Bogdanova starts on 30 May
23.04.2009
2009 European Indoor Champion Anna Bogdanova confirmed her participation at the Hypo-Meeting, the Austrian leg of the 2009 IAAF Combined Events Challenge, on 30-31 May in Gotzis.
Other two top from Turin in the women’s Pentathlon Jolanda Keizer from the Netherlands and Antoinette Nana Djimou from France will also renew their battle in Götzis in the women’s Heptathlon.
Bogdanova, who was World Indoor Championships bronze medallist in Valencia 2008, will be looking to improve on her third place last year in Götzis. On that occasion she scored a lifetime best of 6452 points which she improved again at the Olympic Games in Beijing with 6465 points for sixth place.
Bogdanova scored the two best scores in the world of the 2009 indoor season with 4784 points at the Russian Championships and 4761 points in Turin. Keizer and Djimou also produced their lifetime bests in Turin scoring respectively 4644 and 4618 points.
In the men’s division, European Indoor champion Mikk Pahapill from Estonia will face again Turin silver medallist Oleksiy Kasyanov from the Ukraine who set the national Heptathlon record of 6205 points in the Italian venue.
Diego Sampaolo for the IAAF
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