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Merlene Ottey still fast | European Cup |
Merlene Ottey still fast
The grand dame of world of sprints Merlene Ottey (currently representing Slovenia) achieved very fast times at EAP Meeting in Donnas, Italy on Sunday. She was third in 100 m race with 11.49, but the wind was this time +2.4. So no new masters record in category 45-50 years. But she was later on fourth at 200 m with 23.97 (+2.0) and that was new masters record. The former one in this age category was 25.56...
EUROPEAN CUP
When we compare winning results of all four groups of this weekends European Cups the best were achieved in Praha (1st League, A-group). 9 men and 13 women winning results were the best, in Thessaloniki 9 men and 5 women, then two winning results were the same in Prague and Thessaloniki (men High Jump and 110mH) and two winning results were the best from 2nd League in Banska Bystrica (2:00.73 by Klocova at 800 m and 197 by Vlasic in HJ). When we compare winning results only from 2nd League then a tie applies 20:20, men 12:8 for Banska Bystrica and women 12:8 for Novi Sad. In total three european leading marks of 2006 were set – Obikwelu, 200 m, Tsiamis, TJ and BLR women 4x400 m.
Reports for IAAF/EAA from Banska Bystrica
1st day
Slovak men and Norway women after first day
BANSKA BYSTRICA: First day in central Slovakian city was for some minutes disrupted by heavy rain. But at the end mainly both home teams and about 1000 spectators including members of the teams were satisfied. Slovak men are leading by 3.5 points before Ireland, although according to the calculations Ireland was supposed to lead. On the women side paper favourites Norway are leading,but with only 3 points margin before Slovakia. Croatia is loosing 8 points with Norway and 5 points with Slovakia. Men of Isreal are higher than expecting and they have strong second day. Hammer thrower Libor Charfreitag form home team produced the best men results of first day. In second try he achieved 78.04 m his seasons best and confirmed this result with third try of 77.90 m. „Finally I showed some good attempts, mainly the last attempt was the best and longest, but unfortunately a very small foul,“ said Charfreitag. Ireland scored expected wins at 100 m, 400 , 1500 m, 4x100 m and 400mHurdles, only at 5000 m Keith Kelly was beaten by clever tactical race by local runner Miroslav Vanko. But the weaknesses in technical events did not allowed the Irish team to lead after first day. Slovakia scored expected win in shot put by Mikulas Konopka who achieved in his third attempt the best result of 19.71 m. His win also goes to the fact that the main favourite and olympic medallist Joachim Olsen from Denmark did not due to injury arrived to Slovakia. The closest competition was in men´s high jump. Four jumpers went over 218 cm and attacked 221. Again three were succesfull and seeing their attempts it looked like also 224 will be mastered. But unfortunately nobody did it and countbacks decided about the win of Israeli junior Niki Palli who jumped all heights including 221 at first. Only one top position for Denmark was secured by long jumper Morten Jensen who had only one valid attempt but that was with 744 enough. The long jumpers were most hampered by rain.
On the women side Norway and Croatia scored three wins. In the close 100 m women contest Malene Hjort won with 11.98 but top four finished in space of 0.03 s. World championships finalist Susanne Wigene scored clear win at 3000 m and national record holder Karoline Grovdal managed the same in the steeple race. Croatian youngster Danijela Grgic scored clear win at 400 m and the sprinters of this country also won the relay and expected win was also managed by discus thrower Vera Begic. Slovakia scored two wins but had more better places than expected and will fight on Sunday with Croatia for second promotional spot. Dana Veldakova secured the expected triple jump win but the nicest race was the 800 m. Croatian runner Vanja Perisic started very fast and had running into the second lap a lead of about 20 metres and was heading for a clear win. But Helsinki semifinalist Lucia Klocova cheered by the crowds managed to overtake her some 70 metres before the finish line and nearly bettered her best with 2:00.73 (2:00.60 since 2003). „I did not think it could be so fast. My feeling was we are running at about 2:02. But it was right I did not followed Perisic with her fast pace, that would kill me. Now I need to recieve the chance in some fast race at the meetings and I think I can break finally the 2 minutes barrier,“ said Klocova. Denmark, Israel and Iceland scored also each one win. The best quality was of course the first javelin attempt by 4th from last year World Championships Christina Scherwin, who achieved 61.04, then the competition was affected by rain. Olga Dogadko achieved surprise win for Israel in pole vault (395) and Silja Ulfarsdottir expected win for Iceland at 400m Hurdles (57.98).
