Kenny Bednarek got the silver and Erriyon Knighton became the youngest track medallist in history.
Archived Homepage For July 22, 2022
Archived Homepage For July 22, 2022
What a way to win your first gold.
Plus we explain why Sam Parsons was the happiest man at Hayward Field and how Woody Kincaid has been cursed in 2022.
Thursday Talk in Eugene
- MB: Noah MF Lyles 19.31 for #3 all-time as Americans sweep the medals with Kenny Bednarek 2nd (19.77) and Erriyon Knighton 3rd (19.80).
- NOAH LYLES 19.31 4th fastest time ever and the third fastest athlete ever
- How close to the women's 200m WR will the women run tonight?
- Noah Lyles 9.16 final 100. Wow.
- Is Algeria the Morocco of 2022? What's up with those two unknown Algerians winning two heats
- SAM MF PARSONS
- Just noticed Bednarek wears two dangling earrings one on each ear..
- jakob wtf
- Kincaid Fall?
- Fred Kerley Tweeting About 5K
- OAC Bombing @ Worlds?
- Props to Jonathan Gault for asking the verboten question
- Luis Grijavla has BALLS
- Nur has signed with Nike
In a historically fast race, no one was faster than Norah Jeruto of Kazakhstan as the US medal streak was snapped at 4 global champs in a row.
Only one US man ran well and he ran really well but was controversially DQd. On the plus side, all three US women made the 5000 final.
*RRW: In A Difficult Moment, Canada's McBride Shows Incredible Grace A collision involving a current Mississippi St. star and an ex-one resulted in one going down hard to the track.
Caster Semenya gets eliminated without being noticed at World Championships She was eliminated after running 15:46.12.
*MB: Sifan Hassan had no idea Caster Semenya was in the 5000 in Eugene “Caster Semenya ran the 5,000?” Hassan asked again. “ I had no idea. I didn’t even know she was here. Did she make it?”
Wednesday Worlds Talk
- Unofficial Day 6 Eugene World Championships Thread
- Why are the US 800m runners so weak? Disaster for the US men as all 4 runners were eliminated.
- NORAH MF JERUTO
- Any Americans medal in the women’s ‘chase tonight?
- US 800m Men Stink - We Needed CADE FLATT!!!
- Koech got screwed
- 2022 USA 800m Choke Festival July 20th
- Hoppel should advance
- Koech DQ
- Is WERKWUHA GETACHEW a genetic male?
- Will Sydney McLaughlin break Edwin Moses's 122 race win streak?
- Is Emma Done?
Non-LRC Worlds Coverage
Seb Coe stands strong & vows to save women's sports: ‘Biology trumps gender’
- Jake Wightman will let gold medal sink in before turning attention to Commonwealth Games
- Shericka Jackson and Stephen Francis say last year's disaster in 200 has her ready for tonight's final
- AW: Keely Hodgkinson is now running full-time and going for gold in Eugene “For me I went to university to basically move out and try to live as close to a full-time athletics life as I could. Now I actually can do that. I’m in a good position. I’m really thankful for that. Uni probably wasn’t for me. If I wasn’t an athlete I probably wouldn’t have gone.
- Timothy Cheruiyot not surprised by his lack of medal in Eugene as he missed a bunch of time with a hamstring injury “I was suspecting I will post such results because I missed training for a few months before the Championships because of a hamstring injury," said Tim C.
- Mo Farah’s story draws horror, understanding in Somalia
Wightman lived every miler's dream by outkicking the Olympic 1500 champ with 200 to go, becoming the first Brit to win the 1500 at Worlds since 1983. Wightman closed in 54.84, to Ingebrigtsen’s 55.24. In Tokyo, Jacob clocked 54.42 for the final 400m. You can watch the BBC broadcast and hear Steve Cram describe Wightman's win here.
SC Full Podcast Breaking Down Jake Wightman's Win & dos Santos win in the 400h Get daily breakdowns of each day's action in your podcast feed when you wake up frustrated as you were unable to find the race on US tv.
Dos Santos said he was going to celebrate at a highly recommended local pizza joint and he's even splurge on soda.
Tuesday's MB Talk Regarding Worlds
- Unofficial Day 5 Eugene World Championships Thread
- JAKE MF WIGHTMAN!!!
- Jakob Ingebrigtsen Goes home devastated
- Jakob Ingebrigtsen…revenge in 5k?
