us Our last chance are the 20km

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

8th place for Robert..... thank you for a great career!!

 

End of an era

 

[Dunadan 1,103]

Yin lapped Yang and commentators still thinking that they are fighting for silver 

[kungshamra71 892]

 

Ines Henriques! World Champion!! 

[Dunadan 1,103]

22 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

No points for Lorenzo De Luca, actually in 9th position and in crisis, what bad championship for us Our last chance are the 20km

Marco De Luca despite being called Lorenzo for the whole race has decided to keep his original name 

[dcro 10,210]

Yin and Yang on the podium lol. That's gold.

 

Congrats Portugal

[Dunadan 1,103]

Only 4 women finished. Randall, who caused this event to be added this year with the help of her lawyer, had a gap of 42:26 after 40 km.

Now they insist for it to be added to the Olympic programme to reach gender equality.

IAAF face more threats of legal action as Tokyo 2020 set as next target for women's 50km walk

As the article says, " Gender equality could be achieved by adding it at Paris 2024 but it could also be done by dropping the men's 50km race walk from the programme."