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Sunday, 14 September 2008
Women's Triple Jump
Russia’s Tatyana Lebedeva is most certainly the world’s best combination long and triple jumper of recent years, but evaluating those events separately this summer and the 32-year-old has been beaten on each occasion when it really mattered.
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Men's Javelin Throw
2004 Olympic silver medallist Vadims Vasilevskis was the man of the day in the men’s Javelin Throw securing the win with his opener 85.62 which he then backed up with a last round 86.65 season’s best to seal a below-par competition here in Stuttgart.-
Women's 3000 Metres
Meseret Defar made it a magnificent seven victories in the World Athletics Final to complete the 3000m/5000m double, earn herself an extra $60,000 and enhance her standing as the most successful athlete in the six-year history of the lucrative end-of-season competition.
Men's 5000 Metres
Edwin Soi returned to Stuttgart intent on defending his double distance victory of one year ago. Although he came up just short in the 3000m on Saturday, finishing second, the Olympic bronze medallist did come through in the 5000 today.Women's High Jump
Blanka Vlasic may view 2008 as the year that might have been but she kept her bank manager happy by landing the $30,000 first prize to record her 37th victory in 39 competitions.
Men's 200 Metres
The effect of the chilly conditions that enveloped Mercedes Benz Stadium today was vividly illustrated in the men’s 200 where just two men managed to reach the finish in under 20.60.
Men's Pole Vault
With temperatures barely over 11 degrees centigrade at the start of the men’s Pole Vault one could hardly have expected fireworks from the eight-man field competing at the World Athletics Final here in Stuttgart.Women's 100 Metres
What a season for Shelly-Ann Fraser. Unheralded and unknown before the start of the campaign she has improved her 100m best by a staggering 0.53 this season, landed a unexpected Olympic gold medal and ends the season $30,000 richer with victory in the IAAF World Athletics Fina...
Women's Discus Throw
After her World Championship bronze in 2007, Yarelis Barrios, 25, took the Olympic silver in Beijing this summer losing to the surprising American Stephanie Brown-Trafton. This young, particularly by top discus throwing standards, Cuban represents to many the future of this even...
Men's 3000m Steeplechase
26-year-old Paul Kipsiele Koech had a point to prove and he certainly did prove it with an exceptional gun to tape win on day two at the IAAF/VTB Bank World Athletics Final here in Stuttgart.
