Aussie Aussie Aussie - 2013

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The 2011 Aussie Aussie Aussie thread has been going for a coupla years now, so probably time to start a new one.

The old thread is here - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=34155

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Starting the thread off with a bit of topical stuff:

Nathan Deakes looks like he's added to the Olympic Team at 50k Walk.

Hunter Track Classic this Saturday - start lists are here: http://www.athletics.com.au/home/compet ... /startlist

- Women's 400m is the most interesting sprint event.
- 1500m fields for both sexes look pretty good.
- Dani and Benn in the disc.
- Josh Ross has his first serious 100m of his comeback.

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The Aussie season is up and running with only a month until the Olympic trials in Melbourne. This weekend's Perth meeting has a number of decent fields with Women's Discus, Men's LJ and Men's 400 probably the strongest in terms of depth.

In other events, Sally Pearson will make her 2012 hurdles debut while Ryan Gregson will race Craig Mottram in the 1500. A dozen US athletes and a handful of other internationals provide some competition for the Aussies with conditions in Perth often favouring sprinters, horizontal jumpers and discus/javelin throwers.

Unfortunately a still underdone Steve Hooker has withdrawn, while local javelin star Kim Mickle and sprinter Jody Henry are also missing. In their absence, Ben Offereins will seek to be the local hero; he runs in a strong 400m field featuring American Greg Nixon and a few of Australia's best including national champ Steve Solomon, former Commonwealth Games champ John Steffensen and former WSG Champ Sean Wroe.

Alana Boyd, now living in Perth, could also challenge Kym Howe's national record and outdoor best.

Fields include:

100 Pearson Breen
200 Breen van Veenendaal Brennan
400 Steinert Baker USA Sargant Cuddihy IRL
800 Manou Hetherington Noack Buckman Smit NZL
1H Pearson Ali USA Miller NZL Wheatley
4H Boden Spence USA Harding GBR
PV Boyd Parnov Parnov
LJ Perkins Stratton Jaensch
DIS Samuals Brown USA Thurmond USA Ackman USA
JAV Mitchell Patterson USA

100 Rouge-Serret Davies Hough Ross
200 Rouge-Serret Davies Hough
400 Offereins Nixon USA Solomon Wroe Steffensen
15 Gregson Mottram
4H Garrett USA Gaymon USA Cole Boino PNG Brandwood GBR
PV Hollis USA Boyd Pocklington
HJ Zamel-Paez Armet Lodge
LJ Lapierre Stevens Crowther
TJ Frayne Jones Oke NGR
DIS Harradine Winger USA
JAV Robinson Peacock Outzen

Full entry lists: http://www.athletics.com.au/home/compet ... ntry_lists

First event scheduled for 1830 Perth time on 11 February. Check time differences here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Live webcast of the meet: http://www.bigpondsport.com/Home/Summer ... fault.aspx

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Here's why Steve Hooker won't be competing. A lack of confidence has caused him to pull out of all domestic meets - including the Olympic trials...

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/pole-vau ... 1rkcq.html

[Dave]

Here's why Steve Hooker won't be competing. A lack of confidence has caused him to pull out of all domestic meets - including the Olympic trials...

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/pole-vau ... 1rkcq.html

This probably warrants its own discussion, but Hooker is not the first top level vaulter to lose his nerve. This sounds awfully close to what happened with Tommy Skipper 4-5 years ago. He just stopped being able to plant the pole.

Good luck to him. That seems to be awfully difficult to come back from.

[Jumpman]

My best to Steve but here is something to think about.

Isn't it great that the A.A. are looking after him and helping him in everyway they can to get him back to top shape. I personally I think it is fantastic and is the way it should be done.

Now lets look at our USATF and how they would work with our Champion's given the same situations.

Are you looking. I am too, however I see nothing. Oh wait that is the same thing they do.

NOTHING How sad.

