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Pitkamäki in good trim
30.06.2009 World World champion Tero Pitkamäki won the javelin meet with 86.47 over Teemu Wirkkala (84.68). In women competition Australian Kim Mickle got 61.83 over Mikaela Ingberg (61.03).
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Majewski wins in Germany
30.06.2009 World Olympic winner Tomasz Majewski won the special Shot Put meet in Castle with 21.09.
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Bolt completes the double
29.06.2009 World Oympic Champion Usain Bolt completed the sprint double as expected for the second season at Jamaican Championships with 20.25 (-2.4, in heat 20.75, -3.6) 200 m win.
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Galkina-Samitova high class
28.06.2009 World record holder and Olympic Champion Gulnara Galkina-Samitova set a World season best of 9:13.70 in the women’s 3000mSt at the Moscow Championships yesterday.
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Bolt world leading 9.86
28.06.2009 World World record holder Usain Bolt finally got legal world lead 9.86 at 100 m (-0.2) to win the Jamaican Championships.
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Chermoshanskaya maintains her reputation
28.06.2009 Yuliya Chermoshanskaya won the women’s 200m at the Meeting de Atletismo Malaga 2009 held in Spain. She clocked 23.27.
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Friedrich 195
27.06.2009 World World leader Ariane Friedrich cleared at 13th special High Jump meet 195 and missed the 201 three times.
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Bolt´s programme
27.06.2009 World Worlds biggest track star Usain Bolt will compete five times this weekend if going according to his plan at Jamaican Championships.
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Gay sprints to a windy 9.75 and turns his attentions to Berlin
26.06.2009 World Tyson Gay only needed to compete at the USA Championships here in Eugene to claim positions on the starting lines of both events in Berlin.
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Feofanova and Shustov win in Milan
26.06.2009 Svetlana Feofanova won the women’s pole vault at the La Notturna di Milano meeting in Italy. She cleared 4.61m. Aleksandr Shustov won the men’s high jump clearing 2.28.
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Rybakov wins in Sweden
26.06.2009 Yaroslav Rybakov won the men’s high jump at the Sollentuna GP meeting in Sweden clearing 2.30m.
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Ukhov and Klyugina win in Hungary
25.06.2009 Ivan Ukhov and Viktoriya Klyugina won the men’s high jump and the women’s high jump respectively at the Jumping Gala held in Somosko, Hungary.
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Golden League next meeting in Oslo
23.06.2009 World In addition to Isinbayeva, Bekele, Vlasic, Thorkildsen, Pitkamäki, Richards the other top names for this year’s edition on July 3 will be Asafa Powell at the 100 m and Meseret Defar at the 5000 m.
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Bolt vs. Gay before Berlin?
23.06.2009 World Agencies are speculating about possible duel Usain Bolt vs. Tyson Gay before Berlin World Championships.
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Dynamics of Znamensky Memorial
23.06.2009 The Znamensky Memorial, a European Athletics Outdoor Premium Meeting, will be held on 5 July in Zhukovskiy (40 km southeast of Moscow), where one of the favorites will certainly be Yuliya Pechonkina.
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Norway, Finland and Belarus promote to Super League
22.06.2009 World A great finish for host Norway at the 1st European Team Championships First League by joining neighbours Finland and Belarus in earning promotion to the Super League at the end of the two-day contest.
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Vlasic jumps 204
22.06.2009 World Croatian high jump world champion Blanka Vlasic gave the crowd on Sunday at European Team Championships Second League very special result.
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Russian team places second
22.06.2009 Russian athletic team took the second place scoring 320 points at the 1st European Team Championships held in Leiria, Spain. German team won with 326.5.
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Tatyana Chernova scores 6386
22.06.2009 Beijing Bronze medalist Tatyana Chernova placed second in the heptathlon at the 13 erdgas Mehrkampf-Meeting held in Ratingen, Gemany. She scored 6386 points, 56 points behind Jeniffer Oser of Germany.
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Lavillenie joins 6m club
21.06.2009 World Renaud Lavillenie joined the Pole Vault’s six-metre club while a powerful German team took the inaugural title at first edition of the Spar European Team Championship in Leiria.
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Chu and Zimmer Krantz surprise victors in La Coruña
21.06.2009 World China’s Yafei Chu and Germany’s Sabine Zimmer Krantz clinched respective shock victories to highlight the “Gran Premio Cantones de Marcha”.
