Sporting Digest: Athletics
INTERNATIONAL MEETING (St Denis, Fr): MEN: 100m: 1 F Fredericks (Nam) 10.51sec; 2 B Surin (Can) 10.53; 3 J-C Trouabal (Fr) 10.55. 400m: 1 S Bada (Nigeria) 46.00; 2 J-L Rapnouil (Fr) 46.31; 3 R Black (GB) 46.55. 1500m: 1 N Morceli (Alg) 3:36.04; 2 M Suleiman (Qatar) 3:42.84; 3 R El Basir (Mor) 3:43.64. 5,000m: 1 K Skah (Moroc) 13min 15.85sec; 2 B Jabbour (Moroc) 13:17.12; 3 Thierry Pantel (Fr) 13:17.71. 110m hurdles: 1 M McKoy (Can) 13.55; 2 Li Tong (Ch) 13.57; 3 E Valle (Cuba) 13.85. 400m hurdles: 1 W Graham (Jam) 48.68; 2 O Tverdokhleb (Ukr) 49.04; 3 S Diagana (Fr) 49.13. 3,000m steeplechase: 1 A Sahere (Moroc) 8min 25.54sec; 2 P Sang (Ken) 8:27.82; 3 J Kariuki (Ken) 8:35.29. High jump: 1 J Sotomayor (Cuba) 2.31m; 2 A Partyka (Pol) 2.24; 3 P Sjoberg (Swe) 2.24. Hammer: 1 I Astapkovich (Bela) 79.82m; 2 A Abduvaliyev (Tajik) 78.64; 3 S Alay (Bela) 76.60. WOMEN: 100m: 1 Z Tarnopolskaya (Ukr) 11.35; 2 M Onyali (Nigeria) 11.37; 3 M Trandenkova (Rus) 11.59. 200m: 1 M-J Perec (Fr) 23.20sec; 2 G Malchugina (Rus) 23.28; 3 M Ottey (Jam) 23.36. 1500m: 1 L Rogachova (Rus) 4:8.77; 2 L Gurina (Rus) 4:09.89; 3 Y Podkopayeva (Rus) 4:12.51. 10,000m: 1 C Borgschulze (Ger) 32:5.33; 2 J Negura (Rom) 32:11.58; 3 M Guida (It) 32:12.70. 100m hurdles: 1 Y Donkova (Bul) 13.08sec; 2 L Martin (US) 13.16; 3 A Lopez (Cuba) 13.38. Triple jump: 1 I Lasovskaya (Rus) 14.38m; 2 I Muchailova (Rus) 14.23; 3 I Kravets (Ukr) 13.94. Javelin: 1 N Shikolenko (Bela) 63.52m; 2 T Shikolenko (Bela) 61.20; 3 Y Svezhentseva (Uzbek) 57.78, BRITISH TEAM (for World Marathon Cup, San Sebastian, Sp, 31 October) Men: D Buzza (Cornwall), A Green (Warrington), K McCluskey (Copeland), R Nerurkar (Bingley), P Fleming (Wolverhampton). Women: G Horovitz (Aldershot), K Cornwall (North Shields Poly), D Sanderson (Watford), B Walker (Western IoM), L Harding (Houghton-le-Spring).
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