[typpo]

I think something like this happened early in Hooker's career too, though it may not have been as severe and it certainly wasn't as public. Watching him in Daegu was like watching a completely different athlete to the one who won in Beijing, Berlin, Melbourne, etc etc - he just looked like somebody who wanted to be somewhere else. It was heart-wrenching. Hopefully he can bounce back soon - he's such a great athlete and one of the genuine good guys of the sport.

[mal]

Here's why Steve Hooker won't be competing. A lack of confidence has caused him to pull out of all domestic meets - including the Olympic trials...

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/pole-vau ... 1rkcq.html

This probably warrants its own discussion, but Hooker is not the first top level vaulter to lose his nerve. This sounds awfully close to what happened with Tommy Skipper 4-5 years ago. He just stopped being able to plant the pole.

Good luck to him. That seems to be awfully difficult to come back from.

I agree. Its looks more head than anything else. Doesn't seem like he wants to compete if he can't win. And if he thinks he can win, he does win.

Seems like its easier to quit smoking.

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Stream is working well from link above. Henry Frayne has twice beaten his PB in the TJ and leads with 17.14

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Stream is working well from link above. Henry Frayne has twice beaten his PB in the TJ and leads with 17.14

The stream is working so well at my laptop that I have been drawing stick figures and then smudging them so that I can't quite see what I've just drawn. Roll on the NBN......

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Liver results seem randomly delayed. Event 22, W200 is up but Event 4, MDT with 3 competitors is not, along with Event 16, the W400H, although Event 17 onwards is, so it's not just the usual field events that get updated 3 hours after the last event is finished.....

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The stream is working so well at my laptop that I have been drawing stick figures and then smudging them so that I can't quite see what I've just drawn. Roll on the NBN......

really? I'm using a wireless USB and haven't had a millisecond of buffering throughout. Best livestream I've ever seen. The direction and some of the commentary, however....

Anyway congrats to Frayne, Alana Boyd and Lauren Boden (as well as Sally) for the performances of the night. Most results a bit disappointing though..

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In case you're after the M DIS results, 65.46m won it for Winger. 63.40 for Harradine.

Boden won in 55.61 about 3.2 seconds ahead of second (Pekin from memory).

[AS]

Full results - Perth Feb 11:

