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Atheltics News - 31.01

SUMMARY OF TODAYS EVENING ACTION Krimarenko over 230 LODZ: At polish male high jump meeting organised by home national record holder Artur Partyka the current world champion Yuri Krimarenko from Ukraine showed he is on tape to attack again the highest positions. After jumping 227 last week in Ostrava he this time managed to went over 230 on second. He was the only one jumping over this bar, but was not sure about the win. Czech European silver medallist Tomas Janku went over 227 in second and polands Michal Bienek in third (he so achieved the standard for Birmingham) and both passed 230 cm. But afterwards none of 9 attempts at 232 was succesfull. Krimarenko will jump next together with Bieniek in Brno, Czech Republic on Feb 6, while Janku goes to Arnstadt on Saturday. Results (from Zbigniew Jonik): Artur Partyka High Jump Meet "Lódz 2007" 1. Yuriy Krymarenko UKR 2.30 2. Tomas Janku CZE 2.27 3. Michal Bieniek POL 2.27 4. Aleksander Walerianczyk POL 2.24 5. Filippo Campioli ITA 2.20 6. Mikhail Tsvetkov RUS 2.20 7. Nicola Ciotti ITA 2.15 8. Grzegorz Sposób POL 2.15 9. Sylwester Bednarek 89 POL 2.10 10. Miroslaw Grudziecki POL 2.10 11. Michal Iszczak POL 2.10 Beitia wins 196 and Ecker with Otto jump world lead 582 COTTBUS: 5th International jumping meeting in Cottbus in the LausitzArena had as usual two events in the programme. The spectators were satisfied as at the end German jumpers achieved new world lead in pole vault. Danny Ecker jumped 582 in second and Bjorn Otto in third. The second one equalled so his indoor best. Before that height Otto was better with clean sheet, Ecker needed two attempts at his previous heights 550 and 570. At next height 587 only Otto tried twice, Ecker saved energy for next meetings. Helsinki World Champion Rens Blom from Holland is slowly returning, this time he managed 550 and was not succesfull at 560. Ruth Beitia from Spain was clear winner of women high jump competition as only she managed to went over 196 cm in second attempt. She is better in every competition (so far 190 and 192) and missed only 198. Russian Viktoria Klyugina who for some time was the seasonal leader had a clean sheet at all heights and her failure came only at 196 and so finished second. Nicole Forrester from Canada had difficulties at 188 (third attempt), but then went over 192 in second and that meant third place. Only once in her career she jumped higher indoors with 193 back in 1999. She also tried her overall best 196 cm. Reigning european indoor champion Anna Chicherova from Russia was last and could manage only 184. Results (website of the meet): Men PV: 1. Ecker, GER 582 WL, 2. Otto, GER 582 WL, 3. Blom, HOL 550, 4. Spiegelburg,GER 550, 5t. Schulze, GER and Czerwinski,POL 550, nh Venghaus (GER, 520) and Revenko (UKR, 530) Wom HJ: 1. Beitia,ESP 196, 2. Klyugina,RUS 192, 3. Forrester,CAN 192, 4t. Savchenko, RUS and Kuntsevich, RUS 188, 6. Hartmann, GER 188, 7. Dubnova,CZE 188, 8t. Ryan,IRL and Engel, GER 184, 10. Chicherova,RUS 184 Vlasic beats Bergqvist, Holm beats Thornblad, two world leads for Robles GOTEBORG: Eurojump meet in Goteborgs Scandinavium Hall (well known by ice-hockey fans) was packed by record number of 7412 spectators. And this despite the absence of triple jump olympic champion Christian Olsson who decided in the morning not to jump due to a knee problem. The highlights were both high jump competitions, but before that Cuban Dayron Robles was the star. Already in heat he achieved new seasonal best of 7.57 and bettered it later in the finals with 7.49. It was his first life appearance in a meeting indoors, he first time ever ran indoors last year at Worlds in Moscow. Today he missed his best from Russia only by 0.03 s. European champion Susanna Kallur won as on Saturday in Glasgow flat and hurdles 60 m races. This time she was slower