Women's Steeplechase Report

Race distances are 3000m steeple unless labeled otherwise.
(Athletes age or birth year, when relevant, appears in parentheses.)

Personal Best Meet, 4 Sept 2009 - Gold Coast, AUS
2000m Steeplechase
1-Jessica Gilfillan (17) Gold Coast Victory 6:38.13; 2-Natalie
Dudkowski (17) Shailer Park 6:45.15; 3-Maegan Smith Maegan (19)
Gold Coast Victory 7:19.24; 4-Jessica Pickles (15) Beaudesert
7:37.81; 5-Tia Faulkner (13) 7:56.01; 6-April Niclair (15) Palm
Beach 8:04.78; 7-Jacinta Mitchell (15) Palm Beach 8:10.90; 8-Ariel
Valdez-Baltgalvis (15) Oce 8:12.37 [10 finishers; 3 others DQ]
Gilfillan, Dudowski open “down under” season with fast times.

Finland vs Sweden, 29 Aug 2009 - Goteborg, SWE
Women's 3000m Steeple
1-Sandra Eriksson (89) FIN 10:02.16; 2-Ulrika Johansson (75) SWE
10:14.29; 3-Klara Bodinson (90) SWE 10:24.45; 4-Lena Orn (88)
SWE 10:29.03; 5-Sara Sajanti (87) FIN 10:41.33; 6-Saara Skytta (87)
FIN, 11:22.60. Intermediate time: 2000m Johansson 6:46.0.
1500m Steeple -- Girls under age 18
1-Jenny Haland (93) SWE 5:00.30; 2-Paulina Martikainen (93) FIN
5:00.49; 3-Stina Jansson (92) SWE 5:08.02; 4-Ilona Valimaki (92)
FIN 5:10.08.

Mistrovstvi meet, 29 Aug 2009 – Jablonec and Misou, CZE
1-Marcela Lustigova 10:26.23; 2-Zuzana Schindlerova 10.27.71; 3-
Lucie Sekanova 10:40.81; 4-Iva Milesova 11:07.13; 5-Katerina
Berouskova (91) 11:21.04; 6-Katerina Pechakova 11:36.12; 7-Len ka
Sibravova 11:38.76.

Swedish Youth Meet, 23 Aug 2009 - Falun, SWE
1500m Steeple, Girls under age 18
1-Moa Ernmark (94) 5:15.85; 2-Maria Larsson (94) 5:20.38;
3-Frida Kristiansson (92) 5:23.69; 4-Kristin Edqvist Servold (93)
5:41.76; 5-Hilde Adriansson (92) 5:43.17; 6-Caroline Kihlbom (94)
5:48.27 [8 finishers]

Korean Club Champs, 13 Aug 2009 – Taebaek, KOR
1-Oh Jung-Hyun (91) 11:14.10; 2- Lee Hyun-Ok (90) 11:16.01;
3-Min Da-Mi 11:16.52; 4-Kang Young-Sun 11:17.01; 5-Uh So-Jung
11:41.30; 6-Kim Mi-Young 11:51.16;

Update (to Junior Olympic results in SR 487)
Erin Lafave set a World junior record and American record for
deaf athletes (7:40.25) while winning 2000m steeplechase in the age
17-18 “Young Women” division of the AAU Junior Olympic Games
on 5 August 2009 at Des Moines, Iowa..

THANKS to SR 489 information providers:
Heinrich Hubbeling, IAAF, Thomas Konstas, Peter Larsson,
Charles Oliver, Milan Skocovsky

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World Athletics Final, 12 Sep 2009 - Thessaloniki, GRE
3000m Steeple: 1-Ruth Bisibori Nyangau, KEN 9:13.43; 2-Milcah
Chemos Cheywa, KEN 9:20.19; 3-Gladys Jerotich Kipkemoi,
KEN 9:21.18; 4-Sofia Assefa, ETH 9:26.10; 5-Lydia Jebet Rotich,
KEN 9:26.94; 6-Sophie Duarte, FRA 9:27.78; 7-Lisa Galaviz,
USA 9:33.11; 8-Katarzyna Kowalska, POL 9:37.86; 9-Ancuta
Bobocel, ROU 9:39.92; 10-Mekdes Bekele, ETH 9:55.3; 11-Irini
Kokkinariou GRE 9:58.38; dnf - Habiba Ghribi, TUN.
Splits: Nyangau led at 1000m in 3:04.11 and 2000m in 6:07.69.
WAF meet record for Nyangau. Ghribi fell hard at on-track
hurdle in first lap and Galaviz was knocked off stride – ending a
possible attempt to better her 9:28.75 personal best after an encouraging
9:02.70 for 3000m flat race at Rovereto.

