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Sunday, 14 September 2003
Event Report Women's Long Jump
14 September 2003 - World champion Eunice Barber with her last round leap brought more than respectability to today’s competition, as the French athlete’s 7.05m was a national record and the second longest leap in the world of the summer.
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Event Report Men's Javelin
14 September 2003 - The 2003 World champion and the only thrower over 90 metres this season, Russia’s Sergey Makarov re-emphasised his number one status with the spear with an 85.66m to 84.33m victory over World record holder Jan Zelezny. -
Event Report Men 5000m
14 September 2003 - 18-old Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya who will always be remembered as the man who prevented both Hicham El Guerrouj and Kenenisa Bekele from winning the 5000m final at the World Championships in Paris scored yet another victory in today’s 5000m race in 13:23.34. -
Event Report Men's High Jump
14 September 2003 – The whole field with the exception of Canada’s World Championships bronze medallist Mark Boswell (opened at 2.23m; best of 2.27m for 7th) made their opening attempts at 2.18m this afternoon, and of all the participants Russia’s European champion Yaros... -
Event Report Men 3000 metres Steeplechase
14 September 2003 - Saif Saaeed Shaheen needed to complete the 3000m Steeplechase in 7:54.49 to overtake Hicham El Guerrouj in the IAAF World Rankings and earn Athlete of the Year honours. -
Event Report Women 400m
14 September 2003 - Mexico’s Ana Guevara who became the 8th fastest woman in the history of the 400 metres when winning her first global title two weeks ago in Paris in 48.89 scored another superb victory here in Monaco as she equalled the third fastest time of the year (49.3... -
Event Report Women 100 metres
14 September 2003 - USA’s Chryste Gaines celebrated her birthday today with a runaway victory in the women’s 100 metres, running a new personal beat of 10.86 to totally dominate the race. -
Event Report Women's Discus
14 September 2003 – Czech Vera Pospisilova reaffirmed her number Event status in the IAAF World Ranking with a second round spin of 65.42m to beat the newly crowned World champion Irina Yatchenko of Belarus - who languished down in eighth and last place today (60.96m) - a... -
Event Report Women 3000m
14 September 2003 - Edith Masai of Kenya, who had to content with the World Championships 5000m bronze behind Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba and Spain’s Marta Dominguez in Paris after a tactically slow race was determined in the last 30 metres, made sure her finishing sprint wou... -
Event Report Men 400m Hurdles
14 September 2003 - Double world and Pan American champion Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic ended the 2003 season with a superb demonstration of what a magnificent athlete he is.