- Jake Wightman what a class act…
- MARIO MF GARCIA ROMO -4th place 3:30.20
- Could peak-form Centro have been top 5 in that 1,500 final?
- Did Jakob screw up by taking the lead? Or was Jake just too good today?
- So tired of athletes competing for U.S. Colleges and not representing the U.S. at Championships
- ALISON MF DOS SANTOS
- Hold on - Rai Benjamin is only 24? RIP 400m H WR
- 400mh Predictions: WHO YOU GOT?
- 1500 Final Tonight
- Tonight's PeacockTV feed once again will be the NBC crew 7/19
Another sprint event has largely been run since the Devon Allen DQ. We've analyzed the men's 200 data and it reaffirms our belief that something is amiss with the start reaction times in Eugene.
British Mid-D At Worlds
- Good Read: Max Burgin Taking An "Old School" Approach To Training Burgin is coached by his father and they "put an emphasis on intensity and short recovery" as well as what Burgin describes as "monster hills."
- Keely Hodgkinson Thinks Max Burgin Can Become GB's First World Outdoor 800m Champion “If he’s healthy and gets through the rounds okay then I think he’ll be walking away as world champion. He has an aura around him right now. But it’s funny because he’s really the sweetest guy.”
- Video: Jake Wightman's Dad Commentates As He Wins World 1500m Gold
- Jake Wightman: "Whatever happens in the rest of my career, I'm a world champion." Wightman talks about having his dad announcing in the stadium and his mom crying after he won.
Worlds Non-Distance News
- Eleanor Patterson Joins Exclusive Australian Club With World High Jump Gold She became just one of ten Australian world champions. She cleared 2.02m to win on countback over Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh.
- AP: For Ukrainian High Jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh, World Silver Feels Like Gold
*Pre-Meet Article In NY Times By Jere Longman On Yaroslava Mahuchikh's Experience As A Ukrainian Refugee - Slovenia’s Kristjan Ceh Wins Gold, Sets Championship Record (71.13m) In Men's Discus
- Erriyon Knighton, Noah Lyles Set To Renew Rivalry In Men's 200m Final On Thursday
Olympic News
- USATF Launching New Series Of Track Meets In The US To Try And Boost Track's Popularity Before The 2028 Los Angeles Games They want to bring track from the 8th most popular sport to the 5th. Right now they are behind football, baseball, basketball, soccer, swimming, tennis and motor racing.
- Start Date For 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics Announced (July 14)
- British Olympic Committee Discussing Potential 2036 Or 2040 Olympics Bid With Thomas Bach
- Japanese Authorities Investigating Payments Of Almost $300,000 Made To Tokyo 2020 Board Member
Kipyegon sprinted away from silver medalist Gudaf Tsegay to win in 3:52.96. Laura Muir took bronze as Sinclaire Johnson was the top American in 6th.
El Bakkali was clearly the best in a mad sprint as his 8:25 winning time was easily the slowest ever at Worlds. Evan Jager was top American in 6th.
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Worlds Field Event Medals
- Ryan Crouser Shakes Off Joe Kovacs' Challenge To Win Shot Put Gold Crouser is the WR holder and two-time Olympic champ, but this was his first world title.
- Katie Nageotte And Sandi Morris Go 1-2 In Pole Vault For Team USA They both cleared 4.85m, but Nageotte won on count back.
- Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim Wins Third Consecutive World High Jump Title With 2.37m
- Belgium's Two-Time Olympic Heptathlon Champion Nafissatou Thiam Win's Her Second World Title With 6947 Points
- Venezuela's Yulimar Rojas Wins Third Straight Triple Jump World Title US's Tori Franklin won bronze.
- The San Diego Union: US's Brooke Andersen Goes From Soccer Player To World Hammer Champion
- DyeStat: Anna Hall And Tori Franklin Earn Long-Awaited Medals For US Women (Both Won Bronze) Hall wins first us heptathlon medal since 2001 as Franklin became the first American woman to medal in the triple jump.
- GB's Katarina Johnson-Thompson Frustrated At Failure To Challenge For Medals As She Finishes 6th In Heptathlon
Potential Catastrophe Avoided
More Worlds News
- Josh Kerr Ahead Of 1500m Final: "I never have any fear." “You’re going to watch me play hopefully the best game of chess I’ve done in my life. I am ready for anything. I’m ready to go out and run a PB so wherever whatever happens, happens and I’m just gonna give it my all. Hopefully I can go out there and be better than I was last year.”