Women 100 Metre
(w: 0.4) 1, Pearson, Sally, QAS, 11.28A. 2, Breen, Melissa, ACTAS, 11.53. 3,
Wisil, Toea, PNG, 11.76. 4, van Veenendaal, Charlotte, VIC, 11.84. 5, Butler,
Hayley, NSW, 11.85. 6, Wrench-Doody, Alicia, SA, 11.96. 7, Whaler, Laura,
NSWIS, 12.04. 8, Attenborough, Crystal, NTIS, 12.07. 9, Wearne, Christine,
NSW, 12.37.
Women 200 Metre
(w: -0.5) 1, Breen, Melissa, ACTAS, 23.76. 2, Butler, Hayley, NSW, 23.80. 3,
Wisil, Toea, PNG, 24.00. 4, Brennan, Monica, VIC, 24.03. 5, van Veenendaal,
Charlotte, VIC, 24.30. 6, Whaler, Laura, NSWIS, 24.51. 7, Wrench-Doody,
Alicia, SA, 24.54.
Women 400 Metre
1, Cuddihy, Joanne, IRL, 52.08. 2, Steinert, Pirrenee, NSWIS, 52.74. 3,
Pincott, Caitlin, QLD, 52.78. 4, Baker, Keshia, USA, 53.00. 5, Sargent,
Caitlin, QLD, 53.48. 6, Steinert, Sheena, NSW, 54.25. 7, Starr, Jaimee-Lee,
NSW, 55.44. 8, Hogan, Alysse, WA, 57.14.
Women 800 Metre
1, Manou, Tamsyn, VIC, 2:03.20. 2, Curnow, Eliza, VIC, 2:04.28. 3,
Katsanevakis, Katherine, VIC, 2:05.22. 4, Noack, Holly, WA, 2:05.49. 5,
Toemoe, Sianne, NSWIS, 2:05.69. 6, Smit, Angela, NZL, 2:05.89. 7, Hollick,
Monique, WA, 2:07.20. 8, McGinnity, Kelly, WA, 2:08.93. --, Pincott, Caitlin,
QLD, DNF.
Women 100 Metre Hurdles
(w: 0.4) 1, Pearson, Sally, QAS, 12.86A. 2, Ali, Nia, USA, 13.39. 3, Miller,
Andrea, NZL, 13.48. 4, Wheatley, Megan, WA, 13.95. 5, McCann, Shannon, WA,
13.96. 6, Beahan, Brianna, WA, 14.04. 7, Taddeo, Abbie, NSW, 14.35. 8,
Scwhass, Poppy, WA, 14.45.
Women 400 Metre Hurdles
1, Boden, Lauren, AIS, 55.61M. 2, Pekin, Lyndsay, WA, 58.44. 3, Carli, Sarah, < br /> NSW, 59.10. 4, Spence, Christine, USA, 59.18. 5, Consedine, Tessa, VIC, 59.66.
6, Harding, Faye, GBR, 60.03. 7, Ryan, Kate, VIC, 61.01. 8, Solin, Ella, WA,
63.17.
Women Pole Vault
1, Boyd, Alana, WAIS, 4.66m (Aust outdoor best). 2, Parnov, Vicky, WAIS, 4.35m. 3, Parnov,
Elizabeth, WAIS, 4.25m. 4, McCathrion, Paris, VIS, 3.90m. 4, Lucock,
Charmaine, QAS, 3.90m. 4, Marchant, Rebecca, VIC, 3.90m.
Women Long Jump
1, Perkins, Kerrie, ACT, 6.45m, w:0.8. 2, Stratton, Brooke, VIS, 6.43m,
w:+0.0. 3, Jaensch, Chelsea, SA, 6.19m, w:1.4. 4, Perry, Larissa, WA, 6.07m,
w:1.4. 5, Knight, Emma, VIC, 5.91m, w:1.8.
Women Discus
1, Trafton-Brown, Stephanie, USA, 61.71m. 2, Thurmond, Aretha, USA, 60.96m. 3,
Samuels, Dani, NSWIS, 60.74m. 4, Mulhall, Kim, VIS, 54.00m. 5, Ackman, Sara,
USA, 51.05m. 6, Gollshewsky, Taryn, QAS, 49.43m.
Wom en Javelin
1, Patterson, Kara, USA, 59.18m. 2, Mitchell, Kathryn, VIC, 54.15m. 3,
Cilione, Monique, VIS, 46.99m. 4, Gallagher, Jessica, VIS, 33.48m.


