2021 Track Season Results

[white lightning]

Marvin Schulte 10.21 in Germany today.
Soundly beating the rest of field.

Great early season form for Marvin Schulte. He has a personal best of 10.18 from 2 years ago so he should break that easily this year. Does anyone know how tall he is? His build reminds me a little of Lemaitre as I've said in the past. He has to be one of the tallest sprinters in Europe. I cant find his height listed anywhere. I have a feeling he is gonna go sub 10.10 minimum this summer.

In the Diamond League Opener on May 23rd we will have two guys in the the mens 200 meters. Adam Gemeli who we all like and root for here. Another guy that we don't talk about enough is one of his teammates.

Tommy Ramdhan has personal bests for far of 10.25 and 20.59 and he is a former European Junior Champion. Maybe he is do for a solid time tommorow as he is in a world class field. Let's hope he smashes his 200 meters p.b.

 

[TheBigDawg]

Great early season form for Marvin Schulte. He has a personal best of 10.18 from 2 years ago so he should break that easily this year. Does anyone know how tall he is? His build reminds me a little of Lemaitre as I've said in the past. He has to be one of the tallest sprinters in Europe. I cant find his height listed anywhere. I have a feeling he is gonna go sub 10.10 minimum this summer.

In the Diamond League Opener on May 23rd we will have two guys in the the mens 200 meters. Adam Gemeli who we all like and root for here. Another guy that we don't talk about enough is one of his teammates.

Tommy Ramdhan has personal bests for far of 10.25 and 20.59 and he is a former European Junior Champion. Maybe he is do for a solid time tommorow as he is in a world class field. Let's hope he smashes his 200 meters p.b.

Who are those four guys in the picture? Besides Schulte?

 

[white lightning]

Marvin Schulte and Rebekka Haase were fast on the road Especially Rebekka Haase and Marvin Schulte brought their sprint strength to the fast Weinheim track. Marvin Schulte is named the fastest man of the day under very regular conditions! This Saturday in Weinheim, this was anything but a matter of course. But Leipzig got good time slots. In his 100-meter run-in, he scored a loose 10.26 seconds (+1.7m/s).He had thus already increased by a tenth of a second compared to his previous best performance of the season, achieved a week ago in Mannheim. In the final, the young sprinter scored one more and was lucky again with the wind: 10.21 seconds at 1.0 m/s tailwind! "I have used the training in the last year more for strength training and work on the acceleration phase. This has already paid off in the hall. I'm all the happier that I can now run over 100 meters so stable good times," said the U23 athlete. With his best performance of the year in Germany, he has now also put himself in a good position for a starting position in the German Olympic sprint season. Niels Torben Giese (VfL Wolfsburg; 10.35 sec) and Julian Reus (LC Top Team Thüringen; 10.38 sec)

 

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Filippo Tortu opens up his outdoor season running a 10.18 +1.5 in the prelims today but decided to skip the finals. Hope he is doing ok. Probably just precautionary like Jacobs did last weekend.

 

[freedom1]

That Schulte kid looks like Stamper from the James Bond movie.

 

[white lightning]

That Schulte kid looks like Stamper from the James Bond movie.

Too funny my friend. I think he looks like Ivan Drago the Russian Boxer in the Rocky 4 Movie.

 

[TheBigDawg]

He really does have a Dolph Lundgren/ Stamper look to him.

 

[jacknyc]

Filippo Tortu opens up his outdoor season running a 10.18 +1.5 in the prelims today but decided to skip the finals. Hope he is doing ok. Probably just precautionary like Jacobs did last weekend.

A good time for Tortu.
But he's a full two-tenths of a second behind Jacobs at this point.
Hope he can step it up!

