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2.30M 4.76M
was the height Qatari jumper
Motaz Essa Barsham cleared to
win a bronze medal
Jamaica’s
Usain Bolt en
route to winning
the 200M race.
fREncH sprinter christophe
lemaitre produced a new
100M national record after
clocking 9.92sec to win the
national championships at Albi last
week.
It was three-tenths of a second
quicker than the previous record
which he set in Stockholm on
June 18.
Lemaitre, a triple European
sprint champion, was helped
by the weather conditions — a
temperature of 29 degrees celcius
and favourable wind (2m/s) —
which fell within the limits for
records to stand.
“It’s a great time,” said Lemaitre.
“the conditions were ideal
and it was good to rediscover
the conditions and formula for
championships which I’d just lost
a little.”
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was Russian pole vaulter
Yelena Isinbayeva’s
winning effort
Last week, the Frenchman had
wilted at the Diamond League
meeting in Monaco, trailing in fifth
in 10.03.
“After the Paris meeting, he’s
been suffering a groin injury and
that limited the speed work he
could do,” said Lemaitre’s coach
Pierre carraz. “Since Monaco,
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lemaitre breaks own record
he just had two light training
sessions.”
Meanwhile, a strong following
wind thwarted his attempts at
another French record, in 200M, as
he clocked 20.08sec to win.
the time was quicker than
the existing record of 20.16
that Lemaitre shares with Gilles
Queneherve, but it did not count
because the wind speed registered
at 2.3m/s.
“that’s life,” said the 21-year-old
triple European sprint champion. “I
had it in my legs, but there’re other
factors that I can’t control. the most
important thing is that I won the
title,” he said.
the 200M remains the longeststanding
record in France.
Queneherve ran it when he won
the silver medal at the world
championships in Rome in 1987.
chambers
qualifies for
Worlds
cOntROVERSIAL British sprinter Dwain chambers
qualified for the IAAF world championships in
Daegu, South Korea, after winning the UK 100M
title in Birmingham last week.
chambers received a two-year ban and a life-time
suspension from the Olympics in 2003 for using
prohibited substance tHG, but he remains one of
Britain’s leading sprinters and will be in South Korea
for the world finals this month.
the 33-year-old won at the trials event in 10.09sec,
ahead of Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Marlon Devonish,
who both clocked 10.14.
“I tell you what, it’s not getting any easier,” chambers
said. “My age is kicking in now. But I relish the
competition because that’s what brings out the best in
all of us. It keeps me on my toes,” he said.
In the women’s race, Olympic finalist Jeanette Kwakye
put her injury nightmare behind with victory in 11.23,
ahead of Anyika Onuora and Laura turner.
Meanwhile, christine Ohuruogu insists there is no
crisis ahead of the worlds even though she finished
third in the 400M trials. Ohuruogu, who had already
run the 400M qualifying time, needed to turn in a late
surge to come home behind hurdles specialist Perri
Shakes-Drayton and Shana cox in the 400M, the event
in which she won the Olympic title in ’08 and world
championship gold in Osaka in ’07.
the 27-year-old has not broken 50sec since Beijing
while her season’s best of 51.49 leaves her a lowly 33rd
in world rankings.
Asked about her prospects in Daegu, Ohuruogu said,
“I’ll just win it. I went to Osaka running 53 seconds so
nothing’s a crisis.”