2015 Outdoor Season

[jacknyc]

The Russian Championships were earlier this week, and despite being the biggest country in Europe, their men's sprint results continue to be some of the worst in Europe.
Winning 100m time - 10.43
Winning 200 time - 20.92
Winning 400 time - 46.04

Really very disappointing. Many smaller countries had faster 100m times in their championships. Some countries like Spain, which is not a track powerhouse, had better winning times in all events in the Championships.
I wish Russia could step it up.

 

[white is right]

The Russian Championships were earlier this week, and despite being the biggest country in Europe, their men's sprint results continue to be some of the worst in Europe.
Winning 100m time - 10.43
Winning 200 time - 20.92
Winning 400 time - 46.04

Really very disappointing. Many smaller countries had faster 100m times in their championships. Some countries like Spain, which is not a track powerhouse, had better winning times in all events in the Championships.
I wish Russia could step it up.

Aside from Shubenkov and some high jumpers and triple jumpers it seems like the Russian track and field team has club level competitors winning national titles in non throwing events.

Ps. the new scandal that a poster was talking about has Russia as the main culprit with Kenya second but it seems like it's Russian women in the middle to long distance events and only the race walking team has men involved and as far as I know the race walking team has been been banned from competition. l have no clue if the Russian track federation voluntarily withdrew their team or the IAAF banned them.

 

[white is right]

Would rather see him train under Carraz than some Turks. Maybe training and competing with Lemaitre would push both of them to run faster times. Instead of Lemaitre training with 10.5 and 21.0 partners. And Guliyev must have training partners who cant break 11 or 22 (males). Who knows, I know nothing of sprint :grin:

Guliyev may start training with a 10.0X sprinter Jaques Harvey who is becoming a Turkish citizen. It seems like Jamaican sprinters are scattering into the wind to represent weaker nations that support their athletes better than Jamaica does.

So Guliyev and Harvey make a decent 1-2 punch for the relays at some point(I'm not sure how long Harvey has to sit out before he is allowed to compete for Turkey).

 

[jacknyc]

For you die-hard tricksters, here's a video of the 1978 European 100m final.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0agAs9o1IGE
The final features all of the fastest white sprinters of the 70s and 80s - Borzov, Mennea, Eugen Ray of E. Germany, Allan Wells. Peter Petrov of Bulgaria.
Borzov is well past his prime here and finishes last. Wells is just starting his ascent to the top level.
Interesting to see that Allan Wells didn't use starting blocks.
Also interesting that 3 Russians made the final, vs their complete absence in mens sprinting over the past decade.

 

[white lightning]

A small meet in Germany today which was the final tuneup for most of the athletes headed to the World Champs in a few weeks time.

Verena Sailer ran a wind legal 11.10! Would still love to see here go sub 11 before she retires. She is an 8 time national champion in German and European Champion over 100 meters from several years ago.

Julian Reus ran a 10.16 to finish 2nd in his race. He raced the 100, 200 and 4 x 100 Relay today. I was hoping for better times but at least he is healthy. Reus will need to be to attempt to advance through the rounds at the World Champs.

 

[jacknyc]

As mentioned in the Lemaitre thread, Ramil Guliyev ran 20.01 in winning his heat of the 200m.
He looked very good.
Here is his race.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMcXMH2wfDE

 

[jacknyc]

Now Tsakonas of Greece wins his heat in 20.14.
Surprising, but good!

 

[jacknyc]

Guliyev was the fastest qualifier in the heats of the 200m!
Amazing and very surprising.
Maybe he has something big in store for us ???

 

[elispeedster]

Guliyev was the fastest qualifier in the heats of the 200m!
Amazing and very surprising.
Maybe he has something big in store for us ???

Guliyev was running lane 7 and looked very strong, slowing down just a bit at the end...If he makes the final, Bolt and Gatlin will push him to run sub 20

 

[jacknyc]

Greg Rutherford wins the Long Jump.
He is now the Olympic, World, and European champion.
White men can't jump?! HAH!!
Winning jump of 27-7¼ (8.41)

 

[jacknyc]

Guliyev would have run sub-20 in the heats if he hadn't taken his foot off the gas at the end.
He will run sub-20 in the semis, regardless of whether Gaitlin or Bolt is in his race.

 

[white lightning]

Greg Rutherford has done it. He is one of the greatest long jumpers of all time as far as medals go. He won the european championship gold, the olympic gold and now the world championships gold medal. His winning jump was a very good 8.41 meters! The guy has dominated this event for a long time and he may not be done yet. He might just win a 2nd olympic gold medal next year.

F. Lapierre of Australia took 2nd and a kid from china(fogot his name)took 3rd. A clean sweep. Again to people that don't know about stereotypes. White men can jump and so can asian men.


What a great world champs so far.

 

[jacknyc]

p.s.
2nd went to Fabrice LaPierre of Australia.
3rd, 4th, and 5th went to the Chinese jumpers
6th to Menkov of Russia.

