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Until this year, only 5 men had ever broken 1:42 for 800m.
In 2024 alone, 5 more men have joined the sub-1:42 club.
What the heck is going on???
My story on why everyone is running so fast this year and why the world record might only be the beginning:
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37 hours after earning a bronze medal in the 10,000 meters (and six days after bronze in the 5,000), the Netherlands' Sifan Hassan wins the 2024 Olympic marathon over a field of legends in an Olympic record of 2:22:55.
One of the all-time great Olympic distance running feats.
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"What do you mean I can't do a victory lap?"
NO ONE CAN STOP LAURA MUIR
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Sifan Hassan is the first woman in Olympic history to win 5k, 10k, and marathon gold medals in a career.
In the history of women’s distance running, we’ve never seen anything like her.
Tokyo 2020
1500 🥉
5k 🥇
10k 🥇
Paris 2024
5k 🥉
10k 🥉
Marathon 🥇
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Karsten Warholm's punishment for losing: he will have to compete in tomorrow's Diamond League 400m hurdles in Zurich in a Swedish kit.
Warholm's response when handed the singlet: "Fuck, fuck, fuck."
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One thing I have LOVED from the Olympic track program is the big bell all the gold medalists get to ring. Great idea.
After the Games, the bell will be donated to the cathedral at Notre-Dame.
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Olympic 100m race analysis.
Noah Lyles was last at 30 meters and did not lead at any point until the final steps. But he was leading when it counted.
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USA men have been kicking ass on the track in Paris
100: 🥇🥉
400: 🥇
1500: 🥇🥉
Steeple: 🥈
10K: 🥉
America is the only country to have medalled in all three distance events (and every other track event too).
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PUMA announces it has signed NCAA 100/200m champion Divine Oduduru.
He will make his professional debut in the Diamond League 100 meters in Monaco tomorrow.
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Second night in a row a Brit runs a ridiculous time in an Olympic final only to get beaten by an American coming from behind to run an even more ridiculous time.
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Letsile Tebogo since the Olympics:
Aug 22, Lausanne (200m): 19.64
Aug 25, Silesia (200m): 19.83
Aug 30, Rome (100m): 9.87
Sep 5, Zurich (200m): 19.55
Four races, four wins.
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Visual reminder that Quincy Wilson is a 16-year-old running (and thriving) against grown-ass men in the 400 meters at the Olympic Trials.
Terrific photo by
@007TrackFan
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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s last six 400m hurdles championship finals:
2021 Olympic Trials 51.90 WR
2021 Olympics 51.46 WR
2022 USAs 51.41 WR
2022 Worlds 50.68 WR
2024 Olympic Trials 50.65 WR
2024 Olympics 50.37 WR
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Reminder that this guy has now run 3:27 for 1500, 3:43 for the mile, and has an Olympic bronze medal
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Eliud Kipchoge drops a 14:28 5k, at age 36, in 81-degree heat (73% humidity), from 30-35k in the Olympic marathon.
Absolutely sick.
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Just one of the most bonkers Olympic 1500s you will ever see.
-Cole Hocker GOLD
-Two Americans medal and run 3:27
-Jakob does not medal
-USA 1-3-5 in the most anticipated 1500 final in four decades
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Unsponsored Scott Fauble, running in a Lululemon singlet he bought himself, finishes as the top American at the 2022 Boston Marathon in 7th in a pb of 2:08:52.
Fastest time by an American man in Boston since Meb Keflezighi ran 2:08:37 to win in 2014.
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Molly Seidel is 4-for-4 in marathons. She runs 2:24:42, a personal best and the fastest ever by an American woman in New York, to finish 4th in the NYC Marathon.
Marathon star.
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Winning men’s sprint times at 2019 NCAAs
100: 9.86
200: 19.73
400: 44.23
110 hurdles: 12.98
400 hurdles: 48.48
One of the best meets in the entire world, every year.
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I apologize to my followers from Botswana, who have informed me that "Motswana" is the proper term to refer to someone from Botswana rather than "Botswanan."