Men 100 Metre B Race .
(w: -0.3) 1, McCabe, Andrew, QLD, 10.59. 2, Stubbs, Aaron, QLD, 10.63. 3,
Gander, Liam, NSW, 10.70. 4, Donovan, Hugh, QLD, 10.73. 5, Emsavana, Andrew,
WA, 10.92. 6, Simpson, Nick, WA, 11.19. --, Chuot, Mangar, WA, DNF.
Men 100 Metre
(w: 0.7) 1, Alozie, Anthony, NSWIS, 10.37. 2, Ntiamoah, Isaac, NSW, 10.43. 3,
Hough, Nicholas, NSWIS, 10.47. 3, Williams-Swain, Mitchell, QLD, 10.47. 5,
Fakiye, Patrick, NSWIS, 10.50. 6, Leathart, Tim, NSW, 10.52. 7, Rouge-Serret,
Aaron, VIS, 10.54. 8, Hammond, Jake, NSWIS, 10.56. --, Davies, Matt, QLD, DQ.
Men 200 Metre
(w: 1.1) 1, Hough, Nicholas, NSWIS, 20.79M. 2, McCabe, Andrew, QLD, 20.82M. 3,
Davies, Matt, QLD, 20.90. 4, Leathart, Tim, NSW, 21.05. 5, Ntiamoah, Isaac,
NSW, 21.26. 6, Hammond, Jake, NSWIS, 21.33. 7, Gander, Liam, NSW, 21.38. 8,
Donovan, Hugh, QLD, 21.43.
Men 400 Metre
1, Steffensen, John, NSWIS, 46.11. 2, Solomon, Steven, NSWIS, 46.26. 3,
Offereins, Ben, WAIS, 46.49. 4, Nixon, Greg, USA, 46.91. 5, Moore, Kevin,
NSWIS, 46.99. 6, Carew, Alexander, VIC, 47.34. 7, Wroe, Sean, VIS, 47.67. 8,
Boden, James, WA, 49.06.
Men 1500 Metre
1, Rowe, Brenton, AUT, 3:39.11M. 2, Williamz, Jordan, VIS, 3:39.91. 3,
McCormick, Nick, GBR, 3:41.54. 4, Robinson, Brett, ACT, 3:41.95. 5, See, Marc,
WA, 3:43.09. 6, Blicavs, Mark, VIC, 3:43.81. 7, Vernon, Andy, GBR, 3:46.77. 8,
Robinson, Paul, IRL, 3:48.87. 9, Hartley, Chris, SA, 3:54.15. 10, Miller,
Chartt, WA, 3:55.78. 11, Tamblin, Scott, WA, 3:58.19. 12, Tedesco, Joshua, WA,
4:03.19. --, Barnard, Daniel, WA, DNF.
Men 110 Metre Hurdles
(w: 1.4) 1, Eyears, Greg, NSW, 14.47. 2, Khongbut, Ben, VIC, 14.53. 3, Tysoe,
Mitchell, NSW, 14.60.
Men 400 Metre Hurdles
1, Gaymon, Justin, USA, 50.21. 2, Cole, Brendon, ACT, 50.60. 3, Boino, Mowan,
PNG, 51.27. 4, Garrett, LaBronze, USA, 51.53. 5, Roff, James, NSW, 53.22. 6,
Wurm, Oliver, ACT, 55.36. 7, Fuller, Nick, NSW, 55.51. --, Brandwood, Danny,
NSW, DQ.
Men Pole Vault
1, Hollis, Mark, USA, 5.35m. 2, Pocklington, Joel, VIC, 5.15m. 3, Boyd, Matt,
QLD, 5.00m. 4, Cross, Brodie, VIC, 4.85m. 4, Filshie, James, VIC, 4.85m. 6,
Sherry, Cam, QLD, 4.70m.
Men Long Jump
1, Lapierre, Fabrice, NSWIS, 7.81m, w:1.4. 2, Fletcher, Shaun, QLD, 7.39m,
w:2.3. 3, Crowe, Scott, VIC, 7.28m, w:0.1. 4, Stevens, Robert, VIC, 7.07m,
w:0.9. 5, Andrews, Jeremy, WA, 7.06m, w:2.6. 6, Rabone, Adam, VIC, 6.58m,
w:0.2.
Men Triple Jump
1, Frayne, Henry, QAS, 17.14m, w:2.5. (and 17.09 legal - PB, =#3 all time Aussie) 2, Oke, Tosen, NGR, 16.15m, w:0.1. 3,
Rabone, Adam, VIC, 15.94m, w:1.7. 4, Lumley, Joshua, NSW, 15.75m, w:+0.0.
Men Discus
1, Winger, Russell, USA, 65.46mA. 2, Harradine, Benn, VIS, 63.40m. 3, Hicks,
Graham, VIC, 51.41m.
Men Javelin
1, Peacock, Hamish, TIS, 78.10m. 2, Outzen, Matthew, NSWIS, 77.17m. 3, White,
William, QLD, 73.35m. 4, Cann, Luke, VIS, 72.50m. 5, Robinson, Josh, QLD,
71.89m. 6, Castle, Brett, VIC, 71.62m. 7, Andria, luanga, VIC, 67.51m. 8,
Hogan, Cruz, WA, 62.12m.

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really? I'm using a wireless USB and haven't had a millisecond of buffering throughout. Best livestream I've ever seen. The direction and some of the commentary, however....

