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Athletics News - 20.02. / part II |
No WR for Bekele, but 3 WL marks
STOCKHOLM: Home sell-out crowds were for sure happy because all swedish stars won their events at the IAAF Permit Meet GE Galan in famous Globen Arena. Susanna Kallur at 60mH, Christian Olsson in TJ did not had too tough opposition. Stefan Holm had his 101st competition over 230 and won with 233 over Thornblad and Rybakov. It looks like the only name who could challenge him in Birmingham will be the russian Ivan Ukhov. Czech Tomas Janku did not jumped because he felt his hamstring. Johan Wissman won the 400 m and Carolina Kluft despite poor hurdles the triathlon. Second was Goteborg silver medallist Karin Ruckstuhl from Holland and third young Czech talent Denisa Scerbova who was very good at 60mH and achieved new best at 400 m. If she would have go over 179 in high jump she would be the winner. She is still undecided whether to contest pentathlon or long jump in Birmingham. Finally also Kajsa Bergqvist got her revenge over Hellebaut, Vlasic and Slesarenko and won in new season best of 198 cm. Kenenisa Bekele missed the world record clearly but achieved at least one of the three world leading marks of the evening and new personal best 7:30.51 at 3000 m. World indoor champion Wilfred Bungei from Kenya registered the second WL at 800 m with 1:45.42 before Morrocan Amine Laalou with his indoor best 1:45.96. Third placed Bram Som (1:46.12) got the european leading position of the season. Poland´s Lidia Chojecka got the third world lead of the day at 1500 m with 4:03.73. She just barely missed her national record 4:03.58 from 2003. Great men´s 1500 m race was dominated by Augustin Choge who again bettered his indoor best to 3:33.79 and only by 0.10 missed the seasonal best of Daniel Kipchirchir Komen who finished second. Czech jumpers dominated the pole vault – Pavla Rybova and Katerina Badurova went over 458 in first and both tried three times new national record of 468. The decisive moment happened at 448 as Badurova achieved that mark only in second try (and had a miss also at 417 cm). Cuban Dayron Robles did not had too tough oppositon and won the 60 mH with nice margin 0.13 s.
Top results:
Men
400 m: 1. Wissman, SWE 46,45, 2. Lloyd, DMA 46,57, 3. Santa, DOM 46,77, 4. Molefe, BOT 46,99, B-race: 1. Vojtík, CZE 47,22
800 m: 1. Bungei, KEN 1:45,42 - WL, 2. Laalou, MAR 1:45,96, 3. Som, HOL 1:46,12 - EL, 4. Okken, HOL 1:46,63
1500 m: 1. A. Choge, KEN 3:33,79, 2. D. K. Komen, KEN 3:34,69, 3. Mansour, BHR 3:36,28 – asian record, 4. I. Songok, KEN 3:39,05
3000 m: 1. K. Bekele, ETH )7:30,51 WL, 2. Bett, KEN 7:45,58, 3. Akkas, TUR 7:45,74 NR, 4. Y. Biwott, KEN 7:47,46, 5. Weidlinger, AUT 7:48,79
60 m H: 1. Robles, CUB 7,48, 2. Oliver, USA 7,61, 3. Kronberg, SWE 7,66
HJ: 1. Holm, SWE 233, 2. Thornblad, SWE 230, 3. Rybakov, RUS 230, 4. Ton, CZE 227
TJ: 1. Olsson, SWE 17,26, 2. Yastrebov, UKR 16,84
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1500 m: 1. Chojecka, POL 4:03,73 WL, 2. Clitheroe, GBR 4:05,81, 3. Roman, SLO 4:06,75
60 m H: 1. S. Kallur, SWE 7,94, 2. Felicien, CAN 8,02, 3. Antonova, RUS 8,05
PV: 1. Rybova, CZE 458, 2. Badurova, CZE 458, 3. Steiner, USA 438
HJ: 1. Bergqvist, SWE 198, 2. Vlašič, CRO 195, 3. Hellebaut, BEL 195, 4. Slesarenko, RUS 192
Triathlon: 1. Kluft, SWE 2928 (8,64 – 179 – 53,63), 2. Ruckstuhl, HOL 2911 (8,37 – 179 – 55,28), 3. Ščerbová, CZE 2899 (8,39 – 174 – 54,05), 4. Schwarzkopf, GER 1868 (8,74 – 174 – nc)
European Indoors are sold out
BIRMINGHAM: EAA is informing that the European Indoor Championships is a complete sell-out on Saturday and Sunday and that over 85% of Fridays allocation of tickets have already been sold to the public. The National Indoor Arena has a capacity of 5,000 spectators for each of the five sessions, meaning that a total of 25,000 tickets were made available.
Defar goes to Puerto Rico
ADDIS ABABA: IAAF is informing that world record holder Meseret Defar from Ethiopia will be running the 10 km road race in Puerto Rico this Sunday. The road world best could be the target – 30:21 by Paula Radcliffe in the same competition back in 2003.
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