Anna Willard, USA championship meet steeple record-holder,
won WAF 800m flat race – her fourth win at that distance this year.
Willard’s 3:59.38 at Zurich is third best 1500m time ever by a USA
woman, bettered only by Mary Slaney and Suzy Favor-Hamilton.

DecaNation, 9 Sep 2009 – Paris, FRA
1-Sophie Duarte, FRA 9:43.51; 2-Lindsey Anderson, USA
9:44.35; 3-Sandra Eriksson, FIN 9:45.50; 4-Emma Quaglia, ITA
9:48.33; 5-Verena Dreier, GER 10:09.25; 6-Teresa Urbina, ESP
10:35.23; 7-Lyubov Kharlamova, RUS 10:48.20.

Grand Prix Meet, 6 Sep 2009 – Rieti, ITA
1-Ruth Nyangau Bosibori, KEN 9:13.92; 2-Milcah Chemos
Cheywa, KEN 9:21.81; 3-Gladys Jerotich Kipkemboi, KEN
9:22.42; 4-Sophie Duarte, FRA 9:35.39; 5-Ancuta Bobocel, ROU
9:37.17; 6-Lisa Galaviz, USA 9:37.53; 7-Lydia Rotich, KEN
9:40.18; 8-Livia Toth, HUN 9:44.57; 9-Katarzyna Kowalska,
POL 9:52.99; 10-Cristina Casandra, ROU 9:55.90; dnf - Mardrea
Hyman, JAM. [Splits: 1km 3:05.21; 2km 6:05.87 both by
Nyangau en route to breaking 9:16.46 meet record by Docus
Inzikuru of UGA in 2005]

Czech Republic meet, 6 Sep 2009 – Plzen, CZE
1-Karolina Grohova (90) 11:44.47; 2-Petra Kubesova (91)
11:55.63; 3-Martina Horakova (90) 12:00.94; 4-Aneta Korjenkova
(87) 12:01.76; 5-Marie Fendrychova (87) 12:24.91, 6-Lucie
Marsanova (90) 12:26.76

Balkan Junior Champs, 5 Sep 2009 – Schimatari, GRE
1-Gamze Bulut (03.08.1992) TUR 10:57.26; 2-Liliana Maria
Danci (18.06.1990) ROU 11:02.64; 3-Olja Nikolic (1994) SRB
11:06.19; 4-Desanka Iro (05.09.1995) BIH 11:27.92; 5-Marina
Maniadaki (03.10.1991) GRE 11:36.07; 6-Simona Milanova
(16.04.1992) BUL 11:51.19; 7-Dejana Samardija (1994) BIH
12:13.86; 8-Aleksandra Mitroska (30.03.1992) MKD 13:00.02.

Palio della Quercia, 1 Sep 2009 – Rovereto, ITA
3000m flat race with no barriers but 7 placing steeplers are
shown (with their best times steeple times in parentheses).
1-Ruth Nyangau Bosibori, KEN 8:45.48 (9:13.16)
2-Almenesh Belete, ETH 8:51.76
3-Silvia Weissteiner, ITA 8:57.58
4-Janet Jepkosgei Kiptoo, KEN 8:58.72
5-Lisa Galaviz, USA 9:02.70 (9:28.75)
6-Barbara Parker, GBR 9:02.92 (9:37.08)
7-Dorcus Inzikuru, UGA 9:11.19 (9:15.04)
8-Yelizavet Grechishinkova, RUS 9:11.28
9-Kalameya Durka Mana, SUD 9:13.77 (9:47.41)
10-Agnes Tschurtschenthaler, ITA 9:15.68 (9:55.26)
11-Irini Kokkiniariou, GRE 9:19.58 (9:30.72)
12-Elisa Gabrielli, NED 10:56.49

Women’s Steeplechase Report
Number 489 – 13 September 2009
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