Letsile Tebogo is entertaining as hell.
He looked across the track with 20 meters to go in the 100m in Rome and started celebrating as soon as he saw he was passing Christian Coleman.
The 21-year-old Botswanan is riding a massive wave of confidence after his Olympic 200m title.
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The USA men medalled in 4/5 distance events on the track at the Paris Olympics.
The only one where they did not medal was the 800m, which featured the fastest Olympic 3rd placer in history and Bryce Hoppel ran an American record of 1:41.67.
Crushed it.
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Noah Lyles wants you to know how hard it is to win a world title in track & field.
"You know the thing that hurts me the most? I have to watch the NBA Finals and they have 'world champion' on their head.
"World champion of WHAT? The United States?"
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Kenya's Kelvin Kiptum -- who 12 months ago had never run a marathon -- wins the 2023 Chicago Marathon in a world record of 2:00:35.
That crushes Eliud Kipchoge's previous record, set one year ago, by 34 seconds.
Unbelievable.
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The seven fastest women's 100m times in history were either run in 1988 or 2021...
All-time women's 100m list
10.49 FloJo 1988
10.54 Elaine Thompson-Herah 2021
10.60 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 2021
10.61 Thompson-Herah 2021
10.61 FloJo 1988
10.62 FloJo 1988
10.63 Fraser-Pryce 2021
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At the Tokyo Olympics, the USA did not win a single gold in a men’s individual track event.
In Paris, they won five. Almost swept the sprints with 100-400-110H-400H, plus Hocker’s gold in the 1500. And won the 4x400 in the
#2
time in history on top of that.
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Shericka Jackson's reaction to seeing 21.41 on the scoreboard...and Gabby Thomas's
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Gabby Thomas and Sha'Carri Richardson missed their first attempt at the final handoff, but neither panicked. Thomas made sure to get the baton into Sha'Carri's hand, Sha'Carri ran a storming straight to go from 3rd to 1st, and the US women are Olympic 4x100 champions.
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Josh Kerr runs an incredible 3:44.3 to win the Fifth Avenue Mile in New York.
The Fifth Ave course record of 3:47.52 was set way back in 1981 by Sydney Maree. Kerr just broke it by 3+ seconds -- three days after racing the Zurich Diamond League.
What a run.
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Nick Willis broke 4:00 in the mile for the first time on February 8, 2003, at age 19.
Tonight, he broke 4:00 again at age 37.
And he broke 4:00 every year in between, for a total of 19 years in a row -- a world record.
All the stats on Willis's big run:
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Happy 10-year anniversary to David Rudisha’s 1:40.91 world record and the greatest 800m race in history.
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That’s what it means to Tyler Day to run 13:16.95 indoors at Boston University — knocking Galen Rupp’s 13:18.13 American collegiate record from the books.
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For the second straight year, someone in this picture ran down Jakob Ingebrigtsen to win the 1500m world title
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Equivalent performances to a 45.94 400m hurdles, per World Athletics scoring tables:
9.62 100m
19.25 200m
42.75 400m
12.56 110mH
1:39.79 800m
3:23.39 1500m
3:39.53 mile
7:42.59 3000m steeple
12:25.21 5000m
25:50.26 10000m
2:00:20 marathon
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After his 7:17.55 for 3000m in Silesia today, Jakob Ingebrigtsen says “three down, seven to go.”
He means world records.
1500: 3:26.00
Mile: 3:43.13
2000m: 4:43.13 ✅
3000m: 7:17.55 ✅
2 miles: 7:54.10 ✅
5000: 12:35.36
10,000: 26:11.00
SC: 7:52.11
HM: 57:31
Marathon: 2:00:35
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Trayvon Bromell said he estimates he spent about $300,000 flying around the world seeking treatment for the Achilles injury he suffered in 2016. Drew up a letter to his agent in 2018 saying he was going to retire. Never gave up, though. Ran 9.76 last year, now a Worlds medal.
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Letsile Tebogo is entertaining as hell.