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Fixes Wig Mid-Race But Still Qualifies 200m Heats She said that it is one of 10 wigs she packed for Eugene and she has different hair stylists "install them" for her.
- Adam Gemili Blames "Relentless Bad Press" Over Coach Rana Reider For Failing To Get Out Of 200m Heats “There has been a lot of bad press around my set-up and me and it's been relentless, every week there’s been something and it's just taken its toll. Afterwards Gemili tweeted an apology for hitting out at the press.
- Laura Muir Feels Relief With 1500m Bronze After Coming Back From "The Most Significant Injury" She's Ever Had She was on crutches in February with a stress reaction in her femur and didn't run for two months.
Day 4 MB Talk
Day 4 MB Talk
- Faith Kipyegon is GOAT
- Why no love for El Bakkali?
- Evan Jogger is back. LetsRun goes home devastated again
- SINCLAIRE MF JOHNSON
- WTF: I just saw a women's 1500 go out in 55? and there were 4 women on the pace?!!? (nope the split was off, but we're supposed to trust reaction times to .001)
- STEEPLE MF CAMERAMAN
- was that an effing camerman ON the track during the steeple???
- Congratulations to today’s marathon winner Sara Hall!
- COOL GRAPH - Eugene's WC Reaction Times - ALL SCREWED UP !!!
- Is T&F really dying? Or should we accept that it's always been a marginal side show?
The data is in and there is something MAJORLY wrong with the reaction timing equipment here in Eugene. Devon Allen was screwed. World Athletics needs to make amends. At a minimum, an exhibition race with him and Grant Holloway and anyone else who wants to show up needs to be held.
Women's Marathon
Sara Hall (2:22:10), Emma Bates (2:23:18 pb), and Keira D'Amato (2:23:34) posted the best finish ever by a US women's marathon team at Worlds.
*MB: LIVE NOW W Marathon
Pre-Race: RR Wash Post: She’s 37. A mom of two. And America’s fastest female marathoner. She’s 37. A mom of two. And America’s fastest female marathoner.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen listens to the Letsrun podcast. Why don't you?
Fatalities Might Be Down, But COVID Is Still Killing Dreams
- Olympic Champ Andre De Grasse Withdraws From World Champs 200m As He Still Deals With Symptoms From COVID De Grasse failed to make the 100m final after getting COVID for the second time less than three weeks ago. He still plans to run the 4x100.
- Japan's World Champs Team Rocked By COVID As Eleven Members Test Positive Three of Japan's marathoners, Kengo Suzuki, Mao Ichiyama and Hitomi Niiya, weren't allowed to compete due to their positive tests.
- GB High Jumper Morgan Lake Missing Worlds After Testing Positive For COVID
World Champs Drama
- Rana Reider (Coach Of Medalists Marvin Bracy And Trayvon Bromell) Warned By Police After Being Caught In Athlete Warm-Up Area Without Accreditation Reider was denied accreditation because he is being investigated by US Safe Sport over sexual misconduct allegations.
- Irish Athletes Were Furious With Athletics Ireland For Breaking Their Own Selection Criteria For Some Athletes And Rejecting World Invites For Others Athletics Ireland rejected world ranking invites for several athletes, but accepted invites for two shot putters to help World Athletics fill their "quota" in that event.
- Cuban Javelin Thrower Yiselena Ballar Rojas Defects Before World Champs She won bronze at the U20 World Cup last year.
More Sprint Coverage
- Devon Allen Says He'll Try Not To React So Fast Next Time "Track and field is so difficult, because you train your whole year for one competition that lasts 12 seconds, 13 seconds. And that's that. It's kind of like your identity is based all on that one competition, which is frustrating. But it happens. I'll learn from it, and I'll make sure I just kind of react not as fast next time."
- Michael Johnson Praises SAFP's Longevity Over 100m "The 100m is arguably the most difficult event to repeat as champion, and she's done it five times."
- Dina Asher-Smith "Gutted" And "Upset" Not To Get On Podium After 4th Place 100m Finish She equaled her 10.83 British record, but it wasn't enough to beat the Jamaicans.
- Video Interview With Devon Allen: "Nothing I can do."
