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Elite Athletics Thread

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Charlesvdw
Charlesvdw
15 Feb
1:19pm, 15 Feb 2025
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Grant Fisher's indoor WR for 5000m is 12:44.

Obviously very fast but not even close to Cheptegei's 12:35.

This puts him on 11th place on the all-time 5000m list.

Joshua Cheptegei, Kenenisa Bekele, Daniel Komen, Haile Gebrselassie, Yomif Kejelcha, Jacob Kiplimo, Selemon Barega and a few others have run faster.

Fisher has now a better 5000m PB than Kipchoge and Farah.
Surrey Phil
Surrey Phil
15 Feb
4:07pm, 15 Feb 2025
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Wins for Amy Hunt (60m) and Isabelle Boffey (800m) at the Keely Klassic. Good to see the latter after a disappointing 2024. Still not breaking 2 minutes but a confidence boost nevertheless.
runnerbean
runnerbean
16 Feb
9:58am, 16 Feb 2025
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Kiplimo just smashed half marathon WR 56.42 😮😮😮 crazy crazy time.
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
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Unreal 😱
Charlesvdw
Charlesvdw
16 Feb
10:30am, 16 Feb 2025
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Coming from 57:31 (Kiplimo himself) and 57:30 (Kejelcha recently) that's otherwordly !
Charlesvdw
Charlesvdw
16 Feb
10:40am, 16 Feb 2025
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I wonder what he will run in London (his marathon debut).
There is a vacancy for king of the marathon now that Kipchoge is over the hill and after the tragic death of Kelvin Kiptum.
jda
jda
16 Feb
10:50am, 16 Feb 2025
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Wow surely that should convert to a sub-2.
larkim
larkim
16 Feb
12:35pm, 16 Feb 2025
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Only a matter of time now before sub 2 goes. Sub 40 minutes for 15km on the way too.
Charlesvdw
Charlesvdw
16 Feb
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Just watched the race on YouTube. He ran close to the lead car for the larger part of the race. I wonder how much the drafting helped him.
K5 Gus
K5 Gus
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1:31pm, 16 Feb 2025
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Is there a minimum distance set by WA that the lead car needs to stay ahead of the athletes so as to not offer drafting ?

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