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***Stat of the Week I
3:26.85 – Jakob Ingebrigtsen‘s new European 1500m file time that he ran in Monaco on Friday;.
3:28.61* – Josh Kerr‘s transformed 1500m pb, coming from the three:45.34 mile he on the Prefontaine Basic in Might (Kerr’s precise pb is the three:29.05 he ran for Olympic bronze in 2021).
1.76 – hole between seasonal bests between Kerr and Ingebrigtsen within the 1500 in 2024.
2.50 – hole in seconds between seasonal bests between Kerr and Ingebrigtsen within the 1500 previous to Worlds in 2023.
I current these stats solely to say that whereas it was nice to see Jakob Ingebrigtsen higher than ever within the 1500 on Monaco, his PB didn’t change the way in which we’re breaking down the Olympic 1500. As Weldon Johnson mentioned on the Friday’s Supporters Membership Observe Discuss podcast, a world file within the 1500, could not have modified it.
The fact is historical past has proven it’s onerous to win the 1500 by setting a tempo on the entrance. In six of the final eight world 1500 finals, somebody has tried to win by main a majority of the race. On 5 of these events, they had been run down: Cheruiyot on the ’17 Worlds and ’21 Olympics, and Ingebrigtsen on the ’22 World Indoors, ’22 Worlds and ’23 Worlds. Solely Cheruiyot on the ’19 Worlds was efficiently in a position to win from the entrance.
One other factor that Kerr ought to really feel assured about is that he and Danny Mackey have an unimaginable monitor file of peaking when it issues most. Kerr has run his seasonal finest within the 1500 remaining in every of the final 4 world championships, relationship all the way in which again to 2019.
***Stat of the Week II
0.30 – Hole between Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Femke Bol within the 400 hurdles coming into worlds this 12 months (50.62 vs 50.92).0.86 – Hole between Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Femke Bol within the 400 hurdles coming into worlds in 2022 (51.41 to 52.27).0.52 – Hole between Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Dalilah Muhammad within the 400 hurdles coming into the 2021 Olympics (51.90 vs 52.42)
On Sunday, Bol turned simply the second girl to interrupt 51 flat for the ladies’s 400 hurdles, working 50.95. The unhealthy information for Bol is that McLaughlin-Levrone like Kerr has a fantastic monitor file of working higher than ever in world championships as she has run a PB in all three of her world finals (2019, 2021, 2022). Bol, herself, has a fairly good world finals file. She PRd by 0.34 in 2021, equaled her pb in 2022 ran 0.25 slower than her pb final 12 months. The opposite factor going towards Bol is she ran her 50.92 on the famed La Chaux de Founds monitor in Switzerland which sits at slightly below 1000m of altitude and is understood for quick instances due to the the skinny air.
****Stat of the Week III
16 – variety of sub-1:43 performances run thus far in 2024 within the males’s 800 after Monaco the place for the second time in 5 days a file 6 guys did it in a single race (earlier than Paris the file was 5 from the 2012 Olympic remaining the place American Nick Symmonds was fifth in 1:42.95).12 – earlier file variety of sub-1:43 performances in any 12 months (1996).10 – variety of totally different males who’ve damaged 1:43 this 12 months, a brand new file.6 – earlier most variety of totally different males to interrupt 1:43 in a given 12 months (2012).
The boys’s 800 in Monaco, identical to it was in Paris 5 days earlier, was extremely good. As soon as once more 6 males broke 1:43, as soon as once more Algeria’s Djamel Sedjati gained in 1:41 – breaking David Rudisha‘s file of quickest time between 1:41 clockings (Rudisha did it 7 days aside in 2012) – and as soon as once more Sweden’s Andreas Kramer was not a type of six males, however as soon as once more his seventh place end gave him a brand new nationwide file (1:43.66 in Paris, 1:43.13 in Monaco)
#Sub 1:43 Performers By Yr
2024 – 10
2014 – 5
2004 – 0
1994 – 0
1984 – 0
2023 – 2
2013 – 1
2003 – 2
1993 – 0
1983 – 3
2022 – 0
2012 – 6
2002 – 3
1992 – 1
1982 – 0
2021 – 1
2011 – 1
2001 – 4
1991 – 0
1981 – 1
2020 – 0
2010 – 3
2000 – 0
1990 – 1
1980 – 0
2019 – 3
2009 – 3
1999 – 4
1989 – 0
1979 – 1
2018 – 2
2008 – 3
1998 – 2
1988 – 1
2017 – 0
2007 – 0
1997 – 3
1987 – 0
2016 – 4
2006 – 0
1996 – 5
1986 – 0
2015 – 3
2005 – 0
1995 – 1
1985 – 3
*Stats 1996-2024 by way of tilastopaja.eu and earlier than 1995 from alltime-athletics.com.