He looked across the track with 20 meters to go in the 100m in Rome and started celebrating as soon as he saw he was passing Christian Coleman.
The 21-year-old Botswanan is riding a massive wave of confidence after his Olympic 200m title.
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AMERICAN RECORD!
Emily Sisson runs 2:18:29 to finish 2nd at the 2022 Chicago Marathon and smash the American record in the marathon by 43 seconds.
Sisson now owns the American record in the half (67:11) and full marathons.
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I don't even know what to say.
Hobbs Kessler just laid down one of the greatest performances in history by an American high schooler.
DESTROYS the high school 1500 record with a 3:34.36 at the Portland Track Festival.
Olympic standard.
Faster than the NCAA record (3:34.68).
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Faith Kipyegon -- two world records in eight days. First the 3:49.11 for 1500m in Florence last week, now 14:05.20 for 5000m in Paris today.
Closed in 2:43 for her last 1000, 61.1 last 400, 28.7 last 200.
Unreal.
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47 days after running 3:56.00 to earn a bronze medal in the 1500m at the World Championships, Sifan Hassan runs 2:13:44 -- the second-fastest women's marathon ever -- to win the 2023 Chicago Marathon.
We've never seen an athlete like Sifan Hassan before.
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Still can't believe we got to see Sydney McLaughlin, Allyson Felix, Dalilah Muhammad, and Athing Mu all run on the same relay team tonight.
Four individual Olympic gold medalists all on the same relay team. Has that ever happened before?
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen's half marathon debut in Copenhagen did not go well. He stopped running at the 10k mark after passing in the lead at 27:27.
Tried to start again and run with second pack, but stopped again. Eventually jogged it in and ran 63:13.
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They're taking 40-yard splits in the 100m at the American Track League meet in Jacksonville tonight.
Fastest women's split was by Dezerea "Dez" Bryant.
Dez Bryant (pro women's sprinter) tonight: 4.49
Dez Bryant (NFL wide receiver) at his 2010 pro day: 4.52
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Nine days. Six Olympic races. 61.25 laps.
🥇5000m
🥉1500m
🥇10000m
Quite simply, one of the greatest feats in the history of distance running.
Sifan Hassan, what an athlete.
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Remarkable drama in Arizona.
After six hours of running, a bloodied Jim Walmsley comes just 12 seconds shy of Nao Kazami's 6:09:14 world record for 100k.
He was on pace through 95k.
Still an absolutely heroic run -- 5:56 pace for over 62 miles.
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Brown University has reinstated its men's track & field and cross country teams as varsity sports, effective immediately.
Full letter from university president Christina Paxson to the Brown community:
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The grace with which Caster Semenya has carried herself over the last 10 years is absolutely remarkable. She has endured criticism, hatred, and an invasion of privacy for no other reason than choosing to be herself. Semenya has emerged as a role model and someone to be admired.
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Rai Benjamin: “If you would have told me that I was going to run 46.1 and lose, I would probably beat you up and tell you to get out of my room.”
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Bernard Lagat now has the fastest time by a US 40+ man at every distance from the 1500 through the marathon.
1500: 3:40.20
Mile: 3:54.91
3000: 7:37.92
2 miles: 8:17.05
5000: 13:06.78
10000: 27:49.35
Half marathon: 62:00
Marathon: 2:12:10
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Sha'Carri Richardson's 100m reaction times at the 2024 Olympics:
Prelims: .200 (69th of 72)
Semis: .191 (24th of 26)
Final: .221 (8th of 8)
Story from the Stade de France on Saturday night, where Julien Alfred put St. Lucia on the map by winning 100m gold while Sha'Carri Richardson was doomed by a poor start:
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For the second time, Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge breaks the marathon world record in Berlin.
He runs 2:01:09 to take 30 seconds off the world record he set four years ago.
Another legendary performance from the greatest marathoner the world has ever seen.
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Also: Nuguse planned on going to grad school for dentistry until his senior year of college, at which point his running talent became too big to ignore. And he still doesn’t plan on running beyond 30 so he can go to dental school.
