At 4:00.23 Abeba Aregawi (SWE) wins her third Diamond race this season, beating Genzebe Dibaba (ETH) by 1.39 seconds. American Jenny Simpson was 3rd.
In the second Men’s 1500m race in weeks, Asbel Kiprop (KEN) gets the win again. This time he was a few seconds slower, coming with a great finish and edging out Gebremedhin (ETH) by .04 seconds at 3:32.39.
In the first Diamond League of the season, Abeba Aregawi (SWE) gets the win at 3:56.66, .32 seconds over Faith Chepngetiah (KEN).
Ireen Wust (NED), paired against Christine Nesbitt, picked up another world title when she finished with a winning time of 1:55.38. Wust won yesterday’s 3,000m.
Skating in front o his home crowd, Denis Yuskov (RUS) finished with a time of 1:46.32, beating 2nd place Shani Davis by .51 seconds. Yuskov picked up 35.44 points with his win.
Shani Davis (USA) finished with an impressive time of 1:46.83. Although Davis’ time was good, it would later be beaten by skater Denis Yuskov (RUS) after he skated 0.51 seconds faster than Davis.
Bart Swings (BEL), racing against Shani Davis (USA), won with a time of 1:45.50. Davis finished 3rd in the event with a time of 1:46.13. The Overall World Cup win went to Zbigniew Brodka (POL).
Zbigniew Brodka (POL) finished 2nd in the race final with a time of 1:45.96, and won the overall title with 460 points. Bart swings won the race and finish 2nd in the overall WC.
Brittany Bowe finished with a time of 2:00.59, placing her 17th in the race and 28th overall. Bowe won silver in yesterday’s 1000m World Cup.
Ireen Wust (NED) finished with a race winning time of 1:54.67, and finished 2nd overall in the WC. Wust also won the 3000m race yesterday. The overall WC win went to her fellow countrywoman Marrit Leenstra.
Marrit Leenstra (NED) finished the final race of the WC season with a time of 1:57.74, giving her enough points to secure her title. Leenstra finished the WC with 410 points over Christine Nesbitt (CAN).
A standard speed skating track of 400 meters to the lap laid out at the Ice Stadium Thialf, an artificially frozen indoor skating rink in Heerenveen.
Racing in the Men’s 1500m, Roberto Pukitis (LAT) and Victor Knoch (HUN) collided into one another sending each other into the wall. Niels Kerstholt went on to win the heat.
American Jessica Smith went down at the finish line of the Women’s 1500m Semifinal. Smith looked like she lost her balance and took a hard fall face first.
Sin Da-Woon (KOR) finished with a final time of 2:27.06, beating out 2nd place Kim Yun-Jae. Charles Hamelin finished in 3rd.
Valerie Maltais (CAN) went down in the final heat after it looked like she might of been tripped from behind. Maltais finished 5th in the heat after Zhou Yang was penalized.
The two time Olympic medalist, Park Seung-Hi (KOR), finished with a final time of 2:23.634, beating out fellow countrywoman Shim Suk Hee.
The skaters compete on a 111.12-meter oval track on a standard size ice rink (30m x 60m), with 8-m radius circles in the curves.
Ireen Wust (NED) finished with a time of 1:56.30 beating Shikhova by .01 seconds. Wust would later go on to win the 5000m as well as the Overall title.
Jonathan Kuck finished 12th in the event with a time of 1:48.44. Kuck would finish 13th overall.
Havard Bokko (NOR)paired against the overall leader Sven Kramer and beat him with a time of 1:46.34. Bokko moved within .02 seconds of taking the overall lead but later lost in to Kramer in the 10,000m.
Jinkyu Noh finished with a final time of 2:17.482, easily pulling away at the finish for the win. Jinkyu Noh also won 1st place in the 1500m WC race at Nagoya.
16 year old Shim Suk Hee finished with a time of 2:26.338, beating Li Jianrou (CHN) by .180. Shim finished 1st in the 1000m and 1500m at Shanghai.
Following a silver medal in 2010, Mads Glaesner (DEN) became a World Champion in Turkey at 14:30.01 in the 1500m Free, by 1.12 seconds.
With his third win in the final, Silas Kiplagat (KEN) takes the DL title, at 3:31.98. Olympic Champ Makhloufi was 8th.
David Weir (GBR) retains his Paralympic Title, winning the gold by .23 seconds, at 3:12.09.
In the non-Diamond League race, Pierce (USA) gets the win with a final kick, by .46 seconds, winning at 4:11.33.
Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain runs to win the women’s 1500m event at the Stockholm Samsung Diamond League event. Mimmi Belete (L) of Bahrain finished second and Abeba Aregawi (R) came in third.
Asbel Kiprop (KEN), the Diamond League leader, gets his third win of the season with a World Leading time of 3:28.88.
Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BRN) gets her first win of the season at 4:06.78, Americans Jenny Simpson and Anna Pierce were 2nd and 3rd.
Manzano heads to his second Olympics, winning by .09 seconds, over Matthew Centrowitz who, along with Andrew Wheating will be joining him in London.
