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Athletics News - 04.04.

Abeylegesse is OK FERRARA: Title defender Elvan Abeylegesse from Turkey is back in shape after Mombasa World CC Championship. It was confirmed by Turkey sources that she aims for a fast time at 11th European Cup 10 000 m race on Saturday in Ferrara, Italy. Last year she won achieving 30:21.67 the event record, national record and 14th best time ever. „She was running well in Mombasa until the third lap, at that time she was at eighth place. After that her problems started and she is not remembering what happened. Her coach found her only half hour after the race. She had same problems as many other runners concerning the heat and humidity,“ a well informed source from Turkey says. She finished at 28th position 3:03 minutes behind the winner. In total 25 women are entered for the race, other interesting names are European Cup winner Jo Pavey (GBR, track 10 000 m debut), 2005 winner Sabrina Mockenhaupt (GER), Italian bronze medallist from Birmingham at 3000 m Silvia Weissteiner and European Cross Country Champion 2006 Tatyana Holovchenko from Ukraine. For her it will be 10 000 m track debut. Interestingly no Russians are entered. On the men side one past winner is supposed to run – Jose Rios from Spain who was the best in 2001 clocking sub 28 minutes. He leads the Spanish team which already five times won the men team category. Portugal runners are headed by another sub 28 runner Jose Ramos. Also to mention are Italian European Indoor Champion Cosimo Caliandro, steeple specialists Gunther Weidlinger (Austria) and Mustafa Mohamed (Sweden) along with Vasil Matviychuk from Ukraine who was 6th during the weekend at Stramilano Half-Marathon. In total 30 runners are entered. Only A races will be staged. It looks like both world leading times for 10 000 m will be broken (28:06.26 Naimadu,KEN and 32:31.90 Russell,USA). Briefs ZURICH: As per Weltklasse web site, one of the best one day meetings in the world will invest into the meet infrastructure around 2 millions of Swiss Francs. This was agreed at the General Assembly of the organising body VfG LCZ Zurich. The money will be invested into the new Stadium and into the new structure of the Organising Committee. For 2007 the whole amount of the expenses should be the same as income at level of 9 millions of Swiss Francs. The biggest investment is into the costs related to the Athletes direct (prize money, promotion fees) and non-direct (hotel, transport) totalling to 5 millions. New Meeting Director Patrick Magyar also confirmed that the ticket costs will not be higher in comparison to last years, the standing places are having even a lower price. „The city of Zurich gave to us a brand new stadium and we should not return with massive ticket prices,“ he was quoted. NAIROBI: Kenyan The Nation reports about the latest situation of long distance runner Leonard Mucheru alias Musir Salem Jawher. Former Kenyan who now competes for Bahrain made for headlines after he won a Marathon early in January in Israel. After that Bahrain stripped him of his citizenship, but later reinstated. Now, after three months of waiting in Kenya virtually stateless, he was allowed to leave Nairobi and his Bahraini passport was given back to him. But he was forced as The Nation reports to renounce his Kenyan citizenship under oath. His Kenyan passport is currently in Bahrain after he used that document to enter Israel although already beeing Bahraini citizen. When he leaves Kenya his returns will be tougher to arrange then before. But as it looks, he has no other choice. SYDNEY: Athletics Australia reports that shot putter Scott Martin looks optimistic towards World Championships in Osaka. He is now four weeks after surgery of major ligament in his foot. Because of this he missed also the National Championships. He wants to throw again in 10 weeks time and that is enough to come into shape for the Worlds. Despite the injury he was included into the announced team selection for Japan. GERMISTON (RSA): Disabled runner Oscar Pistorius achieved another world record for his category, this time at 100 m clocking 10.91. He holds also the 200 m (21.66) and 400 m (46.56) global marks and hopes to attack them during the National disabled championships which started with the 100 m races. As Superathletics reports he was recently down because of the discussions concerning the possibility to compete within the IAAF events. The former 100 m record in this category was 10.97. KRAKOW (POL): Financial difficulties resulted into decreasing the prize money for half amounts at the Krakow Marathon in Poland. The event is scheduled for May 6 and Walking Great Robert Korzeniowski should also run, but not full distance. PARIS: French federation website informs that 2006 European Champion at 50 km walk Yohan Diniz will do the next race at his distance only at World Championships in Osaka. The 29 years old athlete will compete before that at 20 km races – European Cup in Leamington and IAAF Challenge in La Coruna, Spain. Before the Christmas he had Hernia Operation and started to train again in January. His 20 km best is 1:20:20 from the Podebrady race (CZE) in 2005. DAKAR (SEN): The Dakar IAAF Grand Prix on April 28 will again have its speciality concerning the Shot Put Competition. Strong men will compete the day before at Island of Goree and during the main meeting the presentation of the best ones will be held. Last year at Island the US putters in and out world champions were the best - Adam Nelson won (21.28) and Reese Hoffa claimed second place (20.81). The Island is very symbolic place, it was the point for large part of slave trade from Africa in the past.

Alfons Juck