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Lafayette runner rebounds after poor prelim round
By Camera staff report
March 8, 2004
BUDAPEST, Hungary Lafayette's Shayne Culpepper, who barely advanced past the
preliminaries, stunned the field Sunday with a third-place finish in the women's 3,000
meters at the World Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Culpepper was the final qualifier from Friday's preliminary round, when she finished
eighth in her heat.
But Sunday's race played to her strengths, and she capitalized on a slow pace to claim
the bronze medal, finishing in nine minutes 12.15 seconds.
Ethiopians Meseret Defar (9:11.22) and Berhane Adere (9:11.43) finished first and
second, respectively.
I'm freaking out, Culpepper said after the race. I tactically did really well. I
just covered everyone's moves and tried to stay on the inside.
After the pack came through the first mile in a relatively slow 5:15, Culpepper moved
from near the back of the pack to mid-pack with 500 meters to go. She made her big
move with about 300 meters remaining, when she surged ahead of Spain's Marta Dominguez
and Russian Yelena Zadorozhnaya into third place.
On the backstretch of the final lap, Zadorozhnaya clipped Culpepper from behind.
Culpepper stumbled, but regained her composure and sprinted to the finish.
It was a goal of mine to do well here in Europe, Culpepper said. I didn't want to
leave my family (husband Alan and 21-month-old son Cruz), come all the way here and
not do well.
Elsewhere for the United States, Gail Devers failed in her bid for a sprint-hurdle
double at the meet, which ended with Russia winning twice as many gold medals as the
United States.
Devers captured the 60-meter sprint Friday but was runner-up Sunday in the 60-meter
hurdles.
American Christian Cantwell beat countryman Reese Hoffa to win the shot put gold with
a throw of 70 feet, 61/4 inches.
The U.S. men's 1,600 relay team was disqualified after botching the last handover.
Russia won five of the 15 finals on the last day of the three-day competition to
finish with eight golds. The United States had four golds in a total of 10, second to
Russia's 19.
Olympic champion Maria Mutola of Mozambique became the first athlete to win six indoor
titles when she captured the 800.
Russian women set a world record in the 1,600-meter relay in 3 minutes, 23.88 seconds
and Christian Olsson of Sweden equaled the world triple jump record of 58-6.
World Indoors Track At Budapest, Hungary (all distances in meters) MEN
200 1, Dominic Demeritte, Bahamas, 20.66 seconds. 2, Johan Wissman, Sweden, 20.72.
3, Tobias Unger, Germany, 21.02. 4, Joseph Batangdon, Cameroon, 21.16. 5, Jimmie
Hackley, United States, 21.35. 6, Marcin Urbas, Poland, 21.49.
800 1, Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South Africa, 1 minute 45.71. 2, Rashid Ramzi, Bahrain,
1:46.15. 3, Osmar Barbosa dos Santos, Brazil, 1:46.26. 4, Amine Laalou, Morocco,
1:46.57. 5, William Yiampoy, Kenya, 1:46.88. 6, Joseph Mutua, Kenya, 1:47.86.
1,500 1, Paul Korir, Kenya, 3:52.31 seconds. 2, Ivan Heshko, Ukraine, 3:52.34. 3,
Laban Rotich, Kenya, 3:52.93. 4, Abdelkader Hachlaf, Morocco, 3:53.22. 5, James Thie,
Great Britain, 3:53.36. 6, Miroslaw Formela, Poland, 3:53.70. 7, Jose Antonio Redolat,
Spain, 3:56.55. 8, Youssef Baba, Morocco, 3:57.79. Michael East, Great Britain, DQ.
1,600 Relay 1, Jamaica, 3:05.21. 2, Russia, 3:06.23. 3, Ireland, 3:10.44. 4,
Switzerland, 3:12.62. 5, Bahamas, 3:17.57. United States, DQ.
Pole Vault 1, Igor Pavlov, Russia, 19-1/4. 2, Adam Ptacek, Czech Republic,
18-81/4. 3, Denys Yurchenko, Ukraine, 18-81/4. 4, Patrik Kristiansson, Sweden,
18-81/4. 5, Tim Lobinger, Germany, 18-81/4. 6, Giuseppe Gibilisco, Italy, 18-41/2. 7,
Romain Mesnil, France, 18-41/2. Rens Blom, Netherlands, NM.
Triple Jump 1, Christian Olsson, Sweden, 58-6, equals world record, Alicier
Urrutia, Cuba, March 1, 1997. 2, Jadel Gregorio, Brazil, 57-21/4. 3, Yoandri Betanzos,
Cuba, 56-111/2. 4, Dmitriy Valyukevich, Belarus, 56-6. 5, Marian Oprea, Romania,
56-43/4. 6, Mykola Savolaynen, Ukraine, 55-71/2. 7, Danila Burkenya, Russia, 54-61/2.
8, Julien Kapek, France, 54-13/4.
Shot Put 1, Christian Cantwell, United States, 70-61/4. 2, Reese Hoffa, United
States, 69-11/2. 3, Joachim Olsen, Denmark, 68-101/2. 4, Tomasz Majewski, Poland,
68-41/4. 5, Manuel Martinez, Spain, 68-21/2. 6, Andrei Mikhnevich, Belarus, 67-31/4.
7, Carl Myerscough, Britain, 67-2. 8, Yuriy Bilonog, Ukraine, 66-53/4.
WOMEN
200 1, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Russia, 22.78. 2, Natalya Safronnikova, Belarus,
23.13. 3, Svetlana Goncharenko, Russia, 23.15. 4, Karin Mayr-Krifka, Austria, 23.18.
5, Maryna Maydanova, Ukraine, 23.64. 6, Nataliya Pygyda, Ukraine, 23.80.
800 1, Maria Mutola, Mozambique, 1:58.50. 2, Jolanda Ceplak, Slovenia, 1:58.72. 3,
Joanne Fenn, Britain, 1:59.50. 4, Jennifer Toomey, United States, 1:59.64. 5, Tatyana
Andrianova, Russia,