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Murer becomes South American Champion
21.06.2009 World Fabiana Murer of Brasil dominated her event with 460 at South American Championships.
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Russia wins relay
21.06.2009 Russian fourth of Yelena Voynova, Tatyana Firova, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya and Lyudmila Litvinova won the women’s 4x400m Relay clocking 3:25.25 at the 1st European team Championships.
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44 points for 4
21.06.2009 Yuliya Kondakova, Sergey Ivanov, Olga Kucherenko and Ilya Korotkov brought to the Russian team 44 points placing seconds in their events at the 1st European Team Championships in Leiria.
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Alminova wins European again
21.06.2009 Anna Alminova won the women’s 1500m at the 1st European Team Championships in Leiria clocking 4:07.49.
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Russian team placing second
20.06.2009 Russian Team has taken the second place in the team standing after Day 1 of the 1st European Team Championships in Leiria, 1 point behind of the GB&NI team.
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Same result, but third place
20.06.2009 Aleksandr Shustov placed third in the men’s high jump at the 1st European Team Championships in Leiria. He cleared 2.31 like the winner Yuri Krimarenko (UKR) and Jaroslav Baba (CZE) on the second.
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Litvinova first in heat, but second in summary
20.06.2009 Lyudmila Litvinova won the 1st heat of the women’s 400m clocking 51.23 at the 1st European Team Championships in Leiria.
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Russians’ first win
20.06.2009 Gulnara Galkina-Samitova won the women’s 3000mSt at the 1st European Team Championships in Leiria finishing second after Spain’s Natalia Rodriguez who fell a victim to the new rules.
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Kostetskaya – second
20.06.2009 Yekaterina Kostetskaya finished second in the women’s 800m at the 1st European Team Championships in Leiria. She clocked 1:59.43. The winner was Yuliya Krevsun of Ukraine with 1:58.62.
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Robles, “I don’t know where my limits are”
19.06.2009 World Dayron Robles, of Cuba, was in Lausanne at the end of last week for a press conference of the Athletissima meeting, of which he will be one of the main attractions on 7 July.
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New World junior record for Spanish hammer thrower
18.06.2009 World Spanish hammer thrower Javier Cienguegos established new World junior record with 6kg hammer achieving 82,93m in his sixth attempt at a local meeting for the Tajamar club.
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14 cities for 2010 IAAF Diamond League
16.06.2009 World It has been agreed that the IAAF Diamond League will be composed of 14 cities across the globe in America, Asia, Middle East and Europe.
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Lavillenie 596
15.06.2009 World French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie, 23, improved by 1 cm Steven Hooker world lead with 5.96 during the Auvergne championships.
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Unexpected favorite of Znamensky memorial
15.06.2009 Azerbaijan’s sprinter Ramil Guliyev, 19, surprisingly won the men’s 100m at the Cezmi Or Memorial held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 13 June. He clocked 10.08 setting a national record.
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Sdiri French record in Long jump
14.06.2009 World Salid Sdiri achieved at the meeting here new French record 842 cm. Former mark of Kader Klouchi was 830 from 1998.
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Isinbayeva starts battle for Jackpot
14.06.2009 Yelena Isinbayeva easily won the women’s pole vault at the ISTAF 2009 in Berlin setting a World season best of 4.83 and becoming one of the Golden League Jackpot contenders.
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Perfect Kirdyapkin
14.06.2009 Sergey Kirdyapkin became the men’s 50km champion at the Russian Race Walking in Cheboksary today.
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Krivov aims at Berlin
13.06.2009 Andrey Krivov won the men’s 20km at the Russian Race Walking Championships in Cheboksary in a hot and dry weather with a temperature of more than 30 degrees.
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Sokolova wins 20kmRW
13.06.2009 The 2009 Russian Race Walking Championships have started in Cheboksary today. Women started to compete first in the 20km, and Vera Sokolova became the first champion clocking 1:27.33.
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Another impressive 1500m run by Galkina-Samitova
13.06.2009 Contested in windy conditions, the 7th edition of the international athletic tournament ”Russian Challenge” was held at “Yantar” stadium on Friday (12) in the green suburbs of Moscow.
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Bolt 10.00 in rain and into head-wind
13.06.2009 World And the raining streak continued. After Manchester, Toronto didn’t offer better weather conditions for Usain Bolt.
