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Isinbayeva remains hunting for Golden League jackpot
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-09-15 10:39
Brussels - Russian Yelena Isinbayeva and American Sanya Richards remained
hunting for the Golden League jackpot with victories at the Van Damme
meeting on Friday.
Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva poses with her trophy after winning the
women's pole vault event during the IAAF Brussels Golden League athletics
meet (Memorial Ivo Van Damme) at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels
September 14, 2007. [Reuters]?
If winning again in Berlin on Sunday, they will share the US$1 million
prize on offer for any athletes who win their event in all six Golden
League meetings this season.
Jamaican Asafa Powell who broke his own world record with a time of 9.74
seconds in Italy last Sunday, powered to victory again in 9.84, followed
by Norway's Jaysuma Saidy Ndure in 10.11 seconds and Powell's compatriot
Michael Frater third (10.12).
Pole vaulter Isinbayeva cleared 4.90 meters easily to win the event, but
failed in three world record attempts at 5.02 meters.
And Richards who failed to make the final at the world championships in
Osaka last month, cruised to a season's best 49.36 seconds to win the 400
meters in style.
Ethiopia's Meseret Defar set a women's two-mile world best of eight
minutes and 58.58 seconds to beat the world mark of nine minutes 10.47
seconds she ran in May.
Croatia's Blanka Vlasic won the women's high jump by clearing 2.03 metres
but failed her three attempts at 2.10 in a bid to break the world record
set by Bulgaria's Stefka Kostadinova at 2.09 metres more than 20 years
ago.
Women's 100m hurdles world champion Michelle Perry had to settle for
third as she was outclassed by Sweden's Susanna Kallur who had finished
in fifth behind the American in Osaka.
In the women's 100 meters, Veronica Campbell completed a Jamaican sprint
double in 11.11 seconds, while Belgium's European champion Kim Gevaert
awarded the sell-out home crowd with victory in the women's 200 metres.
Bahrain's world champion Maryam Jamal won the women's mile in a personal
best of four minutes 17.75 seconds.
Men's 5,000 metres silver medallist Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya had to settle
for second place again as Ethiopia's Sileshi Shine won a slow-run event.
The men's 110m hurdles was won by Dayron Robles against American Anwar
Moore.
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