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News15 Jul 1999


Jonathan Edwards in triple jump boost

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15 July 1999 – Salamanca, Spain (Reuters) - Britain's Jonathan Edwards on Thursday returned to the meeting where he set his first world triple jump record four years ago and leapt out to the longest jump of 1999, albeit wind-assisted.

Edwards reached 17.71 metres, although the wind was over the limit, at 3.4 metres per second. Nevertheless, it will be a big morale boost to the 1995 world champion, who set the current world record of 18.29 when winning the gold medal in Gothenburg. It will also help dispel the few remaining doubts he has about recovering fully from the ankle surgery he underwent at the end of last season.

Edwards also comfortably beat the reigning world champion Cuba's Yoelvis Quesada.

Quesada, who retained his World Student Games title on Saturday, looked tired after his success in Mallorca and could only reach 17.27, also wind assisted.

The Salamanca stadium is widely thought of as a paradise for jumpers because of its setting, just below the benchmark at which performances are considered altitude assisted. However, swirling winds did few people any favours on Thursday.

Spain's Yago Lamela, the second best long jumper in the world this year, had gone there looking to improve on his recent national record of 8.56 metres, the best European mark for nearly 12 years, but he had to settle for 8.28.

Pole vaulter Viktor Christyakov cleared 5.90 metres to set a personal best four years after his last one and put him among the medal contenders for the World Championships in Seville next month.

Christyakov's wife Tatyana Grigorieva will make the same trip to Seville after going over 4.50 in the women's pole vault.

Selected results from the Salamanca international athletics meeting on Thursday:

Men
Long jump: 1. Yago Lamela (ESP) 8.28m, 2. Carlos Calado (POR) 7.98m, 3. Mohammed Mersal (EGY) 7.93m, 4. Cheikh Toure (FRA) 7.59m, 5. Jose Lazaro (ESP) 7.38m
Triple jump: 1. Jonathan Edwards (GBR) 17.71m, 2. Yoelvis Quesada (CUB) 17.27m, 3. Larry Achike (GBR) 16.89m, 4. Francis Agyepong (GBR) 16.83, 5. Charles Friedek (GER) 16.66
100m: 1. Pedro Pablo Nolet (ESP) 10.26
200m: 1. Doug Turner (GBR) 20.56
400m: 1. Pablo Escriba (ESP) 46.98sec
110m hurdles: 1. Igor Kazanov (LAT) 13.80sec, 2. Javier Benet (ESP) 13.80
400m hurdles: 1. Llimy Rivas (COL) 51.02sec
Pole vault: 1. Viktor Christiakov (AUS) 5.90m, 2. Jeff Hartwig (USA) 5.85, 3.Jose Manuel Arcos (ESP) 5.60

Women
Pole vault: 1. Tatiana Grigorieva (AUS) 4.50m, 2. Dana Cervantes (ESP) 4.10, 3. Paula Fernandez (ESP) 4.10
100m: 1. Rosa Akhigb (NGR) 11.21, 2. Nova Perris-Kneebone (AUS) 11.37, 3. Carmen Blay (ESP) 11.71
200m: 1. Nova Perris-Kneebone (AUS) 22.90sec, 2. Marina Trandenkova  (RUS) 23.08, 3. Rosa Akhigb (NGR) 23.15
400m: 1. Kudirat Akhigbe (NGR) 52.38, 2. Yolanda Reyes (ESP) 53.47
800m: 1. Tania Blake (GBR) 2min 01.87sec
100m hurdles: 1. Zhanna Gurbanova (ESP) 12.86
Discus: 1. Rita Lora (ESP) 53.40m

 

 

 

 

 

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