7000 points is a realistic target for self confident Dobrynska
5 January 2009 – Prior to last summer’s Olympic Games, Natalya Dobrynska hadn’t won a single major international multi-event competition. Indeed, heading to Beijing, her modest accomplishments kept her well off the radar screen as a potential successor to Carolina Klüft. But when she crossed the line of the 800m the 26-year-old Ukrainian loomed large, standing before a trail of exhausted bodies as the Olympic Heptathlon champion.Athletics “a commercial as well as a sporting success”
5 January 2009 - Monte-Carlo - Despite the economic downturn the IAAF has enjoyed a vintage year in 2008 in commercial terms and is now looking forward to building on the success of athletics at the Beijing Olympic Games at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin and beyond.Powerful displays by Tsegay and Masai in Amorebieta Cross
4 January 2009 - Amorebieta, Spain - Eritrea’s Samuel Tsegay provided a major upset today by taking a surprise win at the ‘55th Cross Internacional Zornotza’.
Soi and Lebid ready for Campaccio rematch
4 January 2009 - Edwin Soi and Sergiy Lebid will return to the Campaccio EAA Permit Cross Country race on 6 January one year after the fabulous nail-biting neck-to-neck race won by the Kenyan by the narrowest of margins after a breathtaking sprint.
Twell and Merga triumph in Antrim
3 January 2009 - Antrim, UK - IAAF World Junior 1500m champion Stephanie Twell opened her competitive year in style with a mature victory in the Antrim International to further cement her flowering reputation as one to watch for the future.Johnson and Niedermeyer the winners at Reno Pole Vault Summit
3 January 2009 - Reno, Nevada, USA – Chelsea Johnson couldn’t wait to get her 2009 season started at the National Pole Vault Summit at the Reno Events Livestock Center on Friday.
Muturi cruises to 2:08:51 course record in Xiamen
3 January 2009 – Xiamen, China - In a surprising turn of events Kenyan Samuel Muturi and Ethiopian Negari Terfa both broke the course record and their own personal bests at the 7th Xiamen International Marathon on Saturday.
2008 ÅF Golden League Review
2 January 2009 – Monte-Carlo - The 2008 ÅF Golden League, which is part of the IAAF World Athletics Tour, saw the emergence of the Revelation of the Year 18-year-old Pamela Jelimo who became the third ever solo winner of the $1 million ÅF Golden League Jackpot. In the process the Kenyan wonder-girl set no fewer than three World Junior records in Berlin, Paris and Zürich.
Twell and Kiprop top the fields in Antrim – Antrim International Cross Country preview
2 January 2009 - Rising British endurance star Stephanie Twell provides the central interest in the opening IAAF cross country permit race of the new year – the Antrim International on Saturday (3 Jan).
Tola and Domínguez take New Year’s honours in Madrid
2 January 2009 - Madrid, Spain – Ethiopia’s Tadesse Tola (27:53) and Spain’s Marta Domínguez (33:05) clinched fine victories at the ‘San Silvestre Vallecana’, a 10km road race held in the Spanish capital during the night of New Year’s Eve.
