IAAF World Athletics Championships Results: Aug. 21

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IAAF World Athletics Championships Results: Aug. 21

Associated Press
Aug. 22, 2009, 12:48AM

1, LaShawn Merritt, United States, 44.06 seconds. 2, Jeremy Wariner,
United States, 44.60. 3, Renny Quow, Trinidad and Tobago, 45.02. 4,
Tabarie Henry, Virgin Islands, 45.42. 5, Chris Brown, Bahamas,
45.47. 6, David Gillick, Ireland, 45.53. 7, Michael Bingham, Britain,
45.56. 8, Leslie Djhone, France. 45.90.
800 Semifinals
Heat 1 – 1, q-Nick Symmonds, United States, 1 minute, 45.96
seconds. 2, q-Jackson Mumbwa Kivuva, Kenya, 1:46.32. 3, Belal Mansoor
Ali, Bahrain, 1:46.57. 4, Tamas Kazi, Hungary, 1:47.01. 5, Jeff
Lastennet, France, 1:57.43. 6, Marcin Lewandowski, Poland,
2:01.62. Bram Som, Netherlands, DNF. Abubaker Kaki, Sudan, DNF.
Heat 2 – 1, q-Yusuf Saad Kamel, Bahrain, 1:45.01. 2, q-Yuriy
Borzakovskiy, Russia, 1:45.16. 3, q-Alfred Kirwa Yego, Kenya,
1:45.22. 4, q-Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South Africa, 1:45.26. 5, Khadevis
Robinson, United States, 1:45.91. 6, Adam Kszczot, Poland, 1:46.33. 7,
Asbel Kiprop, Kenya, 1:52.05. Ismail Ahmed Ismail, Sudan, DNF.
Heat 3 – 1, q-Amine Laalou, Morocco, 1:45.27. 2, q-Yeimer Lopez, Cuba,
1:45.33. 3, David Lekuta Rudisha, Kenya, 1:45.40. 4, Gary Reed,
Canada, 1:45.60. 5, Moise Joseph, Haiti, 1:45.87. 6, Fabiano Pecanha,
Brazil, 1:45.94. 7, Michael Rimmer, Britain, 1:46.77. 8, Samson
Ngoepe, South Africa, 1:49.03.
50Km Walk Final
1, Sergey Kirdyapkin, Russia, 3:38:35. 2, Trond Nymark, Norway,
3:41:16. 3, Jesus Angel Garcia, Spain, 3:41:37. 4, Grzegorz Sudol,
Poland, 3:42:34. 5, Andre Hohne, Germany, 3:43:19. 6, Luke Adams,
Australia, 3:43:39. 7, Jared Tallent, Australia, 3:44:50. 8, Marco De
Luca, Italy, 3:46:31. 9, Jarkko Kinnunen, Finland, 3:47:36. 10, Matej
Toth, Slovakia, 3:48:35.
11, Faguang Xu, China, 3:48:52. 12, Yohan Diniz, France, 3:49:03. 13,
Jesus Sanchez, Mexico, 3:50:55. 14, Donatas Skarnulis, Lithuania,
3:50:56. 15, Chengliang Zhao, China, 3:53:06. 16, Oleksiy Shelest,
Ukraine, 3:54:03. 17, Tadas Suskevicius, Lithuania, 3:54:29. 18,
Koichiro Morioka, Japan, 3:56:21. 19, Horacio Nava, Mexico,
3:56:26. 20, Herve Davaux, France, 3:57:10.
21, Andreas Gustafsson, Sweden, 3:57:53. 22, Rafal Augustyn, Poland,
3:58:30. 23, Augusto Cardoso, Portugal, 3:59:10. 24, Milos Batovsky,
Slovakia, 3:59:39. 25, Lei Li, China, 4:00:13. 26, Mikel Odriozola,
Spain, 4:00:54. 27, Cedric Houssaye, France, 4:02:44. 28, Diego
Cafagna, Italy, 4:08:04. 29, Jose Alejandro Cambil, Spain,
4:13:14. 30, Magno Mesias Zapata, Ecuador, 4:15:28.
