Steeplechase Report

Race distances are 3000m unless labeled otherwise. (Reported
ages or birth years of younger athletes appear in parentheses.)
European Youth Olympic Festival, July 20 – Tampere, FIN
2000m Steeple: 1-Sofie Gallein, BEL 6:42.71; 2-Teodora Simovic,
SRB 6:47.43; 3-Gamze Bulut, TUR 6:50.24; 4-Yuliya Kukhar, UKR
6:54.86; 5-Clea Formaz, SUI 6:55.63; 6-Doina Cravcenco, MDA
6:57.99; 7-Danna Michelle Levin, ISR 7:08.45; 8-Athina Koini, GRE
7.11,62; 9-Nina Habold, FRA 7:16.12; 10-Kelly Nevolihhin, EST
7:27.23.
Canadian Jr. Nationals, July 19 – Prince Edward Isl, CAN
2000m Steeple 1-Jessica Furlan (90) Excel, SK 6:51.48; 2-Haley
Cadwallader (90) Sarnia, ON 7:05.75; 3-Sara Giovannetti (90) Etobicoke,
ON 7:08.25; 4-Holly Stockall (90) Caltaf, AB 7:12.20;
5-Rebecca Pieterson (90) St Thomas, ON 7:21.25; 6-Rachel Windsor
(91) Brighton Leg, ON 7:31.52; 7-Madeleine Cummings (91) Univ
Toronto, ON 7:32.76; 8-Ariel Beauregard Breton (91)Montreal, QU
7:36.19; 9-Tristan Langley (93) Central Nova, NS 7:36.91; 10-Jennifer
Corrick (90) South Simcoe, ON 7:40.15; 11-Jocelyn Lockhart (91)
Athletisme, NB 7:43.13; 12-Kayla Deighan (93) Newmarket, ON
7:49.9; 13-Caileigh Glenn (92) Newmarket HU,ON 7:52.58; 14-Emma
Lafontaine (92)Brighton Leg, ON 8:01.09; 15-Laura Mooradian (93)
Niagara, ON 8:12.52.
Down Under Champs, July 4 – Gold Coast, AUS
2000m Steeple, competitors from AUS, NZL, and USA
Girls Age 16-17: 1-Jessica Gilfillan (17) Gold Coast Victory 6:37.99;
2-Nikki Hiscock (16) QEii Track Club 7:10.29; 3-Maddy Sopena (16)
Team Illinois 8:38.09; 4-Jessica Walmsley (16) Michigan 8:52.84;
5-Ciara Payan (17) Coastal USA 9:28.36.
[Jessica Gilfillan returns with a World List time]
Girls under age 16: 1-Jade Dowling (13) Gold Coast Victory 7:29.13;
2-Rhiannon Hess (15) Aspley 7:52.49; 3-Natalie Vear (14) QEii Track
Club 7:53.38; 4-Honey Jade Boardman (14) Gold Coast Victory
7:55.76; 5-Jessica Pickles (15) Jimboomba 8:06.57; 6-Elsie Ferguson
(15) Redlands 8:19.13; 7-Ariel Valdez Baltgalvis (15) Gold Coast
Victory 8:34.36.
Valbo Games, July 17 - Gavle, SWE
1500m steeplechase 1-Stina E Jansson (92) SWE 5:09.50;
2-Julia Forsmark (93) SWE, 5:15.15; 3-Agnes Sjostrom (94) SWE,
5:32.37; 4-Therese Moberg (93) SWE 5:43.93.
Seattle mini-meet July 22 offers 3000 and 1500m steeples
West Seattle Stadium hosts Pacific Northwest (PNTF) championship
3000m steeple, and 1500m steeple with special appeal for women masters
and novices, starting 6 p.m. Entry is on site – all-comers style.
