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Jump events at Znamensky Memorial

22.06.2010

Jump events promise to be attractive at the Znamensky Memorial on 26 June in Zhukovskiy. Andrey Silnov, Tatyana Lebedeva and Yoandri Betanzos are top athletes of the events including the men’s and women’s long jump, the men’s triple jump and the men’s high jump.

Tatyana Lebedeva is recovering after operations and will compete for the first time this year. Fans will see her in the women’s long jump. Lebedeva will face 19-year-old Darya Klishina who set Russian Junior record of 6.94m this June. Klishina’s has the best season result among competitors in the women’s long jump including European Indoor silver medalist Yelena Sokolova, World finalist Teresa Dobija of Poland, Ukraine’s Viktoriya Rybalko, 2007 European Indoor silver medalist Concepcion Montaner of Spain who returned to compete after childbirth.

European Team Championships winner Pavel Shalin (8.25) will compete in the men’s long jump where he will face other Russians jumpers.

Olympic Champion Andrey Silnov missed 2009 season because of an injury and achieved 2.30m this season. Aleksandr Shustov repeated his PB of 2.33 this season and pretends to win too. Eduard Malchenko (RUS; 2.30), Jaroslav Baba (Czech; 2.36), Martin Martijn Nuyens (NED) and Dmitriy Demyanyuk (UKR) are in the lineup as well. 5 athletes set the meeting record of 2.32m.

In the men’s triple jump, last year’s winner Momchil Karailiev of Bulgaria will defend his title. Slovakia’s Dmitriy Valyukevich was the meeting winner too and has a PB of 17.57m. Cuba’s trio consisting of Alexis Copello, Yoandri Betanzos and David Girat with PBs of over-17.60m results will compete in Zhukovskiy. Russia’s Lyukman Adams set his PB of 17.17 at the Russian Cup in Yerino and jumped 17.21 there but with wind assistance. World and European Junior medalist Ilya Yefremov will try to compete against senior athletes.


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