Women's Steeplechase Report

Race distances are 3000m unless labeled otherwise.
(Athletes age or birth year, when relevant, appears in parentheses.)
World Masters Championships, Aug 8 – Lahti, FIN
2000m - Listed by 5-Year Age Groups
Age 35-39: 1-Suzy Cole, AUS 7:25.87; 2-Vanda Kaderabkova, CZE
8:08.19; 3-Visnja Odri, SRB 13:45.47.
Age 40-44: 1-Lisa Valle, USA 7:01.91; 2-Annette Weiss, GER 7:01.95;
3-Galina Kiseleva, RUS 7:55.51, 4-Francesca Ragnetti, ITA 8:26.57.
Age 45-49: 1-Jane Pidgeon, GBR 7:43.72; 2-Marie Claude Bodilis, FRA
7:44.17; 3-Tiina Koskiaho, FIN 8:04.32; 4-Caren Ware, USA 9:17.60; 5-
Daniela Escalante, ARG 9:28.84; 6-Jayamma Puttagowder, IND 10:16.37.
Age 50-54: 1-Julie Leonard, SWE 8:04.14; 2-Elisabeth Henn, GER
8:25.83; 3-Hannele Uusitalo, FIN 8:48.64; 4-Sue Grigsby, USA
9:31.85; 5-Nancy Sweazey, CAN 9.49.32; 6-Rajam Gopi, IND
10:13.53; 7-Eine Parnanen, FIN 10:16.69.
Age 55-59: 1-Eliisa Reijonen, FIN 8:57.81; 2-Marcela Pacrita, ROM
9:17.73; 3-Anne Darby, GBR 9:33.84; 4-Helena de Carvalho, POR
11:09.83; 5-Mary Rosado, USA 11:34.70.
Age 60-64: 1-Hillen Von Maltzahn, GER 9:34.12; 2-Irene Rodriguez,
COL 9:35.97; 3-Miloslava Rocnakova, CZE 10:31.69; 4-Mary Trotto,
USA 11:58.91; 5-Merces Oliveira, BRA 17:14.05
Age 65-69: 1-Lynne Schickert, AUS 14:05.11.
Age 70-74: 1-Anne Martin, GBR 11:16.1; 2-Maria Lobo, POR
13:41.7; 3-Kimiko Nakamura, JPN 17:13.6.
Age 75-79: 1-Dawn Cumming, NZL 12:03.04; 2-Clasina van der
Veeken, NZL 13:04.82.

Pan-American Junior Champs, August 3 - Port of Spain, TRI
As usual, no heats -- Final only
1-Yoslin Ocampo Bueno (90) Cuba 10:32.38; 2-Florencia Borell (93)
Argentina 10:40.46; 3-Jessica Furlan (90) Canada 10:56.22; 4-Natalie
Busby (90) USA 11:02.30; 5-Alyssa Allison (90) USA 11:20.98;
6-Rosneidy Medina (90) Dominican Republic 11:56.48. [Meet Record
10:26.40, by Brazil's Sabine Heitling on 31 July 2007, still stands. The
season for best USA junior-age 3km steepler, University of Colorado's
Emma Coburn, was ended two days after her 10:06.21 on June 10.]

