Milan Grand Prix II Results

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Results:

http://www.iaaf.org/GP04/results/eventC ... index.html

or

http://www.gpiaaflombardia.it/ITALIANO/ ... ti2004.htm

[KevinM]

Re: Milan Grand Prix II Results

Dan --

To what do you attribute the nearly complete lack of US competitors in this meet? Is this something done by design, as with Euro basketball teams, or is it just by chance that Eric Thomas is the only American in the field of a GP II meet? Seems odd.

Surely not everyone is competing in Palo Alto/Portland.

km

[trackstar]

Re: Milan Grand Prix II Results

Hell of a performance in the women's 5K, especially since she must have run the last several laps alone:



Official Result Women - 5000m
Pos Athlete Nat Mark
1 Adere Berhane ETH 14:36.92
2 Melkamu Meselech ETH 15:00.02

[EPelle]

Re: Milan Grand Prix II Results

She was aiming at the Chinese women:s national record.

[gh]

Re: Milan Grand Prix II Results

>Dan --

To what do you attribute the nearly complete lack of US competitors
>in this meet? Is this something done by design, as with Euro basketball teams,
>or is it just by chance that Eric Thomas is the only American in the field of a
>GP II meet? Seems odd.

Surely not everyone is competing in Palo
>Alto/Portland.>>

It's simple economics. GP II meets, as a rule, don't have big budgets. Can't afford to fly Americans in across the pond, and if they did they'd then have no prize money to give out. Name pros will (rightfully) be expecting both.

Unless there's an American who has a solid base of operations in Europe already and can cut down on travel costs, not going to see many of them at this time of year in small meets like this.

[tafnut]

Re: Milan Grand Prix II Results

1 Adere Berhane ETH 14:36.92

is this the most going-to-go-this-summer women's record of all? (besides the obvious one - PV; OK, and maybe steeplechase too)?