10 June 2004	Thursday	21 Rabi-us-Saani 1425

OSTRAVA, June 9: Ethiopian long distance runner Kenenisa Bekele shattered a world record on Tuesday just two months before the Athens Olympics. But American Stacy Dragila's outdoor pole vault leap of 4.83 metres in the same meeting will not stand as a world record, the sport's governing body IAAF confirmed on Wednesday.

The 33-year-old had appeared to set a world mark, beating the previous outdoor best of 4.82 recorded by Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva in Gateshead, England last year.

But Isinbayeva's indoor leap of 4.86 metres in Budapest in March stands as the overall world record following a rule change which combines indoor and outdoor marks.

"I can confirm 100 percent that the... world record is Yelena Isinbayeva's," International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) spokesman Nick Davies said on Wednesday. "Stacy Dragila has jumped the highest outdoor record."

The diminutive Bekele broke his second world record in nine days when he shattered compatriot Haile Gebrselassie's 10,000 metres mark at an international meeting.

The 22-year-old double world cross country champion brought the capacity crowd to their feet as he crossed the line in 26 minutes 20.31 seconds, well inside Gebrselassie's mark of 26:22.75 set in Hengelo, Netherlands, six years ago.

Bekele broke Gebrselassie's 5,000 record at the Hengelo meeting on May 31. Triple Olympic champion Marion Jones was less than impressive in her first long jump compeition in Europe since the 2000 Sydney Games.

Jones failed to break seven metres in her six attempts and came no where close to the 7.13 metre jump she recorded at a meeting in California last month. Jones is coming back from a year off after giving birth to a son last year.

Mozambique's Maria Mutola also put her rivals on notice in the 800 metres where she will defend her title in Athens. Her time of 1:57.72 was the fastest in that distance this year by nearly a full second.

Leading results:

MEN'S:

110 metres hurdles: 1. Allen Johnson (US) 13.12 seconds; 2. Larry Wade (US) 13.33; 3. Terrence Trammell (US) 13.33.

200 metres: 1. Justin Gaitlin (US) 20.30 seconds; 2. Shawn Crawford (US) 20.35; 3. Frank Fredericks (Namibia) 20.62.

400 metres hurdles: 1. Felix Sanchez (Dominican Republic) 48.44 seconds; 2. Joey Woody (US) 48.77; 3. Danny McFarlane (Jamaica) 49.15.

1,500 metres: 1. Alan Webb (US) three minutes 32.73 seconds; 2. Ivan Heshko (Ukraine) 3:32.88; 3. Timothy Kiptanui (Kenya) 3:33.34.

10,000 metres: 1. Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia) 26 minutes 20.31 seconds; 2. Gebre Gebremariam (Ethiopia) 26:53.73; 3. Abdullah Ahmad Hassan (Qatar) 27:15.03.

3,000 metres steeplechase: 1. Saif Said Shaheen (Qatar) eight minutes 11.54 seconds; 2. Ezekiel Kemboi (Kenya) 8:14.93; 3. Raymond Yator (Kenya) 8:15.20.

Javelin: 1. Alexandr Ivanov (Russia) 87.33 metres; 2. Jan Zelezny (Czech Republic) 86.12; 3. Breaux Greer (US) 84.95.

WOMEN'S:

100 metres: 1. Torri Edwards (US) 11.25 seconds; 2. LaTasha Colander (US) 11.29; 3. Chryste Gaines (US) 11.30.

100 metres hurdles: 1. Perdita Felicien (Canada) 12.67 seconds; 2. Delloreen Ennis-London (Jamaica) 12.76; 3. Angela Whyte (Canada) 12.96.

400 metres: 1. Tonique Williams (Bahamas) 50.28 seconds; 2. Ionela Tirlea (Romania) 50.91; 3. Tatyana Levina (Russia) 51.53.

400 metres hurdles: 1. Yuliya Pechenkina (Russia) 53.99 seconds; 2. Brenda Taylor (US) 54.36; 3. Sandra Glover (US) 55.16.

800 metres: 1. Maria Mutola (Mozambique) one minute 57.72 seconds; 2. Sultana Ait Hammou (Morocco) 2:00.07; 3. Agnes Samaria (Namibia) 2:00.56.

1,500 metres: 1. Irina Lishchinska (Ukraine) four minutes 03.74 seconds; 2. Lidia Chojecka (Poland) 4:04.15; 3. Kelly Holmes (Britain) 4:04.18.

3,000 metres steeplechase: 1. Cristina Casandra (Romania) nine minutes 34.36 seconds; 2. Docus Inzikuru (Uganda) 9:37.41; 3. Bouchra Chaabi (Morocco) 9:42.20.

Triple jump: 1. Olena Hovorova (Ukraine) 14.51 metres; 2. Adelina Gavrila (Romania) 14.29; 3. Trecia Smith (Jamaica) 14.24.

Pole vault: 1. Stacy Dragila (US) 4.83 metres; 2. Edda Elisdottir Thorey (Iceland) 4.40; 3. Monika Pyrek (Poland) 4.40.

High jump: 1. Blanka Vlasic (Croatia) 1.98 metres; 2. Hestrie Cloete (South Africa) 1.98; 3. Viktoria Styopina (Ukraine) 1.95.

Long jump: 1. Tatyna Kotova (Russia) 7.00 metres; 2. Tatyana Lebedeva (Russia) 6.91; 3. Marion Jones (US) 6.67. -Reuters