Bernard Lagat finished with a time of 3:34.63, beating second place Souleiman by 0.1 seconds.
In the first 1500m of the Diamond League season, Genzebe Dibaba (ETH), Indoor champ, posts a time of 3:57.77, winning by 1.46 seconds.
Sept. 1, 2011: After teammate Morgan Uceny is taken out in a fall, American Jenny Simpson wins a stunning gold medal in the women’s 1500m.
Several runners take a spill in the final turn of the women’s 1500m at the Diamond League Golden Gala in Rome.
May 15, 2011: Nixon Chepseba of Kenya wins his second Diamond League men’s 1500m of the season in Shanghai.
In the ISU Individual Skating Championships held in Heerenveen, Netherlands,Christine Nesbitt (CAN) added to her long list of wins, finishing with a time of 1:56.07, beating 2nd place Ireen Wust (NED) by .33 seconds.
In the ISU Individual Skating Championships held in Heerenveen, Netherlands, Morrison (CAN) finished with a time of 1:46.44, beating Davis by .20 seconds and knocking him off the podium.
July 22, 2010: Silas Kiplagat of Kenya was a surprise winner and Andrew Wheating of the U.S. runs a massive PR in the 1500m at the Diamond League meet in Monaco.
July 22, 2011: After the men’s 1500m, French teammates Mehdi Baala and Mahiedine Mekhissi Benabbad get into a fistfight on the track at the Diamond League Herculis Meeting in Monaco.
Sept. 3, 2011: Asbel Kiprop becomes the first Kenyan to win gold in the men’s 1500m at a World Championship. American Matt Centrowitz wins bronze.
June 25, 2011: Matt Centrowitz holds off Bernard Lagat and Leo Manzano to win the men’s 1500m at the USA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
June 25, 2011: Morgan Uceny outkicks Jenny Simpson and Shannon Rowbury to win the women’s 1500m at the USA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
Courtesy of http://www.usaswimming.org Olympic gold medalists Breeja Larson (Mesa, Ariz.), Katie Ledecky (Bethesda, Md.) and Tyler Clary (Riverside, Calif.) were victorious on the final night of the Arena Grand Prix at Mesa on Saturday. Hometown favorite Larson won the 100-meter breaststroke in front of a sold-out crowd at the Skyline Aquatic Center. She touched the […]
Shani Davis (USA) finished with a time of 1:09:30, losing to winner Denis Kuzin by .16 seconds. Davis finished 2nd in yesterday’s 1500m.
Sin Da-Woon (KOR) finished 2nd in the 3000m giving him total of 86 points. Da-Woon won the 1500m and 1000m. Kim Yun-Jae won the 3000m with a time of 4:54.17.
Sin Da-Woon (KOR) finished with a winning time of 1:30.37 earning his 2nd victory of the weekend. Da-Woon won the Men’s 1500m on Friday.
Wang Meng (CHN) finished with a time of 43.718, beating out yesterday’s 1500m winner Park Seung-Hi. Meng won the gold medal at the 2010 Olympics in the 500m.
After leading Day 1, Ireen Wust (NED) won again today in the 1500m and 5000m. Wust has been on the All-Round Championships’ podium since 2007.
Sven Kramer (NED) was a clear favorite to win but was in jeopardy after losing the 1500m to 2nd place Bokko. Kramer was able to keep his composure and go on to win the 10,000m and the title.
Courtesy of usaswimming.org Olympic gold medalist Missy Franklin (Centennial, Colo.) and Becca Mann (Clearwater, Fla.) each closed out the Arena Grand Prix at Orlando with two first-place finishes. Franklin won the 200m back and the 100m free, while Mann earned the top spot in the 800m free and the 200m IM. The meet, which took […]
Courtesy of usaswimming.org AUSTIN, Texas – Ryan Lochte (Daytona Beach, Fla.) and Missy Franklin (Centennial, Colo.) finished the Arena Austin Grand Prix by adding another win to their collection over the three-day meet in Austin, Texas and the Joe and Jamail Texas Swimming Center. Lochte won the 200m medley in 2:00.98 beating out Tyler Clary […]
Ryan Lochte of USA poses with his Gold medal after winning the Men’s 200m Individual Medley on day three of the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) at the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Sports Complex on December 17, 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images) Courtesy of http://www.fina.org Ryan Lochte […]
Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu (L) shakes hands with New Zealand’s Melissa Ingram after the women’s 400m freestyle final during the FINA Swimming World Cup 2012 in Dubai, October 3, 2012. (REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah) Courtesy of FINA.org October 3, 2012 DUBAI – Chad Le Clos may have been king of the pool with his six golds in Dubai […]
Christian Taylor of the U.S. jumps to win the men’s triple jump at the Stockholm Diamond League in Stockholm August 17, 2012. (REUTERS/Christine Olsson/Scanpix) STOCKHOLM, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Olympic women’s 400 meters champion Sanya Richards-Ross won her first race since the London Games and Yuliya Zaripov clocked the year’s fastest time in the women’s […]
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