 

[Jimmy Chitwood]

Tortu looks so effortless when he runs, it is lovely to behold. that being said, there are two areas (at least in the race shown above) that really could use improvement, in my (non-expert) opinion.

the first noticeable thing is that his drive phase is rather pedestrian. he doesn’t explode out of the blocks with power, but rather he glides out before quickly standing fully upright. compared to the sprinters posting better times (and that he clearly wants to defeat), this is a SIGNIFICANT area of improvement that should be focused on.

the second item is that he’s all over his lane instead of running straight. he starts in the middle, drifts to his right edge before dropping back all the way to his left line, and finally getting back to the middle of his lane. this costs him valuable fractions of a second.

 

[jacknyc]

Apparently Tortu felt some tightness in his hamstring and decided not to run the final.
He was slightly disappointed with his race; he expected to run faster. He gave himself a 6 out of 10 for his performance.

Meanwhile, Jacobs was supposed to run as well, but he felt some tightness in his abductor muscles, and withdrew altogether.

 

[mastermulti]

I couldn't find his height, even searching in German - but this photo indicates he had gone past Lemaitre's physical development

 

[mastermulti]

here's some Dolph Lungren trivia. Came to study at Sydney University where he received a masters degree in chemical engineering (isn't it funny that, as dumb as he sounded, in the Expendables movie he played a tough guy who played with chemicals to make explosives - so he wasn't acting at this point).
He worked as a club bouncer to get some dollars in while in Sydney and was spotted and hired by a visiting Grace Jones as a bodyguard " .....and began a relationship with her. He received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT and moved to Boston. Jones convinced him to leave the university and move to New York City to be with her and begin acting, where, after a short stint as a model and bouncer at the Manhattan nightclub The Limelight, Lundgren got a small debut role as a KGB henchman in the James Bond film A View to a Kill. "

According to Wikipedia he was well trained in martial arts and European champion in '80 and '81 ..... and in training for Rocky IV he hit Sylvestser so hard that Stallone landed in intensive care for 4 days.

hmmm, bet he could have run fast if he'd tried

 

[white lightning]

here's some Dolph Lungren trivia. Came to study at Sydney University where he received a masters degree in chemical engineering (isn't it funny that, as dumb as he sounded, in the Expendables movie he played a tough guy who played with chemicals to make explosives - so he wasn't acting at this point).
He worked as a club bouncer to get some dollars in while in Sydney and was spotted and hired by a visiting Grace Jones as a bodyguard " .....and began a relationship with her. He received a Fulbright scholarship to MIT and moved to Boston. Jones convinced him to leave the university and move to New York City to be with her and begin acting, where, after a short stint as a model and bouncer at the Manhattan nightclub The Limelight, Lundgren got a small debut role as a KGB henchman in the James Bond film A View to a Kill. "

According to Wikipedia he was well trained in martial arts and European champion in '80 and '81 ..... and in training for Rocky IV he hit Sylvestser so hard that Stallone landed in intensive care for 4 days.

hmmm, bet he could have run fast if he'd tried

I love facts from the past. Thank you my good friend and mate. I've always liked alot of his movies even if all he played was conventional alpha males. We need more of that these days as societies worldwide have taught most males to be more feminine
and females to be more masculine. I'm suprised he was so educated Good to know. In real life Rocky would have had no chance of winning that fight.

 

[freedom1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Götz_Otto

Gotz Otto (Stamper) is 6'-6." I see from his bio that he played Moon Officer Adler in Iron Sky, a Nazi who is trying to infiltrate a US project and become the Fuhrer of a Nazi moon colony (I have got to watch that movie

 

[mastermulti]

the best marathoner, long distance man in the world as I was leaving school .
A good little read, the last few paragraphs demonstrating the motivation some athletes have (had) even though there was no money to be made

https://www.worldathletics.org/heritage/news/ron-hill-obituary

 

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2021 Gateshead Diamond League

Men's 1500m

Place Name Nat. Mark
1. Jakob INGEBRIGTSEN NOR 3:36.27
2. Oliver HOARE AUS 3:36.58
3. Stewart MCSWEYN AUS 3:37.32

 

[mastermulti]

yep, the Aussie boys really went for it - didn't quite have enough! Another Australian was equal 4th and poor "old man" Ryan Gregson is struggling to match his team mates these days.

