Women's Steeplechase Report

RESULTS, 2000m distance in left column, 3000m in right column.
(Birth years in parentheses help identify junior-age athletes)



Laurel Draper, British Columbia high school 1500m steeple champ
in world-list time, shows barrier clearance form in Portland (Oregon) where she won at 2000m distance. Photo by Sally McMillan

Portland Track Festival, June 13 – Portland, Oregon
Junior: 1-Laurel Draper, Oak Bay 7:19.78; 2-Maggie Woodward, Oak Bay 7:25.25; 3-Keikokanne Hollins, unat 7:58.53; 4-Hillary Sharpe, Summit HS 8:04.15 [7 finshers; Last = 8:34.34]

Youth: 1-Adrianna Royal, Federal Way 7:46.31; 2-Rebecca Lassere, unat 8:26.10; 3-Sarah West, Summit HS 8:26.45.

Provincial Youth meet, June 14 – Havana, CUB
1-Lien Blanco (1995) 7:05.6; 2-Yaimilis Moren (1993) 7:42.3.

Southeast Asia Junior Champs, June 6 – Ho Chi Minh, VIE
1-Nguyen Thi Thu Huong, Vietnam 7:23.74; 2-Do Thi Hoai Tram, Vietnam 7:25.46; 3-Phan Thi Thach, Vietnam 7:42.22.

Nike Outdoor Nationals, June 20 – Greensboro, N. Carolina
1-Sarah Higgens 7:05.05; 2-Kira Garry 7:07.46; 3-Janie Turek 7:08.32; 4-Allison Stapleton 7:10.82; 5-Katie Sullivan 7:11.08; 6-Kirsten Weberg 7:16.11; 7-Caile Kohlbrenner 7:17.05; 8-Haley Gray 7:18.27. [18 runners, 12 of them from New York. All finished; Last = 8:10.54. Defending champion Shelby Greany chose 5000m run, placing fifth.]

Top USA junior steeplers may miss Pan-Am Championships
Neither Emma Coburn nor Shelby Greany have so far entered USA Junior Championships at Eugene, the qualifier for USA team into Pan-American Jr. Championships July 31-Aug 2 at Trinidad. So it now appears that Cuba could win Pan-Am Juniors steeplechase gold medal.

THANKS to providers of some SR 481 results:
Alfredo Sanchez Barrios, Heinrich Hubbeling, Hoang Minh Quyet

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SPAR European Team Champs, June 20 – Leirei, POR
1-Antje Moldner, GER 9:32.65; 2-Sophie Duarte, FRA 9:33.63; 3-Yelena Sidorchenkova, RUS 9:36.88; 4-Sara Moreira, POR 9:43.99; 5-Helen Clitheroe, GBR 9:44.67; 6-Rosa Maria Morato, ESP 9:48.40; 7-Irini Kokkinariou, GRE 9:52.82; 8-Valentyna Horpynych, UKR 10:04.13; 9-Marcela Lustigova, CZE 10:43.44.

Euro Team Champs 1st League, June 20 – Bergen, NOR
1-Ancuta Bobocel, ROM 9:42.87; 2-Turkan Erismis, TUR 9:43.25; 3-Karoline Bjerkel Grovdal (1990) NOR 9:47.66;
4-Sandra Eriksson, FIN 9:56.30 PB; 5-Livia Toth, HUN 9:57.47; 6-Jekaterina Patjuk, EST 10:20.42; 7-Iryna Padabed, BLR 10:36.80; 8-Stephanie De Croock, BEL 10:41.6; 9-Martina Tresch, SUI 10:50.64.

ET Champs 2nd League, June 20 – Banska Bystrica, SVK
1-Fionnuala Britton, IRL 10:05.70; 2-Polina Jelizarova, LAT 10:18.26; 3-Lisa Stublic, CRO 10:24.10; 4-Gintare Kubiliute, LTU 10:39.08; 5-Eugenia Korkokioy, CYP 11:18.89.

Euro Team Champs 3rd League, June 20 – Sarajevo, BIH
1-Layes Abdullayeva, AZE 10:40.59; 2-Laila Laursen, DEN 10:52.09; 3-Biljana Cvijanovic, BIH 11:00.65; 4-Iris Skuladottir, ISL 11:08.93; 5-Atias Meigal, ISR 11:10.01; 6-Perunovic Slajana, MNE 11:23.81.

Russian under age 23 Champs, June 17 – Kazan, RUS
1-Yulia Mochalova 9:47.03; 2-Olga Tarantinova 9:49.00;
3-Lyudmila Kuzmina 9:54.30; 4-Natalya Vlasova 10:12.46;
5-Natalya Nemkina 10:16.86; 6-Natalya Tarantinova 10:29.60;
7-Yelena Arzhakova 10:36.56.

Cezmi Or Memorial, June 13 – Istanbul, TUR
1-Turkan Erismis, TUR 9:28.84 NR; 2-Yelena Sidorchenkova, RUS 9:33.33; 3-Asli Cakir, TUR 9:36.01 PB; 4-Irini Kokkinariou GRE 9:38.10; 5-Ancuta Bobocel, ROU 9:54.48; 6-Livia Toth, HUN 9:57.33; 7-Valentyna Horpynych, UKR 9:58.27;
8-Maria Pardalou, GRE 10:00.63; 9-Marcela Lustigova CZE 10:04.20; 10-Fionnuala Britton IRL 10:04.66; 11-Lisa Stublic CRO 10:10.77; 12-Tina Brown GBR 10:16.76; 13-Martina Barinova CZE 10:26.82; 14-Jolanda Verstraten NED 10:39.04.

NB Twilight Meet, June 13 – Waltham, Massachusetts
1-Minori Hayakari, Japan 9:55.27; 2-Irene Kimaiyo, Kenya 10:05.68; 3-Mardrea Hyman, Jamaica 10:07.27; 4-Kristin Anderson, Riadha/USA 10:09.67; 5-Jennifer Donovan, NB/USA 10:10.99; 6-Sarah Madebach, unattached 10:12.90. [USA steepler Delilah DiCrescenzo entered 1500m run, placing third in 4:14.77.]

Elite Games, June 13 – Kuortane, FIN
1-Saara Skytta, FIN 10:21.13; 2-Sara Sajanti, FIN 10:32.98;
3-Janica Makela, FIN 10:39.71; 4-Jaana Honkanen, FIN 11:03.22; 5-Kristina Dolmatova (1990) EST 11:33.34; 6-Anne Marika Partanen, FIN 11:39.78.

Portland Track Festival, June 13 – Portland, Oregon
1-Jane Rudkin, Eugene Running Company 10:29.49; 2-Bethany Nickless, Altitude Project 10:33.52; 3-Lauren Denfeld, Strands 11:09.14; 4-Tara Krempley, Lane Community College 11:53.58; 5-Adrian Wai, unat 12:11.89.

National GP Meet, June 13 – Jiaxing, CHN
1-Fang Xiaoyu 10:20.17; 2-Geng Xueming 11:35.40.

Seniors Athletic League, June 7 – Hong Kong, HKG
1-Yiu Kit Ching 12:11.05 NR; 2-Cheung Hoi Wah 12:31.22; 3-Wong Ching Yee (94) 14:09.56 / NJR (Event was officially held for first time in HKG for females -- 5 finishers. Editor note, based on discussion in HKG with stadium management: women may have faced men's-height barriers.)