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Athletics News - 15.02. |
Tomas Janku is jumping and jumping, today again winning
PRAHA (Feb 15) – The first special high jump meeting with music (at that time live) started end of sixties in Praha and it was an idea of the top Czech journalist and statistician, the late Jan Popper. The name of the first event was „Novinarska latka“ (in translation Journalists Bar). It was held since 1969 until 1995. Only this year the event came back again alive. In the big Prague Shopping Center called „Metropole Zlicin“ the 28th „Novinarska latka“ was held. Currently best czech jumper Tomas Janku showed his great strength. After Wednesday only 215 in Bydgoszcz he was winning again, this time with 233 new meet record. The former was held by Jan Zvara who jumped 232 back in 1987. And Zvara witnessed todays change in record books. Janku went over 225 in third and that was the crucial point. Then he passed 228 and jumped in second over 231 to be able clearly jumping 233 right in first try. He also tried twice 235 what would be his new best. It was his 9th competition this indoor and fifth win after Ostrava, Trinec, Brno and Weinheim. And he still has a tough Schedule in front of him with Birmingham, Stockholm, Czech nationals and European Champs. Former U17 World champion Aleksey Dmitrik jumped in third 228 and that was enough for second place, by the way his this years best. Cuban Victor Moya jumped 225 in third and then passed 228 and tried without success to equal his indoor best of 231 cm. Olympic medallist Jaroslav Baba is still struggling after surgery and again noted only 215 cm. This time as in the past the jumpers were supported by live music managed by czech famous group Yo-Yo Band.
Results: 1. Tomas Janku 233 MR (210/1, 219/1, 225/3, 231/2, 233/1, 235/xx), 2. Dmitrik, RUS 228 (210/2, 215/1, 219/2, 222/2, 225/1, 228/3, 231/xxx), 3. Moya, CUB 225 (219/1, 225/3, 231/xxx), 4. Klyugin, RUS 219, 5. Saman 215, 6. Baba 215, 7t. Benko, SVK and Giosis,GRE 210, 9. Kabelka, SVK 210, 10. Dillon, CAN 205
Spanovic jumped Serbian record
MOSKVA (Feb 14): As Sergey Tikhonov reports at Dyachkov and Ozolin Memorial meet the young serbian long jumper Ivana Spanovic achieved a great 653 cm. That means new national indoor record, the former was also hers with 648 cm in last year. The 16 years old jumper is so one of the favourites of World U17 Championships which will be held in July in Ostrava, Czech Republic. In summer she could also target the Serbian senior record held by Tamara Malesev 668 back in 1990 and 1992. She was already finalist last year at World Juniors in Beijing and registered a solid 7th position.
Bilonog another title, Petlyuk again under 2 minutes
SUMY (Feb 12-14): Shot put Olympic Champion Yuri Bilonog won another title at Ukrainian National Championships this week with a result of 19.83. High jumper Andriy Sokolovskiy confirmed solid shape with 228 cm win. Triple jump battle for the title was decided on the second best jump because Mykola Savolainen (first) and Viktor Kuznetsov (second) had both 16.78 m. The best women result was achieved by Tatyana Petlyuk in 800 m with excellent 1:59.87. It was her third sub 2 minutes time after wins in Stuttgart and Dusseldorf. Very good also 195 cm High jump by Iryna Kovalenko. Former world championships finalist Vita Palamar jumped for first time indoors since 2005 and was second (189 cm). Solid shape was confirmed by Viktoria Rybalko in Long Jump (664 cm).
During three days of athletics also a multi-events match was held (UKR-RUS-BLR). Pentathlon winner local Natalya Dobrynska scored 4602 points (4th best mark of the year, individual results – 8.48 – 184 – 15.49 – 608 – 2:22.96), heptathlon winner was Russian Aleksey Sisoyev with a score 5717 points.
Anti-Doping Corner
PARIS/MONTE CARLO: National cross-country champion Khalid Zoubaa has become the fourth French middle-distance athlete in eight months to test positive for an illegal substance. That was reported by L'Equipe on Thursday. The paper said traces of the blood-boosting banned agent erythropoietin (EPO) were found in the 29-year-old Zoubaa's A sample following the military national championships in Pau on January 27. Also today IAAF confirmed the ban for steeple-chaser Nordine Gezzar who tested positive at two competitions – meeting in Strasbourg on June 19 2006 (winning in would be PB 8:15.04) and national championships in July 2006 (initially second place 8:30.08) at Tomblaine. His two years ban starts only in December 2006 and finishes in December 2008 that means he will miss the Olympic Games in Beijing. Presence of the prohibited substances Finasteride and Norandrosterone in his doping control samples were confirmed by IAAF.
Euromeetings
STOCKHOLM: Euromeetings will discuss the posibility to ban American former three-times Olympic champion Marion Jones from their races when they meet at their usual Spring Meeting on March 1 in Birmingham, the site of European Indoor Championships. The Euromeetings Group is also likely to close its doors on Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin, who failed a drugs test last year. Rajne Soderberg, the president of Euromeetings, said according to the news agencies that they would recommend that Jones and all athletes associated with Jamaican-born American coach Trevor Graham were barred from their meetings. "We shall not stop any athlete from running in Europe because that is the prerogative of individual meeting officials, but we shall recommend that Marion Jones and all Trevor Graham's athletes are barred from running in our meetings," Soderberg told Reuters on Tuesday. "The Euromeetings Spring meeting will discuss the doping issue in athletics and athletes to be invited and those not to be invited, but it is still up to individual meeting directors to invite whom they wish to invite," said Soderberg. Also on the agenda are issues like calendars for 2007, 2008 and 2009, athlete´s contracts and other items of importance for the European meetings.
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