Abby Steiner 22.09

It was mentioned here that Olympian Anavia Battle's ran a strong 22.39 in the 200 for Ohio State at this past weekend's Big10 championship. Battle ran her time on a 300 meter flat track at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio. Steiner ran her 22.09 on a banked 200 meter track.

If I am reading this correctly, Milesplit's conversion calculator actually rates Battle's performance better than Steiner's. Again, I'm not sure if I am reading this correctly but I think that I am.

For Battle's 200 this is what is stated: 22.39 for 200m converts to...Women Flat to Banked/Oversized = 22.05

For Steiner's 200 this is what is stated: 22.09 for 200m converts to...Women Banked/Oversized to Flat = 22.43

So, unless I am missing something, they appear to be really close to each other - within .04 seconds on both conversions. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

IDK about the conversions, or if they take into account in which lanes the athletes ran—but I always hated doing 200’s on a flat indoor track.

Huge to see the two of them at the same level, at the same time. The race is ON!

Steiner was the SEC woman runner of the year. Not a surprise.

ukathletics.com

Abby Steiner and Luke Brown Named SEC Runner and Freshman Field Athletes of the Year

Steiner was also named first team All-SEC this season while Brown was named to the All-SEC freshman team

Link:ukathletics.com/news/2022/3/9/track-fi...

I don’t want to hype her too much. She is in for a battle vs Ohio State’s Battle. LSU’s Ofili will also be in the mix. All 3 could get under the old 200 record of 22.36 that Steiner broke a few weeks ago. Steiner could get under 22 but I doubt it. I’m not sure if she will even get under her 22.09.

Well, she didn’t but she wasnt far off.

No question shes in a class by herself for indoor 200.

Shes running against herself in an NCAA championship. That is really impressive.

We’ll see how your it translates on the outdoor track.

Her 60 time really improved.. silver in the NCAA’s.

Just a tremendous indoor season

Abby will be one of the faces of the 2024 Olympic team. She will get A LOT of media attention due to her medal chances and her looks. Her 22.16 from yesterday indoors would have places 5th in Tokyo outdoors and she crushed Battle by a half second, a member of the US team in Tokyo.

22.13 on that slow track is sub-22 at BU or Arkansas. Outdoors will be interesting, I'm especially interested in her 100 after her 60m 2nd place performance with a horrible start.

I wouldnt say it was a horrible start. Shes up against the best of the best.

Her preliiminary race was a horrible start but she made a nice recovery.

shes had no major issues with her achilles, so assuming she stays healthy, it will be very interesting to see if she can crack 11 seconds in 100, and if she can get under 22 olin the 200, and if so, how much is under 22 can she go.

It's official.

Track and field is a joke.

BLah blah blah blah and more blah..

Track and field has become a complete joke. On pace with the WWE.

Your point is abundantly clear and you're a dbag for making it.

Did the poor wittle baby get offended by her in some way? Oh, boohoohoo...

A short Flo Track interview. She has a good head on her shoulders. Nice positivity and confident but not overly so. It’s refreshing to see.

What tool would give the interview above a downvote? SMH 🙄

It's official.

matt_london_413 is a joke.

We'll have to wait and see what World Athletics is going to do about Mboma and Masilingi. Steiner is fast but not Masilingi fast.

Matt London is a joke, a chucklehead, and a tool. A human piece of shít

Abby's indoor 22.16 is still quicker than Masilingi's 22.18 PB set in Nairobi last year. She should make things interesting this year.

But I hope to still see Christine and Beatrice thriving in 100 and 200m, and there's room for improvement. I do feel the rate of improvement will likely settle now though. I personally like having them in the mix because they give good competition to the Jamaicans.

If they really do have a huge advantage, we will see them smashing WRs (not just U20 ones). I personally don't see them as having a huge, unfair biological advantage because we have several other DSD women in 100m & 200m who are mediocre. Some I know of never even get named. Not fair to pick on the two who are actually decent.

I want to see Christine and Elaine compete against each other again, and Shericka should step up and start believing in herself to win some on the line too. Sha'Carri too for that matter.

Among actual women, Steiner seems like the real deal. The 200 is funny, though--some athletes with a shorter stride can do exceptionally well indoors, and not much better outdoors. 200m greatness requires a really well-balanced athlete, no wonder it was the 200 that was the original sprint (I think, but I may be mistaken) (also I don't know if it was run around a curve).

The start is not unimportant, curve running and curve acceleration are critical, energy distribution is critical, SE, stride length, relaxation is super-important...

IMO it will be fascinating to see how she transitions to outdoors. The good thing for her is that because she is relatively unheralded, she might get some not-so-great lane draws outdoors, which she should be able to handle well based on her indoor performances. That will raise her stock, and get her progressively better lanes.

But make no mistake, she will get destroyed by ETH, if ETH is anywhere close to her best. Will ETH be on fire again this year? We'll see. She is so close to those records, that it seems like now or never .

ETH is the current queen of the sprinting world and is in a class by
herself, IMHO. I don't believe anyone is touching her in the 100 or 200.
If Steiner keeps on track in her development, I do believe that she can
hang with and potentially beat SAFP, Mbomba, Gabby Thomas, S'CR, Sherika, and
anyone else except ETH over the 200. She will need to be flawless in her preparation
to compete against those runners.

What will be interesting is how Steiner does in the 100. She improved immensely
in the indoor 60 and I would think that her running that indoors helped her
start a lot and will lend itself to some fast 100 times. Again, she will not
touch ETH and I don't believe that she will get down to SAFP range either.
Speaking of SAFP, what she is doing at 35 years of age is amazing. She is as
good as ever. I posted the interview again, below, for anyone that did not watch it. Steiner states that she is eager to see how the 100 goes.

One thing to keep in mind about Abby Steiner, is that she is a relative
track novice (but a lot of collegiate runners are, actually). She was a soccer
player first and competed in that sport her first year at Kentucky. She did not
start sprinting until her 9th grade year of high school. She seems that she will keep her head on straight and will be smart about it all. Hopefully the injuries that she has had a hard time with over the last few years will stay at bay and she will be able to handle the pressure. Being still relatively unhearalded should help with the pressure. As others have mentioned in this thread and elsewhere, this is likely her last outdoor season as a collegiate athlete. She is probably getting good guidance with all of that also.