So, the average DWF would be very surprised to learn that the 1st 6 place of the World Championship Long Jump went to non-blacks.

 

[trackster]

Okay, sprint lovers.

In the men's 200, Guliyev is on to the final. Tsakonas couldn't keep it up in the second round. Talbot hit a PB but didn't qualify. LeMaitre, as expected, waddled around in a wind-assisted 20.34 (on a super fast Beijing track).

Several women through to the 200 semis. Notables include Schippers, Prandini, and Lalova-Collio.

 

[f3d0r]

Has the high jump happened yet?

 

[FootballDad]

p.s.
2nd went to Fabrice LaPierre of Australia.
3rd, 4th, and 5th went to the Chinese jumpers
6th to Menkov of Russia.

So, the average DWF would be very surprised to learn that the 1st 6 place of the World Championship Long Jump went to non-blacks.

DWFs are not told anything about the long jump or its results now that it is dominated by eeeevil white men. I remember when the coverage of the long jump rivaled that of the sprints back when Mike Powell and Carl Lewis were winning. No racial bias here!

 

[white lightning]

Okay, sprint lovers.

In the men's 200, Guliyev is on to the final. Tsakonas couldn't keep it up in the second round. Talbot hit a PB but didn't qualify. LeMaitre, as expected, waddled around in a wind-assisted 20.34 (on a super fast Beijing track).

Several women through to the 200 semis. Notables include Schippers, Prandini, and Lalova-Collio.

Ramil Guliyev has been such a pleasant suprise. He ran a 20.01 in the first round and a 20.10 in the second round. At the end of a long season he is still looking very good. I want him to go sub 20 so bad. He has been so close he can taste it. He would have done it in the first round but he coasted the last 10 to 20 meters. He is in fantastic form.

Dissapointed about Christophe but it wasn't a suprise with his injuries and lack of fitness.

Tsakonas looked great. He ran 20.22 and only missed the final by .03 hundreds of a second. Good experience for him and Danny Talbot. They should both learn from this world champs and improve going forward.


No one has mentioned Kszott or Tuka. They finished 2nd and 3rd in the mens 800 meters final. Kszott of Poland damn near won the gold. What a talent he is. Tuka waited too long to make his move but a silver and a bronze for these two is a breath of fresh air!

 

[Parrot]

DWFs are not told anything about the long jump or its results now that it is dominated by eeeevil white men. I remember when the coverage of the long jump rivaled that of the sprints back when Mike Powell and Carl Lewis were winning. No racial bias here!

Greg Rutherford couldn't even get a sponsorship deal after winning the Olympics in 2012 because he is white.

This is what he said. “I thought I was quids in,†he said. “I was sitting there thinking, 'This is going to be brilliant. My Nike contract is up for renewal at the end of the year and I’m going to have all the other endorsements coming in’.
“All track and field athletes do the sport purely for the love of it, but people have to remember that you still have to earn a living. You can’t do athletics if you don’t. So after winning the gold I was thinking: 'This will make everything easy. I won’t have to worry about finances and I can just concentrate on becoming the best athlete I can be’. But in reality it doesn’t work like that. Or it hasn’t in my case.â€
Rather than being rewarded with an enhanced Nike deal, Rutherford was shocked to be offered a reduced contract on terms he was unable to accept.
“They offered me a contract but the clauses were such that, by the end of this year, I would end up earning probably less than I would have done on my old junior contract, I would be completely tied to it and unable to do nothing else, as they would own all my image rights †he said.
“To sign a contract for a lower amount with horrible clauses, why would you do that? You’re in a scenario where you have to say, 'I’m not prepared to accept that’.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...ling-after-loss-of-Nike-sponsorship-deal.html

 

[trackster]

Dafne Schippers just walked the last 100 of the 200 and still crushed the field. I'm not even exaggerating. She started shutting it down as soon as she finished the curve, repeatedly turned her head to one side or another. Walked it in like Bolt.

In the previous heat, Lalova finished third after blowing past most of the field in the second half. She may get through on time.

In Schippers' heat, Prandini failed to advance. It was a poor race for her. I'm not sure why.

 

[elispeedster]

Dafne Schippers just walked the last 100 of the 200 and still crushed the field. I'm not even exaggerating. She started shutting it down as soon as she finished the curve, repeatedly turned her head to one side or another. Walked it in like Bolt.

In the previous heat, Lalova finished third after blowing past most of the field in the second half. She may get through on time.

In Schippers' heat, Prandini failed to advance. It was a poor race for her. I'm not sure why.

