IAAF Names Multis Fields For Worlds

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(We had thought Pappas was going to go; musta changed his mind)

International Association of Athletics Federations

 



Association Internationale des Fédérations d’Athlétisme



IAAF WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS



COMBINED EVENTS - COMPETITORS CONFIRMED - FOR BUDAPEST





26 February 2004



Monte-Carlo - The sixteen athletes who will compete in the Combined Events at the 10th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics, Budapest, Hungary, 5 – 7 March 2004, (eight invited for the men’s Heptathlon and eight for the women’s Pentathlon) have been confirmed.



The eight names for each of the two disciplines are composed of four athletes from the current indoor season’s world top-10 and four from the 2003 outdoor world top-10 list.



In what should be a classy competition the men’s Heptathlon, the listing includes World Decathlon record holder Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic, Olympic champion Erki Nool (EST), and Lev Lobodin of Russia who was the World Indoor silver medallist in Birmingham in 2003.



The women’s Pentathlon will be no less competitive and the list of invited athletes is headed by the world season’s leader Nataliya Dobrynska of Ukraine and the next four best scoring athletes too.



Men’s Heptathlon:

Indoor

Aleksandr Pogorelov RUS

Lev Lobodin RUS

Jon Arnar Magnusson ISL

Ranko Leskovar SLO

Outdoor

Bryan Clay USA

Dmitry Karpov KAZ

Erki Nool EST

Roman Sebrle CZE





Women’s Pentathlon:

Indoor

Nataliya Dobrynska UKR

Tia Hellebaut BEL

Karin Ruckstuhl NED

Naide Gomes POR

Outdoor

Irina Butor BLR

Larisa Netseporuk EST

Austra Skujyte LTU

Kim Schiemenz USA


IAAF



For the Full story including Shot and Combined Events, go to www.iaaf.org <http://www.iaaf.org/>

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Re: IAAF Names Multis Fields For Worlds

Pappas explanation in press release from USATF today:

<....Pappas will forgo defending his World Indoor heptathlon title in order to prepare for the outdoor track & field season. Pappas, 27, had minor surgery on his right shoulder January 27 to remove cartilage. The gold-medal favorite for the Olympic Games reports that he is training at full strength, but did not want to risk possible injury by competing too early.

“I’m doing everything I normally do,” Pappas said. “The only thing I’ve had to go easy on is the pole vault. I could probably do it, but it’s not worth setting myself up for a fall in case the shoulder isn’t quite ready.”

Although Pappas will not compete at World Indoors, he will participate in the 2004 USA Indoor Combined Events Championships March 6-7 in Chapel Hill, N.C. Pappas will compete in six of the seven heptathlon events, skipping the pole vault......>>