This Week in Women's Track & Field
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It was another exciting weekend of Indoor Track & Field here in the States and abroad. We all had to wait until Sunday to watch a taped Reebok Boston Indoor Games on ESPN2, but with many people tweeting from the meet, we at least got live results and commentary on Saturday.
The weekend started on Wednesday however as Lolo Jones ran a world-leading 7.85 in the 60m hurdles in Düsseldorf. Jones tweeted after the race:
I broke my previous meet record w/a New world lead time of 7.85. Had to refocus from disaster prelim race where I hit hurdle one.
-@followlolo
Jones has had trouble with hitting hurdles in the past, but always has a positive spin on things, and that attitude resulted in a new world leader.
Not to be outdone, Priscilla Lopes-Shliep ran an even faster time (and thus new world leader) and personal record 7.82 in Stuttgart on Saturday.
Also at Stuttgart, Laverne Jones-Ferrette of the Virgin Islands blazed to a world-leading 6.97 seconds in the 60m, just five hundredths off of the world record. Not too far behind her was the USA's Carmelita Jeter in 7.05. Comparatively, the Boston Indoor Games 60m was won by Lisa Barber in 7.22, who has now won her first two races of 2010.
In the Boston Indoor Games 400m, Dee Dee Trotter jumped to the front as the runners cut in from their temporary lanes and completed dominated the rest of the field, winning in 53.08 in a very stylish black leotard (right, photo by PhotoRun.net). Beautiful.
Perhaps the most exciting race of the Boston meet was the 1000m, where Anna (Willard) Pierce and Erin Donohue faced off in what was expected to be a dual resulting in an American Record. However, none of the athletes seemed to want to "lead" behind the pacesetter, leaving the pace relatively slow and the race open for a good finisher to take. Kenia Sinclair of Jamaica, never one to count out, stayed just enough in contact with Donohue and Pierce after they took off from the rest of the field and was able to nip them both a few meters before the finish. The three women finished within four tenths of each other, but without a record.
In the Boston women's 3000m, the pace was once again slow and once again three women separated themselves from the field and battled to the finish: USA's Shannon Rowbury (bronze medalist in the 1500m at the 2009 World Outdoor Championships) and Kalkidan Gezahegn and Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia. All three negative-splitted and finished furiously with Gezahegn taking the win in 8:46.19 and the other two within one second behind her.
Track & Field News Athlete of the Decade Yelena Isinbaeva pole-vaulted a world leading 4.85m (15' 11") in Moscow and was satisfied (I'll say).
Finally, Blanka Vlasic high-jumped 2.06m (6' 9" - the height of your average doorway!!) in Arnstadt High Jump Meeting on Saturday, coming within 2 centimeters of the indoor world record.
What to look forward to next week
Also don't forget to follow our Track & Field list on twitter for the latest and greatest: @womentalksports/track-field
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