t-and-f: The Greek team
The most numerous team in Greece's athletics history. The Greek Federation announced the national athletics team for Sydney, the most numerous team of the greek athletics history. The team was verified just after the international meeting of Patra, the last test for the champions into the country and consists of48 persons,27 men and21 women. With the only exception of the world triple jump champion Paraskevi Tsiamita, who suffers astress fracture this year and couldn't overcome in time, all the other Sevilla's medallists are to compete in the Olympics. Among the members of the national team there are enough experienced athletes as well as young girls and men who are expected to be the sport stars of the coming years and aim to a distinction in Athens 2004. Paraskevi Patoulidou will participate in the 100 m. and 4X100 m. relay team, to become the first greek of athletics who will be present in four consecutive Olympics. The Greek athletes are the following (personal best/season's best if different) MEN 100 m. Angelos Pavlakakis (10.11/10.13), Georgios Theodoridis (10.22/10.29) 200 m. Constantinos Kenteris (10.16 - 20.25), Anastasios Gousis (20.69 - 45.55), Alexios Alexopoulos (20.36/20.71) 400 m. Anastassios Goussis (45.55) 800 m. Panayotis Stroubakos (1.45.00/1.46.42) 400 m. hurdles. Periklis Iakovakis (49.35) 3.000 m. steeple. Georgios Gianelis (8.26.52/8.34.80) Marathon. Panayotis Charamis (2.13.32) 4X100 m. relay. Angelos Pavlakakis, Georgios Theodoridis, Alexios Alexopoulos (10.16/10.43), Constantinos Kenteris [Alexandros Terzian (10.20/10.42) - Aristotelis Gavelas (10.33/10.40) 4X400 m. relay. Anastassios Goussis, Periklis Iakovakis, Stylianos Dimotsios (46.20/46.28), Georgios Economidis (46.46) [Panayotis Sarris (46.54/46.97), Stylianos Dimotsios (46.20/46.28)] High Jump. Lambros Papakostas (2.36/2.34) Long Jump. Constantinos Koukodimos (8.36/8,09), Dimitrios Serelis (8.00 - 8.08i) Triple Jump. Stamatis Lenis (17.20), Constantinos Zalagitis (17.18), Christos Meletoglou (17.12/16.68) Shot Put. Vaios Tigas (19.47/19.31) Javelin Throw. Constantinos Gatsioudis (91.69) Hammer Throw. Alexandros Papadimitriou (80.45), Christos Polychroniou (79.83/79.59) 50.000 m. Walk. Spyridon Kastanis (3.54.11/3.56.41), Theodoros Stamatopoulos (3.57.44) Decathlon. Prodromos Korkizoglou (8.069 p.) WOMEN 100 m. Ekaterini Thanou (10.83/10.91), Paraskevi Patoulidou (11.27/11.32) 200 m. Ekaterini Koffa (22.67/23.19) 5.000 m. Chryssostomia Iakovou (15.25.16) 10.000 m. Chryssostomia Iakovou (32.34.87/32.41.66) 400 m. hurdles. Chryssoula Goudenoudi (56.90) High Jump. Niki Bakogianni (2.03/1.88) Pole Vault. Thaleia Iakovidou (4,21 m.) Long Jump. Niki Xanthou (7.03/6.81), Despina Papavassilaki (6.75) Triple Jump. Olga Vasdeki (14.67/13.82) Shot Put. Kalliopi Ouzouni (18.59 - 19.03i) Discus Throw. Anastassia Kelesidou (67.70/67.12), Ekaterini Voggoli (64.82/64.35), Stella Tsikouna (65.13) Javelin Throw. Mirela Tzelili (67.09/64.51), Angeliki Tsiolakoudi (60.26) 4X100 m. relay. Ekaterini Thanou, Paraskevi Patoulidou, Ekaterini Koffa, Eufrosyni Patsou (11.49) [Panayota Koutrouli, Chryssoula Goudenoudi] 20.000 m. Walk. Christina Kokotou - Athina Papagianni Heptathlon. Asimina Vanakara (5.927 p) Michalis Nikitaridis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: t-and-f: ESPN Coverage
It is difficult to provide a fair critique of meet coverage when so much of the action is being condensed. I caught about half of the Berlin meeting on Friday evening. I'd give the coverage I saw a B+. However, the effort from the TV Commentators was A. Larry Rawson continues to optimize his skills by reaching out to the average sports fan, presenting track and field in a way that is understandable. We must continue to make efforts to bring the mainstream sporting public into the track field living room I'd also like to see the start lists up a bit longer. What about scrolling them at the bottom of the screen as the announcers lead into the race and during the race? Overkill? Just my two cents. Larry
t-and-f: Last name? [was ESPN Coverage]
This is a minor complaint but a pet peeve for me. Posters should give their first and last names. Thanks, Linda Honikman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 9:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: ESPN Coverage It is difficult to provide a fair critique of meet coverage when so much of the action is being condensed. I caught about half of the Berlin meeting on Friday evening. I'd give the coverage I saw a B+. However, the effort from the TV Commentators was A. Larry Rawson continues to optimize his skills by reaching out ... ... Just my two cents. Larry
t-and-f: Greek team et. al.
