t-and-f: TF News's Rankings-Krummenacker
Walt Murphy’s News and Results Service Couple of notes on Track and Field News's Rankings for the 2002 season. David Krummenacker is the first man to be ranked #1 in the U.S. in the 800 and 1500 since Rick Wohlhuter sat at the top of both events in 1976. Wohlhuter was also #1 in both in 1974. The only other same-year doubler was Jim Ryun (1966), while Dave Wottle was #1 in the 800 in 1972, #1 in the 1500 in 1973. Krummenacker's #3-World Ranking in the 800 is the best by an American since 1994, when Mark Everett was also picked #3. It's pointed out that Benjamin Limo's 3000 world leader of 7:34.72 is the slowest since 1990, but Leonard Byrd's 44.45 is the slowest 400 leader since 1985, when Michael Franks led the world with 44.47. (Where have you gone, Michael Johnson?) For those of you who haven't seen the magazine yet(or worse yet, don't subscribe), Paula Radcliffe and Hicham El Guerrouj(edging Khalid Khannouchi) are the choices for Athletes of the Year. Free plug for the magazine--a complete history of their Rankings, which began in 1947, can be found at A HREF=http://www.trackanfieldnews.com; http://www.trackanfieldnews.com/A
t-and-f: Deena Drossin to run 2003 London Marathon
From the folks at London. Abera, Tergat, El Mouaziz, Lee Bong-ju. etc. also on current entry list. 2003 FLORA LONDON MARATHON For immediate release 3 December 2002 KHANNOUCHI TO FACE TOUGH LONDON FIELD World record holder Khalid Khannouchi (USA) faces a tough test in his attempt to defend his Flora London Marathon title. Leading the pack will be Olympic and World champion, Gezahegne Abera (ETH), who notched up his third Fukuoka triumph at the weekend with yet another trademark sprint. This year Abera, 24, was sadly deprived of the chance to challenge Khannouchi in London because of injury. But now he is raring to go: It was very frustrating for me to sit out last year's race, he commented. But I always felt I had to be in top shape to run in such a high quality field. I can't wait to make up for the disappointment. Abera will be joined by Paul Tergat (KEN), the second fastest marathoner in history who now has an average from his four Marathons of 2:07:19. (second in London 2001/2, second and fourth in Chicago 2001/2). Abdelkader El Mouaziz (MAR) was disappointed not to have done better than fourth in London this year after he fell heavily. He followed that up with fifth in Chicago, but 2:06:52 and a career best 2:06:46 respectively indicate he is a major player in any race. London is a home from home for Antonio Pinto (POR) who returns for the ninth time with three wins under his belt as well as a former course record of 2:06:36 (2000). 2001 Boston winner Lee Bong-ju (KOR), World Championship bronze Stefano Baldini (ITA), Ian Syster (RSA), Venice Marathon winner David Makori (KEN) and Britain's Mark Steinle complete the line-up. America's Deena Drossin has been added to the field in the women's race. The Flora London Marathon takes place April 13 2003. MEN'S ELITE FIELD PERSONAL BESTS Khalid Khannouchi (USA) 2:05:38 1 London 2002 Paul Tergat (KEN) 2:05:48 2 London 2002 Antonio Pinto (POR) 2:06:36 1 London 2000 Abdelkader El Mouaziz (MAR) 2:06:46 5 Chicago 2002 Ian Syster (RSA) 2:07:06 5 London 2002 Lee Bong-ju (KOR) 2:07:20 2 Tokyo 2000 Stefano Baldini (ITA) 2:07:29 6 London 2002 Gezahegne Abera (ETH) 2:07:54 1 Fukuoka 1999 David Makori (KEN) 2:08:49 1 Venice 2002 Mark Steinle (GBR) 2:09:17 8 London 2002 WOMEN'S ELITE FIELD Catherine Ndereba (KEN) 2:18:47 1 Chicago 2001 Ludmilla Petrova (RUS) 2:22:32 3 London 2002 Joyce Chepchumba (KEN) 2:23:22 1 London 1999 Derartu Tulu (ETH) 2:23:57 1 London 2001 Adriana Fernandez (MEX) 2:24:06 2 London 1999 Genovese Bruna (ITA) 2:25:35 3 Tokyo 2001 Maria Guida (ITA) 2:25:57 1 Carpi 1999 Deena Drossin (USA) 2:26:53 6 Boston 2002 Susie Power (AUS) Half Marathon debut 2002 67:56 Great North Run
t-and-f: USATF Release: Lambie named Athlete of the Week