THANKS to information providers for SR 485:
Carol Fuchs, Heinrich Hubbeling, Paul Jenes, Thomas Konstas,
Peter Larsson, Milan Skocovsky
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European Under 23 Champs, July 19 – Kaunas, LTU
1-Ancuta Bobocel, ROU 9:47.90; 2-Julia Hiller, GER 9:57.44;
3-Susanne Lutz, GER 10:01.87; 4-Sandra Eriksson, FIN 10:11.25;
5-Gulcan Mingir, TUR 10:12.53; 6-Lena Orn, SWE 10:23.00;
7-Polina Jelizarova, LAT 10:23.17; 8-Yuliya Mochalova, RUS
10:29.03; 9-Solange Jesus, POR 10:31.98; 10-Saara Skytta, FIN
10:33.19; 11-Lasma Grinberga, LAT 10:35.77; 12-Silje Fjortoft,
NOR 10:53.25; 13-Gintare Kubiliute, LTU 11:15.19; dnf - Olga
Tarantinova, RUS. [Bobocel splits: 1km 3:11.27; 2km 6:28.15]
KBC Night of Athletics, July 18 – Heusden, BEL
1-Hanane Ouhaddou, MAR 9:24.29; 2-Sofia Assefa, ETH
9:24.40; 3-Milcah Chemos, KEN 9:24.50; 4-Yekaterina Volkova,
RUS 9:27.59; 5-Sara Moreira, POR 9:31.57; 6-Sophie Duarte,
FRA 9:35.26; 7-Jessica Augusto, POR 9:37.60; 8-Ulrika Johansson,
SWE 9:42.84; 9-Teresa Urbina, ESP 9:44.25; 10-Diana Martin,
ESP 9:45.41; 11-Minori Hayakari, JPN 9:57.37; 12-Mardrea
Hyman, JAM 10:06.93; 13-Stephanie DeCroock, BEL 10:30.86;
dnf - Lisa Galviz, USA (pace/rabbit) and Miranda Boonstra, NED
[Personal bests for Ouhaddou, Chemos, Moreira, Johansson,
Urbina, Martin]
Tsiklitiria Grand Prix, July 13 – Athens, GRE
1-Gulnara Galkina , RUS 9:17.86; 2-Gladys Jerotich Kipkemoi,
KEN 9:26.03; 3-Lydia Jebet Rotich, KEN 9:26.51; 4-Korahubsh
Itaa, ETH 9:41.25; 5-Habiba Ghribi, TUN 9:43.60; 6-Lisa Galaviz,
USA 9:44.61; 7-Rosa Morato, ESP 9:46.19; 8-Irini Kokkinariou,
GRE 9:47.62; 9-Mardrea Hyman, JAM 9:54.91; 10-Maria
Pardalou , GRE 9:56.92; dnf - Natalya Medvedeva, RUS.
UK Trials for World Champs, July 12 – Birmingham, GBR
1-Helen Clitheroe, Preston 9:48.24; 2-Lenny Waite, unattached
9:52.62; 3-Tina Brown, Coventry 9:57.64; 4-Louise Webb, Soton
10:15.92; 5-Nicola Hood, Victoria 10:24.23; 6-Emma Raven, Cles
10:32.02; 7-Ruth Senior, Norwich 10:36.27; 8-Caryl Jones, Carmarthen
10:41.62; 9-Sarah Luck, H&M 10:44.56; 10-Cathy Ansell,
Telford 10:59.28; 11-Emily Brown 11:32.16; 12-Shavaun Henry,
Blackheath 11:54.83. [Personal Bests for Webb, Hood, Raven,
Luck, Ansell] Kilometer splits, both by leader Clitheroe: 1000m
in 3:12.20 and 2000m in 6:28.48.
Tunisia Championships, July 11 – Rades, TUN
1-Imen Methnani 10:55.18; 2-Monia Zidi 11:02.45; 3-Zina
Dhahri 11:18.30; 4-Saida Issaoui 11:40.73, 5-Emma Abbassi
12:21..03.
Czech Athletics Meeting, July 11 – Trinec, CZE
1-Sona Smekalova 11:33.09; 2-Martina Horakova (90)
12:00.23; 3-Alena Balcarova 12:03.69; 4-Hana Jelinkova (91)
12:11.77, 5-Jana Puskarova (91) SVK 12:23.57; 6-Ivana Klimova
12:31.45.
Greek Junior Champs, July 4 – Serres, GRE
1-Athina Koini (92) 10:54.93; 2-Stefania Vassalou 90) 11:48.86;
3-Marinela Troskou (91) 12:12.65; 4-Fotini Ikonomou (92)
12:28.43; 5-Eleftheria Kouvata (91) 13:14.33; 6-Tzortzina Bairami
(92) 13:14.46.
National Competition, July 1 - Goseong, KOR
1-Kim Su-Jin (90) 10:50.99; 2-Lee Hyun-Ok (90) 11:01.34;
3-Min Da-Mi 11:04.92; 4-Kim Mi-Young 11:13.54; 5-Kang
Young-Sun 11:23.26; 6-Uh Su-Jung 12:35.58:
Scant WAT scoring for WAF meet
Only five women steeplers have so far scored points in three World
Athletics Tour meets as required to enter World Athletics Final in
September. One reason is the lack of a women’s steeple race in
some of the 12 WAT meets which had scheduled the event. More at
http://www.iaaf.org/gp09/standings/sex=W/disc=3KSC/detail.html#3KSCW
Women’s Steeplechase Report
Number 485 – 20 July 2009
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