Newly crowned world champion and Olympian Jake Wightman will conclude his historic season in New York City when he aims to defend his title at the New Balance 5th Avenue Mile on Sunday, September 11.
Photo: Erik van Leeuwen, GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons Iconic race to be broadcast live nationally on NBC and internationally on USATF.TV Newly crowned world champion and Olympian Jake Wightman…
Really looking forward to the women's steeplechase, Getachew apparently going for the world record. A loaded field, hoping Abebe and Yavi get involved and we see some seriously fast times!
The 5k field is absolutely loaded. Fisher, Grijalva, Kejelcha, Kincaid, Kipkorir, Klecker, Krop, and Stewy!! Plus a few more sub-13:10 guys. If it's paced fast there's like 5 guys who could run 12:4x and 3-4 more that could be sub-13.
The 5k field is absolutely loaded. Fisher, Grijalva, Kejelcha, Kincaid, Kipkorir, Klecker, Krop, and Stewy!! Plus a few more sub-13:10 guys. If it's paced fast there's like 5 guys who could run 12:4x and 3-4 more that could be sub-13.
The exciting thing about the 5,000 to me is the number of guys who could destroy their PBs. All of the following guys seem sub 12:55 capable if they've trained well since their big races of the season:
There are a lot of guys in the 5000m field ready to get big pr's, which should be fun. That could include Klecker, Fisher, Grijalva, and Ndikumwenayo and McSweyn, as well as Chelimo and Lobalu, as well as others. No Jakob, though, which surprises me. I thought he was running this. By the way, Wightman is in the 800m.
I checked the program and the 5000 m will be stratospheric but I don’t see anything for the one hour run nor the entries for that race? I notice from Instagram that Austro vegan monster, Andreas Vojta is running. Unfortunately, recently he finished last in the European championship 10,000 m in 2950 but hopefully that was a blip.
Sawe: PBs of 26:54 and 58:02 Kandie: 26:50 and 57:32
Levy Kibet I assume is pacing, as he's a 5,000m athlete (13:01 PB) who is quite young. Joshua Belet has run sub-60 twice this year (59:23 PB), so maybe he will be in the mix. Rest I assume are pacing or will let the top 2 go.