We have now posted at the ATHLETICS SITEthefull results of the International Meeting TOFALIA 2000 held in Patra yesterday, as well as the Greek team for Sydney. Sydney pages are also opened, featuring events, history,a lot of information on the Olympics and details about the greek athletes. To access the page until September 17th, please use the following URL, as there seems to be a problem with our main server.http://www.eexi.gr/athletix/Michalis Nikitaridis - Panayotis Christopoulos
t-and-f: Our coverage on ESPN: responses to your points
My thanks to all of you who took the time to respond to Walt's and my request for your thoughts on our telecast. The least I can do is respond to a number of your points. -- Next year, I will see if we can leave the graphics of the start lists up longer. -- The idea of leaving the camera on the finish line and the clock running is an excellent one; I will try to get that implemented next year. -- When a high jumper appears it woudl be great if we could put on the screen his clearances and misses in that meet, as they do in Europe. -- After we negotiated the rights for the last five of the golden League meets, when the sales department came back with an estimate of the monies that they could get for advertising on the telecast, there was not enough in the budget to send us over to do the meets on site. (Lewis was on site for Zurich for other reasons.) Allof the meets were voiced over in New Jersey, and Bislett, Brussels and Berlin were done "live to tape" as they were occurring. To edit shows like this on the budgets that we have to do track and field, in such a short turnaround time, is a feat in itself. Just ask, Walt Murphy, who has worked for all the networks. We finished the Bislett field events segment two minutes -- literally -- before you saw it on television in your homes. And the Berlin meet finished in Berlin three hours before our telecast started -- and we finished the telecast three and a half minutes before it aired. Lots of pressure to try and get it done well with only minimal editing time and support. -- Some difficulties we face in regard to camera angles include the fact that the host countries provide all the camera work for each of the meets. The only camera that we had over there was for interviews. I had to work off the same camera angles for my commentary that you were seeing. Even when the two shows were voiced over after the fact, we don't have the time to for me to see what I am about to comment on before I voice the event. -- In regard to my comments on watching the center of the track, that remark is geared toward the average sports fan whom I am trying to get to continue watching our telecast, if he has "surfed" onto it and doesn't know the sport well. The victory for first place in hurdles and hundreds at GL meets -- eighty to ninety percent of the time -- comes from the center lanes of the track. I'm trying to help him appreciate the "battle amongst the best." -- In regard to the Paul Tergat situation, Felix Limo is a 20-year-old Kenyan who, coming into the Brussels 10K, had done the following this year: he was 4th in a Charleston (USA) 10K roadrace, 3rd in Tartu at 5K, 2nd in Warsaw, Poland in a 3K, and 14th in Lausanne at 5K. His lifetime best, coming in to the meet, was 13.23, set last year for 5K. One of the the disadvantages of voicing over a meet from the USA is that we are expected to give good commentary and in distance running events pray for a low angle camera shot where we can identify numbers on the runners. Identification is a challenge. In my role, I have to try to remember the form, height and weight of the top group in each race so that I can properly call the race. Limo appeared to me as a lapped runner when Tergat and he exchanged positions. I was shocked when the results were posted to find out that he had stopped running and was given second. There is still controversy in Brussels as to whether he was a lap short! Coming into the race, his lifetime best at 10K was 28.23. The time awarded him in Brussels was 27.04. I believe that the last time I mentioned that he was well under a 27 minute pace was just before he finished his first 68- second lap, and it showed up on the screen. PS I don't know his final time at the 3K in Berlin but I am told that he was way back. Again, my thanks to many of you for your compliments personally and for the job we do -- we work very hard at it. And to all of you, for taking the time to make our sport better. Larry Rawson
Re: t-and-f: Statistics on current posting
