Jon Mulkeen

Imagine not liking athletics

NEW: Jon Mulkeen has worked in #sportsmedia for more than 20 years and is currently out in Tokyo for the #WorldAthleticsChamps, overseeing editorial for the international governing body. He’s also out as LGBTQ. In the latest ‘Our Stories in Sport’ Q&A, he shares his journey. /1

I’ve really struggled to stay engaged on here since Twitter became all Musky. Trying things out over on Bluesky. Can’t promise I’ll be as active there as I once was on here but let’s give it a go. bsky.app/profile/statma… 👋🏼

Georgia Bell, who returned to athletics in June last year after a career in duathlon, is now an Olympic medallist, British record-holder, and sits third on the European all-time list.

Tonight’s heptathlon was also one of the highest quality of all time. Never before have five women scored 6600+ in the same competition.

Nafi Thiam's winning margin tonight, when winning her 11th major title (global/continental), was just 36 points over KJT. Her only winning margin smaller than that was when she won her first major title, the 2016 Olympic crown, by just 35 points from Jess Ennis-Hill.

@siropierini @fan_athletics Basically

@Statman_Jon @fan_athletics That's the first AtStat you'll miss since Paris 1924, innit?

STOP THE COUNT!

Who will you be watching England with this Sunday? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽️ #lonelinessawarenessweek #euros2024

The women's event has been similarly revolutionised. Up until 2019, there'd been just 3 sub-52.50s in history. Fast forward 5 years and there are now 27, with Femke Bol leading the way. 11 - Bol 8 - McLaughlin-Levrone 4 - Muhammad 1 - Pechonkina 1 - Walker 1 - Little 1 - Demus

From 1992 until 2018, there had been just one sub-47-second performance ever in the 400m hurdles. That barrier has now been broken 26 times, 25 of those coming in the past six years, and 11 of them by @kwarholm 11 - Warholm 7 - Benjamin 6 - Dos Santos 1 - Young 1 - Samba

That's a European U18 best and puts her second on the world U18 all-time list behind China's Wang Yuan...!

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Kerr also set an outright British 3000m record en route, clocking 7:30.16.

World indoor two miles best for Josh Kerr at Millrose Games, 8:00.67. Only two men (Daniel Komen and Jakob Ingebrigtsen) have ever bettered that time outdoors. His mile splits: 4:03.63 3:57.04

@MrAndrewCotter I offered to pace to 800m in 2:44. Apparently that's not good enough. (I'd also struggle to do even that).

@Statman_Jon *Checks recent Strava activities. ‘No.’

I’m always amazed by the number of media people who never miss an opportunity to make a celebrity’s death about themselves—either by sharing a picture of them together or pretending they knew each other. It’s not so hard to remain dignified in this kind of situations, is it?

@fan_athletics She could probably fit a bit of discus in there somewhere tbh

Sifan QUADRUPLE in Paris*? Day 2: 5000 heats Day 5: 5000 final Day 6: 1500 heats Day 8: 1500 semis Day 9: 10,000m final Day 10: 1500 final Day 11: Marathon *Yes, I am being facetious, but it *is* Sifan

@MrHenryGee @paulajradcliffe Two very different eras, both in terms of the sport and the presidency.

Sifan Hassan smashes Paula Radcliffe's European record by almost 2 mins in Chicago, winning in 2:13:44. Were it not for the Berlin Marathon last month, this time would be a world record. Hassan is now the second-fastest woman in history for the mile, 10,000m and the marathon.

The Berlin Marathon two weeks ago set a record for the fastest aggregate men's and women's winning times, 4:14:35 (2:02:42 + 2:11:53). Today's Chicago Marathon has just beaten that with 4:14:19 (2:00:35 + 2:13:44).