What I can't wrap my head around with Nuguse:
• On the bowling team to burnish his college applications
• Off no training, runs a 5:30 mile in gym to be first in line at McDonald's for lunch
• HS coach had to convince him to join track
• Now he's an Olympic bronze medalist
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Just like he did after a victory against Cole Hocker in Lausanne, Jakob Ingebrigtsen throws his arm around Yared Nuguse after a defeat in Zurich.
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41-year-old American Roberta Groner, a full-time nurse and mother of three, finishes 6th in the 2019 World Championship marathon in a steamy in 2:38:44.
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Emma Coburn running in honor of Gabe Grunewald in today's Diamond League steeplechase in Oslo
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Some context for 12:35.36:
-60.43 per 400
-4:03.07 per mile
-7:33.21 for 3,000m. Plus another 2,000m.
Only 5 Americans have ever run faster than 7:33.21 for 3,000m.
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April 13, 2008: Ryan Hall runs a personal best 2:06:17 to take 5th in the London Marathon.
October 4, 2020: Sara Hall runs a personal best 2:22:01 to take 2nd in the London Marathon.
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Here's where it all went wrong for Team USA.
Below is when Bednarek started leaving his mark --Coleman is nowhere near the tape in their lane.
Coleman actually ran a great leg, but Bednarek left way too early and gave them basically no shot to complete handoff cleanly.
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Here is what Nikki Hamblin had to say about Abbey D'Agostino after their collision in today's Olympic 5,000m heat.
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30 years after her mom (and now coach) Laurie won the NCAA 5,000m title for North Carolina State, Elly Henes replicates the feat, claiming the 2021 NCAA 5,000m title in 15:28.05.
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Noah Lyles "only" running 19.52 makes me think, if anything, Usain Bolt is underrated.
Lyles said it was tough to run super fast as 19.52 was his 6th race in 7 days. When Bolt ran his 19.30 and 19.19 WRs, they were his 8th races in 6 days!
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Don't let everything that just happened on the track distract you from the fact that JuVaughn Harrison won US high jump and long jump titles ON THE SAME DAY and is going to the Olympics in both events
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This is what Khalifa Stadium looks like 5 minutes before the men’s 100-meter World Championship final on a Saturday night.
Utterly embarrassing.
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Getting questions about whether that was the greatest 1500 ever. Has to be way, way up there, right?
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Remember this moment from the Olympic marathon?
The Brazilian runner, Daniel Do Nascimento, wound up dropping out of that race in Sapporo.
Today, he ran 2:04:51 at the Seoul Marathon to become the fastest marathoner in history born outside of Africa.
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Olympic 5,000m men’s splits.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen closed his final 600 in 1:19.9. I don’t know how anyone is supposed to beat that.
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Two dudes that medalled at the 2004 Olympics will be racing each other again at the 2024 Olympics
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Grant Fisher was 8th with just over 200m to go in tonight's 5,000m final.
I had him at 26.4 for his last 200 to move up for the bronze medal. What a close.
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Last four 400m hurdle championship finals between Dalilah Muhammad and Sydney McLaughlin:
'19 USAs
1. Dalilah 52.20 WR
2. Syd 52.88
'19 Worlds
1. Dalilah 52.16 WR
2. Syd 52.23
'21 US Olympic Trials
1. Syd 51.90 WR
2. Dalilah 52.42
'21 Olympics
1. Syd 51.46 WR
2. Dalilah 51.58
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Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray, who has finished 47 consecutive Boston Marathons (he runs the course at night once his directing duties are over), ran 26.2 miles this morning on a 3.8-mile loop around his neighborhood in North Andover.
📷
@DMSE
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen has just taken a blowtorch to the longest-standing distance world record on the books.
He runs 7:17.55 in Chorzow, Poland, to take more than 3 seconds off of Daniel Komen's legendary 7:20.67 WR for 3000m.
What. A. Run.
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You can make a case that if you split Eliud Kipchoge's career in two, they would be the best and second-best marathoners in history
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What Wightman just did is basically every miler’s fantasy. Pull up on the Olympic champ’s shoulder with 200 to go and take your shot. What a move, what a win.