Grant Holloway repeated as 110 hurdles world champ as the US went 1-2-3 in the men's shot put with Ryan Crouser claiming his first world title. Plus Jakob Ingebrigtsen reveals he listens to the LetsRun podcast.
- Tola was Kipchoge-esque today
- NBC Announcer - "Kerr is out of it..." Kaboom, he wins the heat
- RUPP IN HIS LATE 30S WITH BACK PAIN IS STILL THE USA'S BEST MARATHONER
- Is Shelly Anne Fraser Pryce the Goat?
- Fisher: "It felt like a real sport"
- World indoor champ Tefera goes home DEVASTATED
- Ollie Hoare goes home DEVASTATED
- Men's Shot *Warholm is DOPING
"In this track-mad town, they have waited decades for a night such as Sunday," writes Adam Kilgore as golds went to Ryan Crouser as the Americans went 1-2-3 in the shot, Grant Holloway (pv) and Katie Nageotte (PV) and Brooke Andersen (hammer).
- SAFP makes history as she wins record 5th World 100 title as Jamaicans sweep In addition to becoming first person to win five world titles in an individual running event, she also at 35 is the world champion an individual event on the track.
- AP: US's 9 medals on a single day was a record at Worlds
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Noah Lyles said Team USA has been practicing more than ever and the team won't lose with him on it.
*Noah Lyles is pumped to have his brother on the 4 x 100 team with him How someone who was 5th in the 200 got on the 4 x 100 is something we'd like to know but we are happy they are practicing. "It’s an exact 180, I would say, one being on home soil, two having my brother, three having my whole family here. Everything that I didn’t have in Tokyo, I now have here at this world championships,”
Stars like Geoffrey Kamworor and Ruth Chepngetich are running. Who will win? With ideal conditions, could the times actually be fast? And can Galen Rupp medal? Plus meet one of the coolest stories of Team USA - Colin Mickow - the financial analyst who works a full-time job and runs 140-150 mpw.
Team USA took home two 800 medals in Tokyo but with Ajee' Wilson back in form can they make an unprecedented sweep of all three on home soil in 2022?
Worlds Is Less Than 10 Days Away
Can Grant Fisher medal? Can Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce win global titles 14 years apart? And how about a Noah Lyles-Erriyon Knighton rematch? Worlds is going to be sick.
Meet Gary Martin's Coach
Streleckis was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March but didn't let that stop him from engineering one of the most memorable seasons in prep mile history.
Looking Ahead To The Rest of the Year
From world record chases to era-defining rivalries, here are the eight stories Jonathan Gault will be following closely throughout the 2022 track season.
Are The Marathon Trials In Trouble?
As USATF searches for a bidder for the 2024 Trials, those in charge of recent Olympic Marathon Trials in Houston and Atlanta believe the Trials' financial model is unsustainable. Will anything change?
Ross Tucker Speaks
We paid one of the top sports scientists in the world to analyze the Shelby Houlihan doping case and CAS ruling. He has 2 pieces for us, the piece above is an opinion piece where he answers our questions. In a 2nd more technical piece, Ross goes through the CAS decision step by step and outlines in clear terms exactly what Houlihan argued and why he thinks CAS ultimately (correctly) ruled against her.
The new and improved LetsRun.com forum is here. Read about the new features. Or just check them out yourself.
Your latest American stars share their insights.
American Record Holders
American Record Holders
Keira D'Amato, the new American record holder in the marathon, was joined by Deena Kastor, who held the record for 15 years.
Sisson was the guest on the LetsRun.com Track Talk podcast after she became the first American to go sub 67 in the half marathon on a record-eligible course. Podcast highlights above. Full pod here.
Woody Kincaid joined us after he broke the American record indoors at 5000. He talks above why he left the Bowerman Track Club. Podcast highlights and link to full podcast here.
Coogan's New Balance Boston team had 3 Olympians in 2021 and 2022 could be the biggest year yet for the program with 2 new additions and the TRACK at New Balance coming on March 1st.
Danny Mackey has taken the Brooks Beasts from an unproven club to the Olympic podium in its first decade.
Dathan Ritzenhein is the first of the top pro coaches to sit down and talk about his club heading into the 2022 campaign.
Best of Jon Gault
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LetsRun Classics
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‒ Jake Wightman reflecting on his upset victory in the men's 1500.