Tula, Russia19yearold Yevgeniy Aydamirov broke the Hammer Throw World Junior record* at the Under-20 Russian Championships which were held at the “Arsenal” stadium in Tula this weekend (22 / 23 July).
Aydamirov (born 11 May 1987) won the title with a best effort of 82.60m, a performance which outclasses the previous World Junior record of Hungary’s Krisztián Pars whose 81.34m had been the best junior standard since 2001.
A training group of World record holders
Aydamirov lives and trains in Bataisk, a town located in the Rostov-on-Don region far away from the Russian capital. Bataisk has been made famous by several other hammer throwers before Aydamirov, namely the World record holder* for the women’s Hammer throw, Tatyana Lysenko and the Under-23 European champion Ekaterina Khoroshikh.
Another seven world class throwers train in the “Bataisk group” under the coaching guidance of Nickolai Beloborodov with Aydamirov curiously being the only male member of the group. Notably, he was second at the European Junior Champs in 2005, having finished fourth at the World Youth Championships in 2003
Aydamirov’s record was set with an astonishing ease, his 82.60m performance being backed up by an excellent 80.09m effort. He had a previous personal best of 80.05m set on 15 July also in Tula.
In second place this weekend was Anatoliy Pozdnyakov who also broke the 80 metres barrier with a 80.12m best performance.
Two national junior records also fell during the championships with Nikolai Seduk throwing the Discus to 62.24 metres and Vladimir Zhukov clocking 13.76 at 110m Hurdles, his third national record.
Heading for Beijing!
Several other Russian athletes proved just how fit they are with less than a month to go to the IAAF World Junior Championships in Beijing, China. Ksenyia Zadorina clocked 51.81 at 400m, the third fastest junior time of the year. Ekaterina Shtepa won the 100m Hurdles with a 13.40 clocking and Anastasyia Ott won the 400m Hurdles in 56.28 which places her in fourth in the 2006 World Junior lists.
16-year-old Elena Arzhanova who is regarded as the rising star of Russian middle distance won the 3000m Steeplechase in 10:12.78, the second fastest junior time in the world this year. Arzhanova had already improved the national junior record at the shorter 2000m Steeplechase.
Victorya Ivanova achieved an interesting double as she took victory in both the 1500m and 3000m with times of 4:20.06 and 9:15.78 respectively. Ivanova is coached by her father Mikhail Ivanov and by the 1992 Olympic women’s 3000m champion Yelena Romanova.
Volik wins but with no record
One athlete who was expected to break records was Valeriya Volik but the 17-year-old failed to clear a would-be national record of 4.45m this time. She nevertheless won the title with a clearance of 4.35m. Her coach Evgeniy Trofimov explained the failure as being very simple, her poles were not long and nor rigid enough!
In other events…
Women
Jana Lyadnova took the women’s 100m (11.70); Ekaterina Tatarintseva clocked 23.97 at 200m; Aleksandra Uvarova won the 800m in 2:04.08.
The High Jump was dominated by Ekaterina Kaluzhnaya with 1.88m; Yuliya Pidluzhnaya won the Long Jump (6.40m) while Darya Safronova triple jumped to 13.62m.
Irina Kirichenko won the Shot Put with 16.19m; Tatyana Kopylova won the Discus Throw (50.29m) while World season leader Anna Bulgakova won the Hammer Throw with 64.97m.
Alena Ivanova won the Javelin throw (47.15m); Olga Kurban took the Heptathlon title with 5634 points leaving Ulyana Varukha in second (5566) and Nadezhda Sergeeva in third (5565).
Men
Mikhail Idrisov won the men’s 100m in 10.61; Ramis Abdulkadyrov took the 200m title in 21.74 and Anton Kokorin was first at 400m in 46.76.
Dmitriy Bukreev clocked 1:50.94 to win the 800m; Vyacheslav Sakaev took the 400m Hurdles in 51.16 and Roman Evgeniev dominated in the High Jump (2.20m).
Leonid Kivanov cleared 5.50m to win the Pole Vault; Anton Filatenkov landed at 7.71m in the Long Jump and Stanislav Ionov tripled jumped at 16.02m.
Ivan Semenov won the Shot Put (19.66m); Sergei Gromov took the Javelin Throw title with 69.86m and Sergei Dorofeev won the Decathlon with the excellent result of 7394 points.
Nickolai Dolgopolov and Rostislav Orlov for the IAAF
*pending ratification