Worked well on the third try, just in time to see Alana's last vault from an obviously cheap, multi-purpose camera location. Flakiness must have been local issues. Like I said, roll on NBN.

Anyway congrats to Frayne, Alana Boyd and Lauren Boden (as well as Sally) for the performances of the night. Most results a bit disappointing though..

Glad I didn't spend the coin to head overland - there's certainly some real sadness in AS's post. I hope to see better (live) at the trials in a few weeks but the chances seem as high as a redhead's vault....

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Sydney meet coming up tomorrow night (about 34 hours away).

Live webcast again at: http://www.bigpondsport.com/Home/Summer ... fault.aspx

Full entry list: http://www.athletics.com.au/home/compet ... entry_list

[JumboElliott]

Sally Pearson runs a ridiculously long season.

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Sally Pearson runs a ridiculously long season.

She does? Last year weren't the comments that she ran a short (European) season?

What if she was a European or US hurdler currently running 60s and 60Hs and aiming at the WIC as well as the OG?

Anyway, her programme seems to be working out just fine. Since 2007 she has only failed to achieve her major goal during one season (2009 injury).

[JumboElliott]

Oh, if she doesn't win Gold at the Olympics, that's perhaps the biggest upset in my mind, but her outdoor season started really early. It doesn't seem to hurt her.

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Results from tonight include:

400 Steffensen 45.61 Rudisha KEN 45.82
800 Kiprop KEN 1-45.91 Riseley 1-46.55
1500 Torrence USA 3-35.66 Birmingham 3-35.74
400H Gaymon USA 49.77 Cole 50.02
SC Kipchoge KEN 8-19.14 Abdi 8-22.01
LJ Frayne 8.27 (+1.4 ) Lapierre 8.02 (+1.2)
SP/DIS Winger USA 20. 51/62.98

200 Pearson 23.06 (-1.8)
400 Cuddihy IRL 51.86 Baker USA 52.47
800 Manou 2-01.53
1500 Buckman 4-09.89
100H Pearson 12.66 (+1.5)
400H Boden 55.45
PV Boyd 4.60 Vicki Parnov 4.30 (Liz Parnov 4.50 NJR last night in Perth)
LJ Perkins 6.58 (0.0)
SP Vili NZL 20.67
DIS Brown-Trafton USA 63.23 Samuels 60.68 Thurmond USA 60.12

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It doesn't seem to hurt her.

She had a good double tonight and a fast time in the 100H though she smacked the last hurdle.

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Results from tonight include:

I couldn't make the distance to Sydney, so had to rely on the inconsistent Telstra online coverage and the reliably unlive for field events AA website. Still, as usual, I have an opinion on things I neither saw, nor know much about...

400 Steffensen 45.61 Rudisha KEN 45.82

Steffensen looks like he is heading back to his top form and is likely to get an A qualifier in the Australian season. Rudisha shames the rest of the Australian one-lappers.

800 Kiprop KEN 1-45.91 Riseley 1-46.55

Fantastic time for Riseley if he did run that time off a 130km training week. Just keep that differential to WC Kiprop in the northern season and all will be well.

1500 Torrence USA 3-35.66 Birmingham 3-35.74

Birmingham runs just slightly slower than his Brussels PB of 3:35.50 from 2010, so looks like he will be the new Mottram if he stays uninjured.[edit to add: the only Australian that seemed to have any idea was GeeTee who predicted a 3:35.91 for Collis on runnerstribe. If only he could manage to post his infinite predictions here as well ]

400H Gaymon USA 49.77 Cole 50.02

Cole was on course for a sub-50 until he slightly stuffed up 9 and then almost came to a complete stop on 10.

SC Kipchoge KEN 8-19.14 Abdi 8-22.01

If Kipchoge was paid to pacemake, he was a failure out in front by 50m+ after 400m. Abdi still ran well enough to make an A and beat his own meet record of 8:22.98.

