World Athletics Was Hoping To Have 160 Athletes in The Olympic Marathn, 183 Have Already Qualified as A Result of The Super Shoes
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(07-Apr) With the Olympic Marathons exactly four months away, the number of men’s and women’s qualifiers are already over the World Athletics stated goal of 80 athletes per gender (equal for men and women) after taking into account the limit of three athletes per gender for each National Olympic Committee (NOC).
On the men’s side, 101 starting positions have already been earned by men from 44 countries who ran a qualifying time of 2:11:30 or better beginning January 1, 2019. For women, 82 starting places are spoken for from 42 countries, 77 by time (2:29:30 or better) and five through finish position at designated “qualifying competitions,” like finishing in the top-10 at an Abbott World Marathon Majors race or at the 2019 World Athletics Championships Marathon.
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RRW: After Trials Disappointment & COVID, Matt Llano Ready To Race In Atlanta
By David Monti, @d9monti
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(23-Feb) On a Monday last September Matt Llano was on an easy training run in Flagstaff when he unexpectedly began to struggle. He started to feel an acute shortness of breath, and he did something he rarely does in training: he stopped.
Matt Llano training in Flagstaff (photo courtesy of Matt Llano)
“I wasn’t, like, running fast,” he told Race Results Weekly in a telephone interview yesterday. “It was supposed to be an easy run, and I was breathing so hard. I stopped halfway out. I was five miles out on some random dirt road in Flagstaff. I walked for a few minutes, which I just don’t do.”