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Athletics 2024 (Mod note #869)

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    #392
    Dodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Sharlene Mawdsley wins in Poland in 50.72!

    A new PB, 2nd on all time Irish list and way under the Olympic qualifying standard of 50.95!



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    #393
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,514 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Night of 10,000 pb's on at the moment, culminating in the Women's and men's championships at 20:30 and 21:25 respectively. Efrem Gidey in the men's championship race. A few Irish runners scattered across the other races.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODidlsIMxDQ



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    #394
    Hamachi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Hamachi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122153477#Comment_122153477

    Awesome. She’s been threatening a time like that for about a year. Great to see her fulfilling her potential. If she can continue to improve between now and Paris, she has a legitimate outside shot of sneaking into the Olympic final. Irish women’s 400m is amazing at the moment.



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    #395
    yerwanthere123
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,410 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122153861#Comment_122153861

    So exciting to see the progress Mawdsley is making, imagine both her and Adeleke in the final in Paris. Exciting times ahead 😀



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    #396
    Strazdas
    Registered Users Posts: 18,481 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122153900#Comment_122153900

    Hopefully Rhasidat is considering running the relay too. Mawdsley and Becker are on fire at the moment - it's not like she would be carrying a weak relay squad (a long way from it in fact).



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    #397
    Musicrules
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    With Becker getting a big PB as well. It's so exciting. I don't think the schedule works out well for the women at the Olympics though. With the individual heats and semi finals, we have to hope the relay team without Adeleke and Mawdsley somehow manage to make the final and then the other 2 come back in. The mixed relay is up first so they possibly can go for that but I think that would have a negative impact on their individual races.

    I suppose these are good problems to have. 😀



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    #398
    Hamachi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Hamachi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122153900#Comment_122153900

    How amazing would that be. As you say, incredibly exciting.

    I don’t think Mawdsley is done either. That 49.70 relay leg in Budapest suggested 50.4x potential and she’s clearly a better athlete this year.



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    #399
    Hamachi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Hamachi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122153999#Comment_122153999

    Unfortunately we are unlikely to reach the final without both of them. Becker and Healy are good enough to get us there, but our next cohort of 400m runners, Cadden, Harrison, Manning, and McGrory are low 53.xx. That simply isn’t fast enough.

    Unless one or two of them improves significantly before Paris, we don’t have the depth to qualify. Cadden is the one most likely to have a breakthrough.



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    #400
    tinpib
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    Rhasidat got 4th in the 200m, McLaughlin won it easily. Camera was on the opposite side to the finish line, bizarre, didn't know what was going on.



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    #401
    Strazdas
    Registered Users Posts: 18,481 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122154627#Comment_122154627

    Rhasidat said after the race she wasn't too happy with the run and that it didn't pan out the way she wanted. She reckons she started off the blocks too quickly and wasn't in the right head space after that.

    And yes, the finishing camera on the opposite side of the track was really weird…..made it hard to even judge how the race was unfolding.



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    #402
    Hamachi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Hamachi


    New PB and Euro qualifier for Nick Griggs, also in Chorzow - 3.35.90.



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    #403
    yerwanthere123
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,410 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    Forgot to post earlier, but Marrakech Diamond League now on Virgin Media 2. Not a stellar lineup though, a lot chose to race elsewhere this weekend.



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    #404
    Hamachi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Hamachi


    Another good run by Sophie Becker over 400m in Czechia this evening. She finished a close third in 51.75, backing up her recent PB.

    Good news for her as an individual becoming a consistent sub 52 performer and of course, a huge positive for the relay squad.



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    #405
    secman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,295 ✭✭✭secman


    In local athletics, Tallaght AC lost another stalward coach who gave the club and community of Tallaght many many years of coaching, RIP Tony Byrne 😢, losing Johnny Fox last month and Tony this month, huge loss to Tallaght AC.



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    #406
    Krusty_Clown
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    Some amazing match-ups in the Eugene DL/Prefontaine classic on Saturday. Not all entries are confirmed yet, but some spicy races, like the Women's 800m, with Keely Hodgkinson, Athing Mu, Jemma Reeky, and Mary Moraa. Bowerman mile (closing event) featuring Wightman, Nuguse, Kipsang, Josh Kerr, Ingebrigsten and Cheruiyot. The men's 10,000m is strangely an all-Kenyan affair, but IIRC it's their selection race for the Olympics, but means it probably will be a wily, slow 23.5 laps, with a blistering final 600m.