31, Luis Fernando Garcia, Guatemala, 4:18:13. Takayuki Tanii, Japan,
DQ. Yuki Yamazaki, Japan, DQ. Omar Zepeda, Mexico, DQ. Mario Jose dos
Santos Jr, Drazil, DNF. Marco Benavides, El Salvador, DNF. Konstadinos
Stefanopoulos, Greece, DNF. Jamie Costin, Ireland, DNF. Colin Griffin,
Ireland, DNF. Alex Schwazer, Italy, DNF. Ingus Janevics, Latvia,
DNF. Erik Tysse, Norway, DNF. Rafal Fedaczynski, Poland, DNF. Antonio
Pereira, Portugal, DNF. Yuriy Andronov, Russia, DNF. Denis
Nizhegorodov, Russia, DNF. Nenad Filipovic, Serbia, DNF. 4X100 Relay
First round
Heat 1 – 1, q-Trinidad and Tobago, (Darrel Brown, Marc Burns, Keston
Bledman, Richard Thompson), 38.47. 2, q-Japan (Masashi Eriguchi, Naoki
Tsukahara, Shinji Takahira, Kenji Fujimitsu), 38.53. 3, q-France,
(Ronald Pognon, Martial Mbandjock, Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux,
Christophe Lemaitre), 38.59. 4, Brazil (Vicente de Lima, Sandro Viana,
Basilio de Moraes, Jose Carlos Moreira), 38.72. 5, Switzerland,
(Pascal Mancini, Marc Schneeberger, Reto Schenkel, Marco Cribari),
39.47. 6, South Africa (Hannes Dreyer, Leigh Julius, Thuso Mpuang,
L.J. van Zyl), 39.71.
Heat 2 – 1, q-United States, (Terrence Trammell, Michael Rodgers,
Shawn Crawford, Darvis Patton), 37.97. 2, q-Britain (Simeon
Williamson, Tyrone Edgar, Marlon Devonish, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey),
38.11. 3, q-Canada (Hank Palmer, Oluseyi Smith, Jared Connaughton,
Bryan Barnett), 38.60. 4, Netherlands, (Gregory Sedoc, Caimin Douglas,
Guus Hoogmoed, Patrick van Luijk), 38.95. 5, Portugal, (Dany
Goncalves, Arnaldo Abrantes, Ricardo Monteiro, Francis Obikwelu),
39.25. 6, Ghana, (Nana Kofi Samm, Tanko Braimah, Seth Amoo, Aziz
Zakari), 39.61.
Heat 3 – 1, q-Italy (Roberto Donati, Simone Collio, Emanuele Di
Gregorio, Fabio Cerutti), 38.52. 2, q-Jamaica, (Lerone Clarke, Michael
Frater, Steve Mullings, Dwight Thomas), 38.60. 3, Australia, (Anthony
Alozie, Joshua Ross, Aaron Rouge-Serret, Matt Davies), 38.93. 4,
Thailand, (Apinan Sukaphai, Wachara Sondee, Suppachai Chimdee,
Sittichai Suwonprateep), 39.73. Germany, (Tobias Unger, Marius
Broening, Alexander Kosenkow, Martin Keller), DNF. Poland, (Michal
Bielczyk, Dariusz Kuc, Mikolaj Lewanski, Robert Kubaczyk), DNS.
High-Jump Final
1, Yaroslav Rybakov, Russia, 7-7¼. 2, Kyriakos Ioannou, Cyprus,
7-7¼. 3 (tie), Sylwester Bednarek, Poland, and Raul Spank, Germany,
7-7¼. 5 (tie), Jaroslav Baba, Czech Republic; Mickael Hanany,
France; Martijn Nuyens, Netherlands; and Linus Thornblad, Sweden,
7-3¾. 9, Andra Manson, United States, 2.23. 10, Ivan Ukhov, Russia,
7-3¾. 11 (tie), Giulio Ciotti, Italy, and Keith Moffatt, United
States, 7-7¾. 13, Kabelo Kgosiemang, Botswana, 7-1¾.