It would be interesting to see word-count totals (sans embedded and quoted "" material) as contrasted to number of postings per individual. Garry Hill's posts are often just one or two sentences, and also the recent "SURVIVOR" postings have skewed his "usual" output upward considerably, so the last week is not representative. (Malmo's pithy postings are even shorter, usually one-liners or even half-liners.) Most prolific poster by word count would likely be somebody different (from spots 2, 3, or 4?). --Ward Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pat Palmer wrote: 1. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 2. Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 3. R.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED]12 4. Michael Rohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11 ... It seems that about 0.5% of the members provide 44% of the written material. Without GH's amazing productivity (warming up for Olympic writing?), the the percentage by the "top 10" (really 12 -- a three-way tie) would drop to 32%.
Re: t-and-f: ESPN Coverage
I understand ESPN has to accept the European feed and doesn't control the camera angles. But if they ever do get control, the worst camera angle to me is the wide shot of the runners in staggered lane events on the back straight. A hard core fan may be able to pick out runners, but a casual observer is totally clueless except for the commentary. It would be better to interspace some closer shots of the favorites. In general, I thought the coverage was good and Larry always does a good job. My big concern in the future would be scheduling. For the same reason that the IAAF wants to have the Golden meets all on Fridays, it would be very helpful for audience building to have all of the ESPN cvoverage on Friday night same day coverage. Americans generally haven't seen the meet results and they can develop a viewing habit like they do for a network series (e.g. Monday Night Football on a smaller scale). It would be a time crunch for editing. So do them at 11 PM EDT on Fridays which gives a few more hours for editing and would hit the West Coast at Prime Time. Us East Coasters could stay up on a Friday night (or tape for Saturday AM viewing before reading the sports news). I would guess that an 11 PM start each week might be more possible for ESPN (or ESPN2) than east coast prime time every Friday. But the key is keeping it the same night every week so people don't have to go looking for it. Ed Koch -Original Message- From: Ed Dana Parrot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 02, 2000 10:45 AM Subject: Re: t-and-f: ESPN Coverage Has anyone been watching? Does anyone care? Did it hurt that three of the shows were delayed a day or two? Trust me, we're not looking for pats on the back if you liked the shows, but feedback, good and bad, is always welcome(at least the good feedback). I agree with another post which indicated that the coverage was generally good, but that the camera angles switched a little bit too much. As usual, there were a few comments that were way off base, most notably the statement that El G. had a much harder time winning the five events than the others did because it was a distance event. I'd actually say the distance runners have it the easiest - they can afford to make mistakes and still win. But overall, much better than the NBC or CBS coverage I have seen over the past few years - more action and less fluff. - Ed Parrot
t-and-f: more pith
By word count: either R.T or Eamon Condon. malmo, always striving for the elusive quarter-liner. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ward Nicholson Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 6:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: Statistics on current posting It would be interesting to see word-count totals (sans embedded and quoted "" material) as contrasted to number of postings per individual. Garry Hill's posts are often just one or two sentences, and also the recent "SURVIVOR" postings have skewed his "usual" output upward considerably, so the last week is not representative. (Malmo's pithy postings are even shorter, usually one-liners or even half-liners.) Most prolific poster by word count would likely be somebody different (from spots 2, 3, or 4?). --Ward Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pat Palmer wrote: 1. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 2. Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 3. R.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED]12 4. Michael Rohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11 ... It seems that about 0.5% of the members provide 44% of the written material. Without GH's amazing productivity (warming up for Olympic writing?), the the percentage by the "top 10" (really 12 -- a three-way tie) would drop to 32%.