Top results
Men
100 m (0.0): 1. Paul Brizzel, IRL 10.68
400 m: 1. David Gillick, IRL 46.49, 2. Peter Znava, SVK 46.68
1500 m: 1. David Campbell, IRL 3:49.71
5000 m: 1. Miroslav Vanko, SVK 14:14.47, 2. Keith Kelly, IRL 14:17.52
400mH: 1. Antoine Burke, IRL 52.28
HJ: 1. Niki Palli, ISR 221, 2t. Radu Tucan,MDA and Peter Horak, SVK 221, 4. Normunds Pupols, LAT 218
LJ: 1. Morten Jensen, DEN 744 (-0.3)
SP: 1. Mikulas Konopka, SVK 19.71, 2. Ivan Emelianov, MDA 18.96, 3. Maris Urtans, LAT 18.46
HT: 1. Libor Charfreitag, SVK 78.04 (74.22 – 78.04 – 77.90 – x), 2. Igors Sokolovs,LAT 70.25
4x100 m: 1. IRL 40.69, 2. ISR 40.78, 3. DEN 40.86
Teams: 1. SVK 64.5, 2. IRL 61, 3. ISR 55, 4. DEN 52, 5. ISL 38, 6. LAT 37, 7. MDA 34.5, 8. AND 17
Women
100 m (+0.3): 1. Malene Hjort, NOR 11.98, 2. Marina Banovic, CRO 11.99, 3. Rita Pogralov, ISR 12.00, 4. Jana Veldakova, SVK 12.01
400 m: 1. Danijela Grgic, CRO 54.03
800 m: 1. Lucia Klocova, SVK 2:00.73, 2. Vanja Perisic, CRO 2:01.73
3000 m: 1. Susanne Wigene, NOR 9:18.11
St: 1. Karoline Grovdal, NOR 10:17.27
400mH: 1. Silja Ulfarsdottir, ISL 57.98, 2. Nikolina Horvat, CRO 58.19
PV: 1. Olga Dogadko, ISR 395, 2. Anita Torring, DEN 395, 3. Slavomira Slukova, SVK 390
TJ: 1. Dana Veldakova, SVK 13.64 (-0.6), 2. Alexandra Zelenina, MDA 13.33 (-0.4)
DT: 1. Vera Begic, CRO 54.93, 2. Grete Snyder, NOR 53.29
JT: 1. Christina Scherwin, DEN 61.04 (61.04-f-f-p), 2. Ivana Vukovic, CRO 51.35, 3. Asdis Hjalmsdottir, ISL 51.27
4x100 m: 1. CRO 45.62, 2. NOR 45.80
Teams: 1. NOR 69, 2. SVK 66, 3. CRO 61, 4. DEN 53, 5. ISR 49, 6. ISL 42.5, 7. MDA 40.5, 8. AND 13
Vlasic jumped 197, Slovakia gets promotion of both teams
BANSKA BYSTRICA: The best result of two days A-group Second League of European Cup in Banska Bystrica was achieved in women´s high jump. Croatian star Blanka Vlasic jumped in third attempt clearly 197 and it looked like also 2 metres will fall. But only on her third she was close. She just finished hard training period before the series of the meetings and so needs more competitions to come into the top shape. The weekend ended with total success of Slovak home teams. Men won with big margin of 20.5 points and the second promotional spot was decided only in the last event. Ireland won the 4x400 m relay and so was second with only one point before Israel and Denmark. That means that both teams are returning back to 1st League after one year in the second. Norway women were the favourites and fulfilled its goal and won. Slovakia was closely fighting with Croatia for the second place. Before the final relay Slovakia had 4 points and even when Croatia won the home team was second and that was enough. Norway will be back to 1st league for the first time since 2001 and Slovakia since 2003. At the final banquet 197 by Vlasic and 78.04 hammer by Slovak Libor Charfreitag were announced as the best results of the competition.