Pity they don't have a men's 4 x 1500m at Tokyo

 

[greyghost]

I think you lads have found a special , special athlete in Gavin schurr....besides a good German surname ....obviously competed yesterday in the atl .....huge upside ....

 

[greyghost]

Gateshead was rubbish in the rain ..total junk .....so wet .....

 

[jacknyc]

The NCAA East and West regionals start tomorrow.
All the collegiate sprinters we've spoken about - Boling, Webb, Beck, Hari, Kratz, Bouchereau, Jewell, and some others - are scheduled to run.
Let's see if any of these guys are ready for a break through.

 

[Jimmy Chitwood]

The NCAA East and West regionals start tomorrow.
All the collegiate sprinters we've spoken about - Boling, Webb, Beck, Hari, Kratz, Bouchereau, Jewell, and some others - are scheduled to run.
Let's see if any of these guys are ready for a break through.

dang! you beat me to it, jacknyc! i was just looking at the start lists before popping over here. i should’ve known you’d be on it. well done as always, sir.

an interesting tidbit is that Zachary Jewell is the #3 seed in the 100m in the West. here’s hoping he shines bright!

also in the West, the 200m looks to be very even other than that freshman from Houston.

in the East, Terrance Laird looks to be in incredible form, but if Matthew Boling and Cole Beck bring their good stuff, they should be right in the mix.

on a personal note, i’m especially disappointed in the lack of our men in the 400m across the field. it’s my favorite event, but there hasn’t been an American man for me to cheer for since Jeremy Wariner was dominating the world stage.

 

[jacknyc]

an interesting tidbit is that Zachary Jewell is the #3 seed in the 100m in the West. here’s hoping he shines bright!

also in the West, the 200m looks to be very even other than that freshman from Houston.

in the East, Terrance Laird looks to be in incredible form, but if Matthew Boling and Cole Beck bring their good stuff, they should be right in the mix.

on a personal note, i’m especially disappointed in the lack of our men in the 400m across the field. it’s my favorite event, but there hasn’t been an American man for me to cheer for since Jeremy Wariner was dominating the world stage.

Yes, Jimmy C., I am also hoping that Jewell shines and surprises in the 100m. He's from a small school so won't get much attention, but I hope he's ready to burn rubber and make people take notice.
And I agree with you about the 400m. In the recent past, there has always been someone to root for - Jeremy Wariner, Andrew Rock, Mitch Potter and Adam Steele, Jordan Boase, Nate Probacus, and a slew of others whose names temporarily escape me. This year however, the well seems to have run dry.
I'm hoping Boling, Beck, and Jewell can make me forget that by performing well in the 100m.

 

[white lightning]

I'm rooting for all of our sprinters that we talk about here. I'm really happy that we will have both Boling and Beck back in school next year. It's alot more enjoyable to watch these big national meets when we have
guys that have the potential to make the US Olympic Team potentially someday. Boling will be a lock in my opinion but Beck like Quinn is on the cusp if he can get a little faster and stay consistant at the elite level. I'm
so happy he is a junior. Cole Beck is in peak condition and I like his chances to make the final in the 100 meters. Any finish in the top 3 would be great for his confidence.

As for Boling. We all have the highest expectations for the kid. I've never enjoyed watching any amercian sprinter ever as much as him. I will give Devin Quinn and John Teeters a close 2nd and 3rd. I just see a guy in
Boling that can become the face of track and field someday. He has the Bolt potential. Matthew Boling has a long way to go so we need to be patient. It's just so exciting watching him compete win or lose!

 

[sprintstar]

If the conditions are good Boling could go sub20 in the 200m. Beck I think is as fast as Boling in the 100m. I still have my doubts about Laird though, you don't carve half a second off your 200m indoor time in your first race outdoors, that's just a big red flag to me.

 

[Booth]

I know very little about the technical part of sprinting but Cole Beck looked great in the ACC Championships. He finally looks like a sprinter instead of a football player running track. Beck, Boiling, and Quinn gives the U.S. track a little more whiteness to it.