World-leading marks for Russian jumpers Kucherenko and Koneva | 30.01.2012
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| Olga Kucherenko moved to the top of the world list in the long jump with a 6.91m effort at the Governor Cup meeting on Sunday. |
Kucherenko, the 2011 World Championships long jump silver medallist and 2010 European Athletics Championships bronze medallist, flew out to an indoor best of 6.91m, although she can boast of an outdoor best of 7.13m.
Russia's heptathlon world champion Tatyana Chernova was second with 6.54m.
Triple jumper Koneva, who won the World University Games title last year, got a career best 14.60m in the triple jump; adding 14 centimetres to her previous best set last summer.
Anna Krylova, seventh at the 2011 World Championships and better known as Anna Kuropatkina until she got married recently also set a lifetime best of 14.39m in second place.
There was a big upset on the second day of the London Games at the Lee Valley Arena on Sunday when the 2007 World Youth Championships 100m winner Asha Philip defeated the 2011 European Athletics Rising Star of the Year Jodie Williams. In their two races, Philip firstly won 7.30 to 7.31 and then 7.24 to 7.32; they where the first ever defeats for Williams by another British athlete in an official competition.
Fastest in men´s 60m was Britain's 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships 100m bronze medallist Andrew Robertson, who twice ran 6.65.
Czech multi-eventer Adam Sebastian Helcelet won the men's heptathlon with a personal best score of 5933 points at the five-nation international combined events match in Prague's Stromovka Hall at the weekend.
Helcelet, fourth in the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships decathlon but still only 20 and eligible to compete at the 2013 edition in Tampere, Finland, set a personal best by 85 points when winning the match for the second year in succession. He also took the significant scalp of his compatriot and local legend Roman Sebrle.
The two-time European Athletics Championships decathlon gold medallist, was second on this occasion with 5808 points.
The pair helped Czech Republic win the men´s match with 20,983 points ahead of The Netherlands, who were second with 20,192 points.
The Netherlands won the women's pentathlon match with a score 15,399 to finish in front of Great Britain. The Dutch filled the top three places and were lead by 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships pentathlon bronze medallist Remona Fransen, who scored scored 4553 points (60m hurdles – 8.53, high jump – 1.84, shot put – 14.01, long jump – 6.02, 800m - 2.17.10) to finish ahead of her compatriots Nadine Broersen and Yvonne Van Langen, who were second and third respectively with 4470 and 4380 points.
Italy's 2009 World Youth Championships Alessia Trost added a centimetre to her lifetime best when she went over 1.91m in Pordenone for a new Italian indoor junior record while in Rome, the Italian sprinter Audrey Alloh ran a personal best and World Indoor Championships 60m qualifying time of 7.33 on Sunday.
At the Elan meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia, Slovenia's 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships triple jump silver medallist Marija Sestak got her best indoor result for almost three years when she went out to 14.19m.
Great Britain's Gianni Frankis won the men's 60m hurdles in 7.76 in the Slovak capital while his compatriot Josh Swaray won the men's 60m in 6.72, which equalled his personal best.
There was also some fast indoor walking around Europe on Sunday.
Germany's Sabine Krantz clocked fast 12:18.70 in the 3000m walk in Düsseldorf while some of Portugal's top stars were in action in Pombal and Vera Santos achieved 2:35.12 in the 3000m walk while Joao Almeida won the men's 5000m in 19:08.84.
