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Silnov improves to 2.37
21.08.2006
Andrey Silnov won the men’s high jump with a World season lead at the Herculis 2006 - IAAF Super Grand Prix – held in Monaco yesterday.
Perfect through 2.28, Silnov, the 21-year-old European champion needed a third try at 2.31 to remain in the competition, and a pair at 2.33 before securing the victory over Swede Stefan Holm, who topped out after his first attempt clearance at 2.31. His world leader came with a clean but close third try as well, forgivable in this case competing just 24 hours after his victory at the Birmingham International Match yesterday.
“I’ve only slept four hours,” said a smiling Silnov, after adding a centimetre to his previous personal best and world leading 2.36 from Gothenburg. “I have to be very happy with this personal best.”
Yuliya Chizhenko won the women’s 1500m clocking 4:00.32 minutes, when Tatyana Tomashova finished second in less than 1 second. Lyubov Ivanova was second in the women’s 3000mSt with 9:23.61.
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