Contact:Melvin Jackson II Communications Coordinator USA Track Field (317) 261-0478 x322 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, December 3, 2002 Lambie named Athlete of the Week INDIANAPOLIS Ari Lambie, a high school senior from Harvard, Mass., has been named USA Track Fields Athlete of the Week following her victory Friday at the Foot Locker girls Northeast Regional at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, NY. Lambie had the best time of any female competitor at last weekends Foot Locker regional events with a time of 17 minutes, 34 seconds. Freshman Nicole Blood of Gansevoort, N.Y., was the runner-up to Lambie in the Northeast in 17:48. The fastest boys time at the Foot Locker regionals was 14:49, run by the winners of the Midwest and South Regional. Winning in the Midwest was Chris Solinsky, a senior from Stevens Point HS in Wisconsin. In the South it was Bobby Curtis of St. Xavier HS in Louisville, Ky. Now in its second year, USATFs Athlete of the Week program is designed to recognize performers at all levels of the sport. USATF names a new honoree each week and features the athlete on the USATF Web site. Selections are based on top performances and results from the previous week. 2002 USATF Athlete of the Week winners: January 3, Jim Garcia; January 8, Mary Louise Michelsohn; January 15, Tamara Diles; January 22, Miguel Pate; January 29, Regina Jacobs; February 5, Jeff Hartwig; February 12, Meb Keflezighi; February 19, Curt Clausen; February 26, Jeff Hartwig; March 5, Nicole Teter; March 12, Jeff Hartwig; March 19, Aretha Hill; March 26, Deena Drossin; April 2, Kim Fitchen; April 9, Deena Drossin; April 16, Khalid Khannouchi; April 23, Kenta Bell; April 30, Suzy Powell; May 7, Deena Drossin; May 14, Savante Stringfellow; May 21, Adam Nelson; May 28, Kevin Toth; June 4, Lashinda Demus; June 11, Anna Norgren Mahon; June 18, Molly Huddle; June 25, Sanya Richards; July 2, Savante Stringfellow; July 9, Nicole Teter; July 16, Maurice Greene; July 23, Lashinda Demus; July 30, Kerron Clement; August 6, Nate McDowell; August 13, Phil Raschker; August 20, James Carter; August 27, Marion Jones; September 3, Colleen De Reuck; September 10, Suzy Favor Hamilton; September 17, Tim Montgomery; September 24, Marion Jones; October 1, Dan Browne; October 8, Jorge Torres; October 15, Khalid Khannouchi; October 22, Connie Gardner; October 29, Bolota Asmerom; November 5, Marla Runyan; November 12, Ed Gawinski; November 19, Don Sage; November 26, Jorge Torres; December 3, Ari Lambie # # # PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE: If you would like to respond, please direct your e-mail to the Contact person listed at the top of the text of this message. To be removed from this mailing list or to notify us of a change in your e-mail address, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t-and-f: Footlocker Regionals - gender numbers
Out of curiosity - in relation to the ongoing debate about Title IX - I checked the total participation/finishers in all of the high school races held at all three Footlocker Regional sites last week-end. The numbers: NortheastMidwest South Total Boys:1118 10081171 3297 Girls:673 536 530 1739 Thus 65.47% of the total finishers were boys and just over half as many, 34.53%, were girls. This seems significant to me since there are no limits on entries. And... I'd be curious to see the comparative percentage of college scholarships given to male and female distance runners. Am I correct in assuming that girls not only receive more than the 34.53% of scholarships their participation would seem to warrant, they receive far more than the boys 65.47%? Geoff Pietsch _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
t-and-f: Curious coincidence +
Netters: A curious coincidence avout the two NJ collegians who qualified for All-American status at the NCAA CC championships. Both Ed Moran (William and Mary out of Notre Dame HS) and Julie Culley (Rutgers out of North Hunterdon HS) were making comebacks this fall after injuries which more or les wreahed their junior years. (Culley had also earned AA hnors two years ago, but hardly ran a step for the Scarlet last year and will probably return with full eligibilty neat year; Moran has an extra year in both indoor and outdoor track) Yje inefgfavle Murad Campbell has surfaced again. The 1999 Overbrook HS grad won a duel with Essex CC teammate Noah Waters at Seton Hall University last Sunday. This is, by my count, his third JC affiliation and I have no idea what, if any, senior college eligibility he will have when, and if, he graduates from Essex. Waters is also an interesting story. He spent four years at St. Benedict;s Prep, but was due to return for a 5th year this fall with his eligibilkity limited to prep school events. However, he elected to go for a GED (are those the correct initials?) and thius qualified for entrance into Essex. (In relay legs last year he ran 1:54 for 800 and 4:18 for 1600; his career at St. Benedict's ended abruptly with a disappointing start in the DMR at Penn where the Gray Bees seemed to be on their way to no worse than third place) Question: the SH meet was timed by the J Allen Timing Services; does anyone have a website for them? Ed Grant
