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HELSINKI, Aug 19: Italy’s Andrea Longo, who served a two-year doping suspension, could race in the 800m at the world championships in Paris after making the qualifying time at the Grand Prix meeting here on Monday.
Longo, banned in 2001 after testing positive for nandrolone, was allowed to attempt to make the championships, which begin on Saturday, by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) despite the deadline of August 13 having passed.
The 28-year-old Longo, finished second here on Monday behind Canada’s Gary Reed in a time of 1min 45.88sec.
Results:
MEN
100m Final (wind: +0.8 m/s): 1. Darvis Patton (USA) 10.14; 2. Eric Nkansah (GHA) 10.14; 3. Shawn Crawford (USA) 10.16
100m B Race (wind: -1.0 m/s): 1. Ja’warren Hooker (USA) 10.45; 2. Leonard Myles-Mills (GHA) 10.62; 3. Nnamdi Anusim (NGR) 10.69
200m (wind: +0.1 m/s): 1. Shawn Crawford (USA) 20.26; 2. Joshua J. Johnson (USA) 20.32; 3. Ricardo Williams (JAM) 20.62
800m: 1. Gary Reed (CAN) 1:45.85; 2. Andrea Longo (ITA) 1:45.88; 3. Joeri Jansen (BEL) 1:46.18
3000m: 1. Moses Kigen (KEN) 7:46.04; 2. Shadrack Korir (KEN) 7:46.24; 3. Pius Muli (KEN) 7:46.86
110m hurdles: 1. Larry Wade (USA) 13.36; 2. Ron Bramlett (USA) 13.39; 3. Chris Phillips (USA) 13.55
Long jump: 1. Ignisious Gaisah (GHA) 8.19 metres; 2. Joan Lino Martinez (CUB) 7.86; 3. Ruslan Gataullin (RUS) 7.80
Pole vault: 1. Vadim Strogalyov (RUS) 5.70 metres; 2. Nick Hysong (USA) 5.60; 3. Piotr Buciarski (DEN) 5.60
Shot put: 1. Yuriy Bilonog (UKR) 21.09 metres; 2. Christian Cantwell (USA) 20.55; 3. Bradley Snyder (CAN) 20.22
Javelin: 1. Boris Henry (GER) 80.73 metres; 2. Esko Mikkola (FIN) 79.76; 3. Gergely Horvath (HUN) 79.44
WOMEN
200m (wind: -0.2 m/s): 1. Chryste Gaines (USA) 23.06; 2. Beverly Mcdonald (JAM) 23.07; 3. Svetlana Goncharenko (RUS) 23.22
800m: 1. Maria Cioncan (ROM) 2:00.20; 2. Svetlana Cherkasova (RUS) 2:01.33; 3. Mardrea Hyman (JAM) 2:01.54
Triple jump: 1. Yamile Aldama (CUB) 14.43 metres; 2. Heli Koivula (FIN) 14.36; 3. Olga Bolshova (MDA) 14.05
Javelin: 1. Steffi Nerius (GER) 62.35 metres; 2. Laverne Eve (BAH) 62.05; 3. Taina Kolkkala (FIN) 59.53.—Reuters
