At around the 12-minute mark, he discusses Femke's training paces, and states that 4:20/km as revealed in a post-race interview is her LT2 pace.

Her dropping a 1:%4 high when her LT2 pace is nothing short of a miracle. I'm slightly scared of what her ultimate 800 ceiling is once she's had another winter of aerobic development.

Anyone who's ever watched South African rugby is probably not surprised in the least that the country has emerged as one of the world's leading sprinting powers. Likewise, anyone who's ever watched cricket is not likely taken aback that there are guys in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka who can throw object really far.

Is Jimmy Gressier still going after the 1 hour record? I can’t see it on the schedule!

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I hope other World Athletics events, such as this is allowed here.

Story is in Norwegian, but here's the essence:

The Norwegian athletics federation has listed him as a competitor for the 5k distance. Others selected to race are listed here.

The women’s 400m final at Doha 2019 world champs. Shaunae miller vs Naser. Shaunae arrived there as the fastest woman in the world in the 400m and the 200m and was the favorite. Naser looked like she could challenge her but it was, on paper, Shaunae’s race to lose.
Then the gun went off and Naser went out fast over the first 200m which was strange, it looked like she had misjudged the race but she kept moving away and by the end of the 2nd curve she had a huge lead on Shaunae who tried to come back but couldn’t. Naser won in 48.14! 3rd fastest on the all time list at the time. Shaunae finished in 48.37 and couldn’t believe it wasn’t enough to win.

Pretty self explanatory. Maybe a silly comparison but but I saw a Youtube clip of LeBron James jumping what looked like 1.8m and with only a short runup and I would tend to think even with the rules being different to an ordinary high jump world class high jumpers should still be able to beat him but I don't know by how much besides that it would obviously be considerably less than they can normally jump.

Jackson broke a meeting record that’s been standing since 1984 and became the third woman since 2006 to throw 21m

I was thinking if they would be any interest in introducing a second (not replacing) high jump event, that would require the athlete to land on both feet first. This would obviously be more similar to how high jump used to be. Different skills would be involved, so it wouldn't just be jumping but also landing. But I wouldn't want to return to the judgment/performance aspect of early high jump, only that the feet has to land first. How you get over the bar is still up to you.

There are so many running events and yet few jumping events, this would give jumpers a bit more variety.

Obviously this is a bad idea and somebody will no doubt tell me why, but I find the idea interesting.

The two oldest men’s outdoor world records in athletics were both set on 30th August — five years apart.

Yuriy Sedykh set the men’s hammer world record of 86.74 m at the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart, exactly 40 years ago today.

Then, on 30th August 1991, Mike Powell jumped 8.95 m in the men’s long jump final at the World Championships in Tokyo, breaking Bob Beamon’s legendary record — and that mark still stands 35 years later.

This is just an appreciation post - nothing more.

For those interested the Top 10 longest-standing current outdoor world records in athletics:

• 26th July 1983 — Jarmila Kratochvílová — Women’s 800 m — 1:53.28 — Munich, West Germany
• 6th October 1985 — Marita Koch — Women’s 400 m — 47.60 — Canberra, Australia
• 30th August 1986 — Yuriy Sedykh — Men’s Hammer — 86.74 m — Stuttgart, West Germany
• 7th June 1987 — Natalya Lisovskaya — Women’s Shot Put — 22.63 m — Moscow, USSR
• 11th June 1988 — Galina Chistyakova — Women’s Long Jump — 7.52 m — Leningrad, USSR
• 9th July 1988 — Gabriele Reinsch — Women’s Discus — 76.80 m — Neubrandenburg, East Germany
• 16th July 1988 — Florence Griffith-Joyner — Women’s 100 m — 10.49 — Indianapolis, USA
• 24th September 1988 — Jackie Joyner-Kersee — Women’s Heptathlon — 7,291 points — Seoul, South Korea
• 29th September 1988 — Florence Griffith-Joyner — Women’s 200 m — 21.34 — Seoul, South Korea
• 30th August 1991 — Mike Powell — Men’s Long Jump — 8.95 m — Tokyo, Japan

Very cool to watch the women vault in the massive train station, with 3000 fans in the stands. (Even streaming it online the atmosphere was electric.)

The venue has a roof: very high, like an indoor arena/stadium. It has walls on all sides, though fairly open at then ends (where the tracks run).

Does World Athletics call this indoors or outdoors? It seems like there would be implications for indoor/outdoor national records, etc…

Wind -0.2 for the men and +0.7 for the women

There are a few silver-rated meets going on across Europe today as well as the Mediterranean Games athletics starting up, figured it's best to make one thread combining them all.

ISTAF Berlin

Berlin, Germany

Live Results

Main program start time: 2 PM CEST, 1 PM BST, 8 AM EST, 10 PM AEST

Live streams: Sportschau, FloTrack, TVP Sports

Weather: Temperature 78F/25C with winds up to 20 mph/30 kmh

Schedule

Grand Prix Brescia

Brescia, Italy

Live Results

Main program start time: 3 PM CEST, 2 PM BST, 9 AM EST, 11 PM AEST

Live stream: European Athletics Web Site

Weather: Temperature around 86F/30C with a dew point of 63F/17C. Clear skies

Schedule

GalAthletics Bellinzona

Bellinzona, Switzerland

Live Results

Main Program Start Time: 5:45 PM CEST, 4:45 PM BST, 11:45 AM EST, 1:45 AM AEST

Live Stream: European Athletics Website

Weather: Temperature around 80F/27C with a dew point of 64F/18C

Schedule

Mediterranean Games (Athletics Day 1)

Taranto, Italy

Live Results

Main Program Start Time: 5:30 PM CEST, 4:30 PM BST, 11:30 AM EST, 1:30 AM AEST

Live Stream: Eurovision Sport

Weather: Temperature around 88F/31C with a muggy dew point of 75F/24C

Schedule

Internationales Hochsprungmeeting Heilbronn

Heilbronn, Germany

Live Results

Stream Start Time: 2:15 PM CEST, 1:15 PM BST, 10:15 AM EST, 12:15 AM AEST

Live Stream: YouTube

Weather: 79F/26C, partly cloudy

Schedule

What are your goals this week? Could be for a meet or for your training.

Live Leaderboard

Elite race start-time: 6:30 AM AEST, 9:30 PM BST, 4:30 PM EST

Live streams: SBS, YouTube, FloTrack

Weather: Temperature around 52F/11C and partly cloudy

Men's Elite Field

Women's Elite Field

Defending champions are Hailemaryam Kiros in 2:06:06 and Sifan Hassan in 2:18:22, both course and Australian soil records.