World of Running

AtoZrunner updates:

• Laker Loop HM: Mark, Julie (3rd AG), Krystin
• Arcadia Daze 5k: Bill (1st AG)
• Tri Boulder Sprint: Jax (1st AG)

#1. Monaco

(Source)

Men’s 800m

• Pacers went out too hot, but Marco Arop (Canada) wasn’t phased and chased basically solo
• Field reeled him in over the last 200, but still finished well
• Kenya’s Wyclife Kinyamal finished in a blaze to win with 1:43.22 in a world leading time
• Algeria’s Simane Moula was 2nd
• Arop 3rd
• Previous Diamond League leader Djamel Sedjati (Algeria) 4th
• USA champ Bryce Hoppel was 6th in a season best 1:43.95

Women’s Mile

• It was the dream mile of all dream miles
• Field was loaded with the best of their areas/nations
  • British champ Laura Muir
  • Irish champ Ciara Mageean
  • Venezuelan champ Joselyn Brea
  • Australian champ Jessica Hull
  • US champ Nikki Hiltz
  • World champ Faith Kipyegon
• It was every bit as exciting as anticipated… Kipyegon going for the WR
• Pacers out a bit hot, Freweyni Hailu (Ethiopia) tried to hang, made it 2min
• With a lap to go, Kipyegon was almost 10 sec ahead of the field and was so far under pace it was almost a guarantee
• Kipyegon ran 4:07.64 for a new world record, nearly 5 seconds under Sifan Hassan’s previous record
• Won by 7 seconds
• Look at the rest of the field:
  • 2nd Ciara Mageean = 4:14.58 (Irish record, 4-sec PB)
  • 3rd Freweyni Hailu = 4:14.79 (Ethiopia, debut)
  • 4th Laura Muir = 4:15.24 (British record, 3-sec PB)
  • 5th Jessica Hull = 4:15.34 (Oceania, Australia record, 3-sec PB)
  • 6th Nikki Hiltz = 4:16.35 (North American, USA record, 2-sec PB)
    • *Previous record (Mary Slaney) was set in 1985–stood for nearly 38 years
  • 7th Melissa Courtney-Bryant = 4:16.38 (Great Britain, 7-sec PB)
  • 8th Elise Cranny = 4:16.47 (USA, 5-sec PB, *better than previous record)
  • 9th Abbey Caldwell = 4:20.51 (Australia, 17-sec PB)
  • 10th Esther Guerrero = 4:22.28 (Spain, 1-sec PB)
  • 11th Berenice Cleyet-Merle = 4:26.06 (French record, 3-sec PB)
  • 12th Agathe Guillemot = 4:26.92 (France, 4-sec PB)
  • 13th Joselyn Brea = 4:27.41 (South American, Venezuelan record, 16-sec PB)
• Every single one ran a personal best in the field
• Kipyegon: 3 for 3 in world record attempts in one season!

Men’s 5,000m

• • Lights were set to gradually ramp up to a world record finish
  • Anyone capable of that here?
  • Talk about Jacob Kiplimo (Uganda) or Berihu Aregawi (Ethiopia)
    • Don’t miss Kenya’s Jacob Krop
    • Spanish record-holder Mo Katir
    • Canadian record-holder Mo Ahmed
    • Ethiopian greats like Telahun Bekele and veteran Hagos Gebrhiwet
    • Stacked field yet again!
  • As the race went down, Kiplimo right to the front with the pacers
  • Youngster Kuma Girma (Ethiopia) went to the front as well with Aregawi
  • On pace until middle of the 4th kilometer
    • Krop tried to keep it on, couldn’t hold
    • Others pressed but no one had it
  • Last 1,000m mostly the same until Gebrhiwet made a huge move with 550m to go and did not relent
  • Aregawi tried but couldn’t quite catch
  • Another crazy finish with top 3 all within the same second (Ethiopian sweep)
  • Gebrhiwet PB 12:42
  • Bekele PB in 3rd in 12:42
  • Katir 4th in 12:45.01, European, Spanish record (bested Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s Euro record)

