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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.

Meanwhile, at the London Diamond League, there were also some outstanding results. Two years ago, I stated that I was most excited about Britain's Amy Hunt and Charlie Dobson. Both had been outstanding juniors, who had heavily sidelined with injuries. Since then, they have both been making...

Some great performances from Day 3 of the European Under 23 Championships. Owe Fischer-Breiholz of Germany won the men's 400m hurdles in a Championship Record time of 48.01. His time breaks Karsten Warholm's record. Honestly, this is the first, white German men's track athlete that I have been...

We need to give more attention to Natalie Dumas of New Jersey. In addition to her incredible triple win at the New Jersey state championships (above); she repeated that triple at the New Balance Nationals Outdoors. She won the 400m, the 400m hurdles, and the 800m. An unbelievable triple! Her...

and here is her 10.94 (National Record) run in the heats:

10.32 in the finals (0.3w). Don't know what happened.

Blaskowski wins his heat in 10.12 (1.4w).