LJ Frayne 8.27 (+1.4 ) Lapierre 8.02 (+1.2)

Frayne becomes only the second Australian to go 8m/17m after Phil May (8.04/17.02A) in '70 and Mexico OG and LaPierre starts to show some better form in the Oz season (at least compared to last season).

SP/DIS Winger USA 20. 51/62.98

That's a pretty good one day(3 hour!) double for somebody on their off season. [edit to add:John Godina managed a single-day double of 21.95m/67.06 on 9 June 2001 on Palo Alto.] Aussie Ben Harradine did not compet in the discus due to a knee injury. No detail from the commentary (grrrr) so I assume that it is the same problem that has affected him since last year.

200 Pearson 23.06 (-1.8)

Only 4 hundredths off her PB of 23.02 (-0.4) set in 2009 so easily her best run of all time.

400 Cuddihy IRL 51.86 Baker USA 52.47

The 4x400 looks like a real winner....

800 Manou 2-01.53

Tamsyn replays every year since 1997 and makes all the competition look mediocre. No wonder I love her.....as an athlete.

1500 Buckman 4-09.89

The 1500 Tamsyn for the next decade. Nuff said.

100H Pearson 12.66 (+1.5)

Well, in heavy training(assumed), no competition, thinking about a later 200m, smashes the last hurdle and still beats her 2009 meet record of 12,81 and runs her fastest Australian season hurdles ever, including her 12.81 (-1.1) last year on her way to her WC 12.28.

400H Boden 55.45

Boden sneaks under the A qualifier even though her last few hurdles were sub-optimal. Looks like she is well on her way to a mid-54 later in the year. Well done to her and coach Matt Beckenham.

PV Boyd 4.60 Vicki Parnov 4.30 (Liz Parnov 4.50 NJR last night in Perth)

Boyd has apparently transferred her yips to ginger boy and is now consistent over 4.60 in her last 3 comps. The Parnovs seem likely to both be over the A qualifier of 4.50 by the end of the season. Are there any other family PV combos of similar standard?

LJ Perkins 6.58 (0.0)

At 33, Kerrie seems to be back at her best and is looking capable of beating her 2006 PB of 6.66 and hitting the A qualifier of 6.75. The names at the top of the Oz all-time list all seem...

SP Vili NZL 20.67

Valerie beats her meet best of 20.57 from 2010 and falls agonisigingly short of the Australian all-comers record of 20.69m set by world record holder Natalya Lisovskaya in 1985.

DIS Brown-Trafton USA 63.23 Samuels 60.68 Thurmond USA 60.12

Samuels is slowly picking up distance but the lack of coverage prevents me from commenting on whether there is hope or depression to arise from this...

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Still, as usual, I have an opinion on things I neither saw, nor know much about...

ppl do that on the interwebs?

Steffensen looks like he is heading back to his top form and is likely to get an A qualifier in the Australian season.

Solid run, though his post-race interview was rather subdued for the IJWT icon.. Still, he did enough to have at least one section of the crowd booing his comments..

Birmingham runs just slightly slower than his Brussels PB of 3:35.50 from 2010, so looks like he will be the new Mottram if he stays uninjured.[edit to add: the only Australian that seemed to have any idea was GeeTee who predicted a 3:35.91 for Collis on runnerstribe.

I quite like Torrence, but the little b@$+@rd cost me a new pair of shoes and a singlet!

400H Gaymon USA 49.77 Cole 50.02
Cole was on course for a sub-50 until he slightly stuffed up 9 and then almost came to a complete stop on 10.

And a very welcome return to the 400H by Tristan Thomas. Still underdone, but if he has good health he can get the OQ mark by cut-off time.

SC Kipchoge KEN 8-19.14 Abdi 8-22.01
If Kipchoge was paid to pacemake, he was a failure out in front by 50m+ after 400m.

lol I remember thinking, just after the gun, 'he's not gonna be one of these pacemakers who keeps going, is he?..' His 8-19 <ETA> is (oops) not a PB though

LJ Frayne 8.27 (+1.4 ) Lapierre 8.02 (+1.2)
Frayne becomes only the second Australian to go 8m/17m after Phil May (8.04/17.02A) in '70 and Mexico OG and LaPierre starts to show some better form in the Oz season (at least compared to last season).

