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Zagreb, Croatia For Blanka Vlasic, theres no place like home. The two-time World champion capped the finest series of her career with a sensational 2.08m leap to become the second highest jumper of all-time at the Zagreb Grand Prix on Monday (31).
The Croatian heroines leap, which came on her first attempt, capped a thoroughly entertaining edition of the annual Zagreb meeting, perhaps the finest in its 59 years.
Blanka Vlasic new record - 208 cm
IAAF meeting zagreb While Vlasic clearly rose to the occasion, others could not. Anna Chicherova, the Berlin silver medallist who jumped her 2.04m PB here last year, topped out at 1.94m to finish a distant second.
It was standing room only at the stadium again this year, largely because of Vlasic. How devoted are some of the popular jumpers fans? Andra Cojocaru, a 13-year-old national age group champion from the eastern Romanian city of Bacau, made a 17-hour trek with her mother, father and brother to witness her hero jump.
Picking up where he left off in Berlin, World Hammer throw champion Primoz Kozmus dominated the competition from the second round. After a foot foul on his first throw, the 29-year-old Slovenian reached 80.35m in the second to add 31 centimetres to the meet record set by Krisztian Pars a year ago. It was more than enough for the victory Pars was well back in second with a 79.18m best effort but Kozmus was just warming up.
After a lacklustre 78.49m in the third round, he hit 81.77m in the fourth, the fourth farthest throw of his career, followed up with 80.70m, before closing the proceedings with an 81.51m toss.
Today showed what I was capable of this season, said the 29-year-old, whose progress toward the World championships was slowed by early season injury. I think a national record (82.30m, 2007) is within reach this season. Kozmus still has a busy September ahead of him with four meets on his schedule before the season-capping World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki.
Cantwell again beyond 22m
Christian Cantwell and Tomasz Majewski, the reigning World and Olympic champions in the Shot Put, put on another stellar show in the ring, with the American again prevailing. The hurdles events generally take centre stage here, but this year couldnt quite outshine the efforts of the nights key highlights. But the chief protagonists in the sprint hurdles, Olympic champion Dawn Harper and recently minted World champion Ryan Brathwaite, did produce impressive victories.
Fairly even with Delloreen Ennis-London over the first six barriers, Harper began to chisel together a slight advantage by hurdle seven, a lead she extended over each of the remaining hurdles through the finish to take well-deserved win in 12.67. Ennis-London, fading over the final 15 metres, clocked 12.76.
In the mens race, named to honour inter-war Croatian hurdler Boris Hanzekovic, nearly went down the wire, with Brathwaite edging American David Oliver 13.35 to 13.41 to collect his first victory in two outings since taking the World title.
The womens 400m Hurdles was to feature a rematch between Jamaican Melaine Walker and Lashinda Demus of the USA, the Berlin gold and silver medallists, but a hamstring injury in training yesterday knocked the American onto the sidelines. But Walker still found a hefty challenge in compatriot Kaliese Spencer, one which turned out to be insurmountable.
Spencer carried a clear lead through the first five barriers and beyond the final turn with Walker simply leaving herself too much ground to cover. Spencer, who was fourth in Berlin, was the clear winner here in 54.69, with Walker next in 55.02. Russian, Natalya Antyukh (55.38) was third. Dvostruka svjetska prvakinja Blanka Vlašić nakon Berlina prije 10 dana i Züricha prije tri dana večeras je osvojila i Hanžekovićev memorijal u Zagrebu. Olimpijska je viceprvakinja u pet skokova poboljšala svoj osobni, rekord mitinga i hrvatski rekord na 208 centimetara i postala jedina na drugom mjestu svih vremena samo centimetar iza svjetskog rekorda Štefke Kostadinove...
Svjetska prvakinja u Berlinu Blanka Vlašić izvrsnu je formu produljila i na miting Zlatne lige u Zürichu u petak i na Memorijalni turnir Borisa Hanžekovića večeras na stadionu Mladosti uz Savu. blanka vlasic high jump 208 zagreb athletics women anna chicherova croatia hrvatska world record stefka kostadinova kajs berqvist slesarenko anne friedrich primoz kozmus usain bolt berlin osaka 2009 210 skok vis atletikabiljana topic croatian jamaica slovenia
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