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There has never been an elite mile race like what we just saw in Monaco.
Faith Kipyegon whacks almost five seconds off Sifan Hassan's 4:12.33 world record. 4:07.64. By a woman.
National records for 🇰🇪🇮🇪🇬🇧🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇻🇪
All 13 finishers ran personal bests.
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Grant Fisher says he expects his family has already begun to party in Paris after his bronze medal.
Will he join them?
"I haven’t really thought about whether I’m going to party or not. I do need to recover [for the 5k]. But it’s not every day you medal at the Olympics."
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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s last five 400m hurdles championship finals:
2021 Olympic Trials 51.90 WR
2021 Olympics 51.46 WR
2022 USAs 51.41 WR
2022 Worlds 50.68 WR
2024 Olympic Trials 50.65 WR
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This wasn’t just the hardest US Olympic team to make. It was the hardest podium to make in the history of the world.
First 110m hurdle race in history with three men under 13.00.
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Timothy Cheruiyot: “When I was coming out of my room, I said, if someone beats me today, I will give him my bracelet. So Jakob beat me and I give it to him.”
This is so
@tim_cheruiyot
😍 .
Classy act. Sportsmanship and friendship.
Timothy gifting 1500m Olympic Champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen his 🇰🇪 bracelet.
(📸
@WorldAthletics
)
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Kelvin Kiptum's marathon career only lasted 10 months. Yet he still produced three of the fastest times ever run: 2:01:53, 2:01:25, and 2:00:35.
It's a loss for running world that we did not get to see his full career -- or get to know him better.
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This was more stunning than Kipchoge's world record.
Tigist Assefa, a 2016 Olympian in the 800m, runs 2:15:37 to win the 2022 Berlin Marathon. This was just her second marathon, after running 2:34 in Riyadh in March.
She's now
#3
all-time behind Brigid Kosgei & Paula Radcliffe.
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FASTEST MARATHONS EVER
2:01:39 Eliud Kipchoge 2018 Berlin
2:01:41 Kenenisa Bekele 2019 Berlin
2:02:37 Eliud Kipchoge 2019 London
2:02:40 Eliud Kipchoge 2022 Tokyo
Kipchoge has also run 1:59:40 and 2:00:25 in exhibitions. And he lost ~10 secs due to a wrong turn today in Tokyo.🐐
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We need to appreciate what we're seeing this year in the sprints.
Elaine Thompson-Herah & Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are having two of the greatest seasons ever by a 100m runner. At the same time.
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50.68!!!
Sydney McLaughlin takes .73 of a second (!!!) off her own world record to win the 2022 world title in the 400m hurdles.
Quite simply one of the greatest performances in the history of track & field.
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WOODY KINCAID JUST BECAME THE 8TH AMERICAN MAN TO BREAK 13:00 FOR 5,000 METERS
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51.68 for Sydney McLaughlin in her first European race in three years. She now owns six of the seven sub-52 second performances in history.
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Wow. When is the last time a track athlete was in a This Is SportsCenter commercial?
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I can't believe how many times I have to say this, but PUT THE CLOCK ON THE SCREEN
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Meet organizers offered a $10,000 prize to the best performance at today's Silesia Diamond League, based on World Athletics scoring tables.
Incredibly, Ingebrigtsen running 7:17 for 3000m was not enough to get it. Mondo's 6.26m PV WR is worth 1339 points to 1320 for Jakob's 3k.
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American Quincy Hall was only 4th off the turn, but launches an ALL-TIME kick to win one of the greatest 400m races you'll ever see.
Hall runs 43.40,
#4
all-time. GB's Matthew Hudson-Smith runs the fastest non-winning time ever -- 43.44 for silver. What an Olympic final.
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There will be a lot of talk about pacing formations and shoes, but no matter how it was achieved, what Eliud Kipchoge did today in Vienna was insanely impressive. His legs still ran 26.2 miles in 1:59:40. That's bonkers.
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