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#1. The craziest Diamond League track meet ever in Paris

• • Jakob Ingebrigtsen 2 mile World Best (Source)
    • Officially a “world best” since World Athletics does not recognize a 2-mile world record). Though they still gave him the “World Record” sign at the end!
    • 7:54.10 
    • Brief reminder about Ingebrigtsen’s background
      • At 16 was the youngest runner to break 4 in the mile.
      • Has gold world and Olympic medals
      • Holds world record indoor 1500m
    • Broke 26-year-old of 7:58.61 set by Kenya’s Daniel Komen.
    • Passed 3000 meters in 7:24.07 (#3 on the all-time outdoor list by itself).
    • 55-second last lap
    • Rumblings of going after the WR in Oslo in the 1500m which is Hicham El Guerrouj‘s world record of 3:26.00.
  • Faith Kipyegon 5,000m Record (source)
    • The most surprising WR of the evening
    • Last week Faith Kipyegon ran the WR in the 1500m
    • 14:05.20 
    • She is the first woman to hold both records simultaneously since Italy’s Paola Pigni in 1969.
    • Kipyegon had to beat Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey, the previous world record holder at 14:06.62
    • Gidey and Kipyegon had dropped the rest of a talented field by 3k (8:31.9)
    • hitting 4k in 11:21.7 it appeared the world record would be just out of reach. 
    • Kipyegon took the lead early in the penultimate lap but was not able to create a gap either. Kipyegon picked it up slightly at the bell, but even with 200 meters to go, Gidey was right there
    • With a last lap of 60.6,  final 200 of 28.1
    • Gidey ran 14:07.94, the #3 time in history, to become the first woman to break 14:10 twice.
    • Ejgayehu Taye was 3rd in 14:13.31, #8 time in history
    • six women broke 14:30 in all – a record for a single race.
    • American Alicia Monson was 8th in 14:34.88, three seconds off her personal best.

• Lamecha Girma 3000m Steeplechase WR
  • 7:52.11.
  • Currently holds the 7:23.81 indoor 3000m record.
  • Went out fast, accelerated beyond world record pace, held on for the world record finish
  • Girma gets his steeplechase glory—- instead of runner up.
    • At the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Silver 
    • At the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, Silver
    • At the 2022 World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Silver
    • 2022 World Championship, Silver

#2. Grayson Murphy wins World Championship

(Source & Source)

• Grayson Murphy was bronze in the vertical uphill race …
• 3 days later Grayson Murphy won the mountain classic event in 1:04:29
• Finished about a minute ahead of  Tove Alexandersson who is a 17-time World Championships gold medalist in orienteering.
• Murphy, won her first world title in 2019 in her debut at the event.
• Leonard Chemutai (UGA) won on the mens side
• Chemtai won the U20 mountain classic race at last year’s championships in Thailand.
• Countries scored as teams and Kenya won for both Men and Women.

#3. NCAA Championships

NCAA Champs were HOT

• Held in Austin, TX in June?
• Everything was about mitigating the heat and controlling efforts

Men’s 5,000/10,000

• Ky Robinson (Stanford, Australia) pulled of the incredible double victory (last one to do that was Ed Cheserek)
• Teammate Charles Hicks was 2nd in the 10,000m
• Won both races in almost exactly the same manner–big surge with 500m to go to surprise the field and they never recovered

Women’s 1500m

• Katelyn Tuohy (NC State) went for it big time and paid for it big time
• Instead of racing the field, she tried to outrun them, they caught her in the final lap and put 6 women past her
• Harvard’s Maia Ramsden (New Zealand) had the best finish for a clear victory
• Tuohy then scratched out of the 5,000m final as well

Men’s 1500m

• Washington continues to demonstrate its dominance for miles (remember that indoor race when they put 8 guys under 4 in a single race?
• They had 3 in the finals, and among them, only one Nathan Green wasn’t already a national champion (Joe Wascom won last year’s 1500m, Luke Houser won this year’s indoor mile)
• As it happens, it was Green’s day after all to complete the trifecta–winning in a decisive final 100m that was unrivaled by the field.
• Wascom also pulled off a late surge for 2nd
• Washington has now won the last 3 mile contests in NCAA (1500m and indoor mile).

Women’s 5,000m

• • With Tuohy out, it became a different race

• Parker Valby (Florida) decided to make it her race

• After what amounts to a constant stream of injuries for nearly a year now, she still managed to show up at NCAAs ready to race
• Valby put the pedal down early and never relinquished, not only holding the front but gaping the field early and extending the gap throughout
• She was never challenged
• Won in an amazing 15:30 in the heat/humidity (her PR is only 10 sec faster–15:20)
• 2nd and 3rd went to Everlyn Kemboi (Utah Valley) and Emily Venters (Utah) respectively who finished 1st and 2nd in the 10,000m

Men’s 800m

• Just  quick word here…
• True freshman Will Sumner (Georgia) won in a wire-to-wire negative split 1:44.2 (nearly 2-second PR as well)
• True breakout performance–see what kind of momentum that generates
• #5 all-time NCAA list
• Was the #3 high schooler (and US HS record in 600m)
• Fastest time by an American this year, only American with the world champs standard

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