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Athletics News - 17.02. |
Wins for Crawford 10.16 and Perry 12.87w, Merritt only second at 400 m
SYDNEY (Feb 17): Olympic 200 m champion Shawn Crawford won the prestigious 100 m race at Telstra A-Series meet in Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Centre on Saturday and achieved a solid time of 10.16. Best local sprinter Joshua Ross who was reportedly timed in training 9.83 (hand timing) was just 0.01 behind. Crawford also made clear he no longer works with the controversial coach Trevor Graham. He said this in connection with the Euromeetings discussion about banning athletes coached by Graham from their meets. Crawford said he switches coaches end of last season. World champion Michelle Perry from USA won the 100 mhurdles in wind-aided 12.87 and local star Sally McLellan was close second with 12.90. She is still waiting for first legal sub 13 seconds time in the season, overall she achieved that only once last year at World Cup in Athens with 12.95. She confirmed later her great shape with solid 11.37 100 m win. But local running aces made the headlines. Craig Mottram attacked the meet record at 3000 m, his final time 7:42:00 (MR 7:39.22). Second placed Dickson Marwa from Tansania bettered his best to 7:43.01, he for example has in his records also a marathon 2:12:53 in Australia back in 2003 and was 12th at last years World Road Race Championships in Hungary. Lisa Corrigan achieved another PB and also World Championships A Standard at 1500 m in very good 4:05.25. Commonwealth Games winner John Steffenson won the highly anticipated 400 m race clearly 45.07 as US Star LaShawn Merritt was second and beaten by 0.71 s. Very good also two steeple times under 8:25 by Australian runners.
Top results
Men
100 m (1.0): 1. Crawford,USA 10.16, 2. Ross 10.17, 3. P. Johnson 10.31
200 m (+0.9): 1. Ross 20.70, 2. Batman 20.81
400 m: 1. Steffenson 45.07, 2. L. Merritt, USA 45.78, 3. Wroe 45.81
1500 m: 1. Hyett 3:40.50
3000 m: 1. Mottram 7:42.00, 2. Marwa,TAN 7:43:01, 3. Birmingham 7:46.01
110mH (+2.8): 1. Merlino 13.77
3000mSC: 1. Abdi 8:22.7, 2. Dent 8:24.2
LJ: 1. Noffke 791 (+4.5), 2. Moffitt,USA 771 (+0.5)
DT: 1. Martin 60.93
JT: 1. Robinson 80.72, 2. Bannister 79.22
4x100 m: 1. AUS B 39.47, 2. NZL 39.47,…AUS A dq
Wom
100 m (+1.3): 1. McLellan 11.37
200 m (+0.4): 1. M. Williams,NZL 23.51
1500 m: 1. Corrigan 4:05.25
3000 m: 1. MacFarlane 9:03.71
100mH (+2.4): 1. Perry,USA 12.87, 2. McLellan 12.90
PV: 1. Howe 445
SP: 1. Heaston,USA 17.74
HT: 1. di Marco 60.43
4x100 m: 1. AUS 44.51
Friday action
Europe
AUBIERE (FRA): During first day of French Championships Ydrissa M´Barke already in heats achieved the third fastest european time of the season with 20.90. Unfoturnately this event is no longer part of European or World Championships. Also in shape is 800 m runner Florent Lacasse who also in heats got the fastest time 1:48.36.
RIGA (LAT): European Champion Stanislav Olijars confirmed his position with first day win at National Indoor Championships. His time 7.61 is fourth fastest in Europe this year. His shape is growing in right time before European Championships in Birmingham.
LEIPZIG (GER): As leichtathletik.de reports Olympic 800 m Champion from 2000 Nils Schumann will not run this weekend at National Championships. He was entered, but then announced that he will resume to compete in summer season.
VOLGOGRAD (RUS): At Russian U23 Championships the long jump winner Yelena Sokolova achieved a very solid new best of 662 cm. That confirmed her position in the team for Birmingham which she earned at senior championships beeing third. High jump winner Ivan Ilichev also got a new best of 228 cm. Both would belong to favourites for summer European Championships U23 in Debrecen, Hungary.
USA
BATON ROUGE (USA): Member of US Teams at both last world indoor championships Brian Johnson showed very good shape at LSU Twilight Invitational. He won 60 m in 6.75 and mainly jumped 815 cm in his speciality event. He missed with that the world leading mark of Greek Tsatoumas only by 2 cm. Juanita Broaddus (21 years) bettered her best in women 60 m to respectable 7.28.
MOUNT PLEASANT (USA): Unattached sprinter Johnnie Drake looked for a fast time at Jack Skoog Open Meet after running 6.69 in heats of 60 m. Unfortunately a dq in the finals was the reason that this aim could not be fulfilled.
NEW YORK (USA): Serbian shot putter Milan Jotanovic (student of Manhattan College) got his title at MAAC Conference Championships at Armory with good 19.40 m. He missed his indoor best from last year only by 2 cm.
News section
BROADBEACH (AUS): IAAF is reporting that its President Lamine Diack got the support from the delegates of Congress of the Oceania Athletic Association. He informed the delegates about his intention to stand for election for the IAAF presidency for one further term. The response was clear - all member federations of Oceania are supporting his candidacy.
NAIROBI: Eliud Kipchoge, who was the 2003 World Champion for 5000 meters announced that he wants to run at IAAF World Cross Country Championships in his homeland in March in Mombasa. But he most contest February 24 trials race, which is as loaded with talent as always. "I'm aware of the challenge ahead. Every participant is looking forward to a place in the team to represent Kenya in Mombasa," realizes Kipchoge. "I'll give it my best shot."
Anti-doping corner
MONTE CARLO: IAAF informed about the case of 25-years old Morrocan runner Aissa Dghoughi. He refused to submit his control sample in out of competition procedure late July last year in St. Moritz, Switzerland. For that he got 3 years ban which will end on December 27, 2009. His bests are 13:39.92 at 5000 m back in 2002 and last year a very solid half marathon 61:27 from Paris. He was also 20th at last years World CC Championships in Japan at 12 km distance.
Stats corner
Current rankings (of course unofficial) of meetings in the indoor season 2007 (scoring=top 3 in best 10 events): 1. Stuttgart 36 082, 2. Boston 35 605, 3. Karlsruhe 35 576, 4. Moskva 35 329, 5. Dusseldorf 35 055, 6. Valencia 34 915
Special meets (less than 10 events, scoring=top 10 individual results): 1. Goteborg (Eurojump) 11 781, 2. Arnstadt (HJ) 11 740, 3. Donyetsk (PV) 11 735, 4. Banska Bystrica (HJ) 11 655, 5. Bydgoszcz (PV W + HJ M) 11 547, 6. Bucuresti (HJ) 11 493
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