Coffee with Larry, April 22, 2024, Xiamen astounds, Kip Keino impresses and London Marathon goes down to last 300 meters!

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Our topics:

1. The Xiamen Diamond League opener lived up to the hype, surpassing the hype with Mondo Duplantis setting WR in pole vault of 6.24 meters and Gudaf Tsegay running 3:50.30 over 1,500m, #3 all time!

Mondo Duplantis opened the 2024 Outdoor with his WR of 6.24m, 20 feet, 5 and 1/2 inches, photo by Matthew Quine for Diamond League AG

2. Kip Keino Continental Tour Gold stop had Ethan Katzberg throwing the hammer 84.38m, the farthest HT in sixteen years!

Ethan Katzberg, gold in the Hammer Throw for Kamloops, Canada!, World Athletics Championships
Budapest, Hungary
August 19-27, 2023, photo by Kevin Morris

3. Kenny Bednarek won the 100m, and Courtney Lindsay upset Letsile Tebogo in 19.71 over the furlong.

Kenny Bednarek wins the 100m at the 2024 Kip Keino Classic, photo courtesy of KIP KEINO CLASSIC/Continental Tour Gold.

4. Two fantastic track meets, one in Kenya and one in China, celebrated our sport on April 20.

5. On Sunday, April 21, the London Marathon saw a record 53,000 plus finishers. Alexander Munyao won the Men’s elite race in 2:04.01, and Peres Jepchirchir won the women’s elite race in an all-out sprint with 4 over the last 400 meters, Peres winning in WR 2:16.16.

Alexander Munyao wins the 2024 London Marathon, photo by London Marathon Events.

See you tomorrow on Coffee with Larry.

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Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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