Javelin Qualifying
Group A – 1, q-Yukifumi Murakami, Japan, 272-8. 2, q-Guillermo
Martinez, Cuba, 270-8. 3, Tero Pitkamaki, Finland, 267-10. 4, Andreas
Thorkildsen, Norway, 263-8. 5, Ainars Kovals, Latvia, 261-8. 6, Tero
Jarvenpaa, Finland, 260-9. 7, Sergey Makarov, Russia, 258-2. 8,
Csongor Oltean, Hungary, 257-5. 9, Mihkel Kukk, Estonia, 256-6. 10,
Mike Hazle, United States, 256-5. 11, Jae-myong Park, South Korea,
256-5. 12, Qiang Qin, China, 254-9. 13, Roman Avramenko, Ukraine,
254-1. 14, Aliaksandr Ashomka, Belarus, 252-1. 15, Eriks Rags, Latvia,
250-1. 16, Vitezslav Vesely, Czech Republic, 248-7. 17, Jonas Lohse,
Sweden, 247-1. 18, Melik Janoyan, Armenia, 245-2. 19, Adrian
Markowski, Poland, 243-2. 20, Tino Haber, Germany, 243-1. 21, Stefan
Muller, Switzerland, 238-11. 22, Thomas Smet, Belgium, 230-9. 23,
Victor Fatecha, Paraguay, 225-2. 24, Tomas Intas, Lithuania, 224-5.
Group B – 1, q-Vadims Vasilevskis, Latvia, 284-5. 2, q-Mark Frank,
Germany, 265-3. 3, q-Teemu Wirkkala, Finland, 261-11. 4, q-Petr
Frydrych, Czech Republic, 261-0. 5, q-Sean Furey, United States,
260-1. 6, q-Antti Ruuskanen, Finland, 258-2. 7, Stuart Farquhar, New
Zealand, 257-7. 8, Fatih Avan, Turkey, 256-3. 9, Aleksandr Ivanov,
Russia, 255-11. 10, Tom Goyvaerts, Belgium, 253-10. 11, Chris Hill,
United States, 253-1. 12, Oleksandr Pyatnytsya, Ukraine, 249-9. 13,
Uladzimir Kazlou, Belarus, 247-4. 14, Igor Janik, Poland, 246-9. 15,
Sangjin Jung, South Korea, 238-10. 16, Arley Ibarguen, Colombia,
238-0. 17, Ilya Korotkov, Russia, 234-10. 18, Mohamed Ali Kebabou,
Tunesia, 225-6. 19, Julio Cesar de Oliveira, Brazil, 224-8. 20, John
Robert Oosthuizen, South Africa, 222-8. 21, Mervyn Luckwell, Britain,
217-6. Ignacio Guerra, Chile, NM. Tanel Laanmae, Estonia, NM. Andrus
Varnik, Estonia, DNS.
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Women
200 Final
1, Allyson Felix, United States, 22.02. 2. Veronica
Campbell-Brown. Jamaica, 22.35. 3, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie, Bahamas,
22.41. 4, Muna Lee, United States, 22.48. 5, Anneisha McLaughlin,
Jamaica, 22.62. 6, Simone Facey, Jamaica, 22.80. 7, Emily Freeman,
Britain, 22.98. 8, Eleni Artymata, Cyprus, 23.05.
1,500 Semifinals
Heat 1 – 1, q-Maryam Yusuf Jamal, Bahrain, 4:03.64. 2, q-Natalia
Rodriguez, Spain, 4:03.73. 3, q-Lisa Dobriskey, Britain, 4:03.84. 4,
q-Christin Wurth-Thomas, United States, 4:04.16. 5, q-Kalkidan
Gezahegne, Ethiopia, 4:04.75. 6, q-Natalya Evdokimova, 4:04.93. 7,
q-Lidia Chojecka, Poland, 4:06.53. 8, Viola Jelagat Kibiwot, Kenya,
4:06.88. 9, Iris Fuentes-Pila, Spain, 4:07.10. 10, Sonja Roman,
Slovenia, 4:07.20. 11, Btissam Lakhouad, Morocco, 4:08.72. 12, Anna
Mishchenko, Ukraine, 4:11.02. 13, Irina Krakoviak, Lithuania, 4:12.54.
