Athletics

[nonpartizan]

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[mikedogz]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/australian-sprinter-lachlan-kennedy-breaks-10-sec-barrier-in-mens-100m/CINS6JWXZXVNJA5F24VAZHTZE4/#google_vignette

[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.

https://twitter.com/BBCSport/status/1934300798764081155

[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]

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/565750/kiwi-teenager-sam-ruthe-has-another-crack-at-a-sub-four-minute-mile?fbclid=IwY2xjawLRu99leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF0NGFqckRCY2lFU3ZXcG9vAR6ox3l_ZhWv8EuHggNCRFlj80iYrkOwgkxwpQGEcx6bowsaZO7eTQROZqCCNA_aem_dBxp38jPJSteHdTey3tmiw

[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

[KiwiPie]

Tom Walsh misses out on bronze on countback at the World Athletics champs. Zoe Hobbs into the semis of the 100m, Geordie Beamish into the final of the steeplechase despite falling on the last lap with someone treading on his face.

[nonpartizan]

Geordie Beamish with the W!

[KiwiPie]

@nonpartizan said in Athletics:

Geordie Beamish with the W!

That's amazing. Never thought a Kiwi would ever win a distance world champs!

[sparky]

@nonpartizan said in Athletics:

Geordie Beamish with the W!

Heart, heart, heart, heart, heart and more fucking heart.

What a run!

Everyone in Hastings and Hawkes' Bay should be so proud of the fella.

[sparky]

This was some bit of commentary by Andrew Cotter. (Might not work outside the UK).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/videos/cgl1e2xjr9go

[MiketheSnow]

@sparky said in Athletics:

This was some bit of commentary by Andrew Cotter. (Might not work outside the UK).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/videos/cgl1e2xjr9go

Hell of a last 200m

[nonpartizan]

@sparky said in Athletics:

@nonpartizan said in Athletics:

Geordie Beamish with the W!

Heart, heart, heart, heart, heart and more fucking heart.

What a run!

Everyone in Hastings and Hawkes' Bay should be so proud of the fella.

The self belief he had.

In the heats when he was running down the home straight he seemed so full of confidence, like showing off for the crowd, not in a bad way just like saying "yes, I'm here to win"..... Its like he knew this was his time to.shine.

[nonpartizan]

On another note Jamaica are back at the top of the pile in the men's 100 - Oblique Seville and Kishane Thompson 1st and 2nd.

Must be annoying as hell for Kishane to have been narrowly beaten in this and the Olympic final.last year - two silvers could have easily been two golds.