t-and-f: Zurich prediction contest
Okay, athletics zombies- time for a quick contest (with short notice) First take a look at the current Stadium Records at the Letzigrund Stadium in Zürich: Men: 100 m Montgomery Tim USA 9.90 (+0.2) 17.8.01 200 m Marsh Mike USA 19.95 (-1.0) 19.8.92 400 m Reynolds Butch USA 43.29 17.8.83 WR 800 m Kipketer Wilson DEN 1:41.24 13.8.97 WR 1500 m El Guerrouj Hicham MAR 3:26.45 12.8.98 1 Mile Morceli Noureddine ALG 3:45.19 16.8.95 3000 m Aouita Said MAR 7:32.54 13.8.86 5000 m Gebrselassie Haile ETH 12:41.86 13.8.97 WR 110 m H Kingdom Roger USA 12.92 (-0.1) 16.8.89 WR 400 m H Matete Samuel ZAM 47.10 7.8.91 3000 m St Boulami Brahim MAR 7:58.50 17.8.01 HJ Austin Charles USA 2.40 7.8.91 PV Trandenkov Igor RUS 5.95 14.8.96 LJ Pedroso Ivan CUB 8.60 (+1.5) 16.8.95 TJ Edwards Jonathan GBR 17.79 (-0.7) 14.8.96 SP Barnes Randy USA 22.42 17.8.88 DT Alekna Virgilius LIT 71.12 11.8.00 HT Abduvalyev Andrej TJK 83.24 17.8.94 JT Hecht Raymond GER 92.28 14.8.96 4x100 m Marsh/Burrell/Mitchell/Lewis USA 37.67 7.8.91 WR Frauen: 100 m Ashford Evelyn USA 10.76 (+1.7) 22.8.84 WR 200 m Ottey Merlene JAM 21.66 (-1.0) 15.8.90 400 m Kratochvilova Jarmila TCH 48.86 18.8.82 800 m Mutola Maria MOZ 1:55.19 17.8.94 1500 m Kasankina Tatyana URS 3:52.47 13.8.80 WR 1 Mile Masterkova Svetlana RUS 4:12.56 14.8.96 WR 3000 m Yegorova Olga RUS 8:23.26 17.8.01 100 m H Devers Gail USA 12.39 (-0.7) 11.8.00 400 m H Batten Kim USA 52.84 12.8.98 HJ Kostadinova Stefka BUL 2.02 14.8.96 LJ Drechsler Heike GDR 7.39 (+0.3) 21.8.85 TJ Biryukova Anna RUS 15.03 (+0.0) 16.8.95 SP Lissovskaya Natalya URS 20.23 21.8.85 DT Melnik Faina URS 70.20 20.8.75 WR JT Felke Petra GDR 71.40 13.8.86 4x100 m Gladisch/Koch/Auerswald/Göhr GDR 41.85 22.8.84 These are possibly the toughest stadium records in the entire world. Now take a look at Friday's entry lists for men and women: http://www.weltklasse.ch/eng/index.htm The gist of the contest is to predict any new stadium records. Send the following by e-mail to me, no later than 8AM PACIFIC time on Friday morning: EVENT - ATHLETE NAME - NEW RECORD TIME OR DISTANCE The athlete name must be associated with a specific event, and the new mark prediction must be associated with a specific event & athlete name. In other words, each prediction must have three parts. You may enter more than one predicted new stadium record, but take a look at the scoring first: 1. Marks must be wind-legal to count as records. 2. Event prediction is correct, but name & mark are wrong: 5 points 3. Event & name OR mark are correct: 10 points 4. Event, name AND mark are all correct (a trifecta!): 20 points Non-winners who legally break the stadium record will get the same points as above, IF the winner was wind-aided. If the winner was LEGAL for record purposes, then the predicted non-winner will get the same points as above, but decremented by 1 point. So you just predict somebody in every event, right? Wrong, kemo-sabey. Scoring Rule #5: Where the predicted event does NOT result in a new stadium record, you score minus (-) 3. So be judicious in your entries. If you predict a stadium record in an event that's not even being contested Friday, it's an automatic -3, so pay attention to the Zurich web site. If your predicted athlete sets a stadium record in a DIFFERENT event than you predicted, you don't get any points, but you won't get penalized either, as long as SOMEBODY sets a stadium record in the event you predicted. You say you need a prize to make it worth your time? Okay- here's the prize: - A vintage T&FN 1978 High School Track Annual. With Renaldo Nehemiah pictured on the cover as HS Athlete of 1977. Includes complete 1977 list, results of the big HS meets in '77, all-time HS lists, the '77 T&FN All-American list, etc. 56 pages for the guys, 6 pages for the gals (it was 1978 remember). This one is in EXCELLENT condition folks- not even any dogeared pages. - Okay, have fun, get your entries e-mailed to me, and I'm the final judge. Any zombie who e-mails a field event prediction in imperial will get it converted to metric using the T&FN tables, rounded DOWN if there's not a direct conversion. So just send it in metric to avoid any conversion loss. Oh yes, in case of a needed tie-breaker, it'll be whoever comes closest to predicting the exact new stadium record time or distance, based on least number of Hungarian table points that you "missed" by. This tie-breaker will be used to break exact total scoring ties, even if any predicted athlete names were wrong. I'll try to post a compendium of the entries just before the meet starts (but after the entries close at 8am) Any CORRECT entries that just state 'no new stadium records this Friday' will get the book if you're the ONLY one to correctly predict it- othe
t-and-f: Mountain Climbing, Buffalo style
Netters: GVot word of a recent workout participated in by most, not all, of the Colorado U. team which will be defending their NCAA title this fall. (Steve Slattery was safely back home on vacation in NJ at the time) Mount Elbert is the highest pead in Colotado, second only to California's Mt. Whitney in the lower 48. It is just short of 14,500 feet. The way I heard it, the Buffanloes establshed "camp" at the 10,500 foot mark and then took off for the top, ame 5.5 miles away, including the 4,000-foot climb. Jorge Torres and Dathan Ritzenheim reached it in approximately 72 minutes, then took 55 minutes for the return, Never one to ask hsi runners to do something he wouldn't do himself, coach Mark Wetmore also made the journey, no time available. It is reminiscent to me, on a far grander scale, of a workout that was regularly engaged in at Bernards HS. There is a ridge there along a brook that is virtually straight up. I never saw the actual workouts, but once covered a marathon run which at one point ran along the other side of the brook. Even without this climb, the course was so tough that, with some fair runners in the field, the winner barely beat 3:00. Much of it, I imagine was traversed regularly by the Bernards team in their road workouts. Ed Grant PS: I can't recall who won that marathon, except that it was someone from princeton U. I seem to remember that among his close followers was the estimable Hugh (Chip) Sweeny.
