TOP EVENTS, by Alfons Juck, EME News OSTRAVA (CZE, Jun 27): 52nd Ostrava Golden Spike meet (IAAF World Challenge) saw two world leads (30:26.67 Tirunesh Dibaba and 20.88 Valerie Adams) before nearly 15 000 spectators at a newly reconstructed stadium (still 2nd part of reconstruction to follow before 2014 edition of the meet). In total 5 meet records: Dibaba plus Zuzana Hejnova 53.31 who just missed national record and world lead, Renaud Lavillene 592 (tried at 6 meters), Milcah Chemos in steeple and finally the oldest meet record by Alberto Juantorena (44.70 in 1976) went as Kirani James clocked 44.49. Dibaba WL went later as the news from Sollentuna came. Also close to MR Sally Pearson with 12.67 in her first meet since London Olympic Games or when Yelena Isinbayeva and Yarisley Silva had close attempts at 484 in the women pole vault. Also close to WL with third best mark of his career was Vitezslav Vesely 87.58in javelin. Special the situations in both steeple races as in men competition Clement Langat fell into water barrier and could not fill his pacemaker role (leaving top talent Kipruto alone in his quest for world junior record) and three women in their race crashed into the barrier. But the top non-traditional situation was with two 100 m starts within 26 minutes. First Asafa Powell crossed the line (9.97) but during that run the starter three times was shooting after a false start of Kemar Hyman. After the break Powell won in 10.06. Great races delivered by Ethiopians Mohamed Aman 1:43.78 in the 800 m and Edris Mukhtar in the 5000 m 13:03.69 PB (Bekele fourth 13:07.88). Former Ethiopian Sifan Hassan, now representing the Netherlands, kicked away hard down the home straight in the 1500m to win with a PB of 4:04.02, going to second on the Dutch all-time list and close behind meet record. The meet also saw four European leads (Maslak at 400 m, Hejnova, Jarzynska Polish 10 000 m record and Isinbayeva). SOLLENTUNA (SWE, Jun 27): The claim of “the greatest ever night of 10,000m running” is of course open to discussion, but it is an indisputable fact that never before have the combined winning times of the men’s and the women’s 10,000m races in a one-day competition been below 57 minutes. On Thursday night (27) at the Folksam Grand Prix in Sollentuna, Ethiopian duo Meseret Defar and Dejen Gebremeskel won the two 10,000m finals with their combined time being 56:59.08. The previous best one-day combination was recorded at the Prefontaine Classic last year by Tirunesh Dibaba (30:24.39) and Wilson Kiprop (27:01.98) for a total of 57:26.37. Both winning performances in Sollentuna were extremely impressive not just in plain numbers – Gebremeskel 26:51.02 and Defar 30:08.06 – but also because both winners took the lead long before halfway and could still muster blistering finishes. Their performances indicated that they will be in the hunt for the World titles in Moscow in less than two months. In the men’s 800m Djibouti’s Ayanleh Souleiman showed that he is not just a strong and tenacious runner but also carries considerable speed. Sprinting away from training parther Musaeb Bala in the final stages, Suleiman recorded a national record of 1:43.63. Lesotho’s Mosito Lehata lowered his national 200m record by 0.12 when winning in 20.37 (+1.8), pulling home runner Nil de Oliveira to a 20.53 PB, just 0.01 off the Moscow ‘A’ standard. From the IAAF. MERSIN (TUR, Jun 26-28): At the Mediterranean Games Emmanuel Biron of France won the 100 m in 10.22 (+0.2) over Ramil Guliyev for Turkey 10.23 and Michael Tumi of Italy 10.25. In the 200 m Greek Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakounas clocked 20.45 (-0.7) PB over Guliyev 20.46. Italian gold for Matteo Galvan 45.59 PB in the 400 m. Turkish wins for Ilham Tanui Ozbilen 3:35.09 at 1500 m and Polat Arikan Kemboi 28:17.26 in the 10 000 m. Steeple winner Amar Benyahia was timed with 8:14.05 national record for Algeria. Greek winners also Kostadinos Douvalidis 13.45 (-0.8) over the hurdles and Kostadinos Baniotis 234 in the high jump (European lead 2013). Daniele Greco got the triple 17.13 (+1.4) and Giuseppe Gibilisco pole vault 570 for Italy. Turkish javelin gold by Fatih Avan 83.84 over Ihab El Rahman Egyptian record 82.45. In women events Siham Hilali of Morocco won the 1500 m in 4:04.06, Italian Marzia Caravelli 12.98 (-0.3) at 100 m hurdles and Moroccan Hayat Lambaki 55.27 PB at 400 m hurdles. Slovenia win as Martina Ratej got the javelin 60.28 and in the triple jump Athanasia Perra of Greece 14.48 (+1.9) over Snezana Rodic 14.36 (+1.1).
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 21:22:16 +0000
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