Monday, July 2, 2018

Paris and Lausanne Diamond League/2018 World Junior Championships



Key:
WR  = World Record
WJR = World Junior Record
WL   = World Leading
DLR = Diamond League Record
CR   = Championship Record
AR   = Area Record
MR  = Meet Record
FR   = Facility Record
^      = mark faster than old meet record
PR   = Personal record
SB   = season best (that isn't a world leading mark)

**Note TTC = Town Track Club**



Paris Diamond League


Men's 100m (+0.8w)      
  1. Robert Smith 9.82 (Town Track Club) WL, PR
Men's 110H (+1.5w)                
  1. Jack Jones 12.92 (Town Track Club)
Men's 200m (-0.6w)
  1. Michael Norman 19.84 (USA)
  2. Rai Benjamin      19.99 (Antigua & Barbados) (he's been trying to change eligibility to US)
Men's 400H
  1. Abderrahman Samba 46.98 (Qatar)                          WL, DLR, MR, NR, PR
  2. Kyron McMaster       47.54 (British Virgin Islands) PR
Women's 800m

     1.  Caster Semenya       1:54.25 (South Africa)         WL, DLR, MR, NR, PR
     2.  Francine Niyonsaba 1:55.86 (Burundi)                 SB
     7.  Samantha Oakes       1:58.14 (Town Track Club) PR

Lausanne Diamond League


Men's 110H (+0.6w)                

  1. Jack Jones              12.93 (Town Track Club)
  2. Sergey Shubenkov 12.95 (Authorized Neutral Athlete)
5000m

     1.  Nick Kiprop       12:47.37 (Unattached - TTC) WL, WJR, MR, PR
     2.  Frank Hall          12:55.34 (Town Track Club) PR
     3.  Birhanu Balew   13:01.09 (Bahrain)                 PR
     4.  Selemon Barega 13:02.67                                 SB (with almost being pulled to the ground by Yomif Kejelcha)
     8.  Muktar Edris      13:06.24 (Ethiopia)                 SB
   11.  Austin Baker      13:08.74 (Town Track Club)  SB

2018 World Junior (U20) Championships (7/10/18 -7/15/18)


Women's 800m

     2.  Alana Katz            2:00.21 (USA)
     5.  Amanda Reynolds 2:01.37 (USA) PR

Men's 800m
  1. Joseph Brown        1:46.29 (USA)   PR
  2. Solomon Lekuta    1:46.35 (Kenya)
  3. Ngeno Kipngetich 1:46.45 (Kenya) PR
Men's 1500m

     1.  George Manangoi  3:41.71 (Kenya)
     2.  Jakob Ingebrigsten 3:41.89 (Norway)
     3.  Justus Soget           3:42.14 (Kenya)
     5.  Andrew Colon       3:43.79 (USA)

Women's 3000m
  1. Noor Ahmed      8:52.34 (USA) PR
  2. Nozomi Tanaka 8:54.01 (Japan) PR
Women's 5000m
  1. Noor Ahmed     15:17.86 (USA)      PR
  2. Beatrice Chebet 15:30.77 (Kenya)   PR
  3. Ejgayehu Taye  15:30.87 (Ethiopia) PR
Men's 5000m
  1. Edward Zakayo     13:20.16 (Kenya)
  2. Stanley Waithaka   13:20.57 (Kenya)
  3. Jakob Ingebrigsten 13:20.78 (Norway) AU20R
  4. Selemon Barega     13:21.16 (Ethiopia) (huge upset)
  5. James Reynolds     13:21.83 (USA)      PR
**Barega's defeat was huge since he was the defending U20 world champion (won in 2016), 5th at the 2017 World Championships in the 5000m, and 2nd at the 2018 World Indoor Championships in the 3000m.**

Men's 10000m
  1. Rhonex Kipruto 27:21.08 (Kenya) CR
  2. James Reynolds 27:33.27 (USA)    PR

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