t-and-f: Re: IOC Bans Oly athletes from any web citations
Please let me know who is in charge of this rule! I have to believe that this is a joke. If it is not, then the Olympic Games are a joke. Please clarify. Bunston, you are a smart guy, but don't BS us. Schieferh
t-and-f: Statistics on current posting
I have been away for about 10 days, so I found an appalling amount of email waiting to be read. As I worked on the t-and-f collection, it occurred to me to see where the posts were coming from. Today, as I am waiting around for some truck parts, I looked into it. I had already deleted a number of digests, but of 320 posts in 13 digests from about the last week (#3156-3168), the top 10 posters are: 1. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 2. Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 3. R.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED]12 4. Michael Rohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11 5. Christopher Goss" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9 6. malmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8 6. A.J. Craddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8 8. Andre Sammartino [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7 8. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7 8. [EMAIL PROTECTED]7 It seems that about 0.5% of the members provide 44% of the written material. Without GH's amazing productivity (warming up for Olympic writing?), the the percentage by the "top 10" (really 12 -- a three-way tie) would drop to 32%. In this period of time, 109 list members posted at least once. At least 46 posts (14%) came from countries other than the US -- not surprisingly, Australia easily leads the list. Pat Palmer
t-and-f: Freeman clearly larger than life
Electronic Telegraph Monday 4 September 2000 Peter FitzSimons THE NEWS has finally broken. The biggest billboard in the history of the world -and I'm talking right back to the time Noah slung his famous 'THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH' sign off the side of the ark - is devoted to Australia's most famous athlete, Cathy Freeman. True! All of 70 metres high, the image of the Australian 400-metre runner, with a Nike logo to boot, will hang for the duration of the Olympic Games from a building in Sydney's central business district. Times Square, Noo York, eat your heart out. Whatever the commercial imperatives of hanging such a poster, it is entirely appropriate that the image of Freeman be so huge during the Olympics; her aura is everywhere else in this town anyway. For not only is she the sole genuine gold medal prospect representing Australia on the athletics track, having won silver in the 400m in Atlanta in 1996, and gold in the last two World Championships, in Athens and Seville, but she is something else besides. That is, she's a famous and often outspoken proud Aboriginal woman at a time when Australia is wrestling with its extremely troubled past in relation to its indigenous people. For better or worse, for richer or poorer, whether she likes it or not, she is frequently cited as 'a role model' for Aboriginal children across the nation. Her words on any Aboriginal issues receive instant amplification in the media, and not only is her counsel sometimes sought by politicians, but she recently expressed the view that she would one day like to enter politics herself - and she was taken extremely seriously by both major political parties. In short, she has come an extremely long way. Born and bred in deep North Queensland, she was raised in a tiny three-bedroom housing commission home. Right away