by Nikolai Ivanov
International competition “Russian Winter 99”, held in Moscow on February 14 has given one more chance for Russian athletes to reach the qualifying standards set by the All Russia Athletic Federation for participation in the World Indoor Championships. They must achieve results which enter in ten best in the world of the season, only then after indoor national championships will athletes get a place in the 28 strong team.
The women’s pole vault opened “Russian Winter” competition with the impressive jumps of the talented Tatyana Gubareva, the former 400 m runner from the Siberian city Omsk. Her winning mark was a new national record: 4.31m. She said: “I did not expect to overcome 4.30. My result today gives me hope for a medal at the championships in Maebashi. It will become one more step to the summer world championships".
In men’s 60 m the winner was Nigerian Sunday Emmanuel in 6.72.
Russian triple jumper Yelena Lebedenko won her event with one of the leading marks this season: 14.69. “Later in Maebashi I am going to jump much better," said Yelena. "On the eve of “Russian Winter” I got cold and managed to make only three jumps”. Yelena is a former European indoor champion in pentathlon. She wants to be best in the world in the coming summer season in triple jump.
In the 800m. the new leader of middle distance running Natalya Tsyganova produced 2:04.40.
Other highlights of “Russian Winter 99” included 3:40.57 in the men's 1500 m. by Russian athlete Andrey Zadorozhnyi and 4:11.06 by Svetlana Kanatova in the women's race over that distance.
“We are satisfied with the outcome of “Russian Winter." said chief Russian coach Valeriy Kulichenko . “We could check the form of our team, which can win 3 gold medals at the world indoors. But there are still serious problems in some events. No Russian athlete will compete in Maebashi in the men’s 60m. 800 meters and 4x400. In the pole vault Maksim Tarasov is missing the winter championships and the same applies with our best middle distance runner Svetlana Masterkova. She is preparing to win two gold medals at the summer world championships. Now it is quite clear that some leaders are going to miss the indoor championship because of injuries. They are long jumper Kiril Sosuno, triple jumper Denis Kapustin and middle distance runner Yelena Afanasieva.
Results, courtesy of Sergey Tikhonov
Russian Winter. Moskva (14.02); Stadium br. Znamenskikh
Men -
60 m:
1. Sunday Emmanuel (NGR) 6.66
2. Aleksandr Ryabov 6.75
3. Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy 6.78
Marcin Krzywanski (POL) dns
Ht 1:
1. Marcin Krzywanski (POL) 6.74
2. Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy 6.75
3. Gennadiy Chernovol (KZK) 6.76
4. Sergey Insakovs (LAT) 6.93
Ht 2:
1. Aleksandr Ryabov 6.72
2. Sergey Slukin 6.76
3. Andrey Grigoryev 6.86
4. Leonard Koryukov 6.90
Ht 3:
1. Sunday Emmanuel (NGR) 6.72
2. Sergey Bychkov 6.77
3. Sergey Kononyuk 6.82
4. Aleksandr Makeyev 6.94
1500 m:
1. Andrey Zadorozhniy 3.40.57
2. Spencer Barden (GBR) 3.45.90
3. Marat Abubakirov 3.47.77
4. Reuben Kosgei 80(KEN) 3.49.77
5. Andrey Fedorenko 3.50.83
6. Mhannad Shoinassi (MAR) 4.07.50
60 mH:
1. Sergey Vetrov 7.68
2. Yevgeniy Pechonkin 7.72
3. Krzysztof Mehlich (POL) 7.77
4. Andrey Kislykh 7.90
Ht 1:
1. Ronald Mehlich (POL) 7.82
2. Andrey Kislykh 7.86
3. Jaroslaw Fyodorov 7.89
4. Andrey Sklyarenko (KZK) 7.92
Ht 2:
1. Sergey Vetrov 7.72
2. Yevgeniy Pechonkin 7.81
3. Igor Yastrebov 7.90
4. Victor Bolkun (UKR) 7.90
LJ:
1. Andrey Ignatov 7.75
2. Yevgeniy Tretyak 7.70
3. Denis Savelyev 7.59
4. Stanislav Tarasenko 7.58
5. Aleksey Zhukov 7.49
6. Nikolay Ptitsyn 7.48
7. Aleksey Osipov 7.43
8. Yuriy Naumkin 7.30
Women -
60 m:
1. Oksana Ekk 7.25
2. Anzhela Kravchenko (UKR) 7.27
3. Nadezhda Roshchupkina 7.47
Natalya Ignatova dnf.
Ht 1:
1. Anzhela Kravchenko (UKR) 7.29
2. Nadezhda Roshchupkina 7.47
3. Olga Povtaryova 7.47
4. Natalya Vorobyeva (KZK) 7.57
Ht 2:
1. Oksana Ekk 7.28
2. Yelena Tishkova 7.54
3. Nadezhda Lavygina 7.59
Ht 3:
1. Natalya Ignatova 7.32
2. Natalya Shcherbak 7.51
3. Gulnara Safiullina 7.51
4. Dina Bodritskaya (KZK) 7.64
800 m:
1. Natalya Tsyganova 2.04.40
2. Natalya Gorelova 2.05.44
3. Yuliya Kosenkova 2.05.78
4. Lyudmila Rogachova 2.05.97
5. Yuliya Taranova 2.07.60
6. Lale Ozturk (TUR) 2.08.62
1500 m:
1. Svetlana Kanatova 4.11.06
2. Maria Pantyukhova 4.11.79
3. Lyubov Kremlyova 4.12.22
4. Olga Kuznetsova 4.13.54
5. Yekaterina Dedkova 4.21.09
6. Irina Grinkova 4.21.24
7. Yelena Baranova 4.21.94
60 mH:
1. Svetlana Laukhova 8.06
2. Svetlana Dimitrova (BUL) 8.22
3. Natalya Shekhodanova 8.25
4. Diana Koritskaya 8.39
Ht 1:
1. Svetlana Dimitrova (BUL) 8.22
2. Natalya Shekhodanova 8.28
3. Diana Koritskaya 8.29
4. Natalya Chulkova 8.77
Ht 2:
1. Svetlana Laukhova 8.18
2. Tatyana Murzakova 8.48
3. Natalya Davydenko 8.50
4. Tatyana Mishakova 8.77
HJ:
1. Svetlana Lapina 1.93
2. Yelena Yelesina 1.90
3. Viktoriya Slivka 80 1.90
4. Marina Kuptsova 81 1.90
4. Viktoriya Fyodorova 1.85
4. Yekaterina Aleksandrova 1.85
4. Tatyana Nikolayeva (UKR) 1.85
4. Yelena Gulyayeva 1.85
9. Yelena Topchina 1.85
PV:
1. Tatyana Gubareva 4.31 NR
(4.00/2. 4.10/3. 4.20/1. 4.25/3. 4.31/3)
2. Svetlana Abramova 4.10
()4.00/2. 4.10/1. 4.20/3f)
3. Svetlana Feofanova 80 4.00
(3.80/1. 3.90/1. 4.00/1. 4.10/3f)
4. Galina Fyodorova 3.90
5. Alla Checheleva 81 3.70
6. Yuliya Golubchikova 83 3.70
7. Anastasiya Kuznetsova 80 3.60
TJ:
1. Yelena Lebedenko 14.69
(14.69. 12.48. 13.95. x. -. -)
2. Tatyana Lebedeva 14.22
(14.22. 14.11. 14.16. 13.82. 14.03. 14.05)
3. Yelena Donkina 14.03
(13.42. x. 14.03. 13.87. x. 14.00)
4. Yelena Govorova (UKR) 13.99
5. Zhanna Gureyeva (BLR) 13.77
6. Yelena Oleynikova 13.62
7. Lyudmila Dubkova 13.58
8. Maria Dimitrova (BUL) 13.12
SP:
1. Anna Romanova 18.84
2. Svetlana Krivelyova 18.81
3. Yuliya Zaginay 17.68
4. Tatyana Khorkhulyova (BLR) 17.51
