This Week In Track & Field: Audrey Werro Stuns Keely Hodgkinson With 3rd Fastest 800m All-Time; Cooper Lutkenhaus Wins Diamond League Debut, Yared Nuguse Gets His Swagger Back + Stockholm & Rome Recap

About this episode

The episode discusses the remarkable performances in track and field, including Audrey Werro's historic 800m run and Cooper Lutkenhaus's Diamond League debut.

Chris Chavez, Preet Majithia, and Mac Fleet unpack the best week of the 2026 outdoor season with Rome and Stockholm delivering back-to-back historic performances. Discussed in this episode: – Audrey Werro’s 1:53.98: The third-fastest woman in 800-meter history, only the third woman ever under 1:54, beats Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson (1:54.33 personal best, British record) in Stockholm. Historical context: the two women ahead of her — Kratochvílová (1:53.28, 1983) and Olizarenko (1:53.43, 1980) — are from countries that no longer exist and from the peak of the Eastern Bloc doping era. Many can regard Werro’s 1:53.98 as the de facto clean world record. – Cooper Lutkenhaus wins the Stockholm men’s 800 in 1:42.7: Diamond League debut. 17 years old. Junior year of high school in Texas. Beats Marco Arop (1:43.11), the former world champion and fourth-fastest man in history. – Mondo loses: First defeat since July 2023. 44-meet winning streak snapped – Noah Lyles wins the Rome 100m in 9.88: Noah typically builds slowly in the 100, but 9.88 is early and good. Jordan Anthony faded to fourth after looking promising at 60m. – Women’s 200 landscape: Gabby Thomas runs 21.7 at the Lone…

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris Chavez, Preet Majithia, Mac Fleet

Topics covered

• track and field
• 800m race
• Diamond League
• historic performances
• outdoor season
• athlete highlights

Keywords

• Audrey Werro
• Keely Hodgkinson
• Cooper Lutkenhaus
• Diamond League
• Noah Lyles
• Gabby Thomas
• 800m
• track and field
• historic performances

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Stockholm, Rome

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