she showed an enormous talent for running fast, and after her stepfather Bruce sent away for a coaching manual and started to apply the dictums therein she was away. In 1990, at the tender age of 16, she won a gold medal in the 4 x 100m relay at the Auckland Commonwealth Games, the same year that she became the Young Australian of the Year. In 1994, she truly burst on the national consciousness by not only winning the 400m at the Commonwealth Games in Canada, but also performing a lap of honour draped in the Aboriginal flag. The nation went ballistic. A full 70 per cent, I'm proud to say, supported her totally, while 30 per cent decried it loudly. Among these was one Arthur Tunstall, the leading sports official of the time, under whose writ she ran, and when he threatened her with dreadful consequences if ever she did it again she became an instant cause célèbre. Her silver medal in 1996 further entrenched her as a national sporting icon and since that time barely a week has gone by without her making the news in one way or another. A lot of this has been to do with things entirely removed from running, but all of it has made gripping reading. Throughout the early part of her career, her coach and manager Nick Bideau, a one-time Melbourne sports journalist, was also her lover and partner, and he was famously and fiercely protective of her. When their romantic relationship hit the rocks three years ago, Bideau remained as her manager, while she took up with her new love, American Nike executive Sandy Bodeker. (Are you still with me?) Freeman and Bodeker married last year, and shortly thereafter her relationship with Bideau soured to the point where she soon tried to sever all ties with him, starting with their business relationship. As we speak the matter is before the courts, in a particularly protracted legal struggle over an all-encompassing contract she allegedly signed with Bideau several years ago, giving him the rights to market her. At least both parties have agreed to hold everything until after the Olympics. As if that wasn't putting enough pressure on her, she subsequently gave an interview to a journalist from The Sunday Telegraph in which she waded into the most soul-destroying issue on Australia's national agenda: the practise of four decades ago whereby authorities would remove many Aboriginal children from their parents to be adopted by white families, and the failure of the current government to apologise for these acts. "I was so angry because they were denying they had done anything wrong, denying that a whole generation was stolen," Freeman was quoted as saying, and was soon leading most news bulletins because of it. Shortly, she will turn up back here again, ready to race, ready to rock 'n' roll, ready - we hope - to carry the expectations of a nation on her shoulders. It seems extraordinary that such a slender young woman should have such expectation placed upon her, but if she's feeling it, it doesn't show. As a matter of fact, just a couple of weeks ago, she added to the pressure by stating that she wanted to run in the 200m as well, to see if she could get another
Re: t-and-f: pre-olympic meets downunder (incl.A.Harrison 44.74)
This is getting a far bit of press Down Under: http://www.olympics.smh.com.au/athletics/2000/09/04/FFXI3K82KCC.html They didn't exactly kiss and make-up but they came as close as two big boofy blokes dare after staging a langing match. United States long jumper Savante Stringfellow and his Australian man-at-war Jai Taurima shook hands rather than traded blows when they came face-to-face for the first time yesterday at a pre-Olympic international meeting in Brisbane. Stringfellow was expected to kick sand in Taurima's face after the larrikin Australian made some off-hand remarks about American jumpers being dribblers and unable to jump in the cold because they were "dark". André Sammartino Reckon you know your stuff? Come try our Olympics track and field tipping comp http://surf.to/bayside
