Doha: Gatlin New WR!

Official Result
Men - 100 Metres - Summary
Pos Athlete Nat Mark Pts

1 Gatlin Justin USA 9.76 (WR) 20+6
2 Fasuba Olusoji A. NGR 9.84 16
3 Crawford Shawn USA 10.08 14
4 Trammell Terrence USA 10.10 12
5 Henry Anson CAN 10.12 10
6 Obikwelu Francis POR 10.13 8
7 Emedolu Uchenna NGR 10.16 6
8 Norman Joshua USA 10.33 4

Official Result - Revised
Men - 100 Metres - Final
Wind: +1.7 m/s
Pos Athlete Nat Mark Pts

1 Gatlin Justin USA 9.76 (WR) 20+6
2 Fasuba Olusoji A. NGR 9.84 16
3 Crawford Shawn USA 10.08 14
4 Trammell Terrence USA 10.10 12
5 Henry Anson CAN 10.12 10
6 Obikwelu Francis POR 10.13 8
7 Emedolu Uchenna NGR 10.16 6
8 Norman Joshua USA 10.33 4

Official Result
Men - 100 Metres - Heat 1
Wind: +1.1 m/s
Pos Athlete Nat Mark Pts

1 Gatlin Justin USA 9.85 0
2 Fasuba Olusoji A. NGR 9.92 0
3 Emedolu Uchenna NGR 10.20 0
4 Williams Bernard USA 10.26 0
5 Habeeb Yahya Hassan I. KSA 10.27 0
6 Batman Daniel AUS 10.35 0
7 Vries Sherwin RSA 10.40 0
8 Al-Waleed Ibrahim Abdulla QAT 10.54 0

Official Result
Men - 100 Metres - Heat 2
Wind: +2.1 m/s
Pos Athlete Nat Mark Pts

1 Crawford Shawn USA 10.06 0
2 Obikwelu Francis POR 10.15 0
3 Trammell Terrence USA 10.18 0
4 Henry Anson CAN 10.24 0
5 Norman Joshua USA 10.25 0
6 Campbell Darren GBR 10.29 0
7 Mayola Freddy CUB 10.34 0
8 Bader Ahmed QAT 10.65 0

amazing just amazing

Can’t wait to hear PJ’s “report” on this performance. Fantastic to run so fast so early in Gatlin’s season. But what about :eek: Olusoji Fasuba, who has been nursing an injury and then was hit with an illness scare on the eve of going to Doha. Two sub-10 PBs!!! Wonderful. Congratulations to all, especially to our new :smiley: supercoach PJ

Yes! Great job PJ!

It’s quite amazing to think that we (potentially) have three sub-9.70 performers in the same era, yet alone year. Good times, and good times! :wink:

Charlie, you helping PJ with the coaching stuff? LOL

If you are…well done, after all we do know that Gatlin’s coach uses much of your training system…
and PJ is a member of the site

i m sorry to ask: But who is PJ?

I believe PJ is referring to Pierre Jean

and who is he?

He coaches Fasuba Olusoji

Have a look at the thread “Postcards From Melbourne” and it will probably make more sense?

PJ has also contributed a number of statistical breakdowns of performances for us. take a look through the archives to see 10m split times for the various WRs etc. He’s also done statistical work for L’Equipe, the famous Frence sports paper.

Ok, so what were the splits for Gatlin’s world record run? Comparisons need to be made between this run and the others.

ah, i see.

Thx

So: great job is the right work…

As PJ was at the meet (I think), we can look forward to split analyses for these great performances as well!.

I find it interesting that no one has mentioned how PJ’s athlete was stride for stride (if not slightly leading) with Gatlin for a good chunk of the race. Now that a young man that’s not afraid of the big dogs as lot of athletes enter a race having already lost…again great job PJ in preparing your athlete mentally for the big races. :cool:

we do? :confused:

In PM last week PJ wrote he was confident Olu would be with Gatlin at 50m but PJ was very concerned about the possibility of injury to Olu should he be dragged into a very “physical” combat in the second half of the Doha race. This was mainly because Olu had been nursing that left hammy strain which was only a couple of weeks old.

We saw some footage of Olu’s phenomenal start during CWG highlights and we knew, because of PJ’s short-to-long approach to the 100m coaching process, that Olu would be hot. I’m not sure he has done much special speed endurance yet this year.

But the other thing is that some of us have been unable to get the video to play - and the TV coverage really showed only the last 30m or so and that’s not a good basis upon which to form an opinion.

Anyway PJ has return to France and says he will write his thoughts when he has time. Based on his “Postcard From Melbourne” it promises to be compulsive reading :slight_smile: - with or without splits, which may not have been prepared yet by the biomechanics department, presumably at ASPIRE.

If it is that organisation charged with making the study, then it could be Patrick Johnson’s original coach, Esa Peltola, overseeing the project since he is co-ordinating sports sciences at this new organisation which would have had some kind of presence there I feel sure. Patrick ran 9.93sec for the world fastest time in 2003 under Peltola’s guidance.

WCSN’s feed

That’s Great! Thankyou!

What a nice gesture by Olu to embrace Gatlin after the race. I think both these guys appear to be a class act.

Gatlin seemed to have a more elastic, vertical element to his running mid-race and asserted his slight dominance really over the last 25m. Plenty of room for improvement for Olu (maybe he pressed a bit and forced the acceleration phase momentarily too long). Anyway this performance should give him the confidence to “relax” a little more into his running in future. Gains to come from 60-100m and he’s already on 9.84.

If I’m not wrong, Olu’s last two races (not relays) have come against world record-breakers. (Melbourne CWG and Doha). He sure has shown, with PB’s in both those races, that he is a :slight_smile: Big Occasion Competitor.

His start is so phenomenal if you were a meet director looking to set up a men’s 100 WR you couldn’t think of doing it without Olu. I’m sure after watching this that he scared Gatlin into setting this great record. :slight_smile:

The angle is a bit deceptive and I’m sure PJ can tell us more, but I thought perhaps that Olu’s head started tilting back and a bit over (maybe expecting to see Justin earlier?) the tilt might have set in motion a bit of leaning back which threw off the finish very slightly. Anyone else think so?