t-and-f: USATF Release: Jones, Montgomery win Jesse Owens Awards
Contact:Jill M. Geer USATF Director of Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] 317-261-0500 x360 http://www.usatf.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, December 3, 2002 Jones, Montgomery win Jesse Owens Awards INDIANAPOLIS Training partners and sprinters extraordinaire Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery on Tuesday were named recipients of the 2002 Jesse Owens Awards by USA Track Field. Established in 1981, The Jesse Owens Award is USA Track Field's highest accolade, presented annually to the outstanding U.S. male and female track and field performers. The 2002 Jesse Owens Awards will be presented December 6 at the Jesse Owens Awards Dinner and Xerox Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, held at USA Track Field's 2002 Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Mo. In 2002, Jones became the first U.S. athlete in seven years to complete an undefeated season. She was flawless with 16 wins in the 100 meters, four wins in the 200 meters, and one 400-meter win. Not since Michael Johnson went without a loss in 1995 had an American track athlete gone undefeated. Fittingly, Jones now joins Johnson as the only athletes to win the Jesse Owens Award three times, with Jones winning the honor in 1997 and 1998 as well. (Johnson won in 1994-96.) Jones in 2002 earned a share of the IAAF Golden League Jackpot for the third time in her career, winning all seven Golden League meets in the 100 meters, a feat that catapulted her to the IAAF overall Grand Prix title. She also posted wins at the USA Outdoor Championships in the 100m (11.01) and 200m (22.35). She won the World Cup 100m in 10.90 in Madrid, and she had a tremendous double at Brussels, where she won the 100m in 10.88 and the 200m in 22.11, beating 2001 world 100m champion Zhanna Pintusevich-Block in both races. Her 200m performance in Brussels was the fastest time in the world this year, and she had seven of the nine fastest 100m times in the world in 2002. In her only outing in the 400 meters, Jones won the Mt. SAC Relays in 50.46. Montgomery seized the most glamorous title in track and field - World's Fastest Human - on September 14 when he ran 9.78 for the 100 meters at the 2002 IAAF Grand Prix Final, providing the lone world record this summer in the sprints or field events. The time broke Maurice Greene's previous world record of 9.79 seconds, earned Montgomery $250,000, and made him the surprise winner of the coveted IAAF overall Grand Prix Title. It was not his only success in a remarkable season. Montgomery's notable wins on this year's IAAF circuit included Brussels (9.91), Pretoria (9.94), Zurich (9.97), Cape Town (10.03) and Stockholm (10.08). In indoor competition, Montgomery ran 6.48 in Dortmund on Jan. 27, the fastest by an American indoors in 2002. Marion and Tim had historic seasons in 2002, said USA Track Field CEO Craig Masback. By training together and drawing on each other for support and motivation, they showed the importance of teamwork in an individual sport. Marion is unquestionably one of the all-time greats in track and field, and Tim has now entered the pantheon of Worlds Fastest Human. They are true ambassadors for track and field, and we look forward to more memorable seasons from them in years to come. Female nominees for the 2002 Jesse Owens Award were Gail Devers, Deena Drossin, Jones and Nicole Teter. Male nominees for the 2002 Jesse Owens Award were Jeff Hartwig, Khalid Khannouchi, Montgomery, Adam Nelson and Savante Stringfellow. Voters for the award included members of the Track and Field Writers of America and other members of the media. The permanent commemorative Jesse Owens Award is maintained at USATF National Headquarters, and a replica is provided to each of the winners. Previous winners are Edwin Moses (1981), Carl Lewis (1982 and 1991), Mary Decker (1983), Joan Benoit (1984), Willie Banks (1985), Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1986 and 1987), Florence Griffith Joyner (1988), Roger Kingdom (1989), Lynn Jennings (1990), Kevin Young (1992), Gail Devers (1993 and 1996), Michael Johnson (1994, 1995 and 1996), Allen Johnson (1997), Marion Jones (1997 and 1998), John Godina (1998 and 2001), Inger Miller (1999), Maurice Greene (1999), Stacy Dragila (2000 and 2001) and Angelo Taylor (2000). NOTE TO THE MEDIA: Jones and Montgomery will appear at 2 p.m. Eastern Time on a USATF teleconference on Tuesday, December 3. To take part in the teleconference, dial (800) 791-2345 a few minutes prior to the beginning of the call. The access code is 64186. Media calling from overseas should dial 317-713-0120. The access code remains the same, 64186. Shortly after the call is completed, an audio replay will be available on the USATF Web site: www.usatf.org # # #
