European Athletics – (EAA) – News – Bulgaria’s Stambolova runs 51.27, Linnik gets two Belarus 200m records

Excellent results were posted at various meetings around Europe on Saturday as athletes warmed up for the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held in the French capital Paris at the Palais Omnisport Paris-Bercy from 4-6 March.

In Vienna at the at ASVO meeting, Bulgaria’s Vanya Stambolova won the 400m in a swift 52.18, faster than any other European runner this winter.

Stambolova, the 2006 European Athletics Championships gold medallist, has a 2011 world-leading time of 51.27 to her name and is almost a second faster than any other woman on the continent this year over two laps of an indoor track

Poland´s Kamil Krynski won the men’s 60m in 6.69, just edging out Finland’s Hannu Hamalainen, who clocked 6.70 for second place. Both men set personal bests.

Austria’s Clemens Zeller won the men’s 400m in 47.18 while Italy’s Lukas Riffeser took the 800m in 1:48.37.

In the men’s 60m hurdles in the Austrian capital, Czech hurdler Stanislav Sajdok clocked 7.75 to finish just ahead of Slovakia’s Matus Janecek, who was second in 7.77.

However, there was a Slovakian win in the non-championship men’s 3000m walk in which Matej Toth set a national record of 10:57.32.

At the Belarus indoor championships in Mogilyov, the 2010 World Junior Championships 200m silver medallist Aleksandr Linnik twice improved the national record over the same distance, running 21.21 in his heat and then 21.18 in the final. Alina Talay won the women’s 60m hurdles in a personal best of 8.07 while Maksim Lynsha got the men’s event in 7.67. There was some good triple jumping as well with Dmitriy Detsuk winning the men’s competition with 16.94m while Anastasiya Mironchik took the women’s honour with 14.00m.

Sweden’s Olympic Games 2004 triple jump champion Christian Olsson made his debut for the year with a distance of 16.99m at Road to Göteborg 2013 meeting while Malin Dahlstrom improved the Swedish indoor pole vault record to 4.43m. Denmark’s Kim Christensen achieved 19.66 in men’s shot put.

The 2006 European Athletics Championships 100m and 200m gold medallist Francis Obikwelu won the 60m in 6.68 at the Portuguese club’s championships in Pombal while the 2003 European Athletics U23 Championships 20km walk gold medallist Vera Santos dropped down distance and won the indoor discipline of the 3000m walk in 12:49.53.

At the Italian indoor junior championships in Ancona, there was a new indoor junior high jump record for Alessia Trost, with the 2009 World Youth Championships gold medallist clearing 1.89m

Israel’s Dmitriy Kroyter was also a winner in Bressanone two years ago and, like Trost he looks like he will be a medal contender at the European Athletics Junior Championships in the Estonian capital Tallinn this summer after he cleared a personal best of 2.28m outdoors in Tel Aviv.

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