I saw that, too funny, she could of walked the last 50....easy sub 22, I say around 21.7 in the final for gold

 

[jacknyc]

Just a further update on the World Championships:

As mentioned, Dafne Schippers won the 200m time in 21.63.
This a Championship record and a new European Record. It makes her the 3rd fastest woman all-time in this event. The 2 faster were Marion Jones (drug cheat and her time was at Altitude) and Florence Joyner (super drug cheat). So, I agree with the previous poster, that for all intents and purposes, Schippers is the World Record holder.
She also came 2nd in the 100m, almost running down Jamaica's Sheila Ann Fraser, who is one of the all time greats.
So between the 2 sprint races, you can confidently say that she is the best female sprinter in the world.
All this in just her first year of full-time sprinting.

Sergey Shubenkov won the men's hurdles in 12.98. He becomes the first white hurdler under 13 seconds. (Liu Xiang of China was the first Asian under 13.00).

In the women's 100m hurdles, Cindy Roleder of Germany just missed the gold by 0.02, and Alina Talay of Belarus got the bronze.

In the 400m hurdles, Zuzana Hejnova of the Czech Republic took the gold, and Denis Kudryatvsev of Russia took silver in the men's race.

In the men's 200m, Ramil Guliyev emerged from whatever cave he's been living in, to get 6th place. Unfortunately he didn't run as fast in the final and semi-final as he did in the heats. So obviously he is lacking some fitness, but at least he is running again, and running very well. Perhaps he can pick-up where Lemaitre left off.

The mens 100m was a disappointment, with Lemaitre and Kilty both performing poorly. Bingtan Su of China did make the final however, and ran 9.99 in the semis.

Finally, Greg Rutherford won the Long Jump, becoming World Champion, in addition to already being Olympic, European, and Commonwealth Games Champion.
p.s.
2nd went to Fabrice LaPierre of Australia.
3rd, 4th, and 5th went to the Chinese jumpers
6th to Menkov of Russia.

Not a bad showing overall, but especially Schippers made this a Championship to remember.

 

[jastral]

Just a further update on the World Championships:

As mentioned, Dafne Schippers won the 200m time in 21.63.
This a Championship record and a new European Record. It makes her the 3rd fastest woman all-time in this event. The 2 faster were Marion Jones (drug cheat and her time was at Altitude) and Florence Joyner (super drug cheat). So, I agree with the previous poster, that for all intents and purposes, Schippers is the World Record holder.
She also came 2nd in the 100m, almost running down Jamaica's Sheila Ann Fraser, who is one of the all time greats.
So between the 2 sprint races, you can confidently say that she is the best female sprinter in the world.
All this in just her first year of full-time sprinting.

Sergey Shubenkov won the men's hurdles in 12.98. He becomes the first white hurdler under 13 seconds. (Liu Xiang of China was the first Asian under 13.00).

In the women's 100m hurdles, Cindy Roleder of Germany just missed the gold by 0.02, and Alina Talay of Belarus got the bronze.

In the 400m hurdles, Zuzana Hejnova of the Czech Republic took the gold, and Denis Kudryatvsev of Russia took silver in the men's race.

In the men's 200m, Ramil Guliyev emerged from whatever cave he's been living in, to get 6th place. Unfortunately he didn't run as fast in the final and semi-final as he did in the heats. So obviously he is lacking some fitness, but at least he is running again, and running very well. Perhaps he can pick-up where Lemaitre left off.

The mens 100m was a disappointment, with Lemaitre and Kilty both performing poorly. Bingtan Su of China did make the final however, and ran 9.99 in the semis.

Finally, Greg Rutherford won the Long Jump, becoming World Champion, in addition to already being Olympic, European, and Commonwealth Games Champion.
p.s.
2nd went to Fabrice LaPierre of Australia.
3rd, 4th, and 5th went to the Chinese jumpers
6th to Menkov of Russia.

Not a bad showing overall, but especially Schippers made this a Championship to remember.

Great post jacknyc. I would also mention Ivet Lalova for made it to the finals in the women 200.

 

[jastral]

Men's 110m Hurdles Final IAAF 2015

[video=youtube;V6KXCvTNtVM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6KXCvTNtVM[/video]

 

[white lightning]

Two words.

Sergey. Sergey.


Also.


Dafne. Dafne.


These two fine young athletes made this the most enjoyable World Champs ever for me!

I salute both of them. What epic performances!

 

[white is right]

Two words.

Sergey. Sergey.


Also.


Dafne. Dafne.


These two fine young athletes made this the most enjoyable World Champs ever for me!

I salute both of them. What epic performances!

Sergey was easily the most efficient over the hurdles. It reminded me of a prime Liu. The rest of the field was clanging the hurdles all over the place and it probably cost David Oliver a podium spot because of it.

On a side note Aries Merritt is very sick and needs a new kidney. I don't know how he raced and won a bronze medal. I wonder if PEDs have anything to due with his illness.

Ps I hope that the win by Sergey opens up the purse strings for sponsorship of club level track. That is the main reason why Russia has been abysmal for the men for years. Young talent is never found or trained anymore. There could be many potential Shubenkov's scattered through out the country.