2009 AAU Junior Olympics, August 5 – Des Moines, Iowa
2000m (Ages 15-16) 1-Jahnell Horton (15) Bolingbrook, IL
7:29.21; 2-Jessie Petersen (16) Belmont, CA 7:31.72; 3-Kelsey
Temple (15) Elizabeth City, NC 8:19.10; 4-Sophia Robinson (16)
Memphis, TN 8:43.33; 5-Zoe Brock (15) Midland, TX 8:52.08.
2000m (Ages 17-18) 1-Erin Lafave (18) Troy, MI 7:40.25; 2-Annette
Eichenberger (17) West Chicago, IL 7:40.25; 3-Emily Mazzaferri (17)
Canton, OH 7:49.66; 4-Tess Lackey (17) Ardmore, OK 7:53.14;
5-Celia Venezia (17) Labadie, MO 8:18.37.
Greece v Cyprus U/18 dual match, July 29 – Athens, GRE
2000m 1-Eleftheria Skaltsa (93) GRE 7:21.60; 2-Konstadina Petroulaki
(93) GRE 7:29.12; 3-Elena Chrysostomou (92) CYP 7:41.18;
4-Theodora Hadjicosta (93) CYP 8:07.19.
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Romania Championships, August 1 – Bucharest, ROU
1-Cristina Casandra 9.33.33; 2-Ancuta Bobocel 9.51.56;
3-Cristiana Frumuz 10:44.50; 4-Ecaterina Gheorgiu 10:50.02;
5-Mihaela Cosarcu 11:33.94.
Spanish Championships, August 2 – Barcelona, ESP
1-Eva Arias 9.41.07; 2-Diana Martin 9.50.20; 3-Maria Teresa
Urbina 9.52.56; 4-Tamara Sanfabio 10:23.92; 5-Wanda Sanchez
10:35.52; 6-Penelope Banos 10:36.99; 7-Veronica Perez 10:45.13;
8-Alicia Gonzales 10:46.87; 9-Maria Garcia 10:48.36; 10-Ana
Perez 10:50.97; 11-Gemma Masnou 10:53.45; 12-Barbara Ramon
11:10.13. [Splits: 1km Urbina 3:21.58; 2km Martin 6:36.79]
Swedish Championships, Aug 2 – Malmo, SWE
1-Ulrika Johansson 9:46.67 Meet Record; 2-Ida Nilsson 9:50.73;
3-Lina Alainentalo (92) 10:10.01; 4-Lena Orn 10:15.44; 5-Klara
Bodinson (90)10:27.6. [1k Nilsson 3:11.7, 2k Johansson 6:29.4.]
Polish Championships, August 2 – Bydgoszcz, POL
1-Katarzyna Kowalska 9.49.06; 2-Agnieszka Fulbiszews 10:1059;
3-Justyna Korytkowska 10:32.78; 4-Mariola Konowalska
10:34.40; 5-Danuta Woszczek 10:38.05; 6-Anna Wojtulewicz
10:40.28; 7-Aleksandra Centkowska 10:43.48; 8-Katarzyna
Rurynkiewicz 11:03.71; 9-Angelika Przygodzka 11:16.74.
Norway Champs, August 2 – Lillehammer, NOR
1-Karoline Grovdal 9:52.06; 2-Veronika Blom 10:30.73.
Portugal Championships, July 26 – Seixal, POR
1-Sara Moreira 9:54.26; 2-Solange Jesus 10:14.01;
3-Clarisse Cruz 10:41.31.
14th Hungarian Champs, August 1 – Budapest, HUN
1-Livia Toth 9:55.04; 2-Barbara Molnar 10:25.89; 3-Zita Kacser
10:44.66; 4-Reka Batai 11:27.14; 5-Timea Valler (93) 11:35.43
Greek Champs, August 1 – Thessaloniki, GRE
1-Maria Pardalou 9:58.63; 2-Maria Malai 10:58.87; 3-Maria
Evaggelou 11:10.02; 4-Konstadina Tsiovolou 11:19.00; 5-Thessalia
Kleopatra Fraggopoulou 11:22.26. [13 finishers]
Irish Championships, August 1 – Santry, IRL
1-Fionualla Britton 10.04.95; 2-Ruth Mills 11:31.56; 3-Maire
Amhaloibh 12:02.98.
Italian Championships, August 2 – Milano, ITA
1-Emma Quaglia 10:05.65; 2-Gloria Barale 10:18.89; 3-Giulia
Martinelli (1991) 10:24.93; 4-Cecelia Sampietro 10:30.94; 5-Touria
Samiri 10:31.21; 6-Lucia Coli (1990) 10:38.00; 7-Arianna
Mondin 10:39.18; 8-Giovanna Lentini 10:49.43; 9-Francesca
Moscatelli 10:52.30; 10-Simona Baracetti 10:57.35; 11-Filomena
Furlan (1990) 10:59.32; 12-Elisa Stefani 11:06.85.
Finnish Champs, August 1 – Espoo, FIN
1-Sandra Eriksson 10:06.83; 2-Johanna Lehtinen 10:13.70;
3-Saara Skytta 10:27.83; 4-Janica Makela 10:32.59; 5-Sara
Sajanti 10:36.60; 6-Eeva Sajanti 10.37.92; 7-Hanna Hyvonen
11:21.84; 8-Pauliina Martikainen 11:27.45
National Games, August 1 – Kuala Lumpur, MAL
1-Melinder Kaur 11:04.14 National Record; 2-Angela Kundang
13:18.51; 3-Fariza Abdul Hamid (90) 13:21.92;
Slovenia National Champs, Aug 2 Maribor, SLO
1-Tina Bercic (1990) 11:09.02; 2-Ana Pecek (1968) 14:20.35.
THANKS to SR 487 information sources:: Heinrich Hubbeling,
Thomas Konstas, Peter Larsson, Zdravko Peternelj
Women’s Steeplechase Report
Number 487 – 8 August 2009
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