Yuliya Pechonkina of Russia on her way to victory in her 400m Hurdles semi final in Osaka 2007 (© Getty Images)
Cheboksary, RussiaThe second day of the AllRussian Championships in Cheboksary didn’t produce quite the expected highs though results were still very solid (Fri 24).
In Thursday’s qualifying rounds of the women’s 400m Antonina Krivoshapka had established a very good 49.29sec, a new U23 national record but in Friday’s final while she won again in brilliant fashion her time was slightly slower - 49.71 sec. But it was a high quality race with Anastasija Kapachinskaya second in 49.97. The third place was taken by Lyudmila Litvinova - 50.27.
The men’s one lap race was taken by Maxim Dyldin in 45.80sec. The second was Konstantin Svechkar - 46.20.
World 400m Hurdles record holder Yuliya Pechonkina’s career looks like it is very much back on course. After a DNF in the meet in Zhukovskiy on 5 July, she came back well with a 54.93 sec run in Thursday’s heats, and yesterday reasserted herself into contention for Berlin World Championship medals with a 54.86sec win in the final. The silver went to Anastasija Ott (56.09), and Yelena Churakova was third (56.16).
Alexander Derevjagin clocked 49.87sec for the men’s 400m Hurdles title.
Anna Alminova had been the headline star of Thursday’s opening day of these championships with a 1:57.86 world lead for the women’s 800m in the heats. Yesterday however she did not show up for the final and has decided instead to concentrate on her specialist 1500m distance at which she is European Indoor champion.
In Alminova’s absence the 800m final was won by Maria Savinova (1:59.01). Svetlana Kljuka was second in 1:59:08, with the bronze being shared between Yevgeniya Zinurova and Tatyana Andrianova, with the identical result: 2:00.16.
Yuriy Borzakovskiy won the men’s 800m easily in 1:46.60.
The women’s 100m went to Yevgeniya Polyakova in 11.21sec, though her semi final was quicker, 11.16, and was the fastest by a Russian this season. Konstantin Petryashov won the men’s dash (10.41).
Yulia Kondakova won the women’s 100m Hurdles in 12.90sec, second was Tatyana Dektjareva in 12.96. Yevgeniy Borisov was the men’s 110m Hurdles winner (13.61) beating Konstantin Shabanov - 13.66.
World silver medallist Anna Chicherova high jumped 2.00m, with former Olympic champion Yelena Slesarenko and Svetlana Shkolina both successful at 1.96m.
Viktor Chistyakov won the men’s Pole Vault beating Aleksandr Gripich and Igor Pavlov in that order on countback at 5.70m.
In the women’s Long Jump there was a PB for Yelena Sokolova (6.92) who topped the challenge of Irina Simagina and Olga Kucherenko who both produced 6.78m. The men’s competition was taken by Vitaly Shkurlatov - 7.92m.
In the women’s Shot Put, Anna Avdeeva produced 20.07m, outstripping her nearest rival by almost 3 metres. The men’s event was much closer with Maxim Sidorov the victor with 20.92m ahead of Pavel Sofin - 20.59 - Anton Ljuboslavsky - 20.20.
The Discus Throws were won with great efforts from Natalya Sadova with 65.40m and Bogdan Pischalnikov with 65.13m.
Nikolay Dolgopolov and Rostislav Orlov for the IAAF
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