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Oksana Udmurtova wins in Padova
31.08.2008 Oksana Udmurtova won the women’s triple jump at the Meeting Citta di Padova setting a meeting record of 14.85m. Tatyana Lebedeva placed second with 14.77m, and Anna Pyatykh was third with 14.74m.
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Isinbayeva wins in Zurich
30.08.2008 Yelena Isinbayeva won the women’s pole vault at the Weltklasse, the 5th leg of the IAAF Golden League. She cleared 4.88m.
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Silver and Bronze in 4x400m Relays
23.08.2008 Russian women’s team (Y. Guschina, L. Litvinova, T. Firova, A. Kapachinskaya) finished second in the 4x400m Relay final at the Olympics in Beijing clocking 3:18.82. Men’s team (M. Dyldin, V. Frolov, A. Kokorin, D. Alekseyev) finished third setting a national record of 2:58.06.
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Anna Chicherova takes women’s high jump bronze
23.08.2008 Anna Chicherova placed third in the women’s high jump final at the Olympic Games in Beijing. She cleared 2.03m repeating her personal best. Defending Olympic Champion Yelena Slesarenko placed fourth clearing 2.01. Svetlana Shkolina was 14th with 1.93.
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Yevgeniy Lukyanenko takes men’s pole vault silver
22.08.2008 Yevgeniy Lekyanenko took the silver medal in the men’s pole vault at the Olympics in Beijing. He cleared 5.85m. The winner was Austrlia’s Steven Hooker who set an Olympic record of 5.96m.
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Tatyana Lebedeva takes silver in long jump
22.08.2008 Tatyana Lebedeva placed second in the women’s long jump at the Olympic Games in Beijing achieving a season best of 7.03m, 1cm behind of the winner, Maurren Higa Maggi of Brazil.
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Russia wins in women’s 4x100m
22.08.2008 At the Olympic Games, Russian team won the women’s 4x100m Relay clocking a season best of 42.31 sec.
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Tatyana Chernova becomes bronze medalist
22.08.2008 Tatyana Cheronva became the Olympic bronze medalist in the women’s heptathlon after the disqualification of Lyudmila Blonska of Ukraine. Hyles Fountain of the USA got the silver medal.
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Denis Nizhegorodov takes bronze in 50kmRW
22.08.2008 Denis Nizhegorodov finished third in the men’s 50kmRW at the Olympic Games in Beijing clocking 3:40:14. Sergey Kirdyapkin did not finish, and Igor Yerokhin did not start.
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Mariya Abakumova: Olympic silver with Russian record!
21.08.2008 Mariya Abakumova placed second in the women’s javelin throw at the Olympic Games in Beijing setting a Russian record of 70.78m. The Champion was Barbora Spotakova of Czech who set an European record of 71.42m.
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Silnov adds to Shakhty’s Olympic record reputation
19.08.2008 The score 16 – 4 is an important one for Andrey Silnov. It is the result of the vote in the Russian Olympic Committee that sent him to Beijing. Originally, it may be recalled, he was not in the squad, finishing fourth in the Russian championships.
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Isinbayeva 5.05m World Pole Vault record in Beijing!
18.08.2008 For the second straight Olympic Games, Yelena Isinbayeva set a new World record in the Pole Vault.
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Tatyana Lebedeva takes silver
17.08.2008 Tatyana Lebedeva won the silver medal in the women’s triple jump at the Olympic Games in Beijing. She achieved 15.32, 7cm less than the winner Françoise Mbango Eton of Cameroon. Viktoriya Gurova placed 7th with 14.77 and Anna Pyatykh was 8th with 14.73m.
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Galkina-Samitova improves her World Steeplechase record
17.08.2008 Russia’s Gulnara Galkina-Samitova this evening improved her World record in the women’s 3000m Steeplechase when winning the inaugural Olympic title in this event in front of a capacity 91,000 audience on the third evening of athletics competition in the Bird’s Nest.
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Borchin prevails as Saransk race walking school finally makes it to top of Olympic podium
16.08.2008 Beijing – Olympic organisers put down a 4mm thick matt along the course for the men’s 20km Race Walk today and it turned into a magic carpet ride for Russia’s 21-year-old Valeriy Borchin. Inevitably, he thanked his coach and the President of the Republic of Mordovia.
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Russian Winter scheduled
15.08.2008 The IAAF Council has confirmed the IAAF 2009 Calendar at its meeting in Beijing. The Russian Winter will take place at the CSKA Arena on 1 February.
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Mariya Konovalova sets 10.000m PB
15.08.2008 In the women’s 10.000m final, Mariya Konovalova finished fifth setting a personal best of 30:35.84 at the Olympic Games in Beijing today. Inga Abitova passed the finish line after Konovalova clocking 30:37.33.
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All Russians in women’s triple jump final
15.08.2008 Tatyana Lebedeva, Viktoriya Gurova and Anna Pyatykh qualified for the women’s triple jump final after today’s qualifications at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Lebedeva achieved 14.55 in her first attempt (qualification standard was 14.45m), Gurova did 14.78 in second one and Pyatykh jumped 14.45 in second attempt as well.
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Bogdanova places fourth
15.08.2008 Anna Bogdanova is placing fourth in the women’s heptathlon after Day 1 at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Her current result is 3922 points.
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Russians’ successful performance in women’s 3000mSt
15.08.2008 All the Russian athletes will compete in the women’s 3000mSt final at the Olympic Games in Beijing after today’s heats. Gulnara Galkina-Samitova won the 1st heat with the best time of the heats – 9:15.17.
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Yelena Isinbayeva named European Athlete of the Month for July
13.08.2008 Yelena Isinbayeva has been voted the European Athletes of the Month for July.
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Russians win in Finland
04.08.2008 Yevgeniya Isakova won the women’s 400mH at the Karelia Games athletics meeting held in Finland. She clocked 55.98sec. In addition, Russian athletes won some events of the meeting.
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Abakumova sets Russian Javelin throw record
03.08.2008 Mariya Abakumova set a Russian and European U23 record in the women’s Javelin throw achieving 67.25m at the Irkutsk Athletes Memorial held in Russian city of Irkutsk. She bettered the record of Tatyana Shikolenko by 5cm. Abakumova’s result is the World third best mark behind Barbora Spotakova’s 69.15m and Christina Obergfoll’s 67.72m.
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Dmitrik and Zykina win in Germany
01.08.2008 Aleksey Dmitrik won the men’s high jump at the Gala 2008 athletics meeting held in Wattenscheid, Germany. He cleared 2.24m. Olesya Zykina won the women’s 400 clocking 51.94sec.
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