Hank one of very few shining lights so far in 2012 and will join Uncle Bruce in the Olympic lists

200 Pearson 23.06 (-1.8)Only 4 hundredths off her PB of 23.02 (-0.4) set in 2009 so easily her best run of all time.

Most athletes would be happy with a 12.66 WL in the hurdles, but Sal looked soooo pissed not to have broken 23.

800 Manou 2-01.53 Tamsyn replays every year since 1997 and makes all the competition look mediocre. No wonder I love her.....as an athlete.

Miss Lewis would have gone sub 2-00 in previous years after good pace and a 600m split which I'm sure was pretty decent, but Mrs Manou just didn't have it in her legs up the straight. The aths scene downunder will not be the same next year.

1500 Buckman 4-09.89The 1500 Tamsyn for the next decade. Nuff said.

I'm presuming McKnight and Clarke are injured?

PV Boyd 4.60 Vicki Parnov 4.30 (Liz Parnov 4.50 NJR last night in Perth)Are there any other family PV combos of similar standard?

Well of course, there are the Boyds!

LJ Perkins 6.58 (0.0)The names at the top of the Oz all-time list all seem...

old?

DIS Brown-Trafton USA 63.23 Samuels 60.68 Thurmond USA 60.12 Samuels is slowly picking up distance but the lack of coverage prevents me from commenting...

Well the MLJ, MSP, MDIS, and WPV were also ignored by the director..and that didn't seem to stop ya!

[GMH454]

SBT boomed her biggie on her first throw. 63m at this time of the year is very good, and she showed some signs technically of having something big later on. Still rather eratic in comps also threw what looked like mid 50s, but there also was a long sector foul looked also like 61 + maybe more. This is an olympic year and she will be a factor.

Dani got better as the comp went on her 60+ looked very good, but does not seem to have same bounce she used to have when around the competition

Sally's 12.66 was very business like, if you did not know the time it could have been a training run, no interview afterwards, straight off the track (missed the 200m as we tried to beat the crush from the stadium next door, failed in that and spent the next 45 minutes in the car park)

Boyd looked physically better than I saw her last (2 years ago) and on one of her 4.70s she was over the bar, and came down on it. Sometimes she penetrates the pit really well and takes it off with her legs going way higher than the bar, but on this one she was a little shallow, and came down on it. She has 4.70 in her, but must get the penetration in the pit just right.
Our seat was exactly opposite the bar, great seats.

I admire the two Parnov girls enormously I just wish they could get more speed (something we all need)

and over on the right Val was having a real party. Opened on around 20.09 then had a couple more at or near 20m (she walked out on something that any other shot putter in the world would love to have around mid high 19s) and threw 20.61 and finally 20.67..

she and Sally were the stars (just like in Dageu)

and Frayne was too far away to comment on, but is someone whose days have come..

Shirvo ran in the celebrity race, which just highlighted how much our sprint corp has fallen

[mal]

Results from tonight include:

I couldn't make the distance to Sydney, so had to rely on the inconsistent Telstra online coverage and the reliably unlive for field events AA website. Still, as usual, I have an opinion on things I neither saw, nor know much about...

LJ Frayne 8.27 (+1.4 ) Lapierre 8.02 (+1.2)

Frayne becomes only the second Australian to go 8m/17m after Phil May (8.04/17.02A) in '70 and Mexico OG and LaPierre starts to show some better form in the Oz season (at least compared to last season).
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Phil May - the 'only' Australian Athlete to hold both a Commonwealth Track and a Commonwealth Field event record at the same time.
Or was it first?
Relay 4 X100 m 39.2, TJ 17.02

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Phil May - the 'only' Australian Athlete to hold both a Commonwealth Track and a Commonwealth Field event record at the same time.
Or was it first?
Relay 4 X100 m 39.2, TJ 17.02

First Aussie male maybe.

Decima Norman (220y & Long Jump 1938)

[AS]

Frayne's A qualifier in the LJ shifts the pressure onto Fabrice Lapierre (and R.Crowther) to get to 8.20m+ ASAP.

With Watt preselected, there's no way a B (8.10-8.19m) is going to cut it.

Here's hoping Frayne can get the very demanding TJ A (17.20m) down here in Melbourne.

[Smoke]

Sally was all out, and far from businesslike in any of her races. She goes hard, and the times show it.

Steffensen is progressing as planned. Way too much made of his JOKE in Perth, and his personality is sorely needed as Hooker battles the yips and Sally complains about rolling starts and not breaking 23 in the 200.

Great runs by Tamsyn and Birmingham and Boden!

Overall fun meets to be around, need more venues like these around the States, to get butts in a seats and crowd noise. Looking forward to Melbourne!

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With Watt preselected, there's no way a B (8.10-8.19m) is going to cut it..

I just hope it doesn't get as messy as women's 400m was in 1992.

[Vault-emort]

I see the Aussie team for the World Indoors was supposed to be announced around 20 Feb.

Qualified athletes:

Jeff Riseley (800/1500)
Ryan Foster (1500)
Collis Birmingham (3k)
Ben St Lawrence (3k)
Craig Mottram (3k)
Mitch Watt (LJ)
Henry Frayne (LJ/TJ)
Dale Stevenson (SP)

Sally Pearson (60/60H)
Alana Boyd (PV)

Be good to see at least Boyd and Frayne join Sal on the team and get some more experience at top-level.

[Vault-emort]

Jana pulls out of the trials. Looking to qualify for OG via Nationals (April) and Japan (May).

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6278386991

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Start lists for Melbourne next week are out. The back-straight mob (assuming there still is one at Lakeside...) will enjoy the fields below with PBs (listed) a chance for many:

M 1500m
3-30.46 Asbel Kiprop KEN
3-31.06 Ryan Gregson AUS
3-31.79 Nick Willis NZL
3-32.93 Jeff Riseley AUS
3-34.25 David Torrence USA
3-38.68 Brenton Rowe AUT
3-39.47 Jordy Williamsz AUS
3-39.57 Ryan Foster AUS
3-40.41 Brett Robinson AUS
3-40.50 Paul Robinson IRL
3-41.68 Josh Wright AUS
3-43.81 Mark Blicavs AUS

M 5000m
debut Jairus Kipchoge KEN
12-55.76 Craig Mottram AUS
13-10.08 Ben St Lawrence AUS
13-10.97 Collis Birmingham AUS
13-22.38 Jake Robertson NZL
13-24.11 Ben True USA
13-25.34 Nick McCormack GBR
13-25.63 David McNeill AUS
13-25.82 Brandon Bethke USA
13-27.85 Andy Vernon GBR
13-34.58 Harry Summers AUS
13-40.98 Brett Robinson AUS
13-43.32 Liam Adams AUS
13-54.67 Brenton Rowe AUT
13-57.80 Jackson Elliott AUS
14-23.38 Will Leer USA

Full lists (some errors included) - http://www.athletics.com.au/home/compet ... elbournetc

PS - Michael Frater joins Kim Collins as the big names competing at the Stawell Gift in a few weeks.

[typpo]

Alana Boyd vaulted a 4.76 AR in Perth last night.

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So what did people think about last night's 7.30 Report 'expose' of AA selection? Didn't think there was anything much in it myself, although a couple of Hollingsworth's answers made me laugh..

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The weather seems to be Melbourneising nicely:

Friday 2 March
Summary Min 17 Max 23
A little rain. Cloudy. Patchy rain. Winds east to southeasterly averaging up to 40 km/h becoming easterly up to 35 km/h by early evening.

Saturday 3 March
Summary Min 17 Max 25
Rain developing.Cloudy. Rain at times. Winds northeasterly averaging up to 45 km/h.