    Coverage on Virgin Media 2, 9-11pm (which sadly means untimely advert interruptions).



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    #407
    yerwanthere123
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,410 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122174538#Comment_122174538

    Athing Mu has pulled out. Was always going to happen 🙄

    Gudaf Tsegay will be attempting the 10,000m world record too, but the race is well before the tv window. Hopefully there'll be a way to watch it somewhere.



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    #408
    Hamachi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Hamachi


    Looks like Ciara Mageean is opening her season over 1500m at the golden spike meeting in Ostrava next Tuesday.

    Interesting to get a sense of her form.



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    #409
    yerwanthere123
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,410 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    Mageean is actually racing tonight in Manchester over 800m. Decent field and wavelights will be set to 1:56, so could be interesting. Sarah Healy and Louise Shanahan will also be there, but what I'm most keen to see is how 17 year old Phoebe Gill will fare after recently running 1:57.



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    #410
    yerwanthere123
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,410 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    News PB's for Ciara Mageean and Sarah Healy in Manchester, 1:58.51 for Mageean to finish 2nd and 2:00.86 for Sarah Healy to finish 4th. Louise Shanahan DNS.

    Phoebe Gill took the win in 1:58.08. Went out a little too hard in sub 55 and struggled to hold on, but at just 17 years old she's got ample time to learn how to pace herself correctly.



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    #411
    Hamachi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Hamachi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122182935#Comment_122182935

    Those times augur well for both Mageean and Healy as they begin their outdoor campaigns in earnest. Great to see the women’s 800m NR improved to a very respectable time.

    What a talent Phoebe Gill is..



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    #412
    yerwanthere123
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,410 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    Not a bad start to the Eugene Diamond League, just a shame this was stuck behind a paywall.

    New 10,000m WR, 28:54.14 for Beatrice Chebet!

    https://twitter.com/WorldAthletics/status/1794434741560652038

    This also doubled as the Kenyan Olympic trials, so I think this means she's picked for Paris too 🤣

    Perfect race for her really, had the wavelights and Tsegay as a pacemaker for most of it. Tsegay 2nd in 29:05, still the third fastest of all time.



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    #413
    Strazdas
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122182935#Comment_122182935

    That's a fantastic start to the season for Mageean. Looks like she's primed to do really well in the 1500 this summer. Well done to Sarah too.



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    #414
    MooShop
    Registered Users Posts: 972 ✭✭✭MooShop


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122174538#Comment_122174538

    Coverage also on BBC3 9-11pm



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    #415
    deisedude
    Registered Users Posts: 4,866 ✭✭✭deisedude


    https://the42.ie/6389865

    Good round up piece here of various Irish athletes competing today.

    Sharlene Mawdsley set a new 100m PB with Gina Akpe Moses running the same time. Hadn't heard about her in a while.

    The most interesting result was Kelly McGrory running 52:62 for the 400m. Taking a second off her PB. Bolter for the Olympic relay squad?



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    #416
    walshb
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    Jakob on yet?



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    #417
    marathon2022
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122184122#Comment_122184122

    Not yet, woman's 800 just finished



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    #418
    4Ad
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    Some run by Kerr !!



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    #419
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,164 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Steve Cram commentating on his own UK record being broken is strange. Nearly 39 years he held it!

    Hodgkinson judged her race beautifully.



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    #420
    yerwanthere123
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,410 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122184173#Comment_122184173

    Keely was phenemonal! So well judged as you say. Thought she'd given herself too much work to do, but she made it look easy in the end.

    Big win for Josh Kerr, don't think we'll see him compete against Jakob again until Paris.



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    #421
    Hamachi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Hamachi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122184130#Comment_122184130

    Keely Hodgkinson looked superb. 1.55 at this stage of the season is immense. If she continues to get faster, she has the beating of Mary Moraa in Paris. Athing Mu is of course the ‘unknown’ quantity right now. Shout out to Gemma Reekie for a good run too.

    Josh Kerr looked great beating Jakub. However, the Norwegian clearly isn’t 100% right now. Paris is going to be fun, particularly given the animosity between the two guys.



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