The Decastar decathlon and heptathlon, an IAAF Combined Events Challenge competition, takes place on Saturday and Sunday in the Bordeaux suburb of Talence. Leading names are European decathlon champion Romain Barras (France) and a faceoff between World Indoor medalists Tatyana Chernova (Russia) and Natalia Dobrynska (Ukraine).
Meet website
Previews: IAAF / L'Equipe
The IAAF Race Walking Challenge Final will take place on Saturday in Beijing. Who ya got in your racewalking fantasy league?
Race website / IAAF preview
The Great North City Games takes place on Saturday in the streets of Gateshead, England. It’s one of those city-center competitions, set up as a dual meet between the UK and Australia. Most of each nation’s A-squad will be there, including Steve Hooker.
Meet website
Athletics Weekly / ESPN UK / BBC Sport / The Mirror / Bettor.com
The next day (Sunday) is the Great North Run half marathon in the same city. Martin Lel has dropped out, leaving the marquis matchup between Haile Gebrselassie and Dathan Ritzenhein. Yeah, I think I know how this one is going to come out. This is the "more celebrity, less competition" run in Britain--Coronation Street's stars are among the 54,000 entrants.
Race website
Athletics Weekly / BBC Sport / AA of Ireland
The final track invitational of the season, the Super Meet, takes place on Sunday in Kawasaki's Todoroki Stadium. The headliner is French sprint phenom Christophe Lemaitre.
Meet website / Daily Yomiuri
The Rock N’ Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon will be run on Sunday. Some good matchups here: Ryan Hall v. Gebre Gebremariam v. Abderrahim Goumri for the men, Shalane Flanagan v. Meseret Defar in the Ethiopian’s first-ever half-marathon
Race website
Live webcast: competitor.com beginning at 7:55 AM.
The CVS Downtown 5k, the USATF road championship at that distance, will be run on Sunday in Providence RI. The top entry is Molly Huddle, who broke the American Record at this distance last month.
Race website / USA Running Circuit page
Live webcast: Runnerspace.com beginning at 11:05 AM
Another weekend of college XC is on tap.
USTFCCCA collegiate meet listing
Track on TV
Continental Cup Day 2 rerun, 1 PM Friday on Universal Sports
Diamond League Zurich rerun, 6 PM Saturday on Universal Sports
Diamond League Brussels rerun, 5 PM Sunday on Universal Sports
Endurance, 6:45 PM Sunday on Showtime Extreme
Showing posts with label decathlon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decathlon. Show all posts
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Curtis Beach
Way down the page in Let's Run's weekly recap, they compare Curtis Beach's high school decathlon record to Roman Sebrle's world record. Not a valid comparison; Sebrle was 26 years old when he set that record.
A more valid comparison is with an up-and-coming decathlete who was also an age-group ace. Andrey Krauchenka of Belarus is #3 on the all-time junior (under-20) list. Marks for Krauchenka are first, Beach second.
100m: 11.09 / 11.05
LJ: 7.46 / 7.19
SP: 14.51 / 11.00
HJ: 2.00 / 2.04
400m: 48.98 / 47.96
110H: 14.55 / 14.77
DT: 43.45 / 32.96
PV: 4.50 / 4.70
JT: 52.34 / 42.13
1500: 4:28.46 / 4:25.40
Beach leads in five of the ten events (blue), but where he's behind (red) it's huge--ten feet in the shot, 35 in the disc, 30 in the jav. Fortunately, those are the events where large improvements are possible. If he can become an adequate thrower, he's going to be a monster.
A more valid comparison is with an up-and-coming decathlete who was also an age-group ace. Andrey Krauchenka of Belarus is #3 on the all-time junior (under-20) list. Marks for Krauchenka are first, Beach second.
100m: 11.09 / 11.05
LJ: 7.46 / 7.19
SP: 14.51 / 11.00
HJ: 2.00 / 2.04
400m: 48.98 / 47.96
110H: 14.55 / 14.77
DT: 43.45 / 32.96
PV: 4.50 / 4.70
JT: 52.34 / 42.13
1500: 4:28.46 / 4:25.40
Beach leads in five of the ten events (blue), but where he's behind (red) it's huge--ten feet in the shot, 35 in the disc, 30 in the jav. Fortunately, those are the events where large improvements are possible. If he can become an adequate thrower, he's going to be a monster.
Monday, June 01, 2009
World Rankings Update -- Multis
Decathlon
1. Michael Schrader, GER, 114
2. Yordani García, CUB, 108
3. Trey Hardee, USA, 99
4. Roman Šebrle, CZE, 98
5. Oleksiy Kasyanov, UKR, 89
6. Pascal Behrenbruch, GER, 75
7. Jake Arnold, USA, 63
8. Mikk Pahapill, EST, 56
9. Leonel Suárez, CUB, 54
10. Norman Müller, GER, 49
Schrader and García both won over the weekend, the German at the big Gotzis competition in Austria and the Cuban at the new Americas Cup in Havana. American Hardee did well to take second in Austria. The big dog, Olympic champ Bryan Clay, hasn’t competed yet.
Heptathlon
1. Hanna Melnychenko, UKR, 147
2. Jessica Ennis, GBR, 126
3. Nataliya Dobrynska, UKR, 123
4. Lyudmila Yosypenko, UKR, 81
5. Yvonne Wisse, NED, 77
6. Lilli Schwarzkopf, GER, 72
7. Jennifer Oeser, GER, 69
8. Julia Machtig, GER, 63
9. Tatyana Chernova, RUS, 45
10. Yuliya Tarasova, UZB, 45
By a quirk of the scoring system, Melnychenko is first. She hasn’t won a heptathlon but took second in two different major competitions. Winners of those were Ennis and Dobrynska.
1. Michael Schrader, GER, 114
2. Yordani García, CUB, 108
3. Trey Hardee, USA, 99
4. Roman Šebrle, CZE, 98
5. Oleksiy Kasyanov, UKR, 89
6. Pascal Behrenbruch, GER, 75
7. Jake Arnold, USA, 63
8. Mikk Pahapill, EST, 56
9. Leonel Suárez, CUB, 54
10. Norman Müller, GER, 49
Schrader and García both won over the weekend, the German at the big Gotzis competition in Austria and the Cuban at the new Americas Cup in Havana. American Hardee did well to take second in Austria. The big dog, Olympic champ Bryan Clay, hasn’t competed yet.
Heptathlon
1. Hanna Melnychenko, UKR, 147
2. Jessica Ennis, GBR, 126
3. Nataliya Dobrynska, UKR, 123
4. Lyudmila Yosypenko, UKR, 81
5. Yvonne Wisse, NED, 77
6. Lilli Schwarzkopf, GER, 72
7. Jennifer Oeser, GER, 69
8. Julia Machtig, GER, 63
9. Tatyana Chernova, RUS, 45
10. Yuliya Tarasova, UZB, 45
By a quirk of the scoring system, Melnychenko is first. She hasn’t won a heptathlon but took second in two different major competitions. Winners of those were Ennis and Dobrynska.
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