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Cooper Lutkenhaus just ran 1:42.27 at the US Championships to take 2nd, and make the World Championships!! The kid is 16 years old, and just finished his sophomore year in high school! His time is a World Under-18 record, and is now the 4th fastest American ever!! Guys, this is a superstar!!

Watching the US National Championships on NBC. Before the women's 800m final, they didn't show all the competitors. Instead they focused on just the 3 black women that they expected to make the team.... instead, 3 white women, who weren't even mentioned before the race, made the team.

Looks like Amy Hunt leaned too soon. https://fb.watch/Bfiy69-s1P/

Jonas Phijffers of the Netherlands won their 400m Championships with a National U23 record of 44.71. There are so many guys under 45 this year. Meanwhile, after winning the 100m yesterday, Amy Hunt took 2nd in the British women's 200m. She had the same time as the winner, an exceptional 22.14...

Amy Hunt won the Women's 100m at the British Championships, with a time of 11.02 (1.5w). Louie Hinchliffe, 3rd in the Men's 100m, 10.01 (2.2w)

High School record holder, 16 year old Cooper Lutkenhaus, qualified for the finals of USA 800m Championships today. Incredible in this day and age.

Jenna Prandini qualified for the final, running 11.08 in her semi. Pretty amazing, especially considering she is 32 yrs old now. One of the few white sprinters who's had some longevity in the sport.

Yes, as the Soviet Union, all these countries performed better than today, as they were organized in one system. None of the countries have performed as well since the break-up of the Soviet Union, but that may finally be changing.

Wasn't sure where to put this .... since we were talking about Russian sprinters, I wanted to see how many of the famous Soviet track athletes were actually Russian. I knew, for example, that Valeriy Borzov was from Ukraine. I was somewhat surprised to find out that many of the great Soviet...

Sam Blaskowski, Victoria Cameron, and Jenna Prandini, all run this evening in the heats of 100m at the US Championships.

A quick article about Betty Robinson. What a natural speedster she must have been! https://www.shethepeople.tv/womens-firsts/betty-robinson-first-women-olympic-sprint-gold-9585803

I sort of get his point....you had just mentioned that Krylov had set the all-time Russian 100m record, and so he pointed out that this Japanese high school kid had just run faster than anybody in Russia ever has. The same comparison is not true with Poland, England, Germany, Italy, France, etc.

Sorato Shimizu's time of 10.00 is now listed on the World Athletics site.

Here's a nice article about Owe Fischer-Breiholz. He might be the next big thing in the 400m hurdles. https://www.european-athletics.com/home/news/owe-fischer-breiholz-the-farmer-s-son-who-struck-gold-in-bergen

Another amazing performance from a 16 year old at the Japanese Inter-High School Championships, was Taiju Goto winning the 400m hurdles in a Asian U18 record time of 49.84. Second place ran 49.98. Goto just turned 16 in May, and apparently this is his first year running the 400m hurdles. Btw...

Sorato Shimizu followed up his incredible 100m race, with an outstanding victory in the 200m. His time was 20.39 (2.7w). I wonder what we will see from this kid in the future?

This has been discussed under the 'High Schoolers' thread. But you're right, the mark is not listed on the World Athletics site. It was set at Japan's High School Championships. I don't know if that meet registered with World Athletics. But it seems to be a legit time.

Aleksey Danilov of Russia, who will be 19 years old at the end of August, ran 44.56 in Belarus. This puts him #3 on the European 400m list, and #1 on the U23 and U20 European lists.

Now here is something amazing!! 16year old Sorato Shimizu of Japan, ran a world age group best of 10.00 (+1.7) in the 100m!! That is 0.09s faster than previous best for a 16 year old, set by Puripol Boonson of Thailand. It's also a World U18 record, and an Asian U20 Record, and equal 8th on the...

Rohan Browning 10.07 (-0.3w) to win in Luxembourg today.

How about this kid, 15 year old Bronson Hearn Smith from England?! He has a best time of 10.65, and he runs so effortlessly. It looks like he is not even trying.

21 year old Austrian Enzo Diessl improved his 110m Hurdles PB to 13.17 (1.5w) today in Austria.

Here's Charlie Dobson's come-from-way-behind, 400m victory at the London Diamond League meet:

Here are Day 3 Highlights from the Euro U23 Championships. A lot of good races. Jaeger's 400m and 200m are the first 2 events shown in the highlights. You can see that she had the 200m race won, but leaned forward too soon and collapsed. What a shame. But otherwise a great day for her, and a...

Elian Larrergina of Argentina keeps improving. Today he ran a PB of 44.53 to win a meet in Spain. Edoardo Scotti of Italy was 2nd in 44.75. Also a PB and =NR for him.