Watching live on Italian Rai Tre TV.
They have not put up all the official times yet, but this is as it happens:
Mo Greene wins in 9.89
Maria Mutola wins 1500m in 4.01 just ahead of Kelly Holmes with Regina Jacobs fourth in 4.03. Marla Runyan in 6th?
More to come.
Krummenacker easily wins 800m in 1.45.25 after taking the lead at 500m. Won by 3 metres.
Cool. Thanks man.
Marion Jones wins 100m in 10.89 after maybe the world's worst start (she was in 4th at 50m). She had already false-started. Second Tanya (?) Lawrence.
In women's 1500m
Mutola 4.01 for 1st
Jacobs 4.02.51 for 4th
Runyan 4.02.95 (?) for 6th
Teter 4.04.15 for 10th
Regina was ideally placed at 200m to go but didn't have the wheels to run down Holmes and Mutola and was herself passed in the last 30m.
Felix Sanchez (DOM) wins 400m H in 47.73 easy. Fastest time in the world this year?
This guy's from another planet right now.
PLEASE tell us what's up with Hicham!!!
3:48.29 CRAP :(
El G let down by the pacemaker from 800m to 1200m. Going for mile record.
Splits:
54.98
1.51.96
2.49.99 (and it was gone here), but elG took off for the last lap to finish 3.48.29 (after going thru 1500m in 3.32)
You could see he was pissed but the pacemaker apologised.
Rui Silva and a couple of Kenyans (you could through a blanket over the 3 of them) in 2-3-4 some 15 metres back.
Ana Guevara (MEX) wins 400m in fast 49.52 (fastest time of year?)
Two Kenyans with Rui Silva 3.50 were William Chirchir 3.49 and Laban Rotich 3.50
Any info on the men's 5000m?
In the 5000m Salah Hissou set off like a crazy man with 1km to go.
Went thru 4200m (2 laps to go) in 10.57 and then ran 59.12 (11.56) and 59.?? for 12.55.85.
Followed by Benjamin Limo, Richard Limo (?) and a Tanzanian. Rest of the field nowhere.
Another fastest time this year?
Did you see how Meb and Abdi finished up? How about Mark Carrol as well. Thanks
Frankie Fredericks wins the 200m in 20.00. The old guy's still got it.
====That's it from here, guys. End of Gala. Sorry if I don't have the full results, but they didn't put them up. (You know how it is, cutting from the track to the javelin and the shot and the long jump).
They should be posted on the IAAF site soon, maybe one of you can post them here for everyone. I'm off to bed.
Note that the "last lap" for ElG is 409m and not 400m. The first 3 splits are 400m, 800m and 1200m, then the 409m.
Med 13:21, Abdi 13:42, Carrol dnf... Oh boy, I can't wait for Ritz to go over to Europe in a couple years and kick some ass.
Med in 13:21, Abdi, last finisher in :42 (?) Carol dnf...
complete 5k results:
1 Hissou Salah MAR 12:55.85 12
2 Limo Benjamin KEN 12:57.24 10
3 Limo Richard KEN 12:57.52 9
4 Kipketer Sammy KEN 13:01.56 8
5 Chebii Abraham KEN 13:03.01 7
6 Yuda John TAN 13:03.62 6
7 Kibowen John KEN 13:04.13 5
8 GarcÃa Alberto ESP 13:10.90 4
9 Mezgebu Assefa ETH 13:13.18
10 El Himer Driss FRA 13:16.31
11 Keflezighi Mebrahtom USA 13:21.87
12 Ivuti Patrick KEN 13:21.91
13 GarcÃa Roberto ESP 13:24.64
14 Haughian Sam GBR 13:25.56
15 Muli Pius KEN 13:29.40
16 Kifle Yonas ERI 13:34.46
17 Gamba Michele ITA 13:35.12
18 España Jesús ESP 13:36.36
19 Birhanu Dejene ETH 13:37.32
20 DÃaz Mauricio CHI 13:39.46
21 Abdirahman Abdihakem USA 13:42.75
Bitok Paul KEN DNF
Oh boy, I can't wait for Ritz to go over to Europe in a couple years and kick some ass." Excuse me. I hope Ritz does keep improving and challenge the world's best someday, but....he's got a long way to go. Even if he runs 13:15 in a few years (12 more seconds in 2 years)that would barely crack the top 10 in this meet. And this is just a single meet on the circuit. A good one for sure, but other meets have had even sicker times/depth in previous years. Good luck to Ritz, just don't expect him to kick the asses of Africa's best, 'cause it probably ain't gonna happen.
In regards to Ritz, the thing is the guy is a competitor. The time will not matter, fact is if he's in a race I bet he will 'race', regardless of who else is in it and how fast they run.