Re: t-and-f: Zurich start lists
Krummenacker has his work cut out for him at 800. Everybody's there except The Borz, who's apparently injured. K's chances might have been slightly better at 1500, but he probably feels more comfortable racing at the 800 distance. I notice that no North American men are entered at any distance longer than 800. RT
t-and-f: Zurich start lists
If you go to: http://www.weltklasse.ch/eng/index.htm and scroll down to the bottom you can get the start lists for this Friday's meet.
t-and-f: USATF News & Notes: August 14, 2002
Contact:Joe Hughes Communications Intern USA Track & Field (317) 261-0478 x357 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org USATF News & Notes Volume 3, Number 79 August 14, 2002 Deal signs on as Oregon coach 1996 Olympic hammer throw silver medalist Lance Deal has joined the University of Oregon track & field program as a volunteer assistant coach for the 2002-2003 season. He will coach athletes in the hammer, discus and shot put. A four-time Olympian, Deal holds the U.S. hammer throw record of 82.52 meters/270 feet, 9 inches and was ranked #1 in the world in that event in 1996. The owner of 12 U.S. Indoor 35-lb. weight throw titles, Deal retired following the 2000 season. He returned to compete in two events earlier this year before winning his ninth U.S. Outdoor hammer title in June. Im really excited about the position, Deal said. I remember about 1 ½ years after I moved here (Eugene, Oregon), I told Stewart (Togher, then UO throws coach), I want to do what you do. Its a little intimidating to follow in his footsteps, but it should be something thats fun and enjoyable, and Ive always enjoyed working with new throwers. Carter coaches while training 2002 US Outdoor 400-meters hurdles champion James Carter will be training, coaching, and taking classes at Hampton University during the upcoming school year. Maurice Pierce, who is Carters personal coach and the new Head Womens Track & Field coach at Hampton, reported that he has added Carter to his coaching staff as a volunteer assistant. Carter will take classes to complete his undergraduate degree during the morning, train with Pierce midday, and then help coach in the afternoon. Carter is scheduled to compete at the next Golden League meet, the Weltklasse in Zurich, Switzerland, on Friday. Metcalf to head UW track program Former University of Washington All-American Greg Metcalf has been named head coach of his alma maters track & field and cross country programs. Metcalf replaces long-time UW head coach Orin Richburg, who left the University in June to pursue other interests. A native of Ephrata, Wash., Metcalf was the 1987 Washington Class A state cross country champion, and he captured the state title in the 1,600 meters in 1988. He was an All-American steeplechaser for UW before graduating in 1993 with a degree in geography. As an assistant coach at Washington for the past five seasons, Metcalf directed the schools womens cross country team to five consecutive NCAA Championships appearances, including an all-time best ninth place finish in 1998. Travel anyone? Media interested in covering the 2002 IAAF Grand Prix Final (Sept. 14 in Paris, France) or the World Cup in Athletics 2002 (September 20-21 in Madrid, Spain) should contact Tom Surber at the USATF National Headquarters to receive accreditation forms for those events. He may be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 317-261-0500 x 317. Please make your request at your earliest convenience. Wedding bells in the track world USATF Director of Communications Jill M. Geer and Paul J. Souza, head men's and women's track coach at Wheaton (Mass.) College, were married August 10 in Hyannis, Mass. USATF's chair of men's high jump development and Penn State's indoor record holder in the high jump, Souza has coached the Wheaton women's team to the last four NCAA Division III indoor track championships and the last two outdoor crowns. Geer doesn't even own any of her high school individual records anymore, but she was once a Wisconsin Class B high school state champion in cross country. She competed in track and cross country at the University of Arkansas and was an award-winning sports journalist before coming to USATF in March of 2000. ###
Re: t-and-f: repeat the url please
>From the trackandfieldnews.com Latest Results (http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/tfn/results/hotLinks.jsp) page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/ - Live BBC Radio Coverage beginning at 2 PM EDT. Click "Listen Live" On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could someone re-post the url to the live streaming video > feed from the European circuit? > I think somebody said it was a BBC link. > > I'm interested to try to see if there is any live > Zurich coverage this week. > > Thanks, > > RT >
