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Athletics News - 03.04. |
Defar runs 2 miles in Carson
BOSTON (USA): Ethiopian 5000 m world record holder and Olympic Champion Meseret Defar will come back soon to US after her Sunday Carlsbad road win. As her agent Mark Wetmore confirmed she will return to run 2 miles at adidas Track Classic in Carson on May 19. It is clear that her target could be only the world best set by Regina Jacobs 9:11.97 back in 1999 in Los Gatos. This mark was achieved in mixed race so the real best is 9:19.56 by Sonia O´Sullivan in 1998 in Cork, Ireland. About her Sunday race Wetmore said: „She was telling me afterwards that the pace at first km was too quick, also wind played part of the game against a world best. Also she did not raced for a while and came from full training, but otherwise she was satisfied.“ He did not wanted to speculate when the long awaiting duel Defar against world champion Tirunesh Dibaba will happen again. „I do not know for the moment, maybe only in Osaka,“ he added. Tilastopaja shows the head-to-head balance in favour of Defar 12:10 at 5000 m since 2002 World Junior Champs, where Defar won the gold.
Isinbayeva dreams about 515-520 cm
BARCELONA (ESP): Although her season was not so perfect concerning the world records as in 2004 or 2005 pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva from Russia was voted on Monday the Sportswoman of the year 2006 during the Laureus Sports Awards celebration. But the arguments are clear – she won World Indoor Championships and European Championships in 2006 and made headlines wherever she came also because her great attitude towards spectators and media. She was nominated for Laureus Trophy in last two editions already and finally got the award. During the evening she also revealed her dream: „I want in my career achieve heights between 515-520 cm. That is my long term goal,“ she was saying. She is expecting a tough summer season with World Championships and also Golden League Circuit as her event Pole Vault is for the first time an Golden Event and her chances to earn part from one million jackpot are very serious. Other track nominations at Laureus Awards evening were Asafa Powell (men), Carolina Kluft (women) and Xavier Carter (breakthrough).
Some more results from the weekend
TUCSON (USA): Quartermile revelation of the indoor season Greg Nixon is improving also outdoors. The US undercover champion of this year bettered at Arizona Invitational his 200 m best to 20.43 (+1.6).
CHAPEL HILL (USA): World Championships 2005 silver medallist at 400 m Hurdles James Carter started the season at low-key competition and registered a 50.21 win at UNC Invitational.
JEONJU (KOR): As Tilastopaja reports at Korean marathon local wins were registered. On the men side Kil Kyong-Sun had 2:15:57 and on the women Chang Jin-Sook 2:32:14.
MEXICO CITY (MEX): At University Meeting Gerardo Martinez bettered his own Mexican High Jump record. He cleared 226 cm and so was better by 1 cm as in 2005 in Walnut, California.
PARIS (FRA): As French federation website informs the last meet of Pole Vault indoor series „Perche Elite Tour“ was staged at Disneyland in Paris. European Championships 2006 silver medallist Romain Mesnil was the winner by clearing 537 cm.
Briefs
MOUNTAIN VIEW: Track Newsletter as authority on US results now considers the fast times from early March achieved in Orlando as doubtful timing. At Central Florida Opener Ernest Wiggins sped against (-1.5) a strong wind to 10.16 at 100 m, Linnie Yarbrough got a sensational best at 110mH 13.33 (+1.6). Even bigger sensation happened in women´s 100 m as 26 years old Nicole Whitman sped to 11.12 (+1.3) at 100 m. Her best so far was 11.55 and she was more known as triple jumper.
MONTE CARLO: World Athlete of the year 2006 Sanya Richards is telling about her racing plans in her diaries for IAAF Website. She will first compete at 100 m and 200 m in Arlington on April 14 and one week after already her first 400 m race of the year is planned at Michael Johnson Invitational in Waco. Her first overseas start should happen at Osaka Grand Prix on May 5. Apart of World Championships her target could be again Golden League because 400 m is part of the series. She belonged last year to the athletes who shared the jackpot after winning six times out of six meetings.
MONTE CARLO: IAAF ratified another two world records from 2007 Indoor Season. It is the pole vault global indoor mark by Yelena Isinbayeva 493 cm achieved in Donetsk (Ukraine) on Feb 10 and the 4x800 m female time 8:18.54 by Russian regional team during the National Indoor Championships in Volgograd on Feb 11. That means all world records from indoor season 2007 are now ratified.
KAMPALA (UGA): Distance runner Boniface Kiprop was voted Ugandan Sports person of the year 2006. He already got that title in 2004. That year he was world junior champion and also fourth placer at Olympic Games in Athens (10 000 m). Last year he won Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and that made the biggest impact on the decision. Unfortunately during Mombasa World CC Champs he belonged to the group of athletes who did not finished the race.
PRAHA (CZE): The Strahov Indoor Hall in Praha is again in fuction after reparation works. It was damaged after a wind-storm in January. The renovation was worth 7 millions Czech Crowns (more than 300 000 USD). For next indoor season it will be again in operation. Unfortunately the weather played its game at the begin of the indoor campaign and so all events were staged in another Prague Hall Stromovka.
BERLIN: As per website leichtathletik.de the organisers of Golden League Finale the DKB-ISTAF meeting are considering to stage a Handball Match on Sep 16 after the track programme will be over. The goal is to try for a handball spectators world record which is so far at 30 925 level. With the usual numbers coming to see the best athletes in the world this might be very real. Last year the official figure was 48 112.
LAUSANNE (SUI): European Athletics Association announced names for the Athlete of the Month vote. For March 17 men and 16 women were nominated. Including are mostly European Indoor Champions from Birmingham, but also for example Lornah Kiplagat from Netherlands who won the World CC Championships in Mombasa, Spanish walker Francisco Fernandez who was the best at Chinese leg of IAAF Race Walking Challenge or European Winter Throwing Cup winner Franka Dietzsch from Germany. The voting will close on April 10.
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