t-and-f: Test, ignore
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t-and-f: WPV indoor/outdoor NR comparisons
Increasingly unreliable memory had it that several top vaulters of the past had narrowly better indoor than outdoor personal bests. When I asked Gerard Dumas if he knew of other examples than mine of Dutch Warmerdam and Sergey Bubka, he quickly came up with a list that included Dutch (4.78i, 4.77o), Sergey (6.15i, 6.14o), Bob Richards (4.72i, 4.71o), Rodion Gataullin (6.02i/6.00o), John Uelses (4.99i, 4.95o), Billy Olson (5.93i, 5.80o), Don Bragg (4.81i, 4.80o), Jean Galfione (6.00i, 5.98o), C. K. Yang (4.96i, 4.89o), Boo Morcom (4.49i, 4.47o) and a dozen others. He thought perhaps as many as a third of the vaulters would have better indoor than outdoor PBs. Since all vaulters jump in far more outdoor than indoor meets, and since indoors they have to forego the opportunity for a following wind, it's difficult to see why their ultimate performances should come under cover. Popular wisdom is that the slight bounce off elevated board runways provided an advantage in speed of the approach and perhaps some trampoline effect on the take-off. That being the case, I reasoned that far fewer women would have better indoor marks, since high-level performance in the female vault has occurred so recently that most of their indoor competitions would have been off synthetic runways laid directly over solid flooring. The exception to outdoor superiority that came immediately to mind was world indoor record holder Svetlana Foefanova. Since this is the time of year when I usually would post updated WPV national indoor records before the beginning of the indoor season, it needed very little additional time to make this a comparison of national indoor and outdoor records. This is what I found: Algeria 3.70Linda Meziani 2000-05-07 Franconville no indoor record available Andorra 2.60Lorena Alverez 2001-06-03 1 Igualada no indoor record available Argentina 4.42Alejandra Garcia 2000-02-20 Sydney no indoor record available Australia 4.60Emma George1999-02-20 1 Sydney 4.55i Emma George1998-03-26 1 Adelaide Austria 4.40Doris Auer 2000-09-17 Gold Coast 4.44i Doris Auer 2001-03-18 Glasgow Belarus 3.80Svetlana Makarevich2002-05-23 1 Kiev 3.80Yuliya Taratynova 2002-06-06 1 Brest 3.80i Svetlana Makarevich2002-01-21 Moskva Belgium 4.03Irene Dufour 2002-07-13 1 Oordegem 3.95i Irena Dufour 2002-02-17 Ghent Belize 2.40Clarencia Jones2002-05-24 Cd Guatemala 2.40Kay de Vaughan 2002-05-24 Cd Guatemala no indoor record available Bolivia 2.30Emily Ochoa2002-03-13 1 Capiapo 2.30Cristel Pardo 2002-09-21 Cochabamba no indoor record available Brazil 4.00Karla Rosa da Silva2002-05-12 2 Cd Guatemala 3.80i Joana Ribeiro Costa2002-02-09 Blacksburg Bulgaria4.43Tanya Koleva 2001-05-30 1 Athína 4.40i Tanya Koleva 2001-02-03 Sofia Canada 4.35Stephanie McCann 2002-06-21 1 Edmonton 4.30i Stephanie McCann 2002-02-17 3 Flagstaff Chile 4.10Carolina Maurer-Torres 2002-09-07 1 Aarau no indoor record available China 4.52Gao Shuying2001-08-29 1 Beijing 4.45i Gao Shuying2002-03-10 3= Sindelfingen Colombia3.90Milena Agudelo 2002-10-12 1 Medellin no indoor record available Costa Rica 2.65Maureen Calvo 2000-06-17 San Jose no indoor record available Croatia 3.55Ivona Jerkovic 2002-06-08 1 Zagreb 3.40i Ivona Jerkovic 2002-01-26 Sempeter Gorcici Cuba4.05Katiuska Pérez 2001-05-31 1 La Habana no indoor record available Cyprus 4.05Anna Fitidou 2002-06-16 3 Trikala 4.01i Anna Fitadou 1999-01-30 Patra Czech Republic 4.51Daniela Bártová1998-06-09 1 Bratislava 4.56i Pavla Hamácková2001-03-09 Lisbon Denmark 4.35Marie Bagger Rasmussen 2000-09-25 8 Sydney 4.23i Marie Rasmussen2002-02-17 Malmö Dominican Rep 2.81Leydy Araujo 2000-07-23 Santiago, DR no indoor record available Ecuador 2.92Erika Lemari 2000-11-30 Machala no indoor record available Egypt 3.51Sonya Ahmed2002-03-30
