IAAF Continental Cup Sprint Results Day One

IAAF Continental Cup Results
04 September 2010
Men's 100m - Wind: +0.7 m/s

Position	Name	Country/Team	Time	Reaction Time
1	Christophe Lemaitre	FRA/Europe	10.06	0.153
2	Daniel Bailey	ANT/Americas	10.10	0.146
3	Mark Lewis-Francis	ENG/Europe	10.16	0.166
4	Monzavous Edwards	USA/Americas	10.23	0.143
5	Ben Youssef Meité	CIV/Africa	10.32	0.159
6	Yi Lao	CHN/Asia-Pacific	10.38	0.162
7	Aaron Rouge-Serret	AUS/Asia-Pacific	10.45	0.153
DQ	Aziz Zakari	GHA/Africa

Women's 100m - Wind: +1.4 m/s

Position	Name	Country/Team	Time	Reaction Time
1	Kelly-Ann Baptiste	TRI/Americas	11.05	0.174
2	Shalonda Solomon	USA/Americas	11.09	0.167
3	Blessing Okagbare	NGR/Africa	11.14	0.152
4	Verena Sailer	GER/Europe	11.26	0.152
5	Ezinne Okparaebo	NOR/Europe	11.37	0.145
6	Chisato Fukushima	JPN/Asia-Pacific	11.42	0.154
7	Ruddy Zang Milama	GAB/Africa	11.49	0.161
8	Melissa Breen	AUS/Asia-Pacific	11.58	0.181

Men's 400m

Position	Name	Country/Team	Time	Reaction Time
1	Jeremy Wariner	USA/Americas	44.22	0.172
2	Ricardo Chambers	JAM/Americas	44.59	0.153
3	Michael Bingham	ENG/Europe	44.84	0.145
4	Kévin Borlée	BEL/Europe	45.01	0.166
5	Rabah Yousif	SUD/Africa	45.45	0.174
6	Ben Offereins	AUS/Asia-Pacific	45.94	0.192
7	Yuzo Kanemaru	JPN/Asia-Pacific	45.95	0.150
8	Mohamed Ashour Khouaja	LBA/Africa	45.99	0.208

Women's 400m

Position	Name	Country/Team	Time	Reaction Time
1	Amantle Montsho	BOT/Africa	49.89	0.197
2	Debbie Dunn	USA/Americas	50.21	0.173
3	Tatyana Firova	RUS/Europe	50.45	0.170
4	Shericka Williams	JAM/Americas	50.70	0.197
5	Amy Mbacke Thiam	SEN/Africa	51.46	0.192
6	Libania Grenot	ITA/Europe	51.74	0.217
7	Jody Henry	AUS/Asia-Pacific	52.52	0.162
8	Asami Chiba	JPN/Asia-Pacific	53.58	0.199

Men's 4 x 100m Relay

Position	Team	Names	Time
1	Americas	Daniel Bailey; Wallace Spearmon; Tyson Gay; Churandy Martina	38.25
2	Asia-Pacific	Shinji Takahira; Naoki Tsukahara; Kenji Fujimitsu; Shintaro Kimura	39.28
3	Africa	Hannes Dreyer; Simon Magakwe; Wilhelm van der Vyver; Thuso Mpuang	39.82
DQ	Europe	Imaad Hallay; Christophe Lemaitre; Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux; Teddy Tinmar

Women's 4 x 100m Relay

Position	Team	Names	Time
1	Americas	Cydonie Mothersille; Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie; Shalonda Solomon; Kelly-Ann Baptiste	43.07
2	Europe	Olesya Povh; Nataliya Pohrebnyak; Mariya Ryemyen; Elizaveta Bryzhina	43.77
3	Africa	Ruddy Zang Milama; Agnes Osazuwa; Oludamola Osayomi; Blessing Okagbare	43.88
4	Asia-Pacific	Maki Wada; Chisato Fukushima; Yumeka Sano; Momoko Takahashi	44.54

AA Website 10/9/10

St Lawrence rewrites the record books in Milan

Commonwealth Games 5000m nominee Ben St Lawrence has shown he is on track for New Delhi (IND) by clocking the fifth fastest time over 3000m in Australian athletics history at the Notturna di Milano meet in Milan, Italy, overnight.

Less than a week after posting a time of 7:58.55 to place eighth over 3000m at the IAAF Continental Cup meet in Split (CRO) last weekend, St Lawrence last night crossed the line in 7:42.94 to leap from No. 29 to No. 5 on the national all-time list, trailing only Craig Mottram (7:32.19), Collis Birmingham (7:38.77), Shaun Creighton (7:41.60) and Lee Troop (7:41.78) on the Australian all-time leaderboard.

The result betters St Lawrence’s previous career-low mark of 7:49.28, set at the Ostrava Golden Spike meet in the Czech Republic in May, by almost a full seven seconds and shows the 28-year-old New South Welshman is on track for a big Commonwealth Games debut in New Delhi next month.

Joining St Lawrence in Milan overnight was fellow in-form middle distance runner Collis Birmingham, who clocked the fourth fastest time over 1500m of his career to place seventh in 3:36.53, just over a second outside the personal best time of 3:35.50 he recorded on the Brussels (BEL) leg of the IAAF Diamond League tour in August.

Fellow Australian Mitchell Kealey finished ninth in 3:37.96.

National 400m champion Ben Offereins was the only Australian to feature on the podium overnight, the one-lap specialist placing third in a time of 46.47 ahead of Commonwealth Games 4x400m relay teammates Joel Milburn (46.90) in seventh and young gun Kevin Moore (46.98) in eighth.

In other results in Milan overnight, sprint queen Melissa Breen finished sixth over 100m in a time of 11.88 (w:-0.4) and two-lap runner Lachlan Renshaw placed fifth over 800m in a time of 1:47.26.

Breen is struggling. can't see her making the final in Dehli on currrent form. and all the 400 boys not going so well either.