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| June 29, 2003 | Sunday | Rabi-us-Sani 28,1424 |
Adere runs 2nd fastest women’s 5,000m
OSLO, June 28: World half-marathon champion Berhane Adere ran the second fastest women’s 5,000 metres ever on Friday to lead an Ethiopian clean sweep at the Bislett Games Golden League meeting.
Adere, the world indoor 3,000 metres record holder, clocked 14 minutes 29.32 seconds in the first of the season’s six Golden League meetings with a blistering sprint finish that left her just a second off the world record set by China’s Bo Jiang in 1997.
Werknesh Kidane was second in 14:33.04 and Tirunesh Diababa third in 14:39.94, a world junior record in a race in which six Ethiopians finished in the top 10. Eight of the 17 finishers set personal bests.
Adere said she had aimed only to win the race and realised that she was on world record pace at about 3,000 metres.
Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopia’s potential heir to world 5,000 and 10,000 metres record holder Haile Gebrselassie, won the men’s 5,000 metres in a personal best of 12:52.26.
Sammy Kipketer was second in 12:52.33 and fellow-Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge third in a world junior record of 12:52.61.
In the men’s 100 metres, former world junior champion Mark Lewis-Francis of Britain upstaged compatriot and European champion Dwain Chambers to win in a time of 10.12.
Lewis-Francis turned down a chance of a place at the Sydney Olympics to concentrate on the 2000 world junior championships where he won two golds.
In the women’s 100 metres, Chandra Sturrup of the Bahamas beat US champion Kelli White in a photo finish. Sturrup, the former Commonwealth Games champion, clocked 10.96 seconds, 0.01 ahead of White, who won the 100-200 double at the US championships this month.
Australia’s Commonwealth champion Jatna Pittman won the 400 metres hurdles, holding off a late challenge from current world number one Ionela Tirlea of Romania.
In the women’s triple jump, Cuba’s Yamile Aldama recorded the longest leap for two years with a personal best of 15.11 metres.
The meeting was the last to be staged in the Bislett Stadium. The stadium will be demolished and next year’s event will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, while a new one is erected.
Leading results::
MEN’S::
400 metres: 1. Cedric van Branteghem (Belgium) 45.55 seconds; 2. Clinton Hill (Australia) 46.09; 3. Iwan Thomas (Britain) 46.11.
110 metres hurdles: 1. Stanislav Olijars (Latvia) 13.14 seconds; 2. Chris Phillips (US) 13.30; 3. Terrence Trammell (US) 13.37.
400 metres hurdles: 1. Boris Gorban (Russia) 49.95 seconds; 2. Anthony Borsumato (Britain) 50.87; 3. Atle McAdam (Norway) 50.98.
100 metres: 1. Mark Lewis-Francis (Britain) 10.12 seconds; 2. Dwain Chambers (Britain) 10.15; 3. Matt Shirvington (Australia) 10.25.
800 metres: 1. Mbulaeni Mulaudzi (South Africa) one minute 44.11 seconds; 2. Wilfred Bungei (Kenya) 1:44.15; 3. Antonio Manuel Reina (Spain) 1:44.65.
5,000 metres: 1. Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia) 12 minutes 52.26 seconds; 2. Sammy Kipketer (Kenya) 12:52.33; 3. Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya) 12:52.61.
Javelin: 1. Sergey Makarov (Russia) 85.61 metres; 2. Boris Henry (Germany) 84.51; 3. Voldemars Lusis (Latvia) 81.94.
Pole vault: 1. Nick Hysong (US) 5.70 metres; 2. Okkert Brits (South Africa) 5.70; 3. Toby Stevenson (US) 5.70.
WOMEN’S::
400 metres hurdles: 1. Jana Pitiman (Austria) 54.42 seconds; 2. Ionela Tirlea (Romania) 54.47; 3. Sandra Glover (US) 54.80.
5,000 metres: 1. Berhane Adere (Ethiopia) 14 minutes 29.32 seconds; 2. Werknesh Kidane (Ethiopia) 14:33.04; 3. Tirunesh Diababa (Ethiopia) 14:39.94.
Triple jump: 1. Yamile Aldama (Cuba) 15.11 metres; 2. Francoise Mbango (Cameroon) 14.86; 3. Tatjana Lebedeva (Russia) 14.86.
100 metres: 1. Chandra Sturrup (Bahamas) 10.96 seconds; 2. Kelli White (US) 10.97; 3. Debbie Ferguson (Bahamas) 11.08.
800 metres: 1. Maria Mutola (Mozambique) two minutes 00.62 seconds; 2. Stephanie Graf (Austria) 2:00.92; 3. Diane Cummins (Canada) 2:01.00.
1,500 metres: 1. Irina Lisinskaya (Ukraine) four minutes 04.62 seconds; 2. Yelena Zadorozhnaya (Russia) 4:04.97; 3. Judit Varga (Hungary) 4:05.82.
High jump: 1. Inga Babakova (Ukraine) 2.01 metres; 2. Vita Palamar (Ukraine) 1.99; 3. Irina Mikhalchenko (Russia) 1.99.—Reuters
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