Senior web editor for World Athletics. ATFS member, athletics fanatic, cake eater. Views are my own. Non-athletics handle: @JonMulkeen
Joined May 2012
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Jon Mulkeen retweeted
May 26
The amount of people who are seemingly fans of our sport who are either willfully or ignorantly misrepresenting the qualification standards for world champs is wild to me. It has to be engagement bait, right?
Standards are designed to achieve 40% of the target number. Other 60% through World Rankings. This is very simple stuff. Last time they were aiming for 50% so yah, they got harder š¤Æ
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May 4
So incredibly sad. Had the pleasure of working alongside Parker at numerous World Champs and Olympics over the years.
He was super knowledgeable, a great writer and a devoted family man.
May 4
Alison Wade, founder & editor of @fast_women, lost her husband Parker Morse this morning. He was 52 and died unexpectedly.
Equal parts brilliant & kind, Parker was the original webmaster for @runnersworld when the website launched in 1996.
He was the father of twin daughters.
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Apr 24
Wind curse continues for @itsgabbyt, this time in Nairobi, a -1.1m/s wind denying her a potential sub-11.
With a perfect 2.0m/s, it would have been a 10.82.
If she'd had 2.0m/s winds in her 15 fastest races, she'd have 12 sub-11s to her name.
Alas, her PB remains 11.00.
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16 Sep 2025
RT @SportsMediaLGBT: NEW: Jon Mulkeen has worked in #sportsmedia for more than 20 years and is currently out in Tokyo for the #WorldAthletiā¦
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Iāve really struggled to stay engaged on here since Twitter became all Musky.
Trying things out over on Bluesky. Canāt promise Iāll be as active there as I once was on here but letās give it a go.
bsky.app/profile/statman-jonā¦
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10 Aug 2024
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.
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9 Aug 2024
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.
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9 Aug 2024
Tonightās heptathlon was also one of the highest quality of all time.
Never before have five women scored 6600 in the same competition.
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Jon Mulkeen retweeted
11 Jun 2024
Who will you be watching England with this Sunday? š“ó §ó ¢ó „ó ®ó §ó æ ā½ļø #lonelinessawarenessweek #euros2024
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11 Jun 2024
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
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11 Jun 2024
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
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11 May 2024
That's a European U18 best and puts her second on the world U18 all-time list behind China's Wang Yuan...!
11 May 2024
Pheobe Gill 1:57.86 for 800m!! She's 17 rememberš„š„
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11 Feb 2024
Correct
11 Feb 2024
Rumour has it if you say 2mile WR 3 times into a mirror @Statman_Jon appears and throttles you
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11 Feb 2024
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:
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11 Feb 2024
Kerr also set an outright British 3000m record en route, clocking 7:30.16.
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Jon Mulkeen retweeted
13 Mar 2023
Iām always amazed by the number of media people who never miss an opportunity to make a celebrityās death about themselvesāeither by sharing a picture of them together or pretending they knew each other.
Itās not so hard to remain dignified in this kind of situations, is it?
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8 Oct 2023
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).
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8 Oct 2023
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.
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8 Oct 2023
Kelvin Kiptum breaks the world marathon record in Chicago with 2:00:35.
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This time last year, Kelvin Kiptum had never contested a marathon.
He now owns half of the six fastest times in history. And the WR.
2:00:35 Kelvin Kiptum
2:01:09 Eliud Kipchoge
2:01:25 Kelvin Kiptum
2:01:39 Eliud Kipchoge
2:01:41 Kenenisa Bekele
2:01:53 Kelvin Kiptum
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