Re: t-and-f: pre-olympic meets downunder (incl.A.Harrison 44.74)
Story of contest: http://sport.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,1160603%255E5282,00.html AMERICAN Savante Stringfellow won the long jump at the pre-Olympics meet in Brisbane today, making a mockery of Australian Jai Taurima's taunt that black men could not leap in the cold. Taurima said during the week that the cooler climate in Sydney would mean "you can pretty much knock out all the dark athletes (at the Olympics)". But in Brisbane temperatures of about 17 Celsius, Stringfellow won with two jumps of 8.23 metres before revealing he had competed in his running shoes after leaving his jumping shoes at the team hotel. Taurima was second with 8.13m, with fellow Australian and Commonwealth champion Peter Burge third with 8.10m. "I wish it was a bit cooler," Stringfellow said. "(Apparently) we don't jump real good in that weather." Stringfellow said Taurima had made a mistake in providing him with extra motivation. "If I do this in Sydney I'm going to be real good," Stringfellow said. "This was only a start; I can go a lot further than this. "I wished (Taurima) the best of luck at the Olympics and he told me 'good jumping'. "I'm the bigger man so I went over to him first and told him 'good luck' and shook his hand." André Sammartino Reckon you know your stuff? Come try our Olympics track and field tipping comp http://surf.to/bayside
t-and-f: Olympic drug-testing and preparations
Athletes greeted by drug blitz By Trudy Harris and John Lehmann 04sep00 DRUG testers have swooped on star athletes within hours of their arrival in Australia, marking the start of the biggest-ever Olympics drug-testing regime. As more than 4000 athletes poured in to Sydney at the weekend, SOCOG drug testers moved in, conducting on Saturday the first of 3200 urine tests on Australian and international athletes. The first blood tests for the banned endurance drug erythropoietin (EPO) were also undertaken yesterday as Games officials lived up to their promise to expose cheats at the 2000 Olympics. The testing regime by the International Olympic Committee and Sydney Olympic organisers is substantially higher than the 1900 tests at the 1996 Atlanta Games. British hurdler Colin Jackson was tested within hours of arriving in Brisbane on Saturday along with 10 colleagues. Two were woken by doping officers working for the Australian Sports Drug Agency. "It seems they are testing more than ever. They were tested barely three hours after arriving," said head British athletics coach Max Jones. Dutch world record holder Inge de Bruijn was tested two days after she arrived in Newcastle north of Sydney last month and again within two weeks. "I have been tested twice within two weeks but I have no problem with that," the swimmer said. As the drug tests began, Sydney finally took on the atmosphere of an Olympic city the streets awash with banners and Games workers and volunteers in brightly coloured uniforms. Sydney airport experienced one of its busiest days on Saturday, with 145 aircraft carrying 30,270 passengers. Another 27,000 arrived yesterday, with the troubled luggage system coping with the strain. With only 11 days to go until the opening ceremony, Premier