****Rin Kubo makes historical past
Thumbs as much as 16-year-old Rin Kubo of Japan. On June thirtieth, she gained the Japanese nationals within the 800 in a 2:03.13 pb. However successful the Japanese nationals within the 800 isn’t all that spectacular as nobody else within the nation has damaged 2:03.64 this 12 months.
However Kubo was simply getting began. On Friday, Kubo, who ran 2:08.62 final 12 months, break up 2:01.9 after going out in 56.8 as her Higashi Osaka Keiai crew broke the Japanese HS file within the 4 x 800 by working 8:33.77.
Two days later, on Sunday, Kubo turned the primary Japanese girl to interrupt 2:00 for 800 as she destroyed Miho Sugimori’s nationwide file of two:00.45 which had stood since 2005 by working 1:59.93.
Watch if for your self.
Now, the meet was a low-key affair that wasn’t registered on the WA calendar so whereas the Japanese will formally acknowledge it as a historic new file, World Athletics won’t.
PS. If you’re into occupied with numerous nations and sexes are good at sure occasions, you would possibly get pleasure from this messageboard thread: Any theories as to why Japanese feminine sprinters are a lot worse than the male sprinters? 0 entrants vs full crew for Paris.
***If at first you don’t succeed, attempt, attempt, attempt, attempt once more
Thumbs as much as Josh Hoey.
Josh Hoey at Olympic Trials (Kevin Morris photograph)
Moderately than sulk after ending 4th on the Olympic Trials, the 24-year-old simply saved on racing and his spectacular 2024 marketing campaign obtained much more spectacular.
On the Flanders Cup on Saturday, he improved on the 1:44.20 he ran within the Trails remaining as he gained in one more pb – 1:43.80 this time. It was his 4th PB of the 12 months.
Speak about perseverance. The 24-year-old , who turned professional in 2018 after working 1:47.67 in highschool, had accomplished subsequent to nothing since then. His pb coming into the 12 months was simply 1:47.36 and he solely ran 1:48.50 final 12 months. However he’s been completely remodeled this 12 months underneath the tutelage of Justin Rinaldi and has gone from one of many largest highschool flops to a legit professional.
Final 12 months, Hoey was the ninetieth quickest American on the 12 months. This 12 months, he’s #4 within the US and his place on the world listing has gone from #505 to #18 on the planet.
##Thumbs as much as Cathal Doyle
The Irishman who by no means even made the ultimate of NCAA whereas working at Portland and who did not qualify for the European championships this 12 months goes to the Olympics. After failing to make Euros, Doyle went off (in a great way). Within the span of seven days, from June 15 to June 22, Doyle raced 3 times and in these races he PRd twice and gained twice.
The 26-year-old began the 12 months with a 3:36.85 pb. He ran 3:36.02 on Might 11 earlier than occurring a PR spree in mid-June.
All three of these races are in his Highway to Paris Rankings however his win on the Paavo Nurmi Video games on June 18th was the important thing to creating it to Paris because it was a WA Gold meet, which generates 140 bonus factors for the win. Of his 5 races in his rankings, it’s the one one even above the minimal variety of factors that he wanted to qualify for the Olympics nevertheless it was thus far above it pushed him into Paris.
Final week, Doyle was lively but once more as he was second within the mile within the Cork Metropolis Sports activities meet in Cork on Tuesday in 3:54.48, earlier than successful the Morton Video games mile on Friday in Dublin in a brand new pb of three:52.06.
The winner of the Cork Metropolis mile was Washington’s Nathan Inexperienced who ran a brand new pb of three:53.67, after working a 3:32.20 1500 pb to complete fifth within the Olympic Trials. On Friday, Inexperienced adopted that up with an 800 pb and second-place exhibiting in Dublin in 1:46.23 (earlier pb of 1:46.50 pb from an outsized monitor indoors, the race was gained by South Africa’s Edmund Du Plessis in 1:44.22)
*After not qualifying for Euros, Irishman Cathal Doyle didn’t have the WR for the Olympics, then he PRd twice in 3 days and gained each races and made it with factors to spare Three of his prime 5 rating races all got here in a 7-day interval in June. *Doyle’s Highway to Paris stats
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Thumbs as much as Eire’s Sophie O’Sullivan.
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For the second straight 12 months, the Husky is having a pleasant European season after bombing at NCAAs (twelfth at NCAAs in each 2023 and 2024). O’Sullivan responded to her NCAA debacle by successful the Irish champs on June thirtieth. Then she ran a seasonal better of 4:05.77 for the 1500 in Dublin on Friday earlier than working an enormous 800 private finest of two:00.28 on Sunday (earlier pb of two:01.43).
Sophie is unlikely to ever equal her mother’s feats on the worldwide stage as Sonia was a world champion in monitor and xc and an Olympic silver medallist however she does have bragging rights now within the 800 as Sonia’s PB was 2:00.69.
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We broke down Monaco in nice element in our Supporters Membership podcast instantly after the meet. If you need the most recent in monitor and area evaluation be a part of the Supporters Membership at the moment.
