Athletics

[mikedogz]

Australian sprinter Lachlan Kennedy breaks 10-sec barrier in Men’s 100m

[sparky]

Armand Duplantis does it again. Another World Record! And his hot girlfriend seems very excited indeed by what he has just done with his extremely big pole.

[MiketheSnow]

The margin between first and the rest is crazy

Total dominance

[Bovidae]

Zoe Hobbs has broken her own Oceania 100m record by running a blistering 10.94sec in the Czech Republic.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360734655/zoe-hobbs-breaks-her-own-oceania-record-blistering-time-1094sec

[KiwiPie]

@Bovidae She was 0.01 seconds out of making the final at the last World Champs in 2023 - that record time would have made the final and placed her 6th. Hopefully she can keep trimming it towards 10.8

[antipodean]

Faith Kipyegon ran 4:06.42 for the mile with her pacers.

[voodoo]

@antipodean said in Athletics:

Faith Kipyegon ran 4:06.42 for the mile with her pacers.

I watched it. So noticeable how much harder she was working than the pacers. Not often you see middle distance men and women running together. Good on her for having a crack, but it’s going to be a fair while before any feeble goes under 4mins

[mikedogz]

Jul 1  /  Sport

Kiwi teenager Sam Ruthe has another crack at a sub-four-minute mile

Sam Ruthe aims to be the youngest ever to break four minutes on US soil.

[Bovidae]

Zoe Hobbs was 3rd in Monaco behind the Olympic 100 m champion Julien Alfred.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360755441/zoe-hobbs-records-best-ever-diamond-league-finish-third-place-100m-monaco

[mikedogz]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360755978/teenage-running-prodigy-sam-ruthe-breaks-two-more-1500m-records-sets-new-personal-best