Bob Carr admitted to a bout of pre-Olympic nerves. "We're all nervous this is the biggest peacetime event," he told the Nine network. "The pressures will be immense." Mr Carr and Olympics Minister Michael Knight pinpointed Sydney's fragile rail system as the potential weak link in Games preparations. The Premier called for an end to "any bickering or any arguments or any point scoring" over Games preparations, saying Australia was poised to become the world's "favoured brand" of the next decade. "We're all in it together as Australians, black and white, Liberal and Labor," he said. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/common/story_page/0,4511,1161376%255E601,00. html André Sammartino Reckon you know your stuff? Come try our Olympics track and field tipping comp http://surf.to/bayside
Re: t-and-f: pre-olympic meets downunder (incl.A.Harrison 44.74)
In a message dated 9/3/00 6:53:06 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MEN'S LONG JUMP 1. Savante Stringfellow, USA 8.23m w:0.7; 2. Jai Taurima, AUS 8.13m w:1.1; Well, well what now to say Mr. Taurima? jp
t-and-f: flo-jo
Three is presumably a whole lot more on this floating around the Web: Flo-Jo's doctor believes the world's fastest woman was a drug cheat Yet just 11 days before the Sydney Games, there is open speculation that Florence Griffith Joyner used drugs. An investigation by British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph has added further fuel to suspicions, with a coach speaking of her drug use, and Dr Robert Kerr, a sports injuries specialist who treated her, telling of his conviction that she was a cheat. (much more in this story...) http://www.theaustralian.com.au/common/story_page/0,4511,1161376%255E601,00. html André Sammartino Reckon you know your stuff? Come try our Olympics track and field tipping comp http://surf.to/bayside
t-and-f: pre-olympic meets downunder (incl.A.Harrison 44.74)
ATHLETICS AUSTRALIA INFORMATION RELEASE Sunday 3rd September 2000 Pre Olympic Meet, Nudgee College, Brisbane WOMEN'S 100 METRES (2 heats, collated results) 1. Melinda Gainsford-Taylor, AUS 11.16 w:2.1; 2. Veronica Campbell, JAM 11.18 w:2.1; 3. Nova Peris Kneebone, AUS 11.45 w:2.1; 4. Elly Hutton, AUS 11.54 w:2.0; 5. Atia Weeks, CAN 11.56 w:2.1; 5. Valma Bass, STK 11.56 w:2.1; 7. Sharon Cripps, AUS 11.59 w:2.1; 8. Chantal Brunner, NZL 11.71 w:2.0; 9. Joanne Durant, BAR 11.74 w:2.1; 10. Melissa Medlicott, AUS 11.82 w:2.1; 11. Melanie Kleeberg, AUS 11.87 w:2.0. WOMEN'S 200 METRES 1. Melinda Gainsford-Taylor, AUS 22.73 w:0.8; 2. Nova Peris Kneebone, AUS 23.50 w:0.8; 3. Valma Bass, STK 23.74 w:0.8; 4. Melissa Stralcer, BAR 23.93 w:0.8; 5. Joanne Durant, BAR 24.11 w:0.8; 6. Melanie Kleeberg, AUS 24.15 w:0.8. WOMEN'S 400 METRES 1. Lee Naylor, AUS 52.84; 2. Michelle Burgher, JAM 52.97; 3. Celena Clarke, JAM 53.36; 4. Tayna Oxley, BAR 53.95; 5. Andrea Thomas, JAM 54.11; 6. Sherline Williams, BAR 54.22; 7. Tonya Jordan, BAR 58.34. WOMEN'S 800 METRES 1. Susan Andrews, AUS 2:00.32; 2. Toni Hodgkinson, NZL 2:00.62; 3. Charmaine Howell, JAM 2:04.45; 4. Sarah Jamieson, AUS 2:05.84; 5. Alice Goodbeg, AUS 2:09.61; 6. E Sigbont, AUS 2:10.02; 7. Lisa Corrigan, AUS 2:10.33; 8. Erin Hargrave, AUS 2:10.76. WOMEN'S 1,500 METRES 1. Marla Runyan, USA 4:11.83; 2. Mardrea Hyman, JAM 4:14.21; 3. Anne Cross, AUS 4:15.28; 4. Kate Richardson, AUS 4:22.81. WOMEN'S 400 METRE HURDLES 1. Jana Pittman, AUS 55.61; 2. Petrina Allen, JAM 56.15; 3. Stephaine Price, AUS 56.47; 4. Adriene McIvor, IRL 58.74. WOMEN'S 4x100 METRE RELAY 1. AUS 43.38. WOMEN'S HIGH JUMP 1. Karen Beautle, JAM 1.80m; 2. Alison Inverarity, AUS 