12.87 110m Hurdles World record for Robles in Ostrava – FLASH

From:

http://www.iaaf.org/GP08/news/kind=100/newsid=45289.html

Ostrava, Czech Republic – Running in his third race of the season, Dayron Robles set a World record * in the 110m Hurdles, clocking 12.87 at the Golden Spike Grand Prix – IAAF World Athletics Tour – in Ostrava.

Blazing from the start, the 21-year-old Cuban had forged a commanding lead by the fourth hurdle and never relented. His performance knocked 0.01 seconds from the previous record of 12.88 set by Liu Xiang on 11 July 2007 in Lausanne.

The meeting opened with another World record in the women’s One Hour Run. Tire Tune of Ethiopia covered 18,517m in 60 minutes, adding 177m to the previous record of 18,340m set by Tegla Loroupe 10 years ago in Borgholzhausen, Germany.

Look for a complete report later from Ostrava.

  • pending the usual ratification procedures

Bob Ramsak for the IAAF

sucks for liu

This makes things interesting for Liu

Sweet. I was hoping to see this one happen for Robles.

It kinda sucks that Liu will possibly have more pressure on him now. Poor kid…seriously. The pressure he bears from China must be enormous.

http://video.eurosport.fr/athletisme/ostrava-grand-prix/2008/le-rm-de-dayron-robles_vid76141/video.shtml

Not all that surprising watching him last year. At the end of last season I thought Robles would win Olympics, and I still think so.

WCSN.com replay
Talk about low heel recovery!

Wow. He’s really shortening his sprinting stride to stay in that rhythm. Very impressive run!

Can’t play it. Anyone able to put it up on youtube?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5povUT7EQg

working on a better quality…

It’s easy to say after a w.r. but Robles is such a good shuffler. He also seems to dive less in flight(or maybe there’s simply less head action?) compared to many other hurdlers which I guess is a style better suited to taller athletes or at least ones with longer legs.

There’s a link to video on
http://web.wcsn.com/article/news.jsp?ymd=20080612&content_id=66453&vkey=wcsn_news&dpre=

I’ve discussed or debated the amount of “dive” or “pitch” need to be effective. Some had suggested less dive with taller hurdlers and more with shorter. However, Neimiah (spelling?) and Guy Drut didn’t dive much from what I remember and ,as we all know, they were great hurdlers and not was exceptionally tall. On the otherhand Colin Jackson and Allen Johnson are very aggressive with the their dive (chest resting on lead leg:eek: ).

I spend less time on the dive then my coach spent with me when I competed and focus more on what the athlete is doing between the hurdles (degree of heel recovery) and with their take-off leg (foot contact beneath hips/COM).

I don’t know…this is what makes coaching so much fun :slight_smile: