Svetlana Feofanova
sets another World Record in Stockholm
AP
6 February 2002 – Stockholm - Pole vault world record holder Svetlana Feofanova of Russia broke her own world record Wednesday, clearing 4.72 at the Globen Galan indoor track and field meet.
The Russian improved the record she set Sunday by 1centimetre. Feofanova will get a 50.000 euro bonus for breaking a world record at the meet in Stockholm's 14.000-seat Globe Arena. She beat reigning Olympic and world champion Stacy Dragila of the United States, who came in second with 4.47.
The 21-year-old said the world record jump set today did not feel as good as the one on Sunday in Stuttgart, Germany, but she expects more to follow.
“I am happy and one of my goals for the future is to raise the world record to five meters,” Feofanova said. “It was good to beat Dragila but this is just one meet and the fight will go on.”
Dragila still holds the outdoor world record with 4.81.
Kenya's Luke Kipkosgei won the men's 3000 in 7:40.70 seconds, followed by Rui Silva of Portugal in 7:40.92 and John Mayock of Great Britain in 7:41.09.
In other women's action, Austria's Stephanie Graf took the lead from Olympic and world champion Maria Mutola to win the 800 meters in 1:59.51. Mutola of Mozambique was the leader after the third lap, but Graf passed her shortly after the 600 metre mark. Mutola finished in 2:00.09, followed by Germany's Yvonne Teichmann with 2:01.89. Graf beat Mutola for the second year in a row at the meet in Stockholm's Globe Arena. But she failed to break one of the longest standing indoor world records, then East Germany's Christine Wachtel's time of 1:56.4 set in 1988.
“It was an easy race. I wasn't even tired,” Graf said, adding that Mutola is “such a great athlete. But today I'm No.1.”
In the 1500 meters, Berhane Adere of Ethiopia had the fastest race of the year at 4:05.54. She surpassed the previous best of the year set by Russia's Yekaterina
Puzanova with 4:14.27 at the Russian Winter last month. Adere was followed by Helena Javornik of Slovakia and Alesya Turova of Belarus.
Daniel Caines of Great Britain won the 400 meters in 46.35, beating his own seasonal best of 46.68. Sweden's Jimisola Laursen, who holds the national record indoors and outdoors, came in second at 46.55.
Morne Nagel of South Africa won the 60 meters in 6.53, followed by American Brian Lewis at 6.62 and Frank Fredericks of Namibia at 6.63.
In a treat for the home crowd, Sweden's Christian Olsson cleared 17.28 in the triple jump, a Swedish record.
Leading
Results
Men
60 metres hurdles
1. Yevgeniy Pechonkin (Russia) 7.54 seconds
2. Xiang Liu (China) 7.61
3. Elmar Lichtenegger (Austria) 7.63
60 metres
1. Morne Nagel (South Africa) 6.53
2. Brian Lewis (U.S.) 6.62
3. Frank Fredericks (Namibia) 6.63
800 metres
1. Glody Dube (Botswana) 1:47.21
2. Yurij Borsakovskiy (Russia) 1:47.24
3. Pawel Czapiewski (Poland) 1:47.53
3000 metres
1. Luke Kipkosgei (Kenya) 7:40.70
2. Rui
Silva (Portugal) 7:40.92
3. John Mayock (Britain)
7:41.09
High Jump
1. Staffan Strand (Sweden) 2.35
2. Stefan Holm (Sweden) 2.29
3. Wilbert Pennings (Netherlands) 2.25
Triple Jump
1. Christian Olsson (Sweden) 17.28
2. Fabrizio Donato (Italy) 16.76
3. Igor Spasovhodskiy (Russia) 16.53
Women
1500 metres
1. Berhane Adere (Ethiopia) 4:05.54
2. Helena Javornik (Slovenia) 4:08.10
3. Alesya Turova (Belarus) 4:08.81
800 metres
1. Stephanie Graf (Austria) 1:59.51
2. Maria
Mutola (Mozambique) 2:00.09
3. Ivonne Teichmann (Germany)
2:01.89
400 metres
1. Cathrine Murphy (Britain) 53.44
2. Monique Hennagan (U.S.) 53.81
3. Kudirat Akhigbe (Nigeria) 54.68
Pole Vault
1. Svetlana Feofanova (Russia) 4.72 (WR)
2. Stacy Dragila (U.S.) 4.47
3= Yelena Belyakova (Russia) 4.37
3= Gao Shuying (China) 4.37
High Jump
1. Marina Kuptsova (Russia) 1.97
2. Olga Kaliturina (Russia) 1.97
3. Venelina Veneva (Bulgaria) 1.97
