News11 Sep 2004


Final ISTAF places booked in Königs Wusterhausen

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Johanna Risku (FIN) (© A-P Sonninen)

The traditional Stadionfest in the village of Königs Wusterhausen benefited from unseasonably warm temperatures surpassing 25C which remained at the end of a warm week in the Berlin area. 

Final ISTAF Berlin up for grabs

As for the past four or five years, Berlin’s ISTAF meeting used the Stadionfest as a way to fill its final competitor spots in four designated events - the men’s Pole Vault and 1500 metres, plus the women’s High Jump and 1500 metres. 

In the women’s 1500 metres, Johanna Risku of Finland, last summer's World Student Games silver medallist took the lead with 200 metres remaining and held off a fast finish by Hungary Krisztina Papp to win in 4:11.06 to Papp’s 4:11.42. 

Ramona Dubnová of the Czech Republic won a two-competitor match over Poland’s Anna Ksok in the Women’s High Jump as both cleared a best of 1.85.  Tied after both had been eliminated, the two jumpers continued with a jumpoff to settle the contest, which Dubnová finally did with a clearance at 1.80. 

Chris Tamminga of the Netherlands won the Men’s Pole Vault at 5.50, in an event which might have seen higher heights, were it not for standards later discovered to be miscalabrated, which caused problems for many of the jumpers.  Czech vaulter Stepán Janáèek, coming back after Achilles surgery last season, was second at 5.45. 

The final spot for Sunday’s competition went to Suleiman Simotwo of Kenya, who sprinted ahead with 600 to go in the Men’s 1500 and held on for a 3:39.41 win. Miroslaw Formela of Poland tried vainly to cancel the Kenyan’s 15-metre advantage at the end as he finished second in 3:40.16, with Michal Sneberger of the Czech Republic third in 3:40.74. 

Traditional Hammer opener

As has been the case at almost all of the preceding ten editions of the meeting, the men’s Hammer Throw greeted the early arrivers among the capacity crowd of 3000.  It turned into a two-man intra-German contest, won by Holger Klose in a season-best 78.80.

Klose had taken a quick early lead with a leadoff 77.02, but Markus Esser came back with 78.24 in the second round to move ahead, only to have Klose respond with 78.29. 

On his final throw Esser came within a breath of winning, tossing 78.28, only one centimetre behind the leader.  With victory already in his pocket, Klose had reason to celebrate, and a season-best 78.80 brought the competition to a close.

An early spot on the time schedule also allowed the competitors in the women’s Long Jump good, warm conditions, although slight headwinds crept into the stadium near the end.  Winning in a meeting record 6.48 was Hungary’s Tünde Vaszi, ahead of Martina Darmovzalová of the Czech Republic at 6.26. 

As the daylight faded, one was reminded that autumn is only ten days away.  With a noticeable chill in the air, and a slight headwind of 0.4 adding a further impediment, Nigeria’s Olusoji Fasuba impressed in the men’s 100 metres with a 10.18 clocking, well ahead of the 10.42 by Lukasz Chyla of Poland.

A second section was won by Patrick Johnson of Australia in 10.41. 

Polish runners ruled the 200 metre races.  Marcin Jedrusinski overtook countryman Lukasz Chyla in the final thirty metres for a 20.57 victory, as Chyla clocked 20.75. 

In the women’s event, Grazyna Prokopek used her outside position advantageously in a 23.45 victory, with Doris Jacobs of Nigeria running second at 23.63.

The men’s 400 Metres posed no problem for Marcin Marciniszyn of Poland, whose 46.84 easily bettered the 47.73 from Germany’s Jens Dautzenberg. 

The final women’s event of the evening saw Susanne Wigene of Norway in a Steeplechase national record of 9:45.21, lowering the two-month-old mark by Hanne Lyngstad by almost eight seconds.  Britain’s Tina Brown, running in second, just missed dipping under ten minutes with 10:00.89. 

Ed Gordon for the IAAF


SELECTED RESULTS
(all GER except as noted): 

MEN

100 Metres:  Race 1 (0.0):  1. Gilpin 10.83 . . .  Race 2 (0.0):  1. Johnson (AUS) 10.41;  2. N’dri (CIV) 10.47;  3. Tulin (POL) 10.55 . . .  Race 3 (-0.4):  1. Fasuba (NGR) 10.18;  2. Chyla (POL) 10.42;  3. Unger 10.43;  4. Kosenkow 10.48;  5. Jedrusinski (POL) 10.50;  6. Broening 10.51 . . .

200 Metres (0.0):  1. Jedrusinski (POL) 20.57;  2. Chyla (POL) 20.75;  3. Rogowski (POL) 21.04 . . .

400 Metres:  1. Marciniszyn (POL) 46.84;  2. Dautzenberg 47.73;  3. Breitenstein 48.24. 

1500 Metres:  1. Simotwo (KEN) 3:39.41;  2. Formela (POL) 3:40.16;  3. Sneberger (CZE) 3:40.74;  4. Köhler 3:41.89;  5. Stouti 3:42.24 . . .

110 Hurdles (0.2):  1. Nossmy (SWE) 13.53;  2. Blaschek 13.69;  3. Villar (COL) 13.97 . . .

Pole Vault:  1. Tamminga (NED) 5.50;  2. Janacek (CZE) 5.45;  3. Rovan (SLO) 5.30;  4. Honcl (CZE) 5.25 . . .

Hammer:  1. Klose 78.80;  2. Esser 78.28;  3. Ziolkowski (POL) 76.92;  4. Kobs 74.69 . . .


WOMEN

100 Metres (0.0):  1. Atangana (CMR) 11.74;  2. Kleeberg (AUS) 11.75;  3. Dimitrova (BUL) 11.99 . . .

200 Metres (0.0):  1. Prokopek (POL) 23.45;  2. Jacobs (NGR) 23.63;  3. Atangana (CMR) 23.91 . . .

1500 Metres:  1. Risku (FIN) 4:11.06;  2. Papp (HUN) 4:11.42;  3. Rüdiger 4:11.98;  4. Walsham (AUS) 4:12.61;  5. Lesman (POL) 4:15.12 . . .

Steeplechase:  1. Wigene (NOR) 9:45.21 NR;  2. Brown (GBR) 10:00.89;  3. Necka (POL) 10:12.06 . . .

High Jump:  1. Dubnová (CZE) 1.85;  2. Ksok (POL) 1.85.  (in jumpoff; only two competitors)

Long Jump:  1. Vaszi (HUN) 6.48 (-0.3);  2. Darmovzalová (CZE) 6.26 (-0.6) . . .

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