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Reply #195 –
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Reply #196 –
@Lods I see Gout was given a reality check over in Olso at the Diamond League event. All part of the kids learning experience I guess.
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Reply #197 –
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
@Lods I see Gout was given a reality check over in Olso at the Diamond League event. All part of the kids learning experience I guess.

Yep,
I'd imagine he's been in a hard block of training leading up to heading for Europe and the World juniors in the USA in August.
It's essentially his first run of a new season so I'm not overly concerned.
It'd be more an issue if the World's were next week but he still has 5-6 weeks to go.

I'd expect that time will come down considerably in the next few outings as he tapers so he's at his peak for Oregon.
Nothing of course is guaranteed, but hopefully it was just a race to blow the cobwebs out.

On a positive note Kurtis Marschall had his second Pole Vault Diamond League win for the week and Ky Robinson ran 12:50.82 for Robinson to beat  Craig Mottrams 2004 5000 metre record. by around 5 seconds.

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Reply #198 –
Best performance for the last few days wasn't at the Diamond League.
It was this bloke at the prelims at the NCAA championships

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgOi4cwXzm8

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Reply #199 –
Eddie Nketia running for USC at the NCAA championships has broken 10 seconds for the 100 metres again-9.95
(wind at 2.2+...just over the limit.)

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Reply #200 –
Much better by Gout Gout last night.
In a 150 metre race Gout finished 3rd behind Noah Lyles who set a new world best over 150 metres (14.67.)
Gout's time was 14.96 which was a new Australian best and just shy of the old world best of 14.92.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FiIzZ5cfkA

At the same meet
Peter Bol had a win and set a new Oceania record of 2:15.13 for the 1000 meters.

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Reply #201 –
Autralian record to Cam Myers in the 1500m at the Diamond League in Paris last night 3.28.00
Australian record in the 800m to Sarah Billings 1.57.01

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Reply #202 –
What am i missing?

150m
1000m

When have these become a thing?

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Reply #203 –
Always been a thing.
Just rarely run at the elite level.
The 1000m is probably run more often than the 150m
There are no official "world records" but rather 'world bests'
There is some talk that will change and they will be recognised...if it does expect these events to be run more often

These type of distances (300 metres too) are quite popular as training events and at local club competition.

(edit: apparently the 1000m is now recognised as a distance where 'world records' can be set)

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Reply #204 –
9.89w  for Rohan Browning in Austria this morning.
3rd Aussie athlete in history to break 9.9w
It was blowing a gale-wind 4.7+ but he took the win.

But just to put it in perspective....
Browning ran the B Final.
Shortly after Lamont Marcel Jacobs the 2020 Olympic champion ran 9.67 in the A final and ran the third fastest time in history behind two of Bolt's times.

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Reply #205 –
Looks like Gout Gout will miss the World under 20 championships'
Hamstring injury at training last night.
MRI confirmed a tear.

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Reply #206 –
Nina Kennedy-4.95m- Australian record in the Pole Vault last night at the Diamond League

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Reply #207 –
One of the girls I coached in basketball took up the pole vault, trained with Emma George, and competed at a high level (no pun intended).  She said that there was nothing so exhilarating as nailing a vault.  Her PB was 3.5m back in 2002.

The pole vault seems to be a discipline that attracts people from other sports.  If I remember correctly, Emma George was a trapeze artist before she took up the pole vault.

4.95m is a fair effort … and high enough to do serious injury if something goes wrong.  If I was ever going to take up vaulting, it would be Fierljeppen where the consequences of a mishap are nothing worse than a dunking in cold, muddy water 🙂
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Reply #208 –
Quote from: DJC – on
One of the girls I coached in basketball took up the pole vault, trained with Emma George, and competed at a high level (no pun intended).  She said that there was nothing so exhilarating as nailing a vault.  Her PB was 3.5m back in 2002.

The pole vault seems to be a discipline that attracts people from other sports.  If I remember correctly, Emma George was a trapeze artist before she took up the pole vault.

4.95m is a fair effort … and high enough to do serious injury if something goes wrong.  If I was ever going to take up vaulting, it would be Fierljeppen where the consequences of a mishap are nothing worse than a dunking in cold, muddy water 🙂

During my Track and Field coaching days I coached the jumps and throws.
But my main coaching centred around the Pole Vault.

Things have changed considerably over the years.
When I first started competing women didn't compete in the vault (a few tried it as a novelty.)
I actually learnt to vault on an aluminium pole (which caused some technique issues when I switched to fiberglass)
Nina Kennedy would beat me by around a metre. ::)

I don't recall any of my vaulters who didn't come from a track and field background or from another sport.
Not surprisingly the ones that seem to take to it the easiest are from a 'gymnastic' background.

While to reach the elite level is a bit of  journey the first experiences are pretty basic.
I used to start my athletes in the long jump pit.
I'd draw a couple of lines in the sand and tell them that was a river filled with crocodiles they had to get across.
As the session went on the river would get wider.
(That would be an interesting addition to the Fierljeppen.) ;D  ;D

After a few sessions we'd move to the pole vault pit.
I used to ask them what their best high jump was and when they eventually vaulted higher than that HJ mark I used to tell them...."Congratulations! You're a Pole Vaulter." ;)  :D