Sunday programme was held in nice summer weather and this time without any rain disruptions. Denmark´s Morten Jensen won his second event because he was clearly best at 200 m with 20.88 coming from lane seven. Running events were all typical tactical races, Irishman Mark Kenneally won the 3000 m race leading since first metres. Slovakia was happy with Matus Janecek who won the high hurdles with 14.07 and bettered his best by huge 0.25 s. Other local wins were achieved as expected by triple jumper Dmitrij Valukevic (only good try 16.72), javelin thrower Marian Bokor (77.37 m) and 800 m runner Jozef Repcik. The biggest male star of the competition the current european champion Alexander Averbukh from Israel in the pole vault won with only valid attempt at 540 which was his starting hieght. Relay times of Ireland and Slovakia under 3:08 were of good quality too. Moldavia secured two expected wins in steeple and discus.
On the women side winning team won 200 m (Slettum 23.69) and 1500 m (Wigene 4:30.15). Local hero was hammer thrower Martina Danisova who won hammer with her last attempt (66.78) and shot put with third throw and personal best of 15.02 m. Expected win for Slovakia came out from long jump as only valid jump of Jana Veldakova 648 cm was the clearly the best. Irina Lenskiy and Neli Avramski fulfilled favourite roles in 100 m hurdles and 5000 m.
Final result
Men: 1. SVK 129.5, 2. IRL 109, 3. ISR 108, 4. DEN 108 (first places 2:2, second places 6:2), 5. LAT 80, 6. MDA 75.5, 7. ISL 67, 8. AND 40
Wom: 1. NOR 124, 2. SVK 120, 3. CRO 117, 4. ISR 88, 5. DEN 87, 6. MDA 86.5, 7. ISL 68.5, 8. AND 26
Top results
Men
200 m (+0.3): 1. Morten Jensen, DEN 20.88, 2. Paul McKee, IRL 21.15
800 m: 1. Jozef Repcik, SVK 1:50.55
3000 m: 1. Mark Kenneally, IRL 8:23.44
110mH (-0.6): 1. Matus Janecek, SVK 14.07, 2. Michael Illin, ISR 14.13 NR
St: 1. Jaroslav Muschinschi, MDA 8:51.18
TJ: 1. Dmitrij Valukevic, SVK 16.72 (+0.2), 2. Anders Moller, DEN 16.06 (+0.7)
PV: 1. Alex Averbukh, ISR 540, 2. Piotr Buciarski, DEN 520
JT: Marian Bokor, SVK 77.37
DT: 1. Vadim Hranovschi, MDA 59.41, 2. Daniel Vanek, SVK 57.55
4x400 m: 1. IRL (Murphy, Burke, McKee, Gillick) 3:07.06, 2. SVK (Lopuchovsky, Repcik, Holly, Znava) 3:07.45
Wom
200 m (+0.4): 1. Elisabeth Slettum, NOR 23.69
1500 m: 1. Susanne Wigene, NOR 4:30.15
5000 m 1. Nili Avramski, ISR 17:10.78
100mH (+1.6): 1. Irina Lenskiy, ISR 13.44, 2. Andrea Ivancevic, CRO 13.51, 3. Christina Vukicevic, NOR 13.52, 4. Miriam Bobkova, SVK 13.63
LJ: 1. Jana Veldakova, SVK 648 (+1.0)
HJ: 1. Blanka Vlasic, CRO 197 (185/1, 189/1, 193/1, 197/3, 201/xxx), 2. Inna Gliznutsa, MDA 193, 3. Anne Gerd Eieland, NOR 189
SP: 1. Martina Danisova, SVK 15.02 PB
HT: 1. Martina Danisova, SVK 66.78, 2: Ivana Brkljacic, CRO 66.52, 3. Mona Holm, NOR 63.39 NR
4x400 m: 1. CRO (Horvat, A. Banovic, M. Banovic, Grgic) 3:36.86, 2. SVK (Misikova, Ostrenkova, Stukova, Klocova) 3:39.12, 3. MDA 3:39.93, 4. NOR 3:40.95, 5. DEN 3:46.11
Results CZE:
Usti nad Orlici, June 15 – 100 m (+0.3): 1. Jan Veleba 10.64, 110H (+1.8): 1. Stepan Tesarik 14.00 PB, 2. Jan Cech 14.04,...4. Tomas Dvorak 14.60, LJ: 1. Roman Novotny 769 (+1.5), SP: 1. Antonin Zalsky 19.08...4. Tomas Dvorak 15.47, JT: 1. Tomas Dvorak 66.76
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