Athletics Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[Braulio 139]

11 hours ago, Dragon said:

This could be a real superstar....

 

I will wait until we see her in a 'real' meet. These misterious meetings in Africa let me a bit suspicious but well, if in fact we have a 17 year old phenom posting clean times of 49.22 & 49.24 back to back, welcome her!

 

Would like to see her get invited to a Diamond League event soon or at least a Continental Tour meet

 

 

[heywoodu 16,468]

On 06/12/2020 at 12:09, heywoodu said:

Nope, so besides Abdi Nageeye now also Bart van Nunen and the miracle that is Frank Futselaar qualified  

 

Björn Koreman might still try if there's a chance to have an official race somewhere, he would try this weekend in Poland but that got cancelled. Then there's Khalid Choukhoud who might try it as well, but that's about it - which is a lot more than what I expected, I hadn't really expected more than Nageeye  

 

Futselaar doing what Michel Butter in the end never could. Futselaar ran exactly the limit, Butter missed it by eight seconds in Amsterdam in 2015 in one of the more heartbreaking moments in Dutch athletics  (watch from roughly 1:54 for his last few 200 meters or so)

 

So in 2015 Butter missed the limit by eight seconds. He had retired by now, but recently made a comeback when cycling made him realize he still has an excellent shape. Today he was among a group of Dutch athletes going for both the limit and the top-3 Dutch athletes, because with the current shoe technology situation the Netherlands has a significant number of athletes capable of running the limit.

 

The top times in the qualifying period before today:

 

 

Butter and the others were on their way to 2:09 for a long time, then one by one they dropped and Butter kept going for a 2:09....however, he started to lose some pace and in the end finished in 2:10.30, meaning he's likely to miss the Olympics by 14 seconds this time  

[heywoodu 16,468]

4 hours ago, Braulio said:

 

I will wait until we see her in a 'real' meet. These misterious meetings in Africa let me a bit suspicious but well, if in fact we have a 17 year old phenom posting clean times of 49.22 & 49.24 back to back, welcome her!

 

Would like to see her get invited to a Diamond League event soon or at least a Continental Tour meet

 

 

The other young Namibian who is sort of on her level as well (but a little older) competed in the African Games in 2019, for example, that's not so 'mysterious' anymore. Very curious to see them in a big meet though, absolutely.

[Agger 1,843]

Oh well. Guess that means no Swedish male marathon runner. That's what you get when you put up a national standard that would be enough for a gold at most Olympics! 

[heywoodu 16,468]

5 minutes ago, Agger said:

Oh well. Guess that means no Swedish male marathon runner. That's what you get when you put up a national standard that would be enough for a gold at most Olympics! 

What's the standard?

[heywoodu 16,468]

Jill Holterman qualifies with a 2:28.18, twelve seconds under the national standard and a more than 6 minute PB  

 

Ruth van der Meijden finished in 2:29.30, exactly the standard....internationally, not nationally  

[Dragon 2,082]

9 minutes ago, Agger said:

Oh well. Guess that means no Swedish male marathon runner. That's what you get when you put up a national standard that would be enough for a gold at most Olympics! 

Unless the Eritrean living in Sweden has his citizenship application accepted.

[Agger 1,843]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

What's the standard?

2.08

[Dragon 2,082]

1 minute ago, Agger said:

2.08

Tsegay ran 2.06.53 last week. He applied for Swedish citizenship last year

[Agger 1,843]

2 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Tsegay ran 2.06.53 last week. He applied for Swedish citizenship last year

Yeah. He is a chance to get one, but I doubt he'll get the citizenship in time.