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Alminova and Ivanov win Kremlin mile
12.06.2009 European 1500m Indoor champion Anna Alminova won the women’s race of the Kremlin Mile held in Moscow today. She clocked 4:19.0.
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Personal bests for Dmitrik and Zarudneva
11.06.2009 Aleksey Dmitrik won the men’s high jump with 2.33 at a meeting in Thesalloniki, and Yuliya Zarudneva won the women’s 3000mSt in Bydgoszcz clocking 9:23.23.
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Évora plays his part for Portugal ahead of SPAR ETC
11.06.2009 World Olympic Triple Jump champion Nelson Évora has become an even more familiar face in Portugal than he was already thanks to his efforts to promote the SPAR European Team Championships.
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Bolt is sportsman of 2008
11.06.2009 World Before his Thursday´s 100 m race Usain Bolt was crowned the winner of the 2009 Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award, after his sensational performance in the Beijing Olympics.
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Tia is mother
10.06.2009 World Olympic winner and European champion in high jump Belgian Tia Hellebaut became a happy mother.
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Russian team for European Team Championships
09.06.2009 Russian team for the European Team Championships was named today. The team consists of 50 athletes to compete in 40 events.
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Moscow to host European Olympic Youth Trials
09.06.2009 Moscow has been confirmed as the host of the first European Olympic Youth Trials in May 2010.
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Leaders in Long jump to compete at Znamensky Memorial
08.06.2009 2008 World Indoor Champion Naide Gomes of Portugal and Russia’s Olga Kucherenko, having European season bests, will compete at the Znamensky Memorial on 5 July in Zhukovski.
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Lyuboslavskiy and Sofyin best in Prague
08.06.2009 Anton Lyuboslavskiy won the men’s shot put at the Memorial Josefa Odlozila meeting held in Prague. He achieved 20.56m. Pavel Sofyin placed second with 20.31,
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Fast British sprinters
08.06.2009 World Dwain Chambers was not missed at this Swiss Meeting as James Dasaolu impressed with great PB at 100 m 10.09 (+0.9) in rain and windy conditions.
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Murer WL 482 in pole vault
08.06.2009 World 2004 200 m world junior champion Shalonda Solomon clocked aj Jim Bush meet second fastest time of the year at 200 m 22.41 (+1.6) ahead of Bianca Knight (22.50).
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Russians second at European Cup
07.06.2009 Russian men’s team placed second at the 13th European 10.000 Cup. Personally, Sergey Ivanov finished fourth clocking 28:24.83.
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Kutz Memorial gets main Russian outdoor season underway
07.06.2009 The traditional Kutz Memorial meeting which celebrates the achievements of the 1956 Olympic 5000 and 10,000m gold medallist Vladimir Kutz was held on Saturday.
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Russians take 7 prize places in Warsaw
07.06.2009 Russian athletes competed at the 55th edition of the Janusz Kusoczinski memorial which was held in Warsaw.
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Thorkildsen wins
06.06.2009 World Olympic javelin winner Andreas Thorkildsen won this years first duel with world champion Tero Pitkamäki. Informs sul.fi.
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Devetzi 14.67, but +2.5
06.06.2009 World Greek best female athlete jumper Hrysopyi Devetzi competed as guest at Ukrainian Cup and achieved on Friday a triple jump win with 14.67.
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Quality LJ and 5000 in Ostrava put meet records under threat
04.06.2009 World The 48th Ostrava Golden Spike, an Grand Prix status meeting as part of the IAAF World Athletics Tour meeting, which takes place on 17 June have secured further top names.
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Bolt: it‘s going to be an interesting season
04.06.2009 World Usain Bolt who next competes in Toronto and Ostrava was quoted after 19.58 of Tyson Gay as saying: It‘s going to be an interesting season and Tyson kicked it off well.
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Kanter 69.07 m
04.06.2009 World World discus champion Gerd Kanter of Estonia again won and achieved 69.07 m at second meet of national series BIGBANK Kuldliiga on Wednesday.
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202 Member Federations and $7 million set for Berlin
04.06.2009 World he IAAF is delighted to announce that 202 of the 213 IAAF Member Federations have declared their intention to participate at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin.
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Radcliffe and Yamauchi named for Berlin
03.06.2009 World The UK’s fastest ever female marathon runners Paula Radcliffe and Mara Yamauchi and the UK’s fastest ever female walker Johanna Jackson have been selected by UKA for Berlin-2009.
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