1.80m. WOMEN'S LONG JUMP 1. Elva Gouldbourne, JAM 6.74m w:1.2; 2. Lacena Golding, JAM 6.52m w:2.4; 3. Chantal Brunner, NZL 6.47m w:1.8; 4. Bronwyn Thompson, AUS 6.45m w:2.2; 5. Kathleen Norman, QLD 6.05m w:3.4; 6. Jane Jamieson, AUS 5.88m w:1.7. WOMEN'S DISCUS THROW 1. Alison Lever, AUS 63.32m; 2. Deborah Lovely, AUS 52.71m. WOMEN'S HAMMER THROW 1. Debbie Sosimenko, AUS 65.97m; 2. Karyne Perkins, AUS 64.35m; 3. Tasha Williams, NZL 63.85m; 4. Michelle Fournier, CAN 59.39m; 5. Deborah Lovely, AUS 52.79m. WOMEN'S JAVELIN THROW 1. Olivia McKoy, JAM 57.04m. MEN'S 100 METRES (2 heats, collated results) 1. Kim Collins, STK 10.15 w:1.3; 2. Matt Shirvington, AUS 10.25 w:1.3; 3. Lindel Frater, JAM 10.31 w:1.3; 4. Donnovan Powell, JAM 10.33 w:1.3; 5. Dwight Thomas, JAM 10.37 w:1.3; 6. Patrick Johnson, AUS 10.49 w:1.3; 7. Paul Dibella, AUS 10.52 w:1.3; 8. Scott Richardson, AUS 10.64 w:1.3; 9. Tim Williams, AUS 10.71 w:1.3; 10. Pat Birgan, QLD 10.78 w:1.3; 11. Wellington Saunders, BAH 11.02 w:1.3; 12. Scott Ferrier, AUS 11.20 w:1.3. MEN'S 200 METRES 1. Darryl Wohlsen, AUS 20.89 w:0.7; 2. Melvin Lister, USA 21.52 w:0.7. MEN'S 400 METRES Heat 1: 1. Alvin Harrison, USA 44.74; 2. Calvin Harrison, USA 45.17; 3. Davian Clarke, JAM 45.70; 4. Michael Blackwood, JAM 46.02; 5. Michael McDonald, JAM 46.28; 6. Tim Munning, BAH 46.62; 7. Christopher Brown, BAH 46.63; - Fabian Rollins, BAR DQ. Heat 2: 1. Danny McFarlane, JAM 46.52; 2. Brandon Simpson, JAM 46.76; 3. Sanjay Ayer, JAM 46.96; 4. Carl Oliver, BAH 47.12; 5. Brad Jamieson, AUS 47.49; 6. Wilan Louis, BAR 48.53; 7. Eugene Farrell, IRL 48.59; 8. Cameron Brown, AUS 48.87. MEN'S 800 METRES 1. Graham Foley, AUS 1:49.06; 2. Milton Browne, BAR 1:49.13; 3. Isireli Naikekelevesi, AUS 1:49.41; 4. Mark Fountain, AUS 1:51.75. MEN'S 1,500 METRES 1. Duncan Long, AUS 3:49.13; 2. Stuart Bowden, QLD 3:51.19; 3. Abdi Abdirahmen, USA 3:51.37. MEN'S 110 METRE HURDLES 1. Robin Korvene, NED 13.53 w:1.3; 2. Kyle Vander Kuyp, AUS 13.77 w:1.3; 3. Gabriel Burnett, BAR 14.11 w:1.3; 4. Andrew Cameron, AUS 14.39 w:1.3. MEN'S 400 METRE HURDLES 1. Ian Weakley, JAM 49.40; 2. Blair Young, AUS 49.68; 3. Curt Young, PAN 50.56; 4. Victor Houston, BAR 51.13; 5. David Cappelano, AUS 52.62. MEN'S 4X100 METRE RELAY 1. SIERRA LEONE 40.37; 2. AUS "B" 41.84 3. AUS "A" DSQ MEN'S HIGH JUMP 1. Kenny Evans, USA 2.24m; 2. Glen Howard, NZL 2.20m; 3. Dane Richter, AUS 2.05m; 4. Claston Barnard, JAM 2.00m. MEN'S LONG JUMP 1. Savante Stringfellow, USA 8.23m w:0.7; 2. Jai Taurima, AUS 8.13m w:1.1; 3. Peter Burge, AUS 8.10m w:1.0; 4. Erki Nool, EST 7.90m w:1.8; 5. Tim Parravicini, AUS 7.66m w:3.3; 6. Scott Ferrier, AUS 7.17m w:0.6; - Claston Barnard, JAM FOUL w:NWI. MEN'S TRIPLE JUMP 1. Andrew Murphy, AUS 16.46m w:0.9. MEN'S SHOT PUT 1. Justin Anlezark, AUS 19.59m; 2. Rhys Jones, AUS 18.23m; 3. AL Suwaioi Khaud, QATAR 16.68m; 4. Wade Hastie, AUS 15.26m; 5. Claston Barnard, JAM 15.05m; 6. Stuart Rendell, AUS 14.99m; 7. Aaron Fish, AUS 14.61m. MEN'S HAMMER THROW 1. Aaron Fish, AUS 75.62m; 2. Stuart Rendell, AUS 72.58m; 3. Wade Hastie, AUS 62.64m. MEN'S JAVELIN THROW 1. Adrian Hatcher, AUS 82.35m; 2. Andrew Currey, AUS 80.14m. This information has been provided by: Athletics Australia, Suite 22, Fawkner Towers, 431 St Kilda
Re: t-and-f: pre-olympic meets downunder (incl.A.Harrison 44.74)
MEN'S LONG JUMP 1. Savante Stringfellow, USA 8.23m w:0.7; 2. Jai Taurima, AUS 8.13m w:1.1; Well, it looks like Taurima and his big mouth are finding out that American jumpers CAN jump well outside the US, or least well enough to beat him. Kurt Bray _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