in both. Germany had despite a home meet in Cottbus a 1-2 in pole vault led by Tim Lobinger. Brendan Christian from Antigua competed for first time in Europe at all and registered a solid win in 6.68 at 60 metres. American triple jumpers headed the event in top 4 places – the best was Cuban Osniel Tosca with indoor best 16.95 (he first time ever competed indoors). Stefan Holm made his competition number 98 over 230 and this time won with 232 on count-back with his countrymate Linus Thornblad. They will next compete in Arnstadt on Saturday and then their ways be splitted. Holm will head to Banska Bystrica, Slovakia and Thornblad to Bydgoszcz, Poland. For Olympic Champion if succesfull over 230 in Germany could be the Slovakian place the happy 100th competition over 230 cm. European champion Andrey Silnov from Russia managed only 221. More drama was in women contest. Indoor world record holder Kajsa Bergqvist battled with Olympic Champion Yelena Slesarenko at 198, but none was succesfull. Croatia´s Blanka Vlasic was the third smiling, because she passed this height and went for two metres. And in third she did it – so she equalled the world lead of Tia Hellebaut and also the meet record of Kajsa Bergqvist from last year. She then tried 202 cm. In total 2 new (Robles twice) and 2 equalled meet records (S. Kallur at 60 m, Vlasic) were registered. Top results (website of the meet and swedish federation) Men 60 m: 1. Christian,ANT 6.68, 2. Ruostekivi,FIN 6.74 60mH: 1. Robles, CUB 7.49 WL (h: 7.57 WL), 2. Kronberg,SWE 7.73 (h: 7.66), 3. Hughes (USA) 7.79,...Bramlet, USA, DNF (h: 7.68) HJ: 1. Holm, SWE 232, 2. Thornblad,SWE 232, 3. Toro, FIN 225, 4. Silnov, RUS 221, 5. Spolen,SWE 221 (indoor PB, coached also by Yannick Tregaro) PV: 1. Lobinger, GER 565, 2. Borgeling,GER 565 TJ: 1. Tosca,CUB 16.95, 2. Wilson,USA 16.91, 3. Sands,BAH 16.90, 4. R. Lewis, GRN 16.78 Women 60 m: 1. S. Kallur,SWE 7.28, 2. Manninen,FIN 7.39 60mH: 1. S. Kallur, SWE 7.98, 2. L. Jones, USA 8.03, 3. Tejeda,CUB 8.07 HJ: 1. Vlasic 200 WL eq, 2. Bergqvist, SWE 195, 3. Slesarenko,RUS 195, 4. Green,SWE 189, 5. Kluft,SWE 189 OTHER NEWS SYDNEY: Austrialan newspaper The Age is reporting that a high quality group of US sprinters will arrive for february and march main meetings down under. In the team should be for example Athens Olympics 200 metres gold medallist Shawn Crawford and reigning women's 100 m hurdles world champion Michelle Perry. They should race in Sydney on Feb 17 and Melbourne at Grand Prix Meet on March 2. They will be joined by 400 metres runner LaShawn Merritt and fellow American John Moffitt, the Olympic long jump silver medallist. Crawford is leading the current world indoor list together with UK sprinter Craig Pickering, both clocking last weekend 6.55. BIRMINGHAM: Ethiopean star runner Kenenisa Bekele will have this indoor two outings in Europe which is his usual number. He will contest 1500 m in Valencia, Spain on Feb 10 and a 2000 m in Birmingham on Feb 17. The distances are rather shorter for him, should be a build up towards the summer where he wants again attack some fast times. So far his busiest indoor was last year when he contested two meetings (New York and Birmingham) and also the World Indoors in Moscow with heats and finals. This years races will be his number 9 and 10 indoor races of the career. He contested so far one mile, two 2 miles, 4 times 3000 m and one 5000 m race. He won five races and lost three. MOMBASA: IAAF is reporting that for the 35th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Mombasa, Kenya 66 countries confirmed their entry. It is in line with other championships in Africa – there have been 65 countries in Cape Town (1996) and 66 countries in Marrakesh (1998). But it should be noted that in Marrakesh also the milers races were contested. For Mombasa the championships is returning to classic distances only.

Alfons Juck