Heat 2 – 1, q-Gelete Burka, Ethiopia, 4:10.19. 2, q-Mariem Alaoui
Selsouli, Moroccoa, 4:10.46. 3, q-Anna Willard, United States,
4:10.47. 4, q-Shannon Rowbury, United States, 4:10.51. 5, q-Nuria
Fernandez, Spain, 4:10.64. 6, Nikki Hamblin, New Zealand, 4:10.96. 7,
Nancy Jebet Langat, Kenya, 4:11.10. 8, Hind Dehiba Chahyd, France,
4:11.22. 9, Sylwia Ejdys, Poland, 4:11.33. 10, Anna Alminova, Russia,
4:12.55. 11, Mimi Belete, Bahrain, 4:13.30. Iryna Lishchynska,
Ukraine, DNF. Meskerem Assefa, Ethiopia, DNS.
Long-Jump Qualifying
Group A – 1, q-Naide Gomes, Portugal, 22-6¼. 2, q-Maurren Higa
Maggi, Brazil, 21-11. 3, q-Nastassia Mironchyk, Belarus, 21-6. 4,
q-Teresa Dobija, Poland, 21-6. 5, q-Brianna Glenn, United States,
21-5¼. 6, q-Shara Proctor, Anguilla, 21-4¾. 7, Elena Sokolova,
Russia, 21-4¼. 8, Soon-ok Jung, South Korea, 21-3½. 9, Ruky
Abdulai, Canada, 21-2. 10, Irina Meleshina, Russia, 20-11¾. 11,
Funmi Jimoh, United States, 20-9¾. 12, Bianca Kappler, Germany,
20-7¾. 13, Viktoriya Molchanova, Ukraine, 20-7¾. 14, Ola Sesay,
Sierra Leone, 20-5¼. 15, Sachiko Masumi, Japan, 20-5¼. 16, Jana
Veldakova, Slovakia, 20-2½. 17, Sirkka-Liisa Kivine, Estonia,
20-0¼. 18, Nina Kolaric, Slovenia, 19-8¼.
Group B – 1, q-Brittney Reese, United States, 22-3. 2, q-Tatyana
Lebedeva, Russia, 22-2¼. 3, q-Olga Kucherenko, Russia, 21-11. 4,
q-Karin Mey Melis, Turkey, 21-10¾. 5, q-Keila Costa, Brazil,
21-10¼. 6, q-Ksenija Balta, Estonia, 21-7½. 7, Jovanee Jarrett,
Jamaica, 21-1¼. 8, Viktoriya Rybalko, Ukraine, 21-0. 9, Eloyse
Lesueur, France, 21-0. 10, Natallia Dobrynska, Ukraine, 20-11¼. 11,
Yarianny Arguelles, Cuba, 20-9. 12, Melanie Bauschke, Germany,
20-9. 13, Margrethe Renstrom, Norway, 20-8½. 14, Marestella Torres,
Philippines, 20-5. 15, Janice Josephs, South Africa, 20-5. 16,
Beatrice Marscheck, Germany, 20-3¾. 17, Alice Falaiye, Canada,
19-11¾. 18, Patricia Sylvester, Grenada, 19-5¼. Blessing
Okagbare, Nigeria, DNS. Discus
Final
1, Dani Samuels, Australia, 214-8. 2, Yarelis Barrios, Cuba, 214-3. 3,
Nicoleta Grasu, Romania, 213-11. 4, Zaneta Glanc, Poland, 205-7. 5,
Aimin Song, China, 204-9. 6, Nadine Muller, Germany, 203-6. 7, Natalya
Sadova, Russia, 202-8. 8, Melina Robert-Michon, France, 199-10. 9,
Sandra Perkovic, Croatia, 199-4. 10, Aretha Thurmond, United States,
196-6. 11, Xuejun Ma, China, 192-10. 12, Stephanie Brown Trafton,
United States, 192-0.

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Emil Lazarian

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