LakotaDakota Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 Nice to finally have the athletics starting today, Whilst i have enjoyed the swimming, cycling, kayaking, diving, archery, womens weightlifting & other randomness i have watched for many an hour this week the track & field is always the main interest. Ennis Hill / Johnson-Thompson UK timings for those interested in the heptathlon : 100m hurdles 13.35, High Jump 14.50, Shot Put 00.35 & 200m 02.05. Lots of chances for more British medals pretty much all through the day today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted August 12, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted August 12, 2016 Such a shame the American trials has struck again. Kendra Harrison first gets within 3 hundreds of a second and then breaks one of those old impossible 80s "records" in the 100m hurdles. And still she's not competing here just because of one race mistake. Just look at the distance between her and the rest of the elite in the race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 Is that lovely Australian hurdler around this year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunRickyRun Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 Jess Ennis' last Heptathlon starts shortly. I first saw her 10 years ago in the European Championships and she's had a great career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted August 12, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted August 12, 2016 17 minutes ago, kurtsimonw said: Is that lovely Australian hurdler around this year? Yep, faptastic https://www.instagram.com/mjenneke93/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 1 minute ago, Tegis said: Yep, faptastic https://www.instagram.com/mjenneke93/ Amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 (edited) 2 golds in 15 minutes for the GB rowing team. Golver & Stanning won the womens pairs again & the mens 4 have just done the same. Both races maybe a little closer than was expected/they would have liked but pretty much went to plan leading the whole way. Ennis had the quickest time in the hurdles so leads the heptathlon after 1 event, Shame there were only some journalists, a few family/friends and about 6 other people there to see it. Edited August 12, 2016 by LakotaDakota Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 (edited) Women's 10k record, stood since 1993, looking likely to be beaten. Beat it by 15 seconds Edited August 12, 2016 by kurtsimonw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 (edited) 37 minutes ago, kurtsimonw said: Women's 10k record, stood since 1993, looking likely to be beaten. Beat it by 15 seconds She barely even broke a sweat, lapping other runners like they were traffic cones. The daft thing is that Vivien Cheruiyot in second was only about half a second off the long standing record but was about 120m & 15 seconds behind Ayana. Even more amazing is that it is only the second actual race she has ever had at 10,000m, her first was in June where she ran 30 min 07 sec, 6 weeks later she runs 29.17 Edited August 12, 2016 by LakotaDakota Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 2 hours ago, kurtsimonw said: Women's 10k record, stood since 1993, looking likely to be beaten. Beat it by 15 seconds Amazing running, here's hoping she's clean... One thing thou, It seems like pretty much every runner sat a personal best, the Swedish woman set a new Swedish record with 25 seconds! Have they actually measured the track so it is the correct length? With the shambles about everything in Rio I would not be suprised if it is 2 meters too short Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 Katrina Johnson Thompson a new high jump world record in the heptathlon. Only just shy of the overall high record.. Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 24 minutes ago, sne said: Amazing running, here's hoping she's clean... One thing thou, It seems like pretty much every runner sat a personal best, the Swedish woman set a new Swedish record with 25 seconds! Have they actually measured the track so it is the correct length? With the shambles about everything in Rio I would not be suprised if it is 2 meters too short Seen a couple of other people suggesting this too, Would be the cock-up to end all cock-ups if they haven't got the distance right and really can't see it but you never know i guess. Hard to tell how quick the track is yet as there have been no other distance races, No real super quick times in the mens 800m heats today but there were quite a few around the 1.45 mark which is only 1.5 seconds off the best times of the year so far. The womens 1500 heats are in a few hours which may give a better indication as obviously there is an extra couple of laps and the mens 10,000 will be interesting in the early hours of sunday morning. If they haven't already sent someone out there with a measuring wheel they probably should pretty quickly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 saw she'd jumped 2m, madness, as a rough guide its the height of a door in your house Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 3 hours ago, kurtsimonw said: Women's 10k record, stood since 1993, looking likely to be beaten. Beat it by 15 seconds seems very suspicious if honest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted August 12, 2016 Moderator Share Posted August 12, 2016 15 minutes ago, Zatman said: seems very suspicious if honest What do you mean? I think its perfectly reasonable that she could run the last 400m in a world record time while smashing the world record for the race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 Amber Hill out of the shooting and I've not seen any of it She's lovely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 The attendance at the Athletics has been pathetic. Tokyo should be much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakotaDakota Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 To be fair she is by far the fastest woman in the world at 5000m this year (17 seconds clear of anyone else) and has 3 of the fastest 10 times ever at that distance so it probably isn't a complete surprise. Moved over to 10,000 and appears to be able to run as fast as she can at 5000 without the extra distance troubling her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 12, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted August 12, 2016 Anyone smashing a world record by that distance today is immediately coming under suspicion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 59 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said: Amber Hill out of the shooting and I've not seen any of it She's lovely WB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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