And a few more Russian results...

[EPelle]

Awesome for Vlasic! Thanks for the update Powell.

[nevetsllim]

New world leading marks in:

Men's 60m (Jason Gardener, 6.60)
Men's 1500m (Akkas Halil, 3:41.74)
Men's 60mH (Igor Peremota, 7.56)
Men's TJ (Nelson Evora, 17.19m)
Women's HJ (1.95m, Ana Chicherova)
Women's 60m (Yuliya Tabakova, 7.08)
Women's 400m (Olga Zaytseva, 50.15)

Gardener is going very well at the moment and I'm really happy for him.

He has a very busy schedule as he is in Mosocw now, Glasgow on the 28th and Karlsruhe on the 29th

[EPelle]

Yuliya Chizhenko clocked 2.32,16 to better the European Indoor record time of 2.32,96, set by Briton Kelly Holmes in February 2004. Russians Yelena Soboleva and Yelena Kanales were also inside the Holmes record, running 2.32,40 and 2.32,91 to finish second and third respectively.

Wire report

[observer2]

Blanca Vlasic 2.00 , maybe she will jump up to her full potential this year?

[observer2]

more good results. promising opening of indoor season

http://www.rusathletics.com/russianwint ... ts-eng.htm

[pela2]

Yuliya Chizhenko clocked 2.32,16 to better the European Indoor record time of 2.32,96, set by Briton Kelly Holmes in February 2004. Russians Yelena Soboleva and Yelena Kanales were also inside the Holmes record, running 2.32,40 and 2.32,91 to finish second and third respectively.

Wire report

First time we had 5 runners sub 2:36 indoors (and also 4 btw)

best ever marks for place indoors

2. 2:32.40 Yelena Soboleva Moskva Jan 25 2006
3. 2:32.91 Yelena Kanales Moskva Jan 25 2006
4. 2:35.67 Tatyana Petlyuk Moskva Jan 25 2006
5. 2:35.92 Svetlana Cherkasova Moskav Jan 25 2006

clearly the best 1000m race indoors for women all-time

[Andrea_T]

Olga Zaytseva - 50.15 (5th on all-time lists)
Olesya Krasnomovets - 50.40 (=8th on all-time lists)
Natalya Antyukh - 50.50 (13th on all-time lists)

Olga Kotlyarova won the 'B' race in 51.22, which led the world lists for a few minutes.

Zaytseva made a good breakthrough last year, running 50.06 and winning the Euro U23 title. But 50.15 is something else!!

I'd say Zaytseva's breakthrough last year was more like 'great' rather than 'good'! She appears to be the future for Russia in that event, but I'll wait for another couple of seasons first, as many have promised much and various things (injuries, bans..) have prevented them from fulfilling this (Nazarova and Pospelova in particular). It does though, appear that Zaytseva was protected somewhat last season (not even a relay slot for her in Helsinki, she remained focussed on the U23) so it may be that she is being nurtured better than the other recent young greats. But let's not forget Nazarova ran 49.68 indoors and has yet to match that outdoors.

Interestingly neither Nazarova nor Pospelova ran, despite both already being in good form (Nazarova's fast 500 and Pospelova has a fast 60 and 300)

Had she not run the 800m the day before Kotlyarova may well have dipped under 51 secs yestersay... great relay on the cards for Moscow!

[EPelle]

Pela2, that is great information... hopefully (I:m counting on it), we see some great home-team advantage times at the WICs in all disciplines.

[Powell]

great relay on the cards for Moscow!

Indeed... It could be a BIG new WR. The Russians are looking better than they did in 2004, and the Moscow track is a lot faster than the one in Budapest.

[lapsus]

Yuliya Chizhenko clocked 2.32,16 to better the European Indoor record time of 2.32,96, set by Briton Kelly Holmes in February 2004. Russians Yelena Soboleva and Yelena Kanales were also inside the Holmes record, running 2.32,40 and 2.32,91 to finish second and third respectively.

Wire report

Kanales' run was impressive to me as she led from 400 to 700 meters after the rabbit finished and didn't fade too badly at the end even though her running style looked pretty bad at the end. I had never even heard of her before this race.

[lapsus]

Blanca Vlasic 2.00 , maybe she will jump up to her full potential this year?

I didn't even realize that she was still in the competition before they showed her after Chicherova's last attempt. They just showed Slesarenko, Chicherova and Kuptsova. Lots and lots of Kuptsova...

[Jon]

I had never even heard of her before this race.

If I remember correctly, she had the fastest time in the world last year for the mile - although it wasn't really all that great a time.

[BruceFlorman]

It's probably that ridiculous illegally-banked track there.

It's the track that this year's WIC will take place on...

Actually, I think it's not.

New track for the world championship of light athletics in Moscow
26.01.2006

On 24 February the installation of a new track for the world championship of light athletics in Moscow will begin in the "Olympic" sport complex. As reported to RusAthletics.com by Victor Shpak, the leader of the sport department of the executive board of the organizing committee of the 2006 world championship in Moscow, a special commission of the executive board leaves for Tallinn today, where the track is located at the present moment, for inspection of the production process.

The track for the world championship in Moscow has had an interesting fate. It began its journey to Moscow in the USA, where the German company BSW, whose tender for the delivery the track was accepted last summer, began production. At present track has been moved to Estonia, but then will arrive in Russia.

"A trial assembly of the track will be done on arrival," reported Victor Shpak, "and then its final installation will begin on 24 February with a special surface coating of the type "Regupol", in the "Olympic" sport complex, where the world championship will take place. The young athletes who will arrive in the beginning of March for the "Baltic Cup" competitions will be able to test the new track."

[eldrick]

New track for the world championship of light athletics in Moscow
26.01.2006

The track for the world championship in Moscow has had an interesting fate. It began its journey to Moscow in the USA, where the German company BSW, whose tender for the delivery the track was accepted last summer, began production

is mondo too slow nowdayz to compete ?

and then its final installation will begin on 24 February with a special surface coating of the type "Regupol"

is that, that "atlanta '96 grease" that the german company, presumably, had to pay mondo a king's ransom for ?