• Jimmy Gressier finished 9th in 12:56.09 for a new French record

Men’s 3,000m steeple

• Up front, it was out hot again
• Young Kenyan star Simon Koech was game, along with veteran countryman Abraham Kibiwot
• Drew ahead over the race and the field struggled to stay close
• Koech held on for 8:04, 14-sec PB
• After Kibiwot, the next 4 also ran PBs
  • Abrham Sime (Ethiopia)
  • Samuel Firewu (Ethiopia)
  • Geordie Beamish (New Zealand, Oceania record in 8:13.36–nearly 40-yr-old record)
  • Anthony Rotich (USA)
• Mason Ferlic (USA) also ran a PB in 8th
• Bad fall about mid-race appeared to be either Kenyan star Conseslus Kipruto or USA’s Benard Keter (or both)

#2. London

(Source: LetsRun)

Men’s 1500m

• • No Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and the big lesson is: people race differently without him

• Stewart McSweyn (Australia) looked his old self

• Timothy Cheruiyot (Kenya) didn’t

• Yared Nuguse (USA) looks like he’s here to stay

• The first three were only 0.16 apart
• Like he was once known to do routinely, McSweyn went out hot on the pacers and no one followed
• At 800m, he was the guy to beat with a sizeable lead
• Nuguse helped close it, then Narve Nordas (Norway) took the lead with 200m to go and Nuguse followed
• Nuguse had the final say with a last 50m surge to win over Nordas by 0.14 in 3:30.44
• Great Britain’s champ Neil Gourley nearly caught Nordas as well to finish only .02 behind him
• Gourley closed better than anyone else, but he was too far back
• Behind Gourley, two more Brits showed their depth and closing speed: Elliot Giles and Matthew Stonier
• All 3 Brits ran PBs
• 14 men ran under 3:33 (including USA’s Cole Hocker who ran yet another season best for 3:32)–second deepest race in history
• What else?
  • This win by Nuguse needs to be discussed
  • The last time an American won a Diamond League mile event was 2011, Leo Manzano (and that was the only other one EVER)
  • USA’s legendary miler Matthew Centrowitz never did it (though he won Olympic gold)
  • Better still, Centro’s best Diamond League season was 2nd, 2nd, and 3rd
  • Nuguse this season–his first ever Diamond League season–has been 2nd, 3rd, and 1st

Women’s 5,000m

• • Another stacked race!
    • World champ Gudaf Tsegay (Ethiopia)
    • Olympic champ Sifan Hassan (Netherlands)
    • World XC champ Beatrice Chebet (Kenya)
  • First time in history: 5 women under 14:20 in one race
  • Who were the five who broke away from the field in this one?
    • Tsegay
    • Hassan
    • Chebet

• Medina Eisa (Ethiopia), world U20 champion

• Alicia Monson (USA)

• You heard it right!
• Monson, latched onto the back of the train, was dragged along for an insane American and North American record!
• Tsegay won it in a brutal kick for 14:12.29 (#4 all-time)
• Chebet trailed her in 14:12.92 for massive personal best and #7 all-time
• Hassan was third in 14:13.42 for #9 all-time and new European and Netherlands record
• 3 women ran top 10 all-time performances in the same race!
• 18-yr-old Eisa finished 4th in a new U20 world record 14:16.54 (14 seconds off the previous)
• Monson came next to be the first American woman under 14:20 in 14:19.45, 4 seconds under the previous record
• The previous meeting record was 14:20, as well
• In 8th, Nadia Battocletti ran an Italian record in 14:41

Women’s 3,000m steeple

• Quick note…
• The Kenyan’s made a statement yet again here as they both (1st and 2nd) finished 12 seconds ahead of the rest
• This time, world-record holder Beatrice Chepkoech couldn’t hack
• 2021 world U20 champ Jackline Chepkoech took the victory by 7 seconds to run a meeting record PB in 8:57.35 (the first woman under 9 this season)
• The Americans struggled a bit here… 

Women’s 800m

• Quick note…
• Jemma Reekie (Great Britain) impressed the home crowd with a strong victory in 1:57
• Halimah Nakaayi in 3rd set another Ugandan record in 1:57.62 (one hundredth behind Natoya Goule-Toppin)
• Catriona Bisset in 4th set another Oceania and Australian record with her 1:57.78

#3. USATF Masters Championship

(source)

• World Record 75-79 agae group 5000m by Jeannie Rice. She ran 22:41.46.
• She took more than 12 seconds off the previous 75–79 world record. 

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