Seven Scandinavian takeaways

Seven Scandinavian takeaways

Having two Diamond Leagues in 4 days with lots of athletes competing in each was a novel event – with athletes travelling by practice  to assist the inexperienced agenda. Listed below are seven issues that struck me.

1 Mondo is unimaginable

6.15 on Thursday and 6.28 on Sunday!

2 Males’s 300/400 hurdles

I used to be grudging concerning the 300m hurdles in Oslo however taking the 300 on Thursday and the 400 on Sunday collectively was intriguing. The identical three athletes took the rostrum locations however in a special order.

300 400

1 Karsten Warholm 1 Benjamin

2 Rai Benjamin 2 dos Santos

3 Alison dos Santos 3 Warholm

Mixture occasions

1 Benjamin 79.76

2 dos Santos 80.06

3 Warholm 80.08

I requested Alison what he discovered from working 300h.  He replied “By no means to do it once more!”

3 Spectacular double winners

200m – Reynier MENA    Oslo 20.20, Stockholm  20.05

800m – Emmanuel Wanyonyi Oslo 1.42.78, Stockholm  1:41.95

100m – Julien Alfred Oslo 10.89, Stockholm  10.75

400m – Isabella Whittaker Oslo 49.58, Stockholm  49.78

4 Lengthy soar

Tara Davis-Woodhall received the lengthy soar with a gap leap of seven.05.   And what is going to Larissa Iapichino be considering? You soar 6.90, in June! And are available second.

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5 Girls’s 3000.

The 3000 flat is just not a championship distance however athletes find it irresistible. In Stockholm the primary three Linden Corridor (8:30.01), Sarah Chelangat (8:31.27 ) and Innes FitzGerald (8:32.90) all ran PRs.  Sarah’s was additionally a Ugandan nationwide document. Innes was notably thrilled along with her run – simply 19, not a professional, in her first ever Diamond League.

6 Girls’s hurdles

It’s only mid June however two athletes ran 12.3 within the  dash hurdles – Grace Stark (12.33) and Ackera Nugent (12.37). Femke Bol received the 400h in 52.11 and it was nice to see Dalilah Muhammed – former world document holder – successful in Oslo and second in Stockholm.

7 Discus

There was a really aggressive males’s discus with Kristjan Ceh  simply holding off native favourite Daniel Stahl in Stockholm 69.73 to 69.53.

Since 2015, Stuart Weir has written for RunBlogRun. He attends about 20 occasions a yr together with all most international championships and Diamond Leagues. He enjoys discovering the quirky and obscure story.

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