August 4 2020 Pinoyathletics Track Talk Tuesday Ernest John Obiena
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2. Ernest Obiena (Pole Vault)
• Olympic Qualifier (5.81m PB)
Qualification 5.80m
• 21/32 athletes over
5.80m
• Asian Championships Record
Holder
• 2019 Asian Championships
Gold
• SEA Record Holder
• SEA Games Record Holder
2019 SEA Games Champion
Phi Record Holder
3. 2020
• August 1 – Trieste Season Opener 5.45m behind
training partner Thiago Braz (Surprise 2016 Olympic
Champion) 5.50m.
• August 14 – Monaco Diamond League
• August 17 – World best pole vault challenge vs
• Pawel Wojiechowski
•Matt Ludwig
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5. Other PV Men’s Performances to Note
Sopot (Poland), 1.8.2020
Sopot (Poland), 1.8.2020
Men
PV 1 Piotr Lisek 5.83; 2 Pawel Wojciechowski 5.32; ... 4 Michal Gawenda (2005) 4.82 NR u16
Results care of Trackinsun.com
More Information on EJ
https://www.pinoyathletics.info/ernest-obiena/
6. Mervin Guarte
• 2019 Obstacle
Course Racing 5k
Champion
• Phi Record Holder
1500m Athletics
3:47.65
• Phi JR Record
Holder 1500m
Athletics
8. Influence of Alcohol on Athletes
https://www.pinoyat
hletics.info/influence
-of-alcohol-
consumption-on-
physical-fitness/
9.
10. MECQ Caused Delays to Return to Sport
• 2 Weeks MECQ
• Training in Provinces more possible than in Manila
• Athletes Online Classes
• Weekly Relays looks doubtful for September
• ASEAN School Games in November Dumaguete???
• Vietnam starts to get COVID Deaths (2 Marathons, and 1
Track Meet)
11. Kristina Marie Knott (aka. KK)
• 11.75 100m (-2.3)
• 25.18 200m (-1.8)
• Both on August 1 in Florida
small meet.
• SEA Record Holder, SEA
Games Record Holder, Phi
Record Holder
• SEA Games Champion
200m 23.07/23.01 SEA
Games
• Olympic Qualifier is 22.80
by June 7, 2021.
(Qualifying November 30
2020 – June 7 2021)
12. Womens 200m Who has qualified? So far
• 3 Great Britain [a]
• 3 Jamaica Janeek Brown, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson
• 3 United States [a]
• 2 Bahamas Tynia Gaither, Shaunae Miller-Uibo
• 2 Germany Lisa-Marie Kwayie, Tatjana Pinto
• 1 Bahrain Salwa Eid Naser
• 1 Belarus Krystsina Tsimanouskaya
• 1 Brazil Vitória Cristina Rosa
• 1 Bulgaria Ivet Lalova-Collio
• 1 Canada Crystal Emmanuel
13. Womens 200m Who has qualified? So far
• 1 The GambiaGina Bass
• 1 Ivory Coast Marie-Josée Ta Lou
• 1 Netherlands Dafne Schippers
• 1 Niger Aminatou Seyni
• 1 Nigeria Blessing Okagbare
• 1 Slovenia Maja Mihalinec
• 1 Switzerland Mujinga Kambundji
• 25 of 56 slots (from June 2019 to April 6 2020) Qualifying November
30 to June 7, 2021)
15. 4.92m Season Lead Katie Nageotte
• Improved PB 4.82m
to 4.92m Marietta,
Georgia
• Failed attempts at
5.01m American
Record
• World Lead for
2020.
16. American Record Womens Discus
Valerie Allman has thrown a new
American Record (pending
ratification) in the Women’s
Discus with a 70.15m Throw on
August 1 at Rathdrum.
Allman is only the third women
in the world to throw over 70m
in the last 10 years.
It improved on the 69.17m
national record of Gia Lewis-
Smallwood from six years ago,
advanced her PB